chris o o now right? It's that 60s kind for cute tune and the way she emphasise it - Bette can't really sing but that's what I love about it. Also the way she's swinging her skirt so sweetly just having fun at the end! So good! She cracks me up!
Denise Spurlock She was the one who was the breakthrough with the age barrier actress and proved that an actress only gets better with age. She was tough and hard as nails and had a sense of humor and a bigger heart than people have given her credit for. Hell, you had to be very strong and tough in those days in Hollywood if you were to survive. She may have had her quirks about her but it isn't like she didn't have a reason to have them. It's such a shame about B.D. and her. Regardless of what B.D. has said, she did love her mother but B.D. never had to raise a child alone and go up against the Big Boys of Hollywood and I doubt she really ever had to fight for very much. Her and Joan Crawford could have had a great friendship, I think, if the studios had not turned them against each other. They seemed to do that with the women more than the men, I guess they got a kick out of it or something.
Absolutely correct. When other actresses of her generation ages they fought it tooth and nail and more or less became actual "Baby Janes." She moved on to roles that fit her age and worked almost until the day she died
I agree with Shannon R. Both of these women were born Aries. That’s about 1 of the toughest signs out there. Ask ANYONE who deals with an Aries. Plus, they may not have been the most beautiful women of their day but in their younger years, believe me, they had their suitors! Being Soo Famous and good looking in your youth makes it triple hard to come down to earth and realize it’s all gone...the attention, the admiration of both men and women and what was so important in life has left you. Think what an impact that has on a psyche. How far that is to fall and do it in the public eye. I personally LOVED watching these women! Through the books, the tv smears, all of it. They were honestly trying to do their best. Because we can scorn Hollywood but look who rules the wave! If it wasn’t for the “Hollywood Hype” and the Hetta Hoppers of the world, oh and let’s NOT forget the money machines: Goldwyn, Meyer, and his Pals, they might have died happy. Or maybe felt some dignity to age.
Lisa Murphy being born in a certain month has absolutely ZERO to do with your personality. It has to do with childhood, how you are brought up, the difficulties that happen in your formative phases, and what you learn as an adolescent. The fact that in 2018 some people still think the superstitious nonsense is ridiculous.
She might not be Julie Andrews or Barbara Cook but there's a need for raspy, crackly singing voices. AT least she's in tune. They are perfect for some styles and songs.
This is an absolute pisser! Clearly Bette's not a singer, but you can tell she knows it, and her attitude is "Who cares? Let's have some fun!" She's not of the rock and roll generation but in a tongue-in-cheek way, she's doing a song that appeals to them. I've always admired her fearlessness and her ability to put it all right out there! Way to go, Bette!
I like her voice. I think she has a "teacher's" voice so to speak. You know when your elementary teacher would sing songs with the class and it was fun, and they were never bad, but you knew they weren't singers in the strictest sense?
I wholeheartedly agree. Jealousy is an ugly thing, even when it embodies someone has beautiful as Joan Crawford. Shame. They could have been good friends and made another million dollars from the picture if Bette had won.
I love Betty Davis, but I don't think Joan Crawford had that kind of influence to sway an Oscar judge. Betty was competing against Anne Bancroft that year who won the Oscar for her role in The Miracle Worker. I seen both movies, and Anne really did a wonder job playing that part.
@@emilyschornstein2398 Joan read the book and brought it to her attention. Personally think Joan could've got best supporting actress if she swallowed her pride
Have you seen Feud? That goes into great detail as to what Joan did to make sure Bette didn't win. I agree Joan should have swallowed her pride and gone for Supporting Actress.
@@emilyschornstein2398 Feud was largely fictional. It was a love letter to Davis. All Joan did was offer to accept the award for women who wouldn't be there - in no possible way could she manipulate the outcome of the award. Its so rude to Anne Bancroft to say she only won because Bette Davis spun stories later in life!
This was an absolute joy! Can she sing? No. Does she care? No. Was she entertaining? Hell yes! 🎉❤🎉 Thanks for posting this rare diamond. 💎 There was nothing this woman couldn't do. I can see why so many commented that they can still hear the song in their heads! It's a catchy little ditty! 🤗 ❤ 🎉
This is pure joy! It's so sad how Hollywood royalty was treated once upon a time. They attempt to do things better these days but there are still far too many that have been pushed to the side and are being ignored by Hollywood. Good for Bette for being a trooper and promoting the film. She "Sing-Talked" beautifully with a cute novelty tune.
Bette Davis did not take her self seriously except for her acting when she had a role to portray other then that she was humorous, told it like it is and fought the Big heads of those studios who took her for just another actress.
I love Betty Davis, what loveliness when she was a young actress and what strength of character in later years. She was having so much fun singing it shined through her smile. Miss her dearly.
I get the impression from reading about her and listening to her on interviews that she wouldn't really give much of a care about being called "Betty," because that is how it sounds, after all. I'm not being critical, Tony. I just think she'd probably wave it off with a quick correction and a "whatever!" lol
Bette Davis is perfect example that no dancing or singing skills needed to be a great entertainer :) . Truly charismatic personality and mesmerizing show.
