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Bette Davis, one of the best actresses of all time, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress 11 times in her career. Some persnickety Oscar historians might say that she was nominated only 10 times, though, as her nomination for 1934's "Of Human Bondage" was one of the very few write-in votes ever permitted by the Academy. Records show that Davis, although not officially nominated by the Academy, still came in third that year.

Davis only won two Oscars, however. The first was for her performance in "Dangerous" in 1935 and the second was for playing a Scartett O'Hara-like role in "Jezebel" in 1938. Her performance in "Jezebel," Hollywood would eventually learn, was the first in a streak of nominations that would last for five straight years. In 1939, Davis was nominated for her performance in "Dark Victory." 1940 would see her nominated for "The Letter." In 1941, it was for "The Little Foxes," and...

The character of Cleo Sherwood (Moses Ingram), the deuteragonist in Apple TV’s Lady in the Lake series, is loosely based on a real-life Baltimore resident, Shirley Lee Wigeon Parker. On June 2, 1969, the authorities discovered Shirley Parker’s body drowned in a fountain at the center of Druid Park Lake. But before moving forward with the true story, I would like to mention that both the book and the Apple show have made a few changes to the real-life incident. The names of the characters and places have been changed to maintain discretion. Now, I have watched only the first two episodes of the show, as the rest haven’t been released yet; therefore, I’ll be talking about the differences in the book instead of the show.

The writer, Laura Lippman, took inspiration for her book, Lady in the Lake, from two true crime cases that took place in...