I love listening to Bette Davis interviews. She was one in a million. I practically felt her pain when she talked about her daughter- she didn't deserve that!
@@justinb954 Cary Grant and Marilyn Monroe helped break that model. Cary refused to renew his contract and became a free agent, and contracted for a percentage of the profits instead of a salary. It also gave him more control over who he worked with, which pictures he was in, etc. Marilyn Monroe, tired of being typecast as the dumb blonde, formed her own production company and it also gave her more control and earning power. But you didn't make much if the movie tanked.
Betty Davis was the most intelligent , amazing actress of our time. She had the mind of a man, that is why she was criticized so much. It was cruel of her daughter to write a book about her. It broke her heart. She was a survivor. I love all her movies and respect and admire her so much.
So bc she "thinks like a man" u perceive her to be intelligent? Not really sure what u mean or how those two go hand and hand without being obviously offensive. Lol.
Rude? Im not sure. She was thrown into this life without her consent. She never asked for the attention that came with fame of her mother. Maybe she should have waited until Ms Davis had passed. However Ms Davis talked openly about family and her daughter therefore her giving her point of view isnt rude at all. I dare say at the most I will call it simply, fair.
@@janeydoe-nuts8663 It means that she thinks with her head,not her heart. She's an Aries..we're ALL more 'masculine' than feminine. She 'has the mind of a man' means that she's more business minded..and she says what's on her mind. She's not delicate ,she's honest and strong. She doesn't think emotionally. I understand what Maxula means... It doesn't matter if anyone agrees.....I understand Bette....ARIES woman! We don't play with anyone.
She had the mind of a woman who was strong, nothing at all like a man. Sadly, some men today don't value being men and women aren't proud of being women. Men, be the best man you can. Women, focus on being a great woman.
I wish I had Barbara Walter's job. Ask mundane, everyday questions, just smile and go "uh-huh". How did she ever get to be so successful ?? Boggles the mind. Bette on the other hand, is just fabulous as always.
I hope she and her daughter will make amends in heaven. So sad to have raised someone who was your everything and they hurt you in the worst way possible.
what an amazing amazing AMAZING human being!! my heart BREAKS when i hear her talk about her daughter. It really does. Her strength was incredibly remarkable to survive all she did and still be able to keep working, to stand up, to speak out and to have a sense of humour about it in the last years of her life. LOVE her.
I read BOTH of her daughter's books and I gotta say.. I LOVE Bette Davis... I could have told BD some stories that would make her books read like comics... Bette loved her kids and they should not feel jilted. Bette was/is a class act.
Beyond her talent and greatness, what an incredible soul. Pointed and honest, human and sincere, frank, funny, intelligent. They don't make 'em like Bette anymore. She was, in every good sense, too much.
How could she be "bitter" about men,when she married 4 times and had many affairs-according to her! Analyze someone else,NOT MS. D!! She is very honest and on point!
Loves me some Bette Davis, she is one of the greats. Unfortunately, we have alot s--t out there today. Even in music. The standards on the definition of talented is lower and those of us who didn't see these greats....haven't seen real talent. Bette RIP
Bette was so classy ... Hollywood tryng to make her look like she had a 'sexual' problem when in fact, she speaks to simply say good sex can be deceptive, and a good communication and mate is far more important. Wonder, super smart, so gifted... Strong and so unique.. Her daughter like so many untalented Hollywoods star kids resorted to a lower level... for her own cheap fame
They Don't make stars like this anymore! She was so "Regal" and Yet So "Real"! This, I think comes from coming up the "hard way" as she states in this piece. Knowing you've earned your place in our history and in our hearts. What a woman!
How I loved this woman..... have watched every interview and she has never failed to generously give her audience a piece of herself......her honesty and talent....My heart went out to her regarding her daughters book. Shame on BD. Hyman.
My empathy for Bette is overwhelming... She is a true lady and an Icon no matter what her daughter wrote... Bette her legacy and her movies will live on forever and B.D will be forever remembered as a Foolish liar who back stabbed her mother in her final days...
What a woman! I wish I had seen this interview years ago because I feel I've missed out on all the respect I've just gained for her. I should have felt this much more for her a long long time ago. And yes, what a fast mind!
It's a shame that Bette and BD never reconciled before Bette's passing. So sad for Bette and for BD, hopefully the guilt lives on. Bette was right about herself "She is just too much!" And in a greatly respectable way!
Two great women facing off! Davis's performances in Jezebel, Little Foxes, The Letter, All About Eve are immortal. Many of the others are routine junk from the 1940s. But those immortal roles will make her a household name forever.
@@ianfrancis777 I think that was Bds problem, not Bettes. I saw an interview with BD, and she was asked if her mother was anything like Joan Crawford was with her children, and BD said, no, never. Nothing like that. And she gave and showed us love....sometimes, it's the daughter that is jealous of the mother. My mom despised her mother. Yet, I only saw a woman who was very kind, and loved me, and taught me all kinds of things, I was 23 when she passed at 87. I cried at the funeral, my mother just smiled and stared at the casket..
"Do you like sex?" No what kind of a question is THAT? Especially for someone as great as Miss Davis. You know, there are some things that should just be kept private. That question was one of them.
