European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 08, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday october 1989 the stars and stripes Page 3 fans friends mourn Bette Davis Paris a colleagues friends and a generation of tans on saturday mourned by tic Davis who began her career playing Nasty driven women and died More than a half Century later As one of the world s most beloved film stars. The 81-year-old actress died Friday night at the american Hospital in Paris a Hospital spokesman con firmed saturday. The two time Oscar winning actress had been on her Way Home to West Hollywood calif., from a film Festi Val in san Sebastian Spain where she had been Hon ored for a lifetime of achievement and had won the hearts of the festival audience with her warmth wit and honesty. In new York her longtime attorney Howard Schiff said that she died of cancer and that she had battled the disease since a Mastectomy in 1983. During that same year she also suffered a stroke and a broken hip. Her doctors knew the cancer had spread and was terminal he said but decided to let her go on going about her  her business was film and Over the course of 59years she starred in some of America s most Memora ble movies. Among her More than 80 films were of human bondage All about eve and dark  she was nominated for the Academy award 10 times and won the Best actress award for dangerous in 1935 and Jezebel in 1938. What a loss said actress Olivia do Havilland who worked with Davis in four films including the 1964 hush hush Sweet  she was a remarkable person to work with highly professional innovative Brilliant and Quick said dehavilland 73. I thought she had some marvelous personal qualities and i was very fond of  Vincent Price who worked with Davis in the Pri vate lives of Elizabeth and Essex in 1939 and the whales of August in 1987, said in los Angeles there arc very few people left who really sum up the motion picture Industry who had that Star Quality. It was really rare. She had extraordinary Energy she was a  in a statement from los Angeles former president Reagan who starred with Davis in the 1939 film dark Victory said she made some of the most memorable moments in the history of film an touched us in a Way few others have. For by Etc acting was More than a profession it was an  actor Charlton Heston paid homage to Davis As one of the most significant women to shape american film both through her talents As an actress and her spirited  i Mark what she has done and while i Salute her passing i rejoice that we still have her work Haslon said. Angela Lansbury who co starred with Davis in the 1982 television miniseries Little Gloria Happy at last said the actress was the last of the great Holly Wood stars. She was a Beacon of Light for All of us who were starting  Davis attributed her Success More to hard work than Genius and she was known for being As Strong and uncompromising off screen As some of the characters she portrayed. The line most identified with her was what a dump from the film beyond the  she also was credited with giving the Gold Oscar statue its name. According to the Story she said that the statue s rear end resembled that of her first Hus band whose Middle name was Oscar. The person who wants to make it has to sweat a few Days after this sept. 21 photo was taken at the san Sebastian film festival in Spain Belle Davis was hospitalized in Paris where she died Friday. Davis once said. There arc no shortcuts. And you be got to have the guts to be hated. That s the hardest  but there was Only admiration and affection from the press and participants at the Spanish film festival she attended two weeks before her death. She charmed reporters at a sept. 21 news conference with comments on her colleagues such As co stars James Stewart i never should have let him get away and Reagan he never had much Talent but As president he restored patriotism for Ameri  of her expressive eyes which inspired the 1982 pop song by tic Davis eyes she said it s my Basic facial feature and what communicated to the  she was frail at the festival and spent most of the time resting at her hotel. But she put on a Brave face when talking to reporters saying she had been taking care of details including makeup to appear Beautiful before you All and offer you the very Best of  her Success Story was one of Hollywood s most unlikely tales. Lacking the traditional Hollywood Glam our girl looks the Skinny youngster with the huge eyes relied on her acting skill and took roles nobody else wanted playing Nasty women More often than Nice ones. Born Ruth Elizabeth Davis on april 5, 1908. In Lowell mass. She was always proud of her ancestors who had helped Settle new England. Because her Mother also was named Ruth the Young Davis came to be called by Etc Afler a character in the Balzac novel la Cousin  As a teen Ager she showed Talent in school theater and pursued her desire to act by Landing Small roles in new England summer theater. She made her new York stage debut in the Earth Between in the 1920s and by 1930 had