I've often felt that the measure of a person's character was how genuine that individual laughed. A hearty laugh was the ultimate expression of a mighty spirit. This dame had it!!!
Betty Davis should have all her greatest movies shown on netflix. Just to show the younger generation how great an actress she was and how fabulous her films were. She was all class.
Yes, I DO wish Netflx offered some screen classics, too. Often the only channels offering them on TV get stuck on whole days of Westerns or Beach Movies and you have no other classic choices unless you sign up for another whole online channel.
Yes there are so many classic films I saw as a child in the summer or Saturdays but now I live in Europe and never get to see them anymore. Classics nowadays seem to be considered from the 70s and 80's! Those are modern for my tastes! Just where can one find them now? Just a few are on RU-vid. I have bought some DVDs ( I have six of Bette Davis's) but I can't buy that many and many can't be found. I always wonder, where do people find them? There are so many videos on RU-vid that describe some old film or other and they say, make sure you watch it, don't miss it! Well, I' d love to, but how?
I'm with ya. I'm 49 next month & lately I've become fascinated with the classic actresses from that golden era. Maybe it has something to do, for me, with getting older & appreciating the classics.
"Now that I'm older the evil has come out a little more". Bette Davis was a card! You never knew what she was going to say but she was the most honest when live and certainly a great actress.
i've noticed quite a few of the...*ahem*... more "established" stars did back in the day, also would frequently make their entrance in outerwear (heavy coats, etc).. looks odd today, as pretty much nobody walks onto a talk show in a cape, or fur coat, or carrying a purse, etc.. but then this was also a time when it wasn't uncommon to chainsmoke and/or sip a stiff cocktail throughout a television interview, so i guess she had to have somewhere to carry her cigarettes..
This was soooo good....loved watching them all talk about their lives...and Dick is the perfect interviewer...his show was so relaxed and fun to watch.
My favorite actress of all time. She actually sang to me once for a minute or two... I was in a crowd to see her light a Christmas tree, and I got to speak to her. I will never forget it as long as I live...
Are there any actors like this now? Bette was a cut above the rest even in her day when there were real stars...she was witty and yet still real and honest. These interviews from the 70s and 80s showed that she had no illusions about her place as a star.
Bette was so sassy 4:25 :) When I was little I remember my great-grandmother used to watch all the old Bette Davis movies and she would always say 'They don't make em like her anymore' at the time being just a kid I never understood what my grandmother meant by that or why she was always watching those old black and white movies but now I'm older I totally get it. You don't see that type of elegance, charisma, style, talent or wit anymore. I'm 32 and I watch more of those old movies now than I do modern movies. Bette Davis was a class act and she was part of a golden generation of superstars we will never see again ✨
When you think about great performances then Davis playing Margo Channing in 'all about eve' has to be the defining role. she played a 40 year old ageing star in a time when ageism was ten times worse than it is now. Now many women dont have children until they are 40 but then it was considered over the hill. She brought her whole life to that role and a gravitas to the character that is palpable in its intensity. BD you are a Star.
Oh, this is just so wonderful to watch! Bette Davis is beyond compare and categorization as she was just magical. I easily rank her up there with Orson Welles, Agnes Moorehead and Katherine Hepburn for being the best guests to appear on any talk program and the ease with which they all had to converse about anything at all. They truly enjoyed life and people.
@@lauriewinek2453 I agree - Hepburn was not fun to watch in an interview at all. Always felt she would at any moment jump up and tear off the hosts head and storm off. Snooty is the word. Great actress in her own way but snooty - her Cavett interview is a good example, there are clips of her 'off air' and she was clearly difficult and pretty characterless - I bet the crew were petrified of her. Then on air, she sat there with her feet on the table, almost in a 'defiant teenager' sort of way as if to prove a point through the whole interview that 'she could and therefore she would'. Davis was far too well mannered for that sort of behaviour, I've no doubt she could be a beast when making a picture if things were not being done right, why would she not be - as she always said, what goes up there on the screen stays there forever! Hepburn is very guarded, filtering everything she says in order to maintain the pretence. Davis visibly relaxes the more she can just be open, direct and herself. They are of course two very different women, they don't need to be compared but on the basis they are probably the only two of their kind from that era it's inevitable I guess. Doesn't;t detract from their very different, but equally worthy talents.
All I can say this moment is, I love Bette Davis. I believe what you see here with her is the same thing off camera...so honest, so funny, so beautiful. Oh, that we who loved her forever could have met her. Blessed are those who were her friends.
I remember watching Whatever Happened to Baby Jane when I was quite young, it was on TV once on a Friday night when they showed horror films for a while. I was allowed to stay up late on Fridays as there was no school the next day. Baby Jane was my first Davis film I remember seeing, and after that I was hooked and I've been a fan ever since.
There is a segment where miss Davis is talking about jack warner when he told her to hang in there about the scripts she was offered & then warner tells her i found the most terrific story & script just for you i already bought it! , then she says ; "i bet it's a pip" then she went on talking about Olivia de Havilland going through a similar situation &so on ,i have cds & cassetes of Bette Davis movies &in this particular interview her voice sounds just exactly as she sounded when she was young in the 1930s what a terrific Actress she was &although she & Joan Crawford didn't like each other they were the greatest movie legends &icons of the silver screen& thanks to the magic of film they wiil live forever...
@@alfysmith2171 I agree with your response to your hallucination of my comment. I was referring to them being in a movie together. If you watched the clip, that should have been clear.
The world's greatest actress, the Queen of the silver screen Miss Bette Davis. RIP Ruth Elizabeth Davis, commonly known as Bette Davis 1908-1989)🎥🎬🎬🎬🍸👡💄👚👒
MrQbenDanny So odd you think so. Both Jimmy Cagney and Miss Davis HATED each other after that film and both blamed each other for its failure at the box office. They never worked together again.
@@marjoriemargel1567 Davis said she & Cagney longed to work in something substantial, Bride Came C.O.D. was a dud, to be sure, but where is the evidence that they hated each other?
I love the Mid-Atlantic accent, the way she looks whimsically into the middle distance and shouts like an irate sergeant major on parade, the one who has just been served with divorce papers and can’t abide the impudence of his soon to be ex-wife, as it were ...
Wow, go to 37:00 -- solid statement from the Senator and Ms. Davis about our freedoms and how easily they can slip away. Unfortunately, it's happening now.
Bette has a real fun personality lol she seemed warm too.. such a shame what her daughter done too her as in Bette’s own words she ‘her daughter’ was the love of her life.. shame on her.. rest in peace Bette xx
You would think that somebody in the production or behind the scenes of that show would have had the common sense to cut off Betty's Mike as she started hacking up a lung.. she was very courteous to walk off stage so not to bother Artie while he was speaking with her cigarette cough but nobody thought to turn off your mic so we were treated to the sounds of her coughing behind the scenes