David Niven Recalls Scenes From His Book! | The Dick Cavett Show

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Film actor David Niven describes the time his wife foretold she was going to be shot on a hunt and then accidentally was!
Date aired - February 15th 1972 - David Niven
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.
Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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@TheDickCavettShow 2 года назад

What's been your favourite interview with David Niven on the Dick Cavett Show so far?

@johnwirenius8152 2 года назад

This one is superb-Cavett’s dry wit works well with Niv’s broader humor.

@garethcraddock9971 2 года назад

Richard Burton was amazing; a superior intellect. Went great with Dick as they're both so damned smart. Can't think of any modern interviews being so illuminating.

@shadykatie100 2 года назад

@@garethcraddock9971 Thanks! I will look for that interview.

@44032 2 года назад

This one because he's healthy. The 1981 one makes me sad.

@doninvictoria 4 месяца назад

The complete episode you haven't posted so far I saw it then; show it to me now

@weejim48 Месяц назад

David Niven was such an eloquent speaker. I remember reading a couple of his books back in the day. The man had an amazing life. 👍

@DavidLeeAndrews 2 года назад

David Niven is a class act and it’s always a pleasure to hear him speak. Bless him, plus our mate Dick

@14rnr 8 месяцев назад

I love David Niven, such a great man.

@kev3d 2 года назад

If you want to act like a gentleman, there are two people to emulate: Christopher Lee, and of course, David Niven. Refined, but humble. Brave, but discreet. Experienced, but not a braggard. Lover to, and respecter of, women, but not a pushover. Extremely well-spoke, but no snobby.

@oliverholmes-gunning5372 11 месяцев назад

I'd add Roger Moore to the list, but otherwise spot on

@rvail136 8 месяцев назад

Well said.

@tonybmusic1166 7 месяцев назад

Lately I’ve been reading books by Ben McIntyre and Damien Lewis (not the actor) on the WWII British Commandos and SAS, incredible brave soldiers who went behind enemy lines to conduct sabotage and was surprised to read that David Niven was one of them. Very impressive résumé.

@nataliedelagrandiere4022 Год назад

I love David Niven. What a great actor and writer!

@calebmiles 2 года назад

A master class in how to interview a celebrity and get the best out of them

@andyrondeau5364 7 месяцев назад

Fabulous interview! I've loved Niven's acting ever since I was a little kid nor was I old enough to stay up to watch Dick Cavett when this aired. BTW, Yes We Have No Bananas is on Spotify.

@kingforaday8725 2 года назад

Back in the day I was too cool to watch the Dick Cavett Show! Watching these now I realize I missed out on how the entertainment industry REALLY worked and still does! Some of the stars just blurt it out, others are more "gracious"!

@brainflash1 2 года назад

Nessy sounds like such a lovely woman. I'm so glad she got what she wanted out of life.

@oksills 2 года назад

Cont from above. Heart of gold and ending up a stint is the classic lie snd excuse for such! He is s bragging about something he should be greatly ashamed of!!!

@andydixon2980 24 дня назад

@@oksills What are you on about? What should Niven be ashamed of exactly?

@AnyoneCanSee 2 года назад

He was 14 in 1924. Maybe I misunderstood but he seemed to be talking about the miniskirt? However, that came out in the 1960s. I read David Niven's autobiography and I've never felt so close to a person from their book. It is written in such a charming, personal and friendly way that when I finished it I honestly felt like I'd lost a friend.

@vada7259 2 года назад

Those flapper fashions were quite racy at the time, much shorter than the preceding fashion - they showed their calves & even their knees!

@tamekahanova 2 года назад

My father was born in 1902. When I started using mini skirts, in the sixties, he said to me : I am not scandalized, my sisters used to wear it in the twenties.

@cgray8267 2 года назад

We’re are these actors today ? Interesting and just unique yet normal people. Talented yet tangible .

