 She would remain with Warner Bros. for the next eighteen years, and Davis was beholden to Arliss for the rest of her life, crediting him for "the career that finally emerged".Of Davis, Arliss wrote in his 1940 biography, "My Ten Years in the Studios", "I did not expect anything except a nice little performance.But when we rehearsed, she startled me; the nice little part became a deep and vivid creation, and I felt rather humbled that this young girl had been able to discover and portray something that my imagination had failed to conceive ...