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3. First actress to win the American Film Institute’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
- Lillian Gish
- Barbara Stanwyck
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Bette Davis
- Bette Davis was an American actress of television, film, and theatre. She was the first women to win a Lifetime Achievement Award. She was also the first person to accrue ten academy award nominations for her acting. But, in 1999, she was placed behind Katherine Hepburn on the list of greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema.