Bette Davis - They're Either Too Young Or Too Old | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Warner Archive 

Even though she's not a singer, she pulls it off.

If you had to pick one performer, performing one particular song at one moment in history, this is the perfect example. A small little sample of why for a brief moment in our past we all came together and literally worked together and saved the world. Quite a difference when you look at the events of today.

She is so freaking fabulous.

Love that Davis had a Sense of Humour and wasnt afraid to Kid her sophisticated screen image !

Bette Davis was 35 in 1943. Seeing her get tossed around at 3:45 is hilarious.

Bette Davis, one of the greatest and glamorous actress ever to walk the planet.

Bette actually hurt her leg badly during this scene. The young guy who danced with her was a huge fan and was terrified to swing his idol in the air plus Bette hated the swinging part and told him to just forget that she’s Bette Davis and get it over with. She ended up finishing the scene in one take and refused to do it again♥️😁✨

Bette's great feat was her talent as a film actress' triumph over her modest talents in most other ways. She couldn't sing, so she DIDN'T sing, she merely scatted and acted it. Brilliant.

No one can say, "daaaling" like Bette Davis!!!!!!!!!! 😚😚😚😚

When she was asked to do a retake of her jitterbug, Bette Davis said one time was enough.

Bette one of the greatest actresses who ever walked the planet, is also a great comedienne. It com'es out naturally.

I never seen Bette sing in a musical film before, she's great :)

Miss Bette is so fantastic and stupendous - there is nothing that she cannot do Otherworldly 💫💫

Her look in this scene is so cute and shrewd at one time. Bette was a great actress

My parents were from that era and it always fascinated me. Even though the world was at war the Country and people pulled together worked hard tried hard and did everything they could. We simply lost all that.

Great work, Bette! And you look gorgeous!

She speaks so many truths in this scene lmao. What a great moment!

That dance looked painful, what a pro.

All the studios mustered their contract talent to 'volunteer' for patriotic wartime revues. Bette was the prime mover behind WB's project, which remains one of the most amusing, partly bc it majored on unlikely singers: Errol Flynn, John Garfield and Hattie McDaniel as well as Bette herself. Jack Warner wanted to keep the profits, but she shamed him into donating them to the Hollywood Canteen.

She's so beautiful!!!

Bette Davis, Vivien Leigh and Meryl Streep, the greatest of all greats.

its completely Bette, fabulous!

Brilliant lyrics.

I didn't know she could sing, she did a great job combining Talk & Sing in this performance. The other version I heard was Jane Froman's.

I love it, Bette Davis dancing. I've been searching this for years. I read on her documentary when she danced. thanks much for sharing. I'm a huge fan of Better.

She owned all her scenes. Wow.

This? Is iconic. Just iconic. Like Davis.

I either get an adolescent or an elderly pup, i either have to hold them off, or either hold them up. Great performance and amusing Frank Loesser lyrics

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My fav actress ever

She's terrific!

I've heard Bette sing this song in her later album when she was much older. But I've NEVER seen this musical clip of her before, and I've seen everything she's ever done, I think.

I express thanks to Warner Archive Instant for sharing these videos, this will be my first time viewing. If Ms. Davis is actually singing, her voice is beautiful.

Made me wince watching her in the dance routine. Love Bette Davis.

Bette era perfetta in tutto quello che faceva !!! che artista che era !!!

Bette 😩😢♥️

You can also spot perennial movie drunk Jack Norton in this number (mostly with his back to the camera).

thanks for posting this. I was looking for a copy of this song with only the song this just what I needed. thanks

LOL......dat waz soooo silly. Loved it! 🥂

Thank you I never seen this ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

"You marched away and left this town as empty as can be And I am like the driftwood in a deadly calm at sea I can't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me. For there is no secret lover that the draft board didn't discover. They're either too young or too old They're either too gray or too grassy green The pickings are poor and the crop is lean What's good is in the Army, what's left will never harm me They're either too old or too young So, darling, you'll never get stung Tomorrow I'll go hiking with that Eagle Scout unless I get a call from grandpa for a snappy game of chess They're either too warm or too cold They're either to fast or too fast asleep So, darling, believe me, I'm yours to keep They're isn't any gravy, the gravy's in the Navy. They're either too fresh or too stale There is no available male I will confess to one romance I'm sure you will allow He tried to serenade me, but his voice is changing now. They're either too bald or too bold I'm down to the wheelchair and bassinet My heart just refuses to get upset I simply can't compel it to, with no Marine to tell it to I'm either their first breath of spring or else, I'm their last little fling! I either get a fossil or an adolescent pup I either have to hold him off or have to hold him up The battle is on, but the fortress will hold They're either too young or too old (Orchestral Break) I'll never, never fail ya while you are in Australia Or out in the Aleutians Or off among the Rooshians And flying over Egypt Your heart will never be gypped And when you get to India I'll still be what she's been to ya I've looked the field over And lo and behold! They're either too young or too old"

The Greatest!!

