Better Davis (at age 79) in The Whales of August (1987), which brought her acclaim during a period in which she was beset with failing health and other personal crises. The movie is set in Maine.
“To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together.’’
— Bette Davis (1908-1989), movie star and writer, in her 1962 memoir The Lonely Life
She called herself the “Yankee-est gal who ever came down the pike.”
She was born and educated in Massachusetts, married three New Englanders and had homes in Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Maine.
