In several additional interviews, Bette Davis talks about her 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane' costar, Joan Crawford. Don't miss the original 'BETTE on JOAN' Diva on Diva compilation at • Video
Anne Bancroft confirmed that Joan delivered the Oscar to her a short time after the Academy Awards - not a year later as Bette claimed - but that made for a better story
I love how Bette, regardless of her personal feelings, does credit Joan as being professional. None of that diva behavior on set. They were mature enough to set feelings aside and focus on the movie.
@@IH8COMERCIALRNB A lot of people have said Faye is awful on set. Ironically enough, some of the cast and crew from Mommie Dearest said that about Faye too. She is very selfish and egotistical according to them. Very difficult to work with.
Davis couldn't possibly have been that 'mature' if she never stopped whining in public interviews about how she, not Bancroft, was the one who deserved that Oscar, even when it grotesquely disrespected the amazing and totally worthy effort by Miss Bancroft. That's unforgivable, and yet I have yet to read a single word about it from Miss Bancroft. One of these women was obviously classy and mature.. the other one was Davis.
It might still be up here on YT. Bette told an audience the usual, Joan was a professional and beautiful. Then added, "If you want to know how I really feel, meet me around the corner."
And in fairness, Bette bad mouthed Joan constantly, except for that one concession to Crawford's professionalism. Crawford rarely, if ever, said anything unkind about Davis, certainly not in public anyway.
I don't think Davis made kind remarks about Crawford on 'many occasions.' In fact, only once that I can recall, in which she referenced Joan's utter professionalism, but she also said something to the effect that she understood that it was much harder for the beautiful glamour actresses like Crawford to deal with the fading of their glamour and looks (I'm paraphrasing of course) and she almost seemed genuine and empathetic when she said it. That is the only time I remember her being anything even remotely close to 'complimentary' of Crawford. Davis was a bitter woman, as reflected in her face. Bitterness ages you horribly after all (well, bitterness and cigarettes), and she was Exhibit A. Crawford was the opposite. She may have had an occasional vindictive streak, but by and by, she seemed to be an infinitely more pragmatic soul who didn't hold on to gripes for decades (unlike Davis), an outlook which may have ultimately enabled her to retain her gorgeous looks to an incredible degree as she aged, for she aged just beautifully (unlike Davis).
Bette and Joan were only in their mid-fifties when they made "Whatever happened to Baby Jane". They were considered old in Hollywood. Look a actresses like Judy Dench. She is in her 80's and still going. If these two ladies were acting now, they would still have careers.
I loved the fact we could thank Joan for Baby Jane..... Her snub at the Oscars were criminal.... I've felt so sorry for her character all along that's quality acting and they both made that movie work.....
And the same thing that happened with "Eve" happened to Bette again with "Jane". It was because in " Eve", she and Anne Baxter gave such great performances, they sort of canceled each other out for Best Actress. This happened again with Crawford (despite the story Miss Davis tells).
It's so weird that she smoked like a smoke stack, and there she was at 81 still smoking. Of course she died later that year, but it's pretty amazing she didn't die earlier from all that smoke.
Yet another reason for her not getting an Academy Award is that while it plays like a black comedy today, at the time, "Jane" was considered a "lowly" horror film. As we know, the Oscars have never been generous in acknowledging that genre, along with action films, many westerns, science fiction, and anything else not considered "high tone" in terms of dramatics. Even the one actor who won for a horror film (Frederic March for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) had to share it with another actor (Wallace Beery in "The Champ").
Even at the age she was at these interviews she still spoke her mind and didn't care what she said,I've always loved Betty ,She could be so funny at times love you Betty,because as you said you did it the hard way,and in the end you earned the respect,rest In peace Betty God bless you amen,your not forgotten,🙏🌸💖😘👏
I love both of these actresses and to know what went into the roll of baby Jane and how Bette did her own make up to look all crazy 😜 makes me love her even more lol
Thanks for this amazing collection of clips. There will never be another movie like Baby Jane. Robert Aldrich deserves a lot of Kudos here. Here is a guy who directed some of the butchest movies of all time like emperor of the north with Lee Marvin and The Dirty Dozen and then he goes and directs the queeniest most iconic gay movie of all time and it remains a masterpiece. Going back to the time when only one woman could be featured in Hollywood, he managed to find room for both b e t t e, who was always an actress and would play old or ugly or crazy if the role was juicy enough, and Joan who was the total embodiment of the mystery and illusion of stardom. They represented opposite principles and yet both of them were so great. I love b e t t e a little more but that's just me. Her cackle is pure gold.
Bette may have contradicted herself in her later years but she did say Joan was a professional on the set,on time,knew her lines but they were different personalities and not freinds,but the only 2 actresses i know she didn't care working with were Miriam Hopkins and Faye dunaway.
