Margot Merrill was born on April 21, 1940, daughter of Arthur Farnsworth and Ruth Elizabeth Bette Davis. He is buried there in the Pine Grove Cemetery. 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American actress Bette Davis with her daughter Barbara Davis Sherry, later known as BD or Bede Hyman, circa 1965Bette Davis would probably have been burned as a witch if she had lived two or three hundred years ago. ″Twenty years from now they’ll say, ’That was our grandmother; why didn’t we know her.‴ Manhattan Surrogate Court Judge Renee Roth directed Hyman to notify the court by Dec. 5 if she plans to contest the will. Not only that, she claims she once saw her mother transform into an ‘evil, demonic presence’. Many will reject her jaw-dropping claims as self-delusion, borne of her born-again Christianity, or continued desperate attempts to ensure her mother’s reputation remains blackened.Davis certainly paid a heavy price for falling out with her daughter, the product of her short-lived third marriage to artist William Sherry.Hollywood was transfixed by the extent to which a woman widely hailed as one of the greatest screen actresses could be so humiliated — by a daughter prepared to plunge the knife while the star was still alive.Their bitter relationship is, says Bede, rooted in a traumatic childhood and a neglectful, foul-mouthed, pugnacious and egomaniacal mother who was habitually drunk by 10 am.The mean-spirited and neurotic Davis was, she claims, emotionally cruel, and staged ‘suicides’ to punish her children — she adopted two others, a son and a disabled daughter — for perceived slights.When Bede was eight, she claims Davis pretended to take an overdose, locking herself in her bedroom. He said the only asset in California is a condominium apartment. American actresses Anne Baxter and Bette Davis play Eve Harrington and Margo Channing opposite Gary Merrill and George Sanders in a scene from the film 'All About Eve', directed by Joseph L... Get premium, high resolution news photos at Getty Images This information is part of by on Genealogy Online. Merrill, who had walked out on Davis when their daughter was an infant, corroborated her allegations about Davis’s drinking — downing a bottle of whisky in a night — and her maternal coldness. NEW YORK (AP) _ Actress Bette Davis left most of her nearly $1 million estate to her son and a close friend but nothing to her daughters - one of whom wrote about being raised by a ″hateful mother.″ Also left out of the will were Davis’ two grandsons. She took back her surname Sherry upon turning 16 years old, claiming that she wished to distance herself from Merrill, who was abusive. As she locked the French doors to the terrace, Davis appeared on the balcony and rattled the doors.‘She began demonic cackling and I watched her transform into a Satanic figure — a Satanic face, long claws on the ends of her hands as she scraped at the glass,’ Bede said.So far, so incredible. She accused Bede of a ‘glaring lack of loyalty and thanks for the very privileged life I feel you have been given’.Davis disinherited Bede and, after she died of breast cancer aged 81 in 1989, with Sermak at her side, her fortune was shared by her adopted son, Michael, and Sermak.Bede insists she bears no ill will towards Sermak, saying this week: ‘She was totally dominated and manipulated by my mother, but then almost everybody was.’ He noted, too, that all of her tax returns and those of her production company were prepared by accountants here. 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As Mrs Hyman — known as ‘B.D’ or ‘Bede’ — told me this week, her manipulative and hard-drinking mother Bette did indeed believe she was a witch, and would cast spells on her enemies from her bed.