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Bette Davis lauded in Turner Classic Movies documentary.
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April 24, 2006
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Byline: Luaine Lee
She came to be known as the First Lady of the Cinema, but famed actress Bette Davis was fired from her first job, flunked her first screen test and was rejected when she applied to a prestigious acting school.
It might have discouraged others, but Davis was unflappable. She once said, "My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose."
She had purpose, all right, from the time she was a freshman in high school until her death in 1989 at 81.
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