Bette Davis, a fan of Elizabeth Taylor — who would have thought?
Well, apparently Bette was, judging from a note written to Elizabeth for her birthday. Bette's note (accompanying a gift which was "a fan") read: Dear Elizabeth - Happy Birthday - I am one also! Bette
The fan and the note were among the items Elizabeth had kept at her home at 700 Nimes Road, Los Angeles — the house where she lived from 1982 until her death in 2011.
Bette and Elizabeth never worked together, but Elizabeth once did an impersonation of Bette on the big screen. In the opening scene of Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf? (1966), Elizabeth imitates Bette saying the line "What a dump" a few times, a line Bette herself had uttered in the film Beyond the Forest (1949).
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| November 1981: Bette presents Elizabeth with the Filmex Trustees Award during a ceremony at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. |
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