One of the greatest😸👍

She Nail It Love Her 💘 One Of The Greatest Actress Ever RIH Beautiful Angel 😇 💖 You Are Love And Miss

Extremely clever Frank Loesser lyrics. "I'll never never fail ya...when are in Australia" " When flying over Egypt...your heart will never be gypped" LOL

Wow! Hit it better!

Oh, she got her share during the war believe me!

That strange poster portrait of enlisted men. But delighted to see her as I've only heard it. Thanks!

Anyone else but me thinks that Bette Davis should have had her own fashion line or shop after acting, considering her talent with a needle and thread?

She was quite the elegant one.

Me rn😭😭😭 relates!

Magnificent

She told how in the dance when she fell she seriously hurt her knee and barely could finish the number.

My country Australia named in this song

I DON'T CARE about our age difference. I would LOVE to meet you. 💗

I don’t know what it is, but I feel like Bette Davis never looked more like Bette Davis than she does in this scene.

Let's give it up for the Mayor of Mayberry! I swear I've seen that taxi in some other Warner Brothers movies.

Baby Jane notwithstanding, I never knew Bette could sing and she’s not bad!

I have not seen this for years, remembering it for Bette dodging high notes and being thrown around. Now it comes over as less farcical, more wistful, with that gesture of renunciation at the end that anticipates Margo Channing. Bette was always good at frustration. Like many an amateur, she phrases the lyrics' plays on words too deliberately: reciting rather than throwing them off, as a past mistress of acting while singing such as Ginger Rogers would have done. Bette should have used speak-singing like Rex Harrison. But she gets the message over. There were a lot of sex-starved ladies on the wartime home front, and this is as much a song for the times as 'Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree' was for the guys whose poster she was contemplating.

During the jitterburg scene, Davis hurt her knee. You can see her rubbing it when she's back outside. The director asked to do the scene again but Davis declined.

HaHaHa... Oh No with the Jitterbug!!!

Not bad.Heared some songs of Loesser now. But "Wonderful Copenhagen" is and remains his best work

Gorgeous lady!! Wish she was as famous as marilyn

It's Bette, but I like the Hattie McDaniel number better.

She looks like she’s being attacked in that dance break.

FLYNN WAS ALWAYS THE BIGGEST STAR FROM THIS MOVIE

ah ha ah ha

fabulous, its funny to think while Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally were telling servicemen that their girlfriends were cheating on them the American response was there aren't any handsome men left to cheat with

It’s like they wrote a song just for me ~🤨

I came here because of a separate peace book

This part is not that good of bette Davis as errol flynn part is way better than hers it crazy she as more like than errol flynn it sad people can't see. Wow.

Lol she is 111 years old herself and talking about "they're too old".

She's lousy as a singer and the so-called dancing is all passive, but B. D. is to be commended for adding such vulnerability as an artist to the war effort - the last great war involving the US. There are far better recordings of the song, the best being the deliberate snippet of Kitty Carlisle Hart in Woody Allen's "Radio Days" (even the Maxwell House coffee sign is truncated if you look at the stills shot during production). Thanks WB for the BD shtick. (\) FK Frederic Kahler, Apalachicola

She was a great actress, but to me, she was not very pretty.

Smoking is so dirty and ugly.

"You marched away and left this town as empty as can be And I am like the driftwood in a deadly calm at sea I can't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me. For there is no secret lover that the draft board didn't discover. They're either too young or too old They're either too gray or too grassy green The pickings are poor and the crop is lean What's good is in the Army, what's left will never harm me They're either too old or too young So, darling, you'll never get stung Tomorrow I'll go hiking with that Eagle Scout unless I get a call from grandpa for a snappy game of chess They're either too warm or too cold They're either to fast or too fast asleep So, darling, believe me, I'm yours to keep They're isn't any gravy, the gravy's in the Navy. They're either too fresh or too stale There is no available male I will confess to one romance I'm sure you will allow He tried to serenade me, but his voice is changing now. They're either too bald or too bold I'm down to the wheelchair and bassinet My heart just refuses to get upset I simply can't compel it to, with no Marine to tell it to I'm either their first breath of spring or else, I'm their last little fling! I either get a fossil or an adolescent pup I either have to hold him off or have to hold him up The battle is on, but the fortress will hold They're either too young or too old (Orchestral Break) I'll never, never fail ya while you are in Australia Or out in the Aleutians Or off among the Rooshians And flying over Egypt Your heart will never be gypped And when you get to India I'll still be what she's been to ya I've looked the field over And lo and behold! They're either too young or too old"