LEGAL BATTLE COST BETTE DAVIS £7000
Few players in legal battles with their employers have had such a serious defeat as Bette Davis had not long ago. Miss Davis left her studio in Hollywood and went to England to make a picture there for .another producer. Her employers songht to restrain her from working for any producer qxcept themselves. Miss Davis decided to fight the restraining. action, and, while the actress enjoyed a motor trip through the British Isles, her solicitors prepared their case. It was tried before the High Court, and in her festimony Miss Davis claimed that she was merely "a slave, receiving too little for her restricted activities. When the verdicl was given, upbolding the employers' view, Miss Davis returned to her studio in Hollywood with the announcement that the court battle had cost her £7,000, "about half my year's salary." She said she decided not to appeal against the verdiet for fear a further legal action would cost her the other half year's salary.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 83, 24 April 1937, Page 11
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168LEGAL BATTLE COST BETTE DAVIS £7000 Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 83, 24 April 1937, Page 11
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