BETTE DAVIS An Intimate Portrait (6/6) 

There will never be another Bette Davis !!

There will never be another Betty Davis

l just don't have the words to describe my admiration and respect for this Magnificent Lady. Whenever l think of her, a smile always crosses my face, she spoke her mind and didn't suffer fools. l read her daughter's book and was so disgusted, l threw it in the rubbish bin, what a betrayal. It was so irrelevant, l don't even remember the contents. Rest in peace, know you were very much loved, and the legacy you left behind will go on long after I'm gone. Thank you for the great honour of being able to walk with you through your films. An Australian Lady.

I am so glad that her son loved her & appreciated her. God love him.

I truly love Betty Davis she is so beautiful. I grew up watch her movies all hours of the nite . She is a great movie star she lives in my heart always truly she is my hero 💗❤️💞🌻💕💞❤️😍💕💕

Michael is such a loving son. Through flesh and blood they may not be related, but they are one by heart and mind.

I love Betty Davis. She was a wonderful actress. Too bad we don’t have any like her today.

The greatest actress of all time!

Betty Davis was one of an exceptional actress in the 1940's and excelled thru the years. The movies were "ORIGINAL" no one else can redo these movies. Betty Davis u were a wonderful lady!

What an amazing woman was she! There ain't no other like her! She is a role-model for actresses today! So classy, yet so open! Love her! I wish she lived a little bit longer in good health! People like her need to live forever!

I guess BD is the greatest example of the old saying, "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished". RIP dear Lady Bette. The whole world appreciated your good work, even if your daughter did not.

God she was so beautiful, inside and out

She was a beautiful young woman.. And a Legend as an actress..

Betty Davis what a legend. Genius always keeps you guessing. Brilliant Actress. My favorite movie, All About Eve.

I love her voice ♥️

She was a genius, I love her.

Hard worker, passion for her craft and never gave up . This raw talent is all but gone ....

Love you Bette, no one can come close to you. RIP.

What a spectacular actress and wonderful person. Never will Hollywood capture she and the others that made amazing films .

I think she was blessed with an excellent son and cursed by a daughter who was just not able to love her or value all that Bette did for her. Ironically, the one time Bette expressed empathy for Joan Crawford was after the release of "Mommie Dearest". How awful that she herself would have to experience what Joan never did with an awful, vindictive memoir.

I could not write a book like that about anyone let alone my mother.... how shameful.

Isn’t that wild that her own flesh and blood betrayed her and her adopted son remained faithful and loving?

A fabulous biography, thank you!!!!!!

Well your Moms work stands alone ! She was good at being a great Actress ! Your a good Son , as for your sister I hope and pray your Mother forgave Her ! Your Mothers i believe pretty smart Lady ! Will see her again , in Heaven

Her light still shines.

I like Michael: he is a very level-headed man sans ego

I read B.D.'s book and it only made me love Bette more. xo

I love that woman, with a passion......

She was so awesome. Love her forever!

Michael is a good son god bless him

So sad what her daughter did w that book sad no matter what your mother his your mother brought you into this world I cherish Ed mine she's gone now too... Bette has always been my favorite! SHE DID IT THE HARD WAY! RIP BETTE

Amazing actress i love this ladies movies r i p miss davis

Her son loved her . Bette was a fighter a true Yankee

Wow, so moving❤

Bette Davis was a beautiful, wonderful actress --- my favourite!!!! I miss her!!!!

A DIVA - A LEGEND - THE BEST - SHE DID IT THE HARD WAY - X

I find it funny she was not considered pretty or glamorous at the time. I have always thought she was a beautiful lady.

Love Bette Davis the best simply the best ,

What a Wonderful Son and Disgusting daughter .Some kids are never happy n have to blame it on someone. I LOVED BETTE DAVIS!!!

It called "selling out your mother." Joan and Bette were and are great American actresses of their time.

we never know what happens in people private life, being a movie star like her is beautiful and also sad because of the jealousy issues ;) i love her acting is from heart god bless her .. :*

The best ! Magnifique Bette Davis !

even in that mean nasty book, B.D. does not deny that her mother gave her everything... how could ones life be filled with such disregard for ones feelings....

I loved this vignette on Bette Davis’ life and her life work in film. It was well done. I stumbled upon it while looking up the movie All About Eve. The look up was for the UK theatre version of All About Eve, which I was too young to know when released as a movie. Wanting to know more about the movie, did a net search which lead me to the movie version and Ms. Davis’ role. I was immediately hooked on this short bio, and will say that I will definitely seek out more of Ms. Davis’ past movies. I certainly will not be reading what appears to be her daughter’s malicious book. Ironically, I bought an oval picture frame due to the very pretty scroll design of the frame. It’s dark with touches of forest green accents. There was a photo of a very beautiful glamours woman that came with it, with a fur hat and big fur collar, basically an upper body shot. The woman is looking up to her left. I didn’t recognize the woman when I purchased the photo and thought that I’ll replace the photo with another. After getting it home, I realized it was a much younger Bette Davis! The photo is so striking, that I decided to keep that photo in the frame that now has permanent residence on my nightstand. Ms. Davis had a deservedly long and illustrious career, and was quite a beauty in the sunshine of her life and beyond.

My goodness. She really was amazing. Wasn't she.

Bette was beautiful. But fierce!!

The Bette Davis Foundation, imagine that! What a woman, what a broad!

(0:07) ...One of my favorite pictures of Miss Davis. Her son is a handsome guy too. 👍🏽💯😊

I like to think that she and Joan are finally friends in heaven. I don't think Bette ever admitted how she actually liked Joan until her death, because she knew that people wanted to hear about that feud. Clearly that hasn't changed in 2017.

8:21 She looked GREAT w/ short hair. Loved that photo

look up legend in the dictionary you will see Betty Davis

Always a candle in the dark. I wonder what she would have to say about "Me too."?

Absolutely to end. Perfection at's it's best!!!!

Terrible her daughter did such a thing .

What a life . What a lady !

Wow... My favorite Actress, hobby and entertainment in my 20's & 30's❣❣... Whatever Happen to Baby Jane, The Nanny, and many many more.. She had class with that firmness & fire I believed she loved hard, and wanted to put forth understanding that prevented the fall of others

I don't hate BD like I'm supposed to. Her book is fascinating, funny and dumbfounding(!) and she is as interesting as the storyteller as is Bette, subject. Bette imposing on BD's family becomes outrageous. BD is always saying, 'never again', but always comes back for more! Those wacky 'kick me' Hymans! I was able to feel BD's pain in reading the book, but later, in interviews, she became so harsh. Bette Davis loved BD so much, writing the book was a terrible decision. After BD became born again (nothing against becoming 'born again') she became more self righteous and unyielding. In forming a ministry (here on RU-vid) she came to link poor Bette with the devil, believing her erasable self to be demon possessed, appearing as if by magic on terraces, etc. BD all but ran away screaming! I don't believe any of this! Get a grip, BD, your mother is not a literal witch!

A real superstar! RIP Bette Davis.

B.D. and Christina Crawford are birds of feather. Two women horribly jealous of their famous and talented mothers.

BD Hyman killed her mother Bette i hope she can live with that in her conscious for the rest of her life and suffer tremendously.... for that pain which she caused our beloved Bette

I wonder how her daughter feels today ? Is she broken or did she justify her self , I wouldn’t want to live with heaving done something like that to break the persons heart who loved her the most . My mother certainly was not perfect ,like me and more , but to attack rip one down as she did is very evil . I never want to hear that she is anChristian unless to hear she repented . Did she ??

JOAN LOVED YOU

B.D.'s father was a jealous and abusive husband and his daughter was a chip off the old block with out of left field attack.against Miss Davis the daughter's aim it seems is to tear down any positives that others saw in Betty Davis.

Yes lady and it was work, which not everyone appreciates x

B.D is you ever read this: How could you??? For all the people in the world who have had it harder than you ever had it back then, How could you??? I bet you regret it and if so forgive yourself!!!

Alice Cooper was once her neighbor. This was when he was just starting to make it.

