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Late career (1971-1983)

Celebrate Taylor's life in 1981 Davis and Elizabeth Taylor the second half during the show
In the early 1970s, Davis, in the stage presentation, invited the American film of great women to appear in New York. 5 over consecutive night, another woman star, to discuss her career, answer questions from the audience. Myrna Loy, Rosalind Russell, Lana Turner, Sylvia Sidney, and Joan Crawford was the other participants. Davis is received well, was to personally similarly themed on the film, was invited Betty Davis and Australia to tour, and its success was able she take the production to the United Kingdom.

In 1972, she each of NBC, Robert Wagner and Madame sin, and Joan Ban'aku of judges and Jake Wyler, lead role in two of the TV movie, which is intended as a pilot for future series for plays a but, in each case, to produce the determined series that no NBC. She appeared on the stage production, Miss Moffat, the show, after panning by critics of Philadelphia during that of the previous Broadway run, but she abandoned corn is green and cited a back injury the show , her movie musical adaptation, immediately closed. She played supporting the disappearance of the role (1976) and (1976) Amy in burnt offering, because she felt that does not extend the appropriate degree of respect to her either, Karen Black and Faye Dunaway, 2 collide with each piece of star, operation on the set of the movie that is, was unprofessional.

In 1977, Davis became the first woman who received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Film Institute. TV broadcast events, such as William Wyler you want and joked to refilm the scene from the letter to have nodded is given chance Davis still Davis, contains some of comments from the Davis colleague was. Jane Fonda, Henry Fonda, Natalie Wood and Olivia de Havilland is, in many cases, is necessary to select either, de Havilland is a television broadcast that she found herself demand again Davis .Following "I always thought the role was to obtain a" commented with, some of the offers that were among the performers honor. She theatrical movie death in secret and Nile TV mini series Harvest Home (1978) (1978), accepted a role in the Agatha Christie murder mystery. The majority of her the rest of the work was for television. She, strangers for Emmy Award winning: the story Gena Rowlands mother and daughter (1979), was nominated for her performance white mom and (1980) in Little Gloria ... (1982) last happy. She also 2 Disney movie, I played a supporting role in the return and forest watchers from Witch Mountain (1978) (1980).

And a big hit with the song (written by Jackie DeShannon) "Bette Davis Eyes" around the world, it is the United States stayed at number one of the above, when Kim Carnes of Davis, which became the record of 1981's best-selling name is young became well known to the audience "is 2 months or more music charts. Davis grandson, she Davis and was impressed with it has been the subject of a hit song, accepted the gift of gold and platinum records write to both of Kearns and song writer, and from Kearns, and her wall hanging them in, it was thought the words to compliment it. She appeared to James Stewart and her grandson J. Ashley Hyman, Mrs. Cimino (1982) and the way reunion of family opposite the piano for the right (1983) (1981), continued to acting for TV was. In 1983, she was awarded the movie Crystal Award woman.

Disease, conflict and death (1983-1989)

(1987) The last completed role of Davis in The Whales of August, she brought her acclaim in has been holding a health and personal trauma of failure period.
1983, after shooting a pilot episode for the television series Hotel, Davis, diagnosed with breast cancer, underwent mastectomy. Within two weeks from her surgery, she on the left side of her face, received a four-stroke that caused the paralysis in her left arm, and Roretsu is I left her not rotate. She started a long period of physical therapy, her personal assistant, helped by Kathryn Sermak, got a partial recovery from paralysis.

Hyman became reborn Christian, when you try to persuade followers to Davis, during this time, her daughter, BD Hyman, and her relationship deteriorated. Her health, stable, she traveled to the United Kingdom in order to shoot the reasoning murder of Agatha Christie the mirror (1985). After her return home, she Hyman knew that she difficult mother-daughter relationship a stop and overbearing and drunken behavior memoir depicting the scene of Davis to record, was published the keeper of my mother. Some of the Davis friends, comment and depiction of Hyman of events was not accurate. 1 Mike Wallace described as "this too much is out of context." Is, he she is praised Davis to her skills as a mother, 60 minutes of which were taken by Hyman in a few years ago re-broadcast the interview, she said that had adopted many of the principles of Davis "to raise her own children. Critics of Hyman, Davis, to have supported the Hyman family for several years financially, pointed out that it had saved them from that recently losing their homes. Despite their divorce years ago of acrimony, also defended the Davis Gary Merrill. In response to an interview with CNN, Merrill Lynch greedy and "cruelty said that Hyman is was motivation." The Davis adoptive, Michael Merrill so that was disinherited Davis her ends the contact with Hyman, refused to speak to her again.


Bette Davis with President Ronald Reagan in 1987 (her co-star of the love of victory of 1939), two years before her death.
In her second memoir, this "N is, (1987), Davis wrote," I am still my children, if you write about me behind my back, it is. I is a will, for the kind of book you have been recovered from the fact that not say anything I, that you have from the stroke, it is not fully recovered only from the book of BD. both were ground experience. "her memoir" is, Hyman "she letter to her daughter to deal with her several times, and concluded," I am loyalty for feeling that you have been given a very privileged life mind and I explained her behavior as obvious lack "of gratitude. It my memory is correct, if you want to offer me, as my name went, I, in all these many years. I've been your keeper has continued to do so, she if you are referring to the money ", and concluded by referring to the book title of Hyman, to book your success for me.

Davis, appeared in TV movie as Summers die film (1986) and Lindsay Anderson, The Whales of August (1987), in which she played a blind sister of Lillian Gish. The film, in writing of the resulting 1 critic excellent evaluation, "Betty, wonders of unexploded synapse, convulsions, and growling a symphony, and crawl on the screen as the grumpy old hornet on the window glass. Her last performance was the title role in the wicked stepmother of Larry Cohen (1989). by the time this that her health had been failing, and after disagreements with Cohen, she turns off the set it walked. script is rewritten to place the emphasis on the nature of Barbara Carrera, Rework version was released after the death of Davis.