Margot Mosher Merrill: Margot Mosher Merrill was adopted by Bette Davis and her fourth husband. She was diagnosed with brain damage as a toddler, resulting in developmental and mental disabilities.
Her adopted daughter Margo had been diagnosed with an intellectual disability at a young age and had been in special schools and institutions since she was 3 years old. The will did not specify how Margo would be provided or cared for.
What happened to Bette Davis' adopted daughter Margot?
Margot Merrill passed away on May 5, 2022 in Boston. She was Bette's second daughter, adopted with then husband Gary Merrill. She is pictured here alongside Bette, Gary, and her brother Michael Merrill, who helped to take such wonderful care of Margot throughout her life.
Actress Bette Davis left her daughters and grandsons out of her nearly $1- million estate, according to a will filed for probate Monday. The bulk of the estate is split between her son and a close friend.
Was Bette Davis' daughter in What Happened to Baby Jane?
Footage from the Bette Davis films Parachute Jumper and Ex-Lady (both 1933) and the Joan Crawford film Sadie McKee (1934) was used to represent the film acting of Jane and Blanche, respectively. The character of Liza, Mrs. Bates' daughter, was played by Davis's real-life daughter B. D. Merrill.
Bette Davis' 69-Year-Old Daughter Claims Her Mom Practiced Witchcraft
Did Bette Davis give birth to any of her children?
In 1947, at the age of 39, Davis gave birth to daughter Barbara Davis Sherry (known as B.D.), and later wrote in her memoir that she became absorbed in motherhood and considered ending her career.
Aldrich's 1962 Hollywood adaptation of Henry Farrell's gothic novel would star Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, both then in their mid 50s, as quarrelling sisters, confined to the living tomb of a Los Angeles mansion that's filled with skeletons and a noxious resentment that lingers in the air.
Death. Crawford had a heart attack on May 10, 1977, and died in her apartment in Lenox Hill, New York City. Her age was reported as 69. On May 6, 1977, Crawford had given away her Shih Tzu, Princess Lotus Blossom, because she was too weak to continue to care for her.
'In the course of a trip to Europe, the health condition of Miss Bette Davis deteriorated. She was transported to the American hospital in Paris where she died last night following the consequences of a long illness,' a brief hospital statement said.
At the age of 75, Bette had a mastectomy due to breast cancer. Nine days later, she suffered a stroke. Despite her failing health, she continued to act until her death. Bette passed away October 6, 1989 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
Married four times, Davis eloquently conveyed the vicissitudes of stardom in her autobiographies, The Lonely Life (1962) and This 'n' That (1987). She also provided running commentary for Whitney Stine's account of her film career, Mother Goddam: The Story of the Career of Bette Davis (1974).
She left $77,500 each to her two younger daughters, Cathy and Cynthia. She also bequeathed money to several other people and numerous charities. Cathy also inherited all of Joan's property including the Oscar for Mildred Pierce. In 1993, Cathy sold Joan's Academy Award at auction for $426,732.
Bette Davis, who won two Academy Awards and cut a swath through Hollywood trailing cigarette smoke and delivering drop-dead barbs, died of breast cancer Friday night at the American Hospital in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. She was 81 years old and lived in West Hollywood, Calif.
Christina has repeatedly stated that the film is highly inaccurate, and that the portrayal of her mother in the film is nothing like the real Joan Crawford, emphasizing that she never wrote in her book that Joan chopped down a tree with an axe, or beat her with a wire hanger as depicted in the film.
Two of Crawford's other adopted children, twin sisters Cathy and Cindy, publicly claimed Christina lied, insisting their mother was a loving parent, firm but never abusive. Although three decades have passed, the sibling feud is unresolved.
Crawford was married four times. First to actor Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. and then to actor Franchot Tone. Her third husband was actor Phillip Terry, and her fourth and last husband was Pepsi executive Alfred Steele.
Emerging from climatic synths, the woman in the song comes to life, slowly being painted by the Carnes' sensual rasp. The tune details her from the top down, heralding her powerful, near-irresistible, allure. She's not just captivating in her looks, she's got the chutzpah to back it up.
While most of the attention given to 1962's What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? has focused on the alleged enmity between stars Bette Davis, then 54, and Joan Crawford, then 57 (forming the basis for FX's Feud, which begins March 5), THR's focus was on money.
