How tall was Bette Davis?

Bette Davis is commonly listed at 5 ft 3 in (160 cm).

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Bette Davis’s 5 ft 3 in (160 cm) is about average for a US woman: about 44 in 100 US women are shorter.

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Bette Davis beside others

Bette Davis is one of the shorter actors we have heights for: Sun Mingming (7 ft 9 in) stands 2 ft 6 in (76 cm) taller and Verne Troyer (2 ft 8 in) is 2 ft 7 in (78.7 cm) shorter. All 1,404 ranked, tallest first.

Also listed at 5 ft 3 in: Sydney Sweeney, Natalie Portman and Amanda Seyfried.

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5 ft 3 in (160 cm)

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Bette Davis, 5 ft 3 in (160 cm), drawn to scale beside the average US man, 5 ft 9 in (175 cm), and the average US woman, 5 ft 3.5 in (161 cm)