Bette Davis

Sued Warner Bros. in 1936 UK courts to break a contract she considered exploitative — the only major contracted star of the studio era to publicly challenge the entire studio-contract system in court.

Personally sought out and championed What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) when no studio was proposing it, reviving her career in her fifties.

Became the first woman elected president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1941, though she resigned within two months over disagreements with the board.

This is consistent with the profile's high autonomy_need and proactive_agency: the only major contracted star of her era to sue her own studio over creative control. Need for Autonomy

Accepted a reduced salary against a percentage of profits to get Baby Jane made when studio financing was reluctant.

Sustained a mutually corroborated professional rivalry with Joan Crawford across more than three decades, attested from both sides, including documented antagonistic behavior between the two on the set of Baby Jane itself, corroborated independently by crew accounts from that production.

This is scored directly in the profile's low collaboration score with risk impact — documented from both sides of the rivalry, not softened for a more flattering profile. Collaboration