@paulccrimmins 2 года назад

What a cool 😎 guy. Would have loved to hang out with him back in the day. I think the best part he ever played was in the Guns of Naverone 1960. If you haven't seen it watch immediately

@reasonrestored9116 2 года назад

See him in an early role as Raffles, the gentleman jewel thief. Loved it. He was a card.

@joeblack8915 2 года назад

His role in 'Separate Tables' was his best in terms of acting.

@ronmackinnon9374 2 года назад

(4:14) '...an 'ore with an 'art of gold.' Yup, that's cockney.

@williamewing5509 2 года назад

I have got 2 movie DVDS of David Niven with Gregory Peck Anthony Quinn Stanley Baker Anthony Quayle James Darren and James Robertsons Justice in The Guns Of Naverone with Telly Savalas Elliott Gould Stephanie Powers Roger Moore and Anthony Valentine are both German Officers I am dedicating these movie DVDS to my old school friends who are both sisters as I hope to see them both again very soon to Chris and Hester from Billyxxxxx

@3-2bravo49 5 месяцев назад

I loved his story about getting the german iron cross in normandy. The way he explained everything was just so perfectly british lol. He referred to german artillery fire as "rudeness" lol. This man was truly awesome.

@ysgol3 7 месяцев назад

Such a gentleman, so many people said he really was, it wasn't just an act. His first wife was lovely, again everyone said so, but she was killed in an accident only weeks after joining him in Hollywood in1946. His second one, Hjordis, the Swede he talks about here, was, again by many accounts, an absolute monster who his friends hated and who made his life a miserr, to such an extent that she may, though nobody knows, have destroyed his nerves to such an extent that it made him vulnerable to the disease that killed him aged 73 in 1983. Roger Moore, for example, openly detested her. Yet NIven never divorced her, which remains a mystery.

@Gannooch 2 года назад

Is this channel ever going to show Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason and/or Art Carney? I don’t have the Decades channel.

@leonharrison800 Год назад

Pity he was Straight.A handsome and Gentlemanly man.

@robertway5756 2 года назад

I have that book, "Bring On the Empty Horses". It's pretty good.

@CARRJ142 2 года назад

@EVALLOYD 2 года назад

David Niven was born in 1910 so when he was 15, it would have been 1925, the mini skirt didn't appear until 1964 so his friend Nessie couldn't have been wearing a mini skirt when he first met her. Just saying.

@TrilobitesRTasty 2 года назад

Perhaps the women in the profession wore them at that time…sort of.

@EVALLOYD 2 года назад

@@TrilobitesRTasty I know that skirts got shorter in the swinging 20s, women wore bobs and all that, but in my mind the mini-skirt introduced by the British designer, Mary Quant, which are way above the knee, wouldn't have yet been in fashion. But suppose it's a question of perception and for women in the 20s I suppose any length above the ankle to just under the knee would have been considered "mini".

@hombre1965 2 года назад

I think he was relating the shorter flapper dresses to the modern audience of the early ‘70’s. Flapper skirts would have been the equivalent of the current fashion of miniskirts.

@LV-wl7ch 6 месяцев назад

David Niven is an egomaniac likely, but a shy one in a way. And, has a good sense of humor.

@johnnyhock 2 месяца назад

When David Niven was 14 it would have been the 1920’s 40 years before mini skirts of the 60’s …. Recollections may vary David

@jeanr6948 2 года назад

It’s been legal to have sex at 16 in uk for many many years. Prostitution is complicated under English Law, over simply put it is “legal” to be one but you have to pay tax [!!!] but it is not legal to search one out and approach one on the street for the aim of sex. Some of us [male and female] here would have appreciated being protected by an older age limit in the 60s and 80s!!

@formercanadiancitizen4756 2 года назад

👍

@christopherjohnson2171 7 месяцев назад

Back when interviewers let guests talk and people who made movies were actually interesting people and not hollow shills.

@ianpearson8976 2 года назад

This guy the interviewer reminds me of skavlan. Some interviews amazing and some terrible.

@brushcountry6361 2 года назад

Randy Newman relapse… 😂

@AchtungEnglander 2 года назад

A wonderful story ruined by an immature audience

@lptomtom 2 года назад

Uncomfortable Americans...