Well Joan Crawford actually liked faye Dunaway because before she died she said the only actress who can play her is Faye Dunaway, she said faye is the only actress who personified old hollywood... A year later she played her in Mommie Deariest. They very much admired eachother. But Bette Davis did not like Faye Dumaway because she was unprofessional and selfish. But both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford did very much disliked and couldn't stand Miriam Hopkins.
@@DeepScreenAnalysis Everyone who worked with Faye Dunaway said that she was unprofessional. That she was always late and didn't know her lines. Bette disliked working with unprofessional actors. She was never jealous of Faye Dunaway. Bette Davis was the biggest star in Hollywood history. Faye Dunaway was a b list actress compared to Bette Davis. And where is Faye Dunaway's career today? In the ash can.
The srunning thing about the movie these both starred in was Bette Davis as the intenionally ugly, loud, mean, vindictive sister & Crawford as the sympathic abused, disabled sister. When I first saw it and Crawford finally admits at the end of the film she was the one who caused the accidant and yet made everyone believe Davis was responsibile, i was stunned. I saw that Crawford character in her cowardice and selfihness had destroyed her sisters life, and that because of this Davis character acted out and became a monster. But really it is Crawford's character who is the monster. Its a stunning ending. Both actresses eclipsed their incrediable careers in this movie and both should have one a Oscar for their individual roles.
Also when asked to comment about Joan after her death, Bette responded “My mother taught me to only speak good about the dead. Joan Crawford is dead. Good.”
Bancroft deserved it for her food fight with Patty Duke alone for The Miracle Worker... but I still have the W"hat if?" thought when it comes to Bette's performance because it IS a perfect performance. Edit: Had to come back and edit as I mixed up Baxter with Bancroft 🤣
I'm tempted to agree but Blanche was too small a role for best actress, and it would have been insulting to nominate Joan for best supporting actress while Bette was nominated for the big prize. Am I wrong?
I read that, off camera and rehearsals, Bette and Joan did not speak to each other. Allegedly, they spoke to other people who passed along the messages.
Davis should have got Oscars for many films, but was definitely and deliberately overlooked for Now, Voyager (lost to Greer Garson, Mrs Minever - a WW2 favourite), All About Ever, one of the biggest Oscars no-no votes ever and finally for Baby Jane. But we all know that she was out-voted on the behind-the-scenes vileness of Hollywood's greatest puta.
Apparently Miriam wasn't making her hubby happy so he turned to Bette who was recently divorced,it's not like she was the only one in Hollywood who slept with a co-star or a director,that's been going on forever!
I always felt--from Bette's comments--that DAVIS was angry & even jealous of CRAWFORD. She attempted to publicly cover it up over the decades. They were Both Legends and Hollywood Royalty and maybe..more alike and then un-alike.
If anything, it should have been a tie for Bette Davis in WHTBJ and Anne Bancroft for Miracle Worker. There have been other occasions when there have been "ties" for Best Actress - think about the year Barbra Streisand won and so did Kate Hepburn.
Why would Bette be envious.? Bette was a far better actress than Joan Crawford. Bette was never worried about glamour and how she looked. Joan Crawford was.
JC was in the game already. Screen Establish & photographic. Doesn't help thst Crawford married a romantic holpfu of Bette's luv Interest. Sometimes B D will admit the past in interviews.
They both envied one another. Bette envied Joan's beauty and Joan envied Bette's fearless and immersive style of acting. There are endless rumors as well between the two; the worst being that Joan tried to have a go at Bette's first husband Harmon Oscar Nelson. It was year's long and not just contained to Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.
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Joan basically stabbed. Bette in the back professionally by sccepting for any oscar nominees . Bette understandibly never forgave her. Dont cross somebody from New England!
@@harperstacey9604 Zero evidence. NOT ONE academy member has ever revealed receiving a call from Crawford regarding this "campaign." Crawford owned a bigger piece of the box office than Davis because Bette wanted her $ money up front. JC would have benefited more than Davis financially with an Oscar attached to the film. Crawford was always very respectful about Davis in the press. Davis was unforgivably bitter about Joan getting the men she wanted and for having a vibrant 50's career as opposed to Davis mostly lackluster except for Eve.
@@taddyd1 Bette Davis said in an interview that Joan Crawford campaigned against her and had a grudge because she wasn't nominated for best actress. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 Bette made that up. Not one person in The Academy has ever revealed any pressure from Crawford or her camp to vote against Bette. Bette was the queen of temper tantrums and being a total bitch during most of her movies. Bette herself stated she would never speak to herself either if she'd been in the caste or crew of Mrs Skeffington. That worked against her. I would have voted for her but Crawford was as almost good in that movie in a more subtle way.
