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Born May 1, 1947, in Santa Ana, California, she is the daughter of Davis and artist William Grant Sherry (1914–1995), Bette Davis's third husband. Davis and Sherry divorced in 1950. As an infant, B. D. appeared briefly in her mother's film Payment on Demand (1951).
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On Feud, Shipka portrays a young version of B.D. Hyman (born Barbara Davis Sherry, to Davis and her third husband William Grant Sherry), at the time of filming for What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?,when her name was B.D. Merrill, having been adopted by her mother's fourth husband, Gary Merrill. While it's obvious enough just from watching the series...
By the time Davis died in 1989, their relationship was irreparably damaged. The actress wrote out Hyman and her other daughter, Margot Mosher Merrill, from her will, ensuring they would receive nothing from her nearly $1 million estate: "I declare that I have intentionally and with full knowledge omitted to provide herein for my daughter, Margo, an...
Michael Merrill (pictured above at a Bette Davis Centennial Tribute in 2008, alongside his mother's longtime personal assistant Kathryn Sermak) was also adopted while Davis was married to Merrill and is the last of the screen legend's three children. Michael refuted his sister's claims of abuse and remained Davis' only child to be represented in he...
Born Again Christian (?) B.D. Hyman's own brand of compassion following her mother Bette Davis' death. In 1985, Hyman wrote a scathing tell-all book about B...
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An interview after the release of My Mother's Keeper by B. D. Hyman on her life with her famous mother.
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Sep 1, 2017 · Sermak — who served as a live-in assistant to Davis off and on during the decade leading up to the Hollywood legend’s death in 1989 — says she called Davis’s daughter Barbara (nicknamed Bede) in...
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Mar 27, 2017 · B.D. was actually born Barbara Davis Sherry in 1947 to Davis and her third husband, William Grant Sherry; she took the surname of her adoptive father, Davis' fourth and final husband Gary...
My Mother's Keeper is a 1985 memoir by B. D. Hyman, [1] the daughter of actress Bette Davis, in which she alleges that Davis was a bullying, alcoholic mother.