The daughter B.D has to be a pretty cruel and unloving person to write such an abomination of a book.Betty had a stroke and the book came out rt after.I read B.D believed or hoped her mother would be dead before the book came out.It was all about greed and cruelity.Her daughter as a new christian should have LOVE D her mother to the Lord.Instead to this day B.D talks badly about her mother.

That book sucks by the way. A grown woman who can't get over herself. Christina Crawford at least had SOME legits complaints.

@BDEye81 thank you so much for posting this!

I watched this beautiful tribute to the great Bette Davis. I saw almost all her movies and of course she was and she'll remain for ever a unique and amazing example, that when you have such a talent and glamour and class... None and nothing can't stop you!! 💞💞💞 I didnt know and I'm very surprised about that really cheap and free wrong action from her daughter, about the book she wrote about her mother. It's really hard to understand how come, the daughter of a such an icon, could be so stupid and blame on her mother. Even if she was not Betts Davis, it's always disgusting to see how sons can be so unfair. Shame on you daughter! It was better I guess, you'll born from an ordinary or low level person. At least cheap with cheap attitude was more acceptable 🙄🙈⬇️⬇️⬇️

Her and Joan had a lot in common, and I'm not talking about their daughters

shame on her daughter 😥

What a difference in response to their mother. Definitely, he loved his mother whereas her daughter used her name to financially benefit from. Hopefully Betty remove her daughter from her will.

Bette had a GOOD SON

I loved The Whales of August.

La vrai star.l'unique star.

My Beautiful Bette 😍

It amazes me how some people call her 'Bet' when it's really 'Betty'.

It is very easy to forget that there are two sides to every story. Bette was brilliant actress no doubt but I'm sure she could be a real force to be reckoned with. The same with Joan Crawford and Christina. There is always going to be tensions between mothers in daughters. It's just bigger than life when it's on the silver screen.

Michael Merrill is truly a gentleman, what that boy must've seen in his gentle life, BD and Bette are like Wynonna and Naomi, the Judds. Two very stubborn and determined women.

Bette Davis RIP

My sister and I are 3 years apart her being older. We grew up in the same house with the same parents. It was the 1960's and we were a typical middle class family. If I were to describe our childhood through teenage years you would hear the story of a typical family during that time. However, if you were to talk to my sister you would get an entirely new version of what it was like for her growing up in the same house. We had many conversations and I have told her. We obviously don't have the same parents! My parents were always loving, supportive and careing. Not the two ogres who were hateful, mean and abusive. As with her son and daughter one of them has a different interpretation of their mother. The same as with Joan and Christina Crawford. My sister to this day can't get along with my 92 year old Mother.

omg that's brilliant and SO true

she was tough👌

What a horrible person: Her daughter, B.D.

I’m so glad that she had Michael’s love and support until the end. She deserved it from her daughter. BD is a poor excuse of a human being.

BD's book was just bizarre.

No mention of her daughter, Margo which is strange?.... B.D can choke for all i care. Love to Bette, always.

“A firm mattress is always such a treat”

@lovelyjoints it is a possibility that she was acting, however, for me, Betty need played those games. if you look back on her life, she didn't have to she was that good. Those tricks was performed by such stars as Ms. Crawford.

love the shot @ 08:25!

Elle est rester belle jusqu'à la fin de vie

Doctors are amazed when they see cancer disappear. Doctors believe that cancer does not go away by itself, something must happen first and it is all from the supernatural. They all believe that something happened and do not know why and it is from the supernatural. When they see no cancer Doctors are amazed.

Wicked stepmother was her LAST film.

There is somthing about bet Davis ! Sure you were a start . A star a are a a star ! ! Like no other star this book could never be publis but it’s not true no one can ever prove this !

The whales of August was Not her final film.. Her final film was "Wicked Stepmother", she still looked good in the film, but she quit before it finished filming. They rewrote the ending, using all the footage they had of Bette !!

B.D really was a spoiled brat. That wrote a book to make a lot of money to betray her mother like that just shows what kind of person she really is.

Music too loud, want to hear about Ms Davis

Her actually accredited last movie was, “wicked stepmother,” a complete flop but still her last movie.

I fault BD for writing such book - perhsps she could have gone into therapy - but is kharma cause BD wasn't in the her moms will as much as BD wanted