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Ruth Elizabeth Davis, more commonly known as Bette Davis, was born April 5, 1908 in Lowell, Massachusetts. She was a precocious, self-absorbed child who discovered her love of acting while watching the play, The Wild Duck (by Henrik Ibsen) when she was a teenager, proclaiming, "Before that performance I wanted to be an actress. When it ended, I had to be an actress... exactly like Peg Entwistle (who played Hedvig in the play). Her doting, generous mother, Ruthie (Bette’s best friend for her entire life) sacrificed herself to Bette’s whim by working two jobs, one as a very talented portrait photographer and, the other, as a laundress, to supply funds for she and the Davis family to live in NYC and send Bette to acting school at the John Murray Anderson School of Theatre. Bette was, of course, the most exceptional pupil in her class, which made Ruthie’s efforts worth the trouble. By 1929 at age nineteen, Bette had...

A mothers whisper


In the night when your fast asleep.
Precious eyes closed…and in a beautiful dream.
You hear a whisper…a soft gental sound.
You smile…and laugh..nowing mother is around.
Trying not to wake up from this dream of yours.
It makes you feel safe….all nice and warm.
You feel a nice, soft, warm hand on your head.
Mother cries…..is she dead?
You try to move to tell her you’re alright.
But you cant move at all that night.
Mother sings me a beautiful ryme.
I try to wake up…its about time!
I wanna feel her warm imbrass.
Is it really way to late….
I see an angel up in the sky…
I see mother standing right by,
I walk to here and give her a hug.
Mother whispers…your in heaven my love(=

I admit I loved Disney Princesses as a little girl, I collected stickers and pictures of my favorites (Belle and Ariel and Cinderella) and have a lot of the movies.

But one curious thing I started to notice about Disney movies as I got older was that there were usually no mothers around, it was almost always a single dad and his daughter trying to get by. If there was a female adult, she was an awful stepmother or a wicked witch.

Here is a list of Disney movies (and many of these are based on folk tales and Grimm fairy tales, but they are the ones Disney seems to like to make movies of...) where the mother is missing or dead.
From Wikipedia:

[i]No (or 'absent') mothers:
Pinocchio: Pinocchio - no mother
The Great Mouse Detective: Olivia Flaversham - no mother.
Beauty and the Beast: Belle - no mother.
Aladdin: Jasmine - no mother
Pocahontas: Pocahontas - no mother
Chicken Little - no mother