You can see here how much Bette was enjoying her renewed popularity thanks to WHTBJ. I agree with some comments. She should have won her third Oscar for her role as Baby Jane. Also, between 1960 and 1965, she made a series of fantastic performances: "Hush, Hush... Sweet Charlotte", "Dead Ringer", "The Nanny"...
Bette Davis is incredible. In this performance, she's the perfect combination of elegant, funny, beautiful, adorable, and gritty. Not many people have that many strikingly different qualities all rolled into one.
Bette’s so beautiful. She looked wonderful in that green dress. 💖 I’m listening to her album, lol. If you look at it as a memoir it’s fantastic. Can you believe she couldn’t sing? 😂 but I still love listening to her and watching her do it. I think she did good with Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte though.. She sang it beautifully during a guesting with Olivia de Havilland.
I loveeee this...and Bette!!! :) This was all done for fun and Bette herself, would tell you that she is not a singer. Judging, by reading some of the mean comments, I guess some just don't get it...and you can see that the 'likes', wayyyyyy out number the 'dislikes'. Anyway, Bette had a great sense of humor and I sure wished I could have met her. I loved how she pulled no punches and spoke her mind. Legendary actress and one of Hollywood's GREATEST! :)
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Ms. Davis knows she's not a singer but she's having fun. Not like these days where singers are always trying to send a message and not just have a good time.
Yes because you see my friends back in the day even a simple singing was done with their own voices! Not like today by a voice mixer with a couple of dubstep farts & nothing else.Even in a small performance like that the actor-actress was giving it all!
If only I had a time machine to take me back to this time. I was born too late. I am quite aware of the sacrifices, I'd settle in just fine, thank you. I'd love to soak in the naivety and simplicity of this earlier time.
I love to hear Bette sing! Hell, I love Bette in general! But, I've always loved to hear her voice, as it is so unique, so when I heard that she did not only this song, but a whole album (later in 1976) I was very happy! Love this lady!
This song was a clever marketing tool for "What ever happened to Baby Jane " which oddly enough had mixed reviews in the early 60s. Both Bette and Joan delivered epic performances, but Bette was better at the end of the day.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Anyone who would comment on the actual quality of her singing doesn't have a clue about Bette Davis at all. She IS a good sport and exceedingly sharp. This wasn't a singing performance, this was a little piece of Bette's great sense of humor. She's wonderful.
I love this little song by Bette! I am amazed at the great sense of humor she had right up to the end of her life. Watching the interviews from the 80's with David Letterman, Johnny Carson, Joan Rivers, Bette was really funny, spot on and I believe very beautiful still
when the movie came out, Bette toured the country, appearing in theatres even in very small towns and they would have a competition among people in the audience who would find a baby Jane doll hidden under a certain seat! :) Bette while always being a GUTSY lady was a good sport.
She is so dynamic...so camp...so uninhibited...that dress almost looks cartoon-like on a woman her age at the time... even though she was never considered conventionally pretty by Hollywood glamour standards of the day there is something quite attractive that impressive about her she almost has a commanding presence that you can't look away from and her voice is one in a million
FUED literally recreated those days so perfectly down to the background and clothing. Not just here but all of it.....Hollywood changed so much , it's in major decline...... can't beat old Hollywood and real actors and actresses not the crap we have today...
Love it ! This is the big difference between Bette and Joan...the former has a sense of Humour and wasnt afraid to poke fun at her screen image ! Davis demonstrated this humour before in Thank your Lucky Stars (43), singing "They are either too young or too old" and gets flung around in jitterbug dance !
She was such a strong personality and actress. I think this vid is so cool, especially at the end she looks like she's having alot of fun with it. Only someone as cool as her could pull it off...You go Bette!
What a trooper! She did what she had to do to put food on the table and a Lucky Strike between her fingers! As my brilliant niece said, only BD could sing with such bored remove and apathy and still get fulsome, authentic applause. I love both she and Joan Crawford, both exemplars of courage, perseverance and true grit, as this video displays. It isn’t even sad, as I had at first thought. It is yet another BD triumph!
THIS IS GREAT! Why the hell didn't they use this in the movie? They only used the instrumental tracks. Composer Frank DeVol concocts a memorably cheesy pastiche of nearly every Top 40 rock song circa 1961. Every time I hear it I grow extremely nostalgic for my early childhood when all of the songs coming out of my mom's radio sounded just like this. And to have Bette Davis herself singing the vocals is sheer genius. This should have been a hit.
1962,"long before color, right"? God, some people are so ignorant! Color programming came into the mainstream in the 50's though it would be another 10 years before it was prominent over B & W. Still some notable mainstays in vibrant color were Disney, Bonanza, Lucy. This video is a testament to Davis' ability to not take herself so seriously like Crawford. Even when Bette weighed 90