Bette Davis – The Tragic Story of Her 3 Children

Bette Davis won two Academy Awards and survived a war with Hollywood's most powerful studio — but the deepest wound of her life came from inside her own family. This is the tragic true story of Bette Davis and her three children: Barbara "B.D." Hyman, Margot Merrill, and Michael Merrill — the daughter who wrote the devastating tell-all My Mother's Keeper, the daughter the world was never allowed to know, and the son who stayed loyal to the very end. Often called the real-life Mommie Dearest, B.D. Hyman's 1985 betrayal of her mother stunned classic Hollywood — a tell-all published while Bette Davis was still recovering from a mastectomy and a near-fatal stroke. In this video we trace the whole story: Davis's golden-age stardom and her legendary fight with Warner Bros., her marriages to artist William Grant Sherry and All About Eve co-star Gary Merrill, the infamous feud with Joan Crawford on the set of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, the heartbreaking life of her daughter Margot, and the cold final sentence in her will that disinherited her own daughter and grandchildren forever. TOPICS COVERED: Bette Davis biography • Old Hollywood and the golden age of cinema • Bette Davis children and family • B.D. Hyman and My Mother's Keeper • the Bette Davis and Joan Crawford feud • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? • Gary Merrill and William Grant Sherry • Margot and Michael Merrill • the Bette Davis estate and will • classic Hollywood scandals and tragedies ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Welcome to History Mark Exposed — where the most famous names in history hide the stories no one talks about. This channel uncovers the private lives behind the public legends: Hollywood icons, royalty, heiresses, and the great dynasties whose glamour concealed decades of ambition, betrayal, scandal, and quiet tragedy. Beyond the magazine covers and the grand estates lie the families that fame nearly destroyed — and the secrets carefully erased from public memory. From golden-age movie stars and forgotten heirs to royal houses and old-money empires, we trace how legends were built, what they cost, and the children, siblings, and fortunes left behind in their shadow. Expect deep dives into family feuds, broken marriages, mysterious deaths, lost inheritances, and the downfall of names once thought untouchable. Because behind every legend is a family — and behind every family, a secret. Subscribe for new stories every week on the glamour, the power, and the tragedies history tried to forget. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 SUBSCRIBE to History Mark Exposed so you never miss a story. 👍 If you enjoyed this video, please like, comment, and share. This video is based on publicly available historical records, interviews, and biographies, and is presented for educational and biographical purposes. #BetteDavis #ClassicHollywood #OldHollywood #MyMothersKeeper #HollywoodHistory