In September 1962, a classified ad appeared in a Hollywood trade paper from a divorced mother of three with 30 years of film experience who noted she was still mobile and more affable than rumored. It was placed by two-time Academy Award winner Bette Davis. This episode follows how a self-described modest Yankee from Massachusetts, born in 1908 and rejected by theater teacher Eva Le Gallienne, turned every trait the industry called a flaw into a weapon.

From the studio representative who left her at the Los Angeles train station because nobody looked like an actress, to the degrading screen tests, the Of Human Bondage snub that forced the Academy to allow write-in votes, and her flight to England to break a Warner Bros. contract, the conversation charts a career built on confrontation. It also covers her Oscars for Dangerous and Jezebel, th ...