Unlike most other stars of her generation, she was willing to let herself look unglamorous and even shaved her eyebrows and the front of her scalp to play Queen Elizabeth. Frequently speaking in a clipped and emphatic manner, she possessed physical grace and an ability to make gestures and movements emotional--attributable, perhaps, to her training with Martha Graham. These traits grew mannered and even baroque as her career progressed, and Davis has been much imitated by campy female impersonators. But she could provide electrifying performances when given the right material and direction, and during her declining years, she was honored at many film festivals. During Davis's era, only Katharine Hepburn won more Academy Award nominations. Davis suffered from numerous ailments in her later years. She succumbed to cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, on October 6, 1989, after being honored at a film festival in Spain. She is buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles. .