William wyler and bette davis affair

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This essay is adapted from Seduction: Sex, Lies, and Stardom in Howard Hughes’s Hollywood, out now from Custom House.

Shortly after his flight around the world, Howard Hughes was an honored guest at a Hollywood benefit dinner for the animal rescue organization the Tailwaggers Society.

The host of the event was the president of Tailwaggers, actress Bette Davis.

Though she was essentially the same age as Katharine Hepburn, and had in fact arrived in Hollywood earlier, Davis’ stardom was slower to come.

So, in a year when stars like Hepburn and Greta Garbo were labeled “box office poison,” Davis was we