@howardchambers9679 2 года назад

This was in a time where certain subjects were not discussed, David was circumspect otherwise the audience would have died of embarrassment and he wouldn't get any more work in the US

@peterd788 Год назад

Most of Niven's stories were inventions or borrowings but he told them well and meant no harm.

@williesjohnson2673 7 месяцев назад

nice story, but david really, when you were 14 there wasn't a hint of a mini skirt! dude, c'mon

@carollund8251 6 месяцев назад

He meant the flapper skirts of the 20s which were mini skirts to them back then.

@LaurenceOConnor-fg4dk Месяц назад

Flapper fashion.

@onlythewise1 Год назад

wasnt he a great dancer

@mypalfootfoot9591 9 месяцев назад

He was not at all known for that, maybe you're thinking of Fred Astaire!

@garethcraddock9971 2 года назад

I think Niv is fibbing/embellishing the 'Nessie' story. He implies she now lives in America and is a grandmother, but then says he'd not seen her since he was 19. The book- 'The Moon is a Balloon' is brilliant and I'll re-read it soon, having seen this. It doesn't bother me at all that parts of it are probably fictional. That's how these old time actors got on. Errol Flynn used to tell people that he was a professional boxer etc...

@MsMesem 2 года назад

Not seeing and not knowing are two différent things.

@garethcraddock9971 2 года назад

@@MsMesem Yeah but I got the impression he made it up. I got the same impression when I read the book. I think he may have met or spoke to someone like this. He might have even briefly known someone. But the rest about Nessie is made up. To be honest, I don't even know why I'm commenting! It doesn't detract from my fondness for him. I loved his book and I'm a big fan. He's an actor! They're all rogues and bullshit artists. Any raconteur worth their salt should lie if it entertains.

@neilhayz1555 2 года назад

I thought that initially. However the one thing he doesn’t mention, and that is self evident when you look at pictures of him as a young man is that he is a good looking bloke. He is also very charming, with a certain amount of mischief in him! If you consider that then it’s easy to see why he might attract an older woman at 17. He certainly didn’t struggle for female company in Hollywood, did he? His descriptions of army life and his life as a star seem accurate. He even talks about his own petulance. I’m not sure why he would lie about this.

@garethcraddock9971 2 года назад

@@neilhayz1555 It was just my impression. It doesn't lessen my admiration of him; why let the truth get in the way of a good yarn?

@BlookbugIV 2 года назад

@@garethcraddock9971 exactly right, raconteurs develop their tales in similar fashion to how observational comics develop routines. They seek the captivation of an audience, anything that detracts from that is dropped or altered. Truth only serves as inspiration, and they’ll stretch it as far as credulity allows.

@joeblack8915 2 года назад

He made a lot of stuff up. Knowing that, I couldn't enjoy listening to him or reading his book.

@oksills 2 года назад

The morals behind these comments are the reason our world is is in the mess it is! This man should be hugely ashamed of what he is bragging about! Then like minded people compliment and lift him up! Child prostitution is certainly NOT cute, fun, admirable, nor sexy! Shame on you for trying to make it so!! Disgusting!

@reasonrestored9116 2 года назад

No one is bigging up child abuse. Try to open up to seeing things as they are (flawed) and not using the information to justify your self righteous drivel.

@JS-ob4oh 2 года назад

The world was messed up long before this interview and it still is and still will be long after all of us are long gone and turned into dust.

@howardchambers9679 2 года назад

Oh grow up. Don't apply your woke bollocks to past attitudes. He was 14 and she was 17, who was abusing who?

@MrAnperm 2 года назад

The age of consent in Britain is 16. Niven was 14, the girl was 17.

@MsMesem 2 года назад

@@MrAnperm You really feel this IS worth commenting on?

@Hellserch 2 года назад

The Queen of Tonga story was racist and the way Cavett handled it, for the time, was expertly controlled. Still, wanted to hear every word out of that trickster Nivens voice.