During this time, Sonny Stitt tried to persuade him to join the Tiny Bradshaw band, then passing through town, but Davis ' mother insisted that he finish his final year of high school.

In 1929, her mother married Loyal Davis ( 1896 – 1982 ), a prominent, politically conservative neurosurgeon who moved the family to Chicago.

Davis appeared in 11 feature films, usually typecast as a " loyal housewife ", " responsible young mother ", or " the steady woman ".

Ten days after the operation, her mother, Edith Luckett Davis, died in Phoenix, Arizona, leading Nancy to dub the period " a terrible month ".

Glen Morgan and James Wong's early influence on The X-Files mythology led to their introduction of popular secondary characters who would continue for years in episodes written by others, such as the Scully family: Dana's father, William ( Don S. Davis ); her mother, Margaret ( Sheila Larken ); and her sister, Melissa ( Melinda McGraw ).

In 1998, a study conducted by Carole Meredith's research group in the Department of Viticulture and Enology at University of California, Davis used DNA typing and extensive grape reference material from the viticultural research station in Montpellier, France to conclude that Syrah was the offspring of the grape varieties Dureza ( father ) and Mondeuse Blanche ( mother ).

Her mother, Sallye Davis, a graduate of Miles College in Birmingham, was an elementary school teacher.

During this time Davis ’ mother was a national officer and leading organizer of the Southern Negro Congress, an organization heavily influenced by the Communist Party.

His mother was Helen Davis Stevenson.

Accompanied by her mother, Davis traveled by train to Hollywood, arriving on December 13, 1930.

Davis played the mother of Susan Hayward but filming was hampered by heated arguments between Davis and Hayward.

Mike Wallace rebroadcast a 60 Minutes interview he had filmed with Hyman a few years earlier in which she commended Davis on her skills as a mother, and said that she had adopted many of Davis's principles in raising her own children.

He had eloped to Gretna Green with Lillie's mother, Emilie Davis ( née Martin ), who was known for her beauty .< ref name =" autogenerated1 ">

* Nancy Davis Reagan, former First Lady, lived in the city until age 13 with her stepfather and mother, Dr. Eugene and Mrs. Davis.

Davis ' family was upper middle class and was led by his demanding mother.

Davis was nicknamed Gray by his mother.

His father, Ralph Lawson ( 1904 – 1982 ), was the owner of a commodity-trading firm in the City of London, while his mother, Joan Elisa Davis,

The house of Jefferson Davis ' mother stands a couple hundred yards to the northeast.

Born in Marion, Indiana, Davis grew up on a small farm in Fairmount, Indiana, with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine ( Carter ) Davis, brother Dave and 25 cats.

Hopper was born in Dodge City, Kansas, the son of Marjorie Mae ( née Davis, July 12, 1917-January 12, 2007 ) and James Millard Hopper ( June 23, 1916 – August 7, 1982 ).

On board are Mae Carol Jemison, the first African-American woman in space, Mamoru Mohri, the first Japanese citizen to fly in a US spaceship, and Mark Lee and Jan Davis, the first married couple in space.

His imitations were imitated by other female impersonators, and his roles included Bette Davis, Mae West, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, Carol Channing, Katharine Hepburn, and Joan Crawford, which became the drag queen canon.

Among those performers who made early film appearances in Vitaphone shorts filmed at the Flatbush studios include Al Jolson, Humphrey Bogart, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy, Jack Benny, Sammy Davis Jr., Sylvia Sidney, Pat O ' Brien, Ruth Etting, Mischa Elman, Betty Hutton, Burns and Allen, Giovanni Martinelli, Xavier Cugat, Bill Robinson, Lillian Roth, Joan Blondell, Ethel Merman, Abbe Lane, Eleanor Powell, Helen Morgan, The Nicholas Brothers, Milton Berle, Bob Hope, Jane Froman, Jack Haley, Phil Silvers, Judy Canova, Nina Mae McKinney, Marjorie Main, Rose Marie, Joe Penner, Ethel Waters, June Allyson, Shemp Howard, Lanny Ross, Lionel Stander, and Cyd Charisse among others.

Hollywood stars who came to Callander to visit the Quints included Clark Gable, James Stewart, Bette Davis, James Cagney, and Mae West.

The Cryonics Institute was incorporated in the state of Michigan on 4 April 1976 by four local residents: Richard C. Davis, Robert Ettinger, Mae A. Junod and Walter E. Runkel.

The short then proceeds to showcase a large number of Hollywood stars in the form of caricatures, including Katharine Hepburn ( as a horse named Miss Heartburn ), Jean Harlow, Bette Davis, Joe E. Brown, Hugh Herbert, W. C. Fields, Clark Gable, Groucho and Harpo Marx, Johnny Weissmuller, Mae West, Lionel and John Barrymore, Laurel and Hardy, Edward G. Robinson, Fred Astaire, and George Raft.

You wouldn't believe the songs sung by Jerry Mathers, Joe Pesci, Clint Eastwood, Leonard Nimoy, Bette Davis, Hogan's Heroes, Joan Rivers, Rex Reed, Mae West and others.

Calleia played opposite some Hollywood greats, including John Wayne, William Holden, Errol Flynn, Rita Hayworth, Mae West, Bette Davis, Orson Welles, Jane Russell, Alan Ladd, William Powell, Mario Lanza, Charlton Heston, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, Tyrone Power, and Anthony Quinn.

