Once admitted into Bette’s private world, Kathryn learned that it was not acceptable to show up for breakfast in a bathrobe. “She loved to play practical jokes,” says Kathryn, 62, the author of Miss D and Me, who worked for Bette during the last decade of her life when the actress also suffered her most brutal betrayal. Along the way, she lived fully - finding and losing lovers, reveling in her children, feuding with costars in the press and having some laughs.
One of the last grand dames of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Bette won two Oscars for her roles in 1935’s Dangerous and 1938’s Jezebel, but she worked consistently for decades, accruing nearly 100 film credits before her death at age 81 in 1989.
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