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Bette Dovis and William Grant Sherry with their daughter, Barbara, a few months before Bette sued the artist for divorce.
is bette dovis afraid of love ?
Haunting fear has been the force that has taken a great star to the heights. Now, it may rob her of happiness.
BY JAMES HATHAWAY
■ "My home at Laguna Beach is my castle," Bette Davis said. "I won't let down the drawbridge and allow the world to come in!''
But when, a few weeks ago, it was announced that Bette was filing suit for divorce from artist William Grant Sherry, her third husband, the world did come in — tramping printer's ink through the restful cliff dwelling which overlooks Wood Cove in a setting whose serenity is matched nowhere in the world.
In the necessary brevity of news dispatches, the factors which control a human being must be covered in a few short sentences. And when the front pages carried the story of Bette Davis' marital break-up, the impression was inevitably gathered by millions of hasty readers that here was just another case of a temperamental actress who had tired of marriage and wanted her freedom.
The story is a deeper and more tragic one than that. The key to it is perhaps to be found in a statement Bette made shortly after her divorce from Harmon Nelson, her first husband. Bette said: "I'm not happy. I'm absolutely frightened to be happy, afraid something might happen."
Later on, this fear seemed strangely justified, after she (Continued on page 86)
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