With Sherry's consent, Merrill adopted B. D., Davis's daughter with Sherry, and in 1950, Davis and Merrill adopted a baby girl they named Margot.

The family traveled to England, where Davis and Merrill starred in a murder-mystery film, Another Man's Poison ( 1951 ).

Davis and Merrill began arguing frequently, with B. D.

Despite the acrimony of their divorce years earlier, Gary Merrill also defended Davis.

Davis's adopted son, Michael Merrill, ended contact with Hyman and refused to speak to her again, as did Davis, who also disinherited her.

In 1997, the executors of her estate, Michael Merrill, her son, and Kathryn Sermak, her former assistant, established " The Bette Davis Foundation " which awards college scholarships to promising actors and actresses.

The territory consists of 13 townships and 3 gores, namely Lang, Davis, Tim Pond, Stetsontown, Jim Pond, Alder Stream, Seven Ponds, Kibby, Chain of Ponds, Massachusetts Gore, Coburn Gore, Skinner, Merrill Strip, Lowelltown, Gorham Gore, and Beattie.

Possibly more surprising were Alvin Batiste, Tony Bennett, Art Blakey, Teresa Brewer, Richard Davis, Elvin Jones, Etta Jones, The Inkspots, Peggy Lee, Helen Merrill, Charles Mingus, Vi Redd, Betty Roché, Caterina Valente, Dinah Washington — and " Ditty Wah Ditty " with Ry Cooder.

Indeed, she claims Davis was a battered woman and states that Davis ' actor husband Gary Merrill was a violent alcoholic.

Jerome and Blanche Merrill ; " Jewish Wedding Song ( Trinkt le Chaim )" by Sylvia Neufeld ; " Poor Butterfly " by John Raymond Hubbell and John Golden ; " Rose of Washington Square " by Ballard MacDonald and James F. Hanley ; " Baby Face " by Harry Akst and Benny Davis ; and " Do It Again " by George Gershwin and Buddy G. DeSylva.

In Chicago in the 1960s he opened the Civic Theater and financed The World of Carl Sandburg starring Bette Davis and Gary Merrill, as well as Eva Le Gallienne in Mary Stuart, directed by Sir Tyrone Guthrie, and Tennessee Williams ' " Garden District " featuring Cathleen Nesbitt and Diana Barrymore.

Merrill survived his second wife, Bette Davis, by only five months, dying of lung cancer in Falmouth, Maine on March 5, 1990.

Other influential early interpreters of the Great American Songbook include Fred Astaire, Mildred Bailey, Tony Bennett, June Christy, Rosemary Clooney, Nat " King " Cole, Perry Como, Barbara Cook, Chris Connor, Bing Crosby, Vic Damone, Bobby Darin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Doris Day, Blossom Dearie, Billy Eckstine, Alice Faye, Helen Forrest, The Four Freshmen, Judy Garland, Eydie Gorme, Johnny Hartman, Dick Haymes, Billie Holiday, Lena Horne, Joni James, Jack Jones, Al Jolson, Cleo Laine, Frankie Laine, Steve Lawrence, Peggy Lee, Julie London, Dean Martin, Tony Martin, Johnny Mathis, Carmen McRae, Mabel Mercer, Helen Merrill, Anita O ' Day, Patti Page, Dinah Shore, Bobby Short, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Keely Smith, Kay Starr, Jo Stafford, Barbra Streisand ( particularly in her earlier work ), Maxine Sullivan, Mel Tormé, Sarah Vaughan, Dinah Washington, Ethel Waters, Margaret Whiting, Andy Williams, Joe Williams and Nancy Wilson.

Carmen McRae, Miles Davis Quintet, Dizzy Gillespie Quintet, Dave Brubeck Quartet, Herbie Hancock, Thelonious Monk Quartet, Jon Hendricks, Harry James Orchestra, Jimmy Witherspoon, The Andrews Sisters & the Gospel Song, and Helen Merrill, Joe Sullivan

Photograph is a promotional photograph showing the principle cast members from left to right: Gary Merrill, Bette Davis, George Sanders, Anne Baxter, Hugh Marlowe and Celeste Holm.

Tubman ( far left ), with Davis ( seated, with cane ), their adopted daughter Gertie ( beside Tubman ), Lee Cheney, John " Pop " Alexander, Walter Green, Blind " Aunty " Sarah Parker, and great-niece, Dora Stewart at Tubman's home in Auburn, New York circa 1887

In the 1950s, Rutherford and Davis unofficially adopted the writer Gordon Langley Hall, then in his twenties.

In 1881, Alger informally adopted Charlie Davis, a street boy, and another, John Downie, in 1883 ; they lived in Alger's apartment.

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.

George's wife, Lydia Amelia Heywood, was the adopted daughter of Mary Davis, of Plymouth.

Liddy, as she was known as a little girl, was born in Wayne, Michigan, and was adopted at age 4 by Mary Davis after both of her parents died of typhoid.

These provisions excited intense hostility in the U. S., and Senator Henry G. Davis offered an amendment adopted by the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

He discovered he was adopted when he applied for a passport to join Sammy Davis, Jr. on a tour of " Golden Boy " to London when he was 25.

Rand's adopted son told an interviewer that Sammy Davis, Jr., stepped in and wrote a $ 10, 000 check which took care of Rand's expenses.

