BETTE DAVIS 1981 Interview (4/4) 

At least she was honest to say Dangerous was not a good movie because Katherine Hepburn should have got it for Alice Adam's

David was blushing. Awesome!

Joan was definitely someone whom she did not have a good relationship with. However, Miriam Hopkins and Bette had a long history together . Miriam could piss off Bette like no one else. If we have lived in 1932, we would have known who she was. She was in the top 10 major star lists. I may be wrong but Bette and Miriam had done summer stock theater together in their very young years. As Bette's star was rising, Miriam's was descending. However, Bette fails to mention she had an affair with Miriam's husband. If you look on RU-vid, you can find that Miriam had a flair for slapstick comedy as well as drama. My mother (born in 1927) liked Hopkins and said "she just had a different look". As for "Jezebel", Miriam owned the copyrights to the piece. She played it on Broadway and it flopped. She sold it I guess to Warners thinking she would play it. Why she didn't hold on to the rights and sign on the bottom line that she would play the part on film is a mystery to me. My favorite part Hopkins ever played was the meddlesome Aunt Penniman in the movie "The Heiress".

Because people will expect her to say Joan Crawford and he was expecting her to say Joan but she didn’t lol.

Not good, but her husband was the betrayer.

Anybody worth their salt has fans and haters. Bette Davis is a legend!

No, but she did give her thoughts about it in this interview: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3XRikH6JJq0.html

Because Betty is pronounced the same as Bette probably

I knew from somewhere she and Miriam had a very long past and they had done summer stock theater together. From some book or other, I remember Bette mentioning she was curious of how much of Miriam's blondness came from a bottle. Personally, I think Miriam had a wider range in film than Bette. She had great comic timing. To my knowledge, I don't think Bette attempted the kind of slapstick comedy that Miriam had done on film. She also couldn't just burst out laughing like Celeste Holm could in AAE. Miriam had problems with other actors for her unprofessional behavior. In 1932, Miriam Hopkins was in the top 10 best known stars in Hollywood. For Bette Davis to come along and be cast in "Jezebel" and the film was a huge success versus Miriam playing the part on Broadway to dismal reviews could only have been horrendous for her. As Bette's star was ascending, Miriam's was descending to the point of her being a second tier actress and no longer the star. She's wonderful as Laurence Olivier's bitchy wife in "Carrie" and in her role as the meddlesome Aunt Penniman in "The Heiress". Most of us in this generation wouldn't even know of Miriam Hopkins and often default to Joan Crawford as Bette's nemesis. Bette and Miriam knew each other of old and the animosity for each other never wavered.