Bette Davis, in her day, was certainly a "star". In today's speak she would be a "super star" or even a "mega" star. Whatever label is given, she was great at her job, giving me decades of wonderful entertainment. Thanks heaps for this clip. Terrific stuff!
Yes can you turn them off? Google if deaf if you're using the Google on RU-vid. I had a glitch in my keyboard that turned everything I wrote into gibberish whenever I hit send. It looked like the close caption gere.
What a delightful found gem this is !! Bette Davis was always almost strictly interested in doing historic dramas, and very obviously, it is her forte !! Bette Davis and Natalie Schafer in a movie together ?? Two superb actress's who put today's actresses to shame !! Marvelous seeing them together !! 😀😀😃😃😄😄 Thanks for the upload !!
Wonderful story-nothing like the hateful vitriol we now live out day in and day out in, 2021. Heartwarming to see repentance and forgiveness acted out. The acting was superb! But then what can one ever say about, Bette Davis-simply the best of the best when it comes to acting! ❤️
This is the first time I see this film. Absolutely amazing. There is nothing that Bette Davis can not do on film. We miss this grand awesome acting. There has never been one like her before nor after. ❤❤❤❤
She was simply astonishingly good. One look from her can send me into elation or despair. Short productions like these distilled and condensed her skills. She will always be my screen goddess. ❤
The subtitles are hilarious! Davis called the 50s decade 'The Dark Year's' having to do a lot of television work and other projects way below her standards. She always did a great job with them though! There are many true gems among the costume jewelry.
Bette was going through a tough time in the 1950's. She married Gary Merrill and the marriage was a rocky one. She adopted a daughter who turned out to be brain damaged. And she started having bad dental problems. She wasn't getting work like she used to and her looks started to tank despite only being in her early forties. Cycles of life . . . .
@@auntiechercher4266 The real problem with their marriage is that Davis didn't marry Gary Merrill. It was Margo Channing who fell in love with and married Bill Sampson. I heard this confession in an interview where they never really knew each other, they fell in love with each other's characters in the movie.
@@bellaboop1 Yeah, I heard it too . . . dumb analogy in my opinion. They married too soon after knowing each other for only a short period of time. It was a tough decade ahead for Bette, but the one bright spot was her son Michael - which came out of that marriage.
This is a gem. I love anything & everything BETTE DAVIS. You could never find this stuff anywhere else, but some nice intelligent person who knows how to share this material with other fans. Almost all of Bette's movies are on DVD, but very little on her TV work. I wonder if anyone ever thought of putting a box-set of Bette Davis's TV movies and short films on DVD ! Don't you think that would be a wonderful idea ? There is so much TV material and series out there to chose from that I think a box-set of Bette Davis TV movies and such would be a hit.
Bette had also made three different guest appearances on the "Wagon Train" TV show: "The Ella Lindstrom Story" (1959, S2 ep. 18) "The Elizabeth McQueeney Story" (1959, S3, ep 5) "The Bettina May Story" (1962, S5, ep 12) In each appearance, she plays a different character, but at the same time shows a lot of nuance and acting range.
she's one of my favorite actresses I could watch her on and on I wish this was longer but I never get tired of her is one of the greatest actress ever lived in my opinion thank you for the video
Fabulous! The always marvelous Bette, along with other delightful actresses & actors, whom of which, each & all, played various roles, & characters, in many films & sitcoms & dramas, both big screen & television. Not to mention, they'd all most assuredly, been on stage in many facets of entertainment. Even the infamous, Vaudville. Anyone notice Ms Howell, from Gilligan's Island!? I adore these short stories. Bette performed in several such half hour productions, for television. She was elated to act in any forum, not just the Big Screen productions. She could so easily float between any type of acting format. Some Stars were too afraid to leave the "Movie Stars Big Screen" for tv plays or bit parts in tv, or venture outside of their label. Bette did everything! Thank God! We can enjoy such as this gem! She was uniquely unique! Love this. Thank you for sharing! Love all of these actors here.
New sub here...and one who adores Bette Davis. I had no idea that she did these little episodes, so I am grateful to have found your channel...thank you soooo much!!!❣️🙏🏼👌🌺 Do you have my 2 favorite movies per chance?? “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane”, and “Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte”? Ohhh I love those ones👍
Can u date the other Bette 57/58 teleplays by month/day ? With malice toward one Stranded For better for worse The cold touch The starmaker Fraction of a second
In a way, an American reprise of Bette's having played (in 1939 and 1955) a much older grande dame of state, Queen Elizabeth I ... with nary a shift of accent, but a far more compliant and forgiving tone.
Bette Davis n the “Virgin Queen” scared me when I was little, lol. The way they made her up was spooky. I still love the movie though, AND Errol Flynn💞
Her white face makeup and dark lips as QE1 may have braced audiences for Bette's 1962 turn as Baby Jane Hudson, if not for Bette's compleat slide to a tour de force travesty of the cynical older slattern.
BRAVO!!! Love how BETTE tapped into her old school mistress "CORN IS GREEN", character for this strictly paycheck appearance!!! Love Schaefer and the contract player Yentas!!!!!
A title advises that the scene opens in 1837. The character at her writing desk receives a note from “President and Mrs. Van Buren.” Van Buren’s wife died in 1819, and he never remarried.
Wow…..Mrs. Howell from Gillian’s Island and the actress who voiced the Wicked Stepmother/Old Hag in Snow White and the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella…….I wish I knew their names but I don’t…….excellent actresses both of them.
...until reading this, I personally wouldn’t have known this about the wardrobe...nor do I care. I found everything on point and that includes what the actors were wearing.
It may be that these lady characters whose fashion heyday was an earlier decade (especially Dolley Madison, here cash challenged) conservatively wore the glad garb of their youth.
Bette Davis wanted to work. She said a month off was enough. She had to sell herself all the time not only to get the part but to get a good script and a good director.
Subtitling errors start at 0:37 with (instead of "here is my list for my lawn tea on Saturday"), "his finest mine aunty on Saturday." It goes downhill from there, into a continual mire of word salad gibberish.
There’s some real hammy acting and poor direction and editing here. This was a rough period for BD, she must have wondered what happened to all that talent from the 1940s and the studio system. And she’s only 50! That said, it’s a nice little story. A vignette if you will.
Whoever was responsible for the subtitles--ungrammatical AND inaccurate--should to "taken out and hung for the coldblooded murder of the English tongue!" For example: "Nothing I can't mice."
