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28
ywood
Has Given Me
Four years in the movie capital have
wrought a complete change in Bette
Davis. To deny it, she says, would
be to admit stagnation.
BY BETTE DAVIS
AS TOLD TO
Dorothy Wooldridge
HOLLYWOOD has given me added courage, a capacity for hard work, and taking it on the chin. I have never known better health, and I'm not rapping wood when I say it, either, for I'm not superstitious or a fatalist. I do believe in destiny. If I ever doubted, Hollywood's guide to the famous ones has removed that doubt. Here, where there are geniuses who are never recognized for their ability and talents, never given a chance, while others less gifted are lifted to the skies and are given everything.
I could cite many instances of those who undeservedly are at the pinnacle of fame and fortune.
Some call it luck. I call it destiny. But even destiny works in partâ– Rfe nership with hard work.
I went to Hollywood four years ago this December. I expected nothing but failure. I can truthfully say, "Veni, vidi, vici." (I came, I saw, I conquered.)
I was appearing in a play, "The Solid South," in New York with Richard Bennett when Universal discovered me and invited Continued on page 56
Oddly enough, in her first film. "Bad Sister," Bette did not p'ay the title ro'e, but rather the "good" sister.
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"Some call it luck, but I call it destiny," says Bette Davis in
discussing Hollywood's guide to the famous. "But even destiny
works in partnership with hard work," she adds.
Hollywood has given me the terrific satisfaction of doing something I wanted to do.
I have learned that the biggest insult Hollywood can pay you is to say, "Isn't she a nice girl?"
I hnve learned to ask for things that I think I should have.
I have never known better health.
Hollywood has given me added courage, a capacity for hard work and taking it on the chin.
It has given me a philosophy which amounts to a creed. Yesterday is gone and there is no to-morrow. In o'her words, every day is a fresh beginning. To-morrow, 'f it comes, will be different. What if things go wrong? What if the world seems arrayed against me? Do I have the dumps, drip with sell-pity, and give up in despair? I do not. I say to myself, "This, too, will pass away!" Yesterday is gone and we can't recall it. Nothing is certain except change.