HER RULES to Live By

THE SiLVERSSCREEN LEGEND BELIEVED IN WORKING HARD AND LIVING LARGE

Hollywood has known its share of legends and divas, but few can compare with Bette Davis. The 10-time Academy Award nominee made a career of playing strong-willed women who would stop at nothing to get what they wanted. In real life, the New England-born star, who died in 1989 at age 81, was just as formidable. Closer rounded up a few of her greatest lessons.

TRUST YOUR INSTINCTS 

"Miss D always went with her hunches, pure and simple," Kathryn Sermak, Bette's former assistant, tells Closer. "Her mother was very psychic, and so was her grandmother. Miss D, not so much, but she had radar."

GO ABOVE AND BEYOND