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Inside Bette Davis’ Passionate Love Affairs — and Why Her Need for Sex Was ‘Unbecoming’
Bette Davis married four times and carried on a string of affairs, but never found a lasting love. Biographers exclusively tell Closer about her love life.
New England-born Ruth Elizabeth Davis changed the spelling of her nickname Betty to “Bette” to become more memorable as a young theater actress in New York. William Grimes/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesA book habit might seem like a small issue in a marriage, but the divorce papers also accused Bette of having an affair with Howard Hughes. Bette also reportedly had an affair with Humphrey Bogart, her costar in Dark Victory, and Glenn Ford, whom she shared the screen with for the first time in A Stolen Life.
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