Oh Gosh! What a woman! How smart and classy! How much pain and honesty in her words when she talks about her daughter! I think she didn't deserve what she did to her. Shame on her!
You never heard of Barbara Walters? She was a pioneer as a female newswoman and anchor since the 1960's and renowned for her interviews with celebrities and politicians and dictators. She was actually the first female (co-)anchor and still has the #1 daytime TV show today.
Life is not a scripted movie. Yes, Bette loved her daughter very much, but Bette had a real problem with alcohol to the extent that she had all the nasty traits that go along with being a full fledged alcoholic. It is sad that she had that affliction and that it took its toll on her and her daughter's relationship. If you've ever experienced living with an alcoholic, you will understand that she was not easy to live with.
She just told PRINCE that JUSTIN BIEBER wanted to be like him. THATS THE LAST THING PRINCE would want to hear. SHE has no social button. Whooppie saved the day. PRINCE'S FACE was one curse word. Betty Davis was just TOO MUCH TALENT. The true screen Queen.
I always thought that Barbara Walters wasn't too high on boundaries, but when she asked that sex question my jaw dropped. What an insult to Bette Davis! O.O. That's just way too personal.
I don't understand how people/fans could actually be mad at her daughter for writing the book. Just because she shared her experience with her own mother, it doesn't mean it will take anything away from my fond memories of watching her in movies. It's just weird to think people judging that. They both will have to live with the choices they both made in their decisions...but it certainly isn't for me or anyone else to judge.
OMG I used to live Barbara Walters in my younger days. However rewatching a lot of her older interviews u see how condescending and sometime rude. She speaks to women in such a noticeable and different way that she wouldn't dare to pull with men. With the men she often was flirty, sometimes even dense in a way. She strived to even appear dainty and weak for some men. I get even Ms Walters was of a difference generation. I respect her work the same and maybe she became to big of a star in her own right.
It would be better to subtitle those interviews so everyone could understand. I am not American, my first language is not English, Betty Davis was already a senior and her diction was no longer the same.
Thanks a bund for posting!!! :)) very interesting woman, gotta love Bette. Do you happen to have the Katharine Hepburn interview?? have been looking for that one for ever and ever..
@sweetkittytwine In 1983 she was diagnosed with breast cancer and underwent a mastectomy. Within two weeks of her surgery she suffered four strokes which caused paralysis in the left side of her face and in her left arm, and left her with slurred speech.
She is not disrespectful in her interviews, why do you think she has had the career and interviews she's had and all the claim if she really was as "idiotic" and "sucked" as you say. Something tells me you don't understand how interviews work, ESPECIALLY with Walters. Her interviews have always been the same and she's always treated her guests with the same respect she is given. She gets the big interviews for a reason. If we were talking about her on The View, well, that's a different story...
I'm sorry, I was watching interview after interview of Barbara and she was just so disrespectful in all of them !! I just snapped. But honestly, I can't wait to not hear that womans voice all over the world anymore, with everyone saying what a wonderful interviewer she was when frankly... she sucked.
What's this from, 25 yrs ago or so? Funny how Baba Wawa now looks like Betty did then. Ha ha. This old lady was smokin hot in the early 30s. Baba in her youth on her best day, could never look as good as her. Yes, Baba, she had been on the casting couch many times. Happy now? How many executive producer's knobs have you polished, Baba?
Bette isn't saving you can't have it all, just that you can't have a successful career and a successful private life at the same time. One will inevitably falter and this will always plague working mothers.
@westin10000 I'm not crazy about Barbara Walters either, but, you know, in her defense...Bette Davis didn't seem too uncomfortable about the subject. In fact, she talked quite candidly about it.
She didnt shave her whole hair she just shaved her hairline and her eyebrows for the part it wasnt her whole head. It says on her biography on wikipedia. Her daughter was awful to her I pity her. I love Bette
Are we even watching the same video? Walters interviewed Davis. She asked her questions and Bette didn't hesitate to answer. She didn't treat her any different - the way she is in this interview is exactly the same as the one who did 20/20 last week. There's nothing in this video to piss everyone off, so calm down. Also, telling her to die is a little too far, ESPECIALLY when she wasn't hurtful or rude to Bette Davis.
I just read her last book and Bette Davis' and at the last part of the book she wrote a very direct letter to her daughter, B.D. Hyman. By the way Bette talked about her adopted daughter Margot who was mentally Handicapped is a far cry from the way Bette's oldest daughter describes this Iconic Legend. If Bette Davis was such a horrible mother she would have given Morgot back after finding out that she was mentally handicapped, BUT she DIDN'T. That statement alone shows B.D. Hyman as delusional.
Maybe we should ask Ba Ba Wa Wa the same question Hey! Do you like sex?? You know Barbara Walters in 83! She probably doesnt remember!! the last time she got @#$%D Yes Ba ba Wa Wa is very rude and inappropriate. Hell I think think interview would have gone better with Joan Crawford as the Interviewer!!!
The way women get thrown questions of balancing children and careers is odd. Children will need both parents, and ideally community, to get to a certain point. The onus is not on a mother to do it alone, anymore - I think. Sexism/Racism/Homophobia - Are Over.
@westin10000 -- or what tree would you be? She uses her being the first woman mainstream journalist as a pole to her career, but she has gone down extremely since those days.