21 also stored the private wine collections of such celebrities as Presidents Gerald Ford, John F. Kennedy, and Richard Nixon ; Joan Crawford ; Elizabeth Taylor ; Hugh Carey ; Ernest Hemingway ; Ivan Boesky ; The Nordstrom Sisters ; Frank Sinatra ; Al Jolson ; Gloria Vanderbilt ; Sophia Loren ; Mae West ; Zsa Zsa Gabor ; Aristotle Onassis ; Gene Kelly ; Gloria Swanson ; Judy Garland ; Sammy Davis, Jr .; and Marilyn Monroe.

The Los Altos was home to many Hollywood celebrities — including Bette Davis, Mae West, and William Randolph Hearst — before the Great Depression, David Boreanaz has also cited it as one of his favorite episodes.

Golden Hollywood ( First row, left-right ) Greta Garbo, Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Clark Gable, Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Marlon Brando, Marx Brothers, Joan Crawford ( Second row, left-right ) John Wayne, James Stewart, Buster Keaton, Claudette Colbert, Gene Kelly, Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Gregory Peck, Elizabeth Taylor, Kirk Douglas ( Third row, left-right ) Bette Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Jean Harlow, Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Howard Hawks, Grace Kelly, Laurence Olivier, Marlene Dietrich, James Cagney ( Fourth row, left-right ) Ava Gardner, Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Fonda, Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, Orson Welles, Mae West, William Holden, Sophia Loren ( Fifth row, left-right ) Vivien Leigh, Joan Fontaine and Gary Cooper, Spencer Tracy, Barbara Stanwyck, Lillian Gish, Tyrone Power, Shirley Temple, Janet Leigh and Charlton Heston, Rita Hayworth, Mary Pickford

His impersonations included Carol Channing, Bette Davis, Mae West, Barbra Streisand, Tallulah Bankhead, Marlene Dietrich, Bette Midler, Anita Bryant, Shirley Bassey, Peggy Lee and Judy Garland.

Three years before Davis ' lectures, Henry Edward Armstrong taught a degree course in chemical engineering at the City and Guilds of London Institute.

* Henry Rust Mighels, journalist, politician, first husband of Nellie Verrill Mighels Davis

By the age of 16, Booth was interested in the theatre and in politics, becoming a delegate from Bel Air to a rally by the Know Nothing Party for Henry Winter Davis, the anti-immigrant party's candidate for Congress in the 1854 elections.

* 1807 – Charles Henry Davis, American Civil War Admiral ( d. 1877 )

His father, Miles Henry Davis, was a dentist.

* Henry Hague Davis ( January 31, 1935 – June 30, 1944 )

In a letter sent out February 27 to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Henry Waxman and ranking Republican Tom Davis said Clemens ' testimony that he " never used anabolic steroids or human growth hormone warrants further investigation ".

The British used the Davis apparatus ( invented in 1910 by Robert Henry Davis and mass-produced by Siebe Gorman ) for submarine escape, but they adapted it to equip their frogmen during World War II.

In 1948 the Cousteau-Gagnan patent was also licensed to Siebe Gorman of England, when Siebe Gorman was directed by Robert Henry Davis.

Lombardi also made a big trade with the Cleveland Browns that brought three players to the team who would become cornerstones of the defense: linemen Henry Jordan, Willie Davis, and Bill Quinlan.

The Packers also had a superb defensive line led by Henry Jordan and Willie Davis.

Furthermore, Davis accused Gould of having misrepresented a study by Henry H. Goddard ( 1866 – 1957 ) about the intelligence of Jewish, Hungarian, Italian, and Russian immigrants to the U. S., wherein Gould reported Goddard's qualifying those people as " feeble-minded "; whereas, in the initial sentence of the study, Goddard said the study subjects were atypical members of their ethnic groups, who had been selected because of their suspected sub-normal intelligence.

While commander of Fort Davis, he started a controversial court-martial of second lieutenant Henry Flipper, the first black cadet to graduate from West Point.

In 1863, enlisting the support of Alexander Dallas Bache and Charles Henry Davis, a professional astronomer recently recalled from the Navy to Washington to head the Bureau of Navigation, Louis Agassiz and Benjamin Peirce planned the steps whereby the National Academy of Sciences was to be established.

General Sherman with Generals Oliver O. Howard | Howard, John A. Logan | Logan, William Babcock Hazen | Hazen, Jefferson C. Davis | Davis, Henry Warner Slocum | Slocum, and Joseph A. Mower | Mower, photographed by Mathew Brady, May 1865

By 1872 Jacob Samuels, William Jesse Boaz, and William Henry Davis had opened general stores.

The Wade – Davis Bill of 1864 was a bill proposed for the Reconstruction of the South written by two Radical Republicans, Senator Benjamin Wade of Ohio and Representative Henry Winter Davis of Maryland.

* Jezebel ( film ), starring Bette Davis and Henry Fonda

The film stars Bette Davis and Charles Boyer with Barbara O ' Neil, Jeffrey Lynn, Virginia Weidler, Helen Westley, Walter Hampden, Henry Daniell, Harry Davenport, George Coulouris, Montagu Love, Janet Beecher and June Lockhart.

Jane Fonda, Henry Fonda, Natalie Wood and Olivia de Havilland were among the actors who paid tribute, with de Havilland commenting that Davis " got the roles I always wanted ".