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She nearly died at 8 — then became one of Hollywood’s most powerful women

News admin1 · May 5, 2026 · 0 Comment

A 99-year-old man was driving. The car was flying. And little Geena Davis stayed quiet, because she’d been taught “don’t make a fuss.” That terror, she later realized, was just the beginning. From a neighbor’s hands on a newspaper route to Hollywood’s brutal age cutoff, her silence nearly swallowed her whole—until she finall… Continues… She grew up in a cold New England house warmed by wood and strict rules: be grateful, be quiet, be nice. That training left her frozen in a speeding car with her near-centenarian great-uncle at the wheel, too scared of seeming rude to demand he stop.... Continues…