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Bette Davis is a former featured article. Please see the links under Article milestones below for its original nomination page (for older articles, check the nomination archive) and why it was removed.

This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as Today's featured article on April 5, 2008.

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Date	Process	Result
June 21, 2006	Peer review	Reviewed
November 5, 2006	Featured article candidate	Promoted
April 23, 2016	Featured article review	Demoted

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Shocking omission of a personal section

Latest comment: 3 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Amazed that there is no "personal" section discussing her many husbands and other sensational personal events this glaring omission should be rectified P Reader EO11 (talk) 18:27, 18 April 2026 (UTC)Reply

Punctuation: possessive apostrophe

Latest comment: 12 hours ago2 comments2 people in discussion

The possessive suffix '+s and the possessive suffix ' (alone) are being added to 'Davis.' It would be nice if someone revised this article to only one or the other style. ~2026-43709-02 (talk) 18:48, 7 August 2026 (UTC)Reply

Per MOS:POSS, it should be Davis's. Masato.harada (talk) 10:12, 8 August 2026 (UTC)Reply