landed a three month contract with Universal pictures that look her to Hollywood. Her film debut came the next year in bad  five other pictures followed. Of her Early films critic Pauline Kael wrote that Bette Davis introduced a More complicated sexual character driving neurotic that captured the mood of the Lime. When the studio dropped her contract Warner Bros picked it up and in 1932 gave her a co starring role As an ingenue in the Man who played  it was the beginning of her 18-year association with Warner bros., a sometimes Stormy period in which Davis was known for her famous quarrels with studio chief Jack Warner. Yet when Warner was asked in later years to define the term movie Star he said simply by Etc  in 1934, Davis was loaned to Rio for the role thai would establish her reputation As a sullen heroine Mildred in of human  in the Twilight of her career she played such television roles As Alice Vanderbilt in Little Gloria Happy at last and a terminally ill wife in right of Way a 1983 made for Cable film co starring James Stewart. After appearing in the premiere of the Abc series hotel for the 1983-1984 to season she was hospitalized. In june 1983, she had a Mastectomy and nine Days later suffered a stroke. Only months Afler being discharged from the Hospital she broke a hip. When she returned to acting in the 1985 made for to movie murder with mirrors she said she was afraid that she would no longer be Able remember lines and adjust to being on a set. But she soon found it just great to be acting  her successful career was not matched in matters of love. After four husbands she declared that she had failed and would never marry again. When she wrote her autobiography she titled it the lonely  "1 Haven t been very fortunate i think it s very difficult for a famous woman she told reporters in san Sebastian. In 1987, she published a second autobiography this v that which described her Battle with medi Cal problems and also delivered a rebuke to daughter Barbara Hyman s unflattering 1985 Book my Mother s  addressing her daughter in the Book Davis wrote the sum total of your having written this Book is a glaring Lack of loyalty and thanks for the very privileged life i feel you have been  in 1977, Davis became the first woman to receive the american film Institute s life achievement award and in 1987 she was a Kennedy Center honors Winner. Besides Hyman she is survived by two adopted Chil Dren Michael and Margol Merrill. Panama plans to Crock Down on dissent Panama City up1 the party that is the base of political support for the military and for strongman Gen. Manuel Noriega proposed emergency Laws saturday against dissenters in the aftermath of a failed coup. Carlos Duluc the head of the pro government revolutionary democratic party and Noriega s candidate in the annulled May 7 presidential election said the proposed Laws would set standards for suspending or firing Public employees who fail to express loyalty to the government. The revolutionary democratic party formed under the Rule of Gen. Omar Torrijos in the Early 1970s As a Power base for the military asked that the Laws be enacted by decree of provisional president Francisco Rodriguez who was appointed by the Noriega controlled government after the fraud marred elections were annulled. Duluc said the proposal also includes new regulations concerning the news Media particularly radio and television but he did not give specifics. Duluc told the newspaper la Estrella. However that the proposed Laws would not be used to persecute people or re press the opposition. The proposed Media Laws also Fol Lowed the suspension of the broadcasting License of one of the three radio stations that broadcast a statement by coup Lead ers tuesday that they had ordered Noriega to retire. The same station Exilona was broken into Friday and its equipment was ripped out and trucked away by eight persons dressed As civilians and armed with m-16 rifles. The armed men smashed a swinging Glass door leading into the studios and spent 30 minutes tearing out consoles speakers transmit ters and files. Panamanian National radio which also broadcast the statement by rebel officers but then immediately said it was false and that Noriega was still in control said it Only read the statement be cause rebel soldiers held guns to an announcer s head. Rebel troops seized the Panama de sense forces Headquarters compound for several hours tuesday before they were repulsed by loyalist troops who put Down the attempt 19 oust Noriega who asunder indictment in the United states for drug trafficking. Noriega speaking to lbs to Friday denied that he had Ever been held by the rebels who attacked his Headquarters a Contention that conflicted with earlier reports that he had been briefly captured. Noriega said he was under fire for More than five hours and surrounded by rebel troops but never captured. Opposition Leader Guillermo Endara whose political Headquarters were raided thursday night by panamanian soldiers armed with rubber hoses sought Refuge Friday in the Vatican embassy