He has a sister, Patti Davis, five and a half years his senior, and a brother, Michael Reagan, who was adopted as an infant by Ronald Reagan and his first wife, Jane Wyman.

Davis adopted a conciliatory policy towards the Moros.

The constitution, rules and regulations proposed by Davis were adopted.

He immediately married Bette Davis, his co-star from All About Eve, and adopted her daughter Barbara from a previous marriage.

He and Davis adopted two more children, but divorced in 1960.

Davis in turn directly influenced self-proclaimed psychic Edgar Cayce ( 1877 – 1945 ) who adopted " trance diagnosis " and similar activities with few modifications from Davis's example.

Allen signed into law Louisiana's popular homestead exemption, legislation pushed to pasage by State Senator W. Scott Heywood of Jennings, who earlier had been the first to discover oil in his adopted Jeff Davis Parish.

Saadia Marciano, one of the movement's founders, chose the name " Black Panthers " in 1971 when Angela Davis, one of the African American Black Panthers, came to visit Israel where she met with Marciano, who then adopted the name.

Duffield withdrew in 1869, and the name Parke, Davis & Company was formally adopted in 1871, being incorporated in 1875.

Knight consequently developed a taste for adventure and crime-fighting, and after finding a " black light ray projector " that a family friend named Professor Davis sent to her father, she adopted the device as a weapon.

While they are not related to Glenn, he and his wife, Norma, practically adopted him, and they are the biological parents of former major league pitcher Storm Davis.

Davis plays the eponymous lead character and hero: a reluctant farmer who plays a critical role in protecting a special baby from a tyrannical queen in a sword and sorcery setting.

Five people were spared in the massacre: Ann Morley and her baby, in a cabin ; Apprentice Thomas Davis ( or Davison ), hidden in the hold ; the second mate ; and two-year-old Betsy Broughton, taken by a local chief who put a feather in her hair and kept her for three weeks before rescue.

Berry rescued the four survivors, Ann Morley, her baby, Thomas Davis ( or Davison ) and Betsy Broughton.

They also owned a substantial ranch in northern Arkansas, where Davis learned to ride horses as a boy.

The protagonist of the novel is Raymond Davis Garraty, a 16-year-old boy from the town of Pownal in Androscoggin County, Maine.

In the commentary, Davis confirms that there were a number of " lost scenes " previously rumored to have been deleted from the film including a battle in the valley, Willow battling a boy who transforms into a shark in a lake while retrieving Fin Raziel, and an extended sorceress duel at the climax.

" The same year, Davis made Girls Beware, warning girls not to put themselves into situations where they would be defenseless, a topic that Davis had covered at least 10 years earlier in his film Name Unknown, in which a man used a gun to accost a couple in isolated surroundings, forcing the boy into the trunk of the car and raping the girl.

The boy studied English and navigation for a year, apprenticed to a cooper, and then, with Whitfield's help, signed on to the whaler Franklin ( Captain Ira Davis ).

The boy, called Davis or Davidson, went from Lima to England aboard the Archduke Charles, and later worked for Berry in New South Wales.

When Queen gives birth to a boy, whom she vows to name for his father, Miss Giffery declares that Davis is the name of an adulterer and baptizes the child as Abner.

As a boy, Davis learned how to swim in the lakes around his home.

It co-starred Whitaker playing the role of a 6-year-old orphaned boy named Jody Davis, living in a high-rise apartment in New York with his sisters Buffy ( Anissa Jones ) and Cissy ( Kathy Garver ), his uncle Bill Davis actor ( Brain Keith ), and Bill's butler, Mr. French ( Sebastian Cabot ).

Previously nicknamed " Boy Gary " ( Howard called his college roommate Dr. Lew Weinstein " boy " when giving an order ; preceded by " Boy " Lee Davis at WNBC ), Dell ' Abate's " Baba Booey " moniker originated on The Howard Stern Show on July 26, 1990, after telling a story of his prized collection of animation cels.

The Nanny is a 1965 suspense film directed by Seth Holt and starring Bette Davis as a supposedly devoted nanny caring for a ten-year-old boy recently discharged from a home for disturbed children.

In 1965 London, Mod Jimmy Cooper ( Daniels ), disillusioned by his parents and a job as a post-room boy at an advertising firm, finds an outlet for his teenage angst with his Mod friends Dave ( Wingett ), Chalky ( Davis ), and Spider ( Shail ).

* Jim Limber Davis, mulatto boy who was briefly a ward of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America

* January 1882: Robert Henry Davis ( age 11 ) ( 1879 – 1965 ) joined Siebe Gorman as an office boy.

On 31 January 2008, Davis was signed on a six-month loan deal by Rangers, the club he supported as a boy.

Davis ' job, as a young boy, was to keep lookout for the police and give the alert to his father to hide bottles of whiskey being sold on the sly.

In 1965, Santana, who had begun his career as a ball boy and " picked up " the game, led Spain to unexpected victory over the US in the Davis Cup, and he became a national hero.

William Davis Ticknor was born on August 6, 1810, on the outskirts of Lebanon, New Hampshire, the oldest boy of nine brothers and sisters.

His intense desire to win, his habit of screaming, “ Oh Charley, you missed that one ,” at himself after a bad shot, and the fact that he drew a four month suspension for heaving his tennis racket into the crowd at a Davis Cup match, gave him the reputation of the, “ bad boy of international tennis .”