Bette Davis’s former Maine home has sold for $13.4M — the state’s priciest residential deal in a decade

Bette Davis’s former seaside escape just got a Hollywood ending.

The 8-acre estate in Cape Elizabeth, Maine sold last week for $13.4 million.

The price marked a 10-year high for the state of Maine, the Portland Press Herald reported. The historic property, which Davis playfully dubbed “Witch Way,” spent only two months on the market after listing for $15 million in July.

The $13.4 million sale is a recent high for Maine, but it’s far from the state’s record. That title goes to the former summer home of the billionaire David Rockefeller, which sold for a whopping $19 million in 2008.

Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty agent Sam Michaud, who listed the property alongside colleague Bill Gaynor, told The Post that he wasn’t surprised by the speed of the sale.

Michaud said the opportunity attracted interest from international buyers, calling it “one of the finest estates in Maine.”

Davis and her husband, actor Gary Merrill, fell in love on the set of the 1950 film “All About Eve” and quickly left La La Land for the coast of Maine, where they would raise their two adopted children, Margot and Michael, as well as Davis’s daughter from her previous marriage, Barbara Davis Hyman.

The family spent an idyllic decade at Witch Way, catching lobsters and socializing with their small coastal town. Michael Merrill told Portland Monthly magazine in a 2014 interview that his famous father even formed a local hockey team in Cape Elizabeth, called the Merrill Marauders.

Their dreamy life on the estate ended after Davis and Merrill’s divorce in 1960. Merrill would go on to say that his time there was the best of his life. Davis did not remarry, and died in France in 1989 at the age of 81.

Her legacy lives on at Witch Way — most recently marketed as “Seascape” — although the estate bears little resemblance to Davis’s day.

A 7,600-square-foot main house was constructed in 2002. The farmhouse-style home encompasses five bedrooms and eight bathrooms. A large, covered porch gives way to the double-height foyer and inviting interiors, including a cherry-paneled study and a fireside breakfast nook.

An octagonal cupola sits at the top of the residence, boasting 360-degree views of manicured lawns and all 1,200 feet of the estate’s granite shoreline.

The property offers extra room for guests in its 2,000-square-foot carriage house. The two-bedroom space, also built in 2002, comes with a fully equipped kitchen and a picturesque balcony.

A barn, space for animals and a pond was also included in the 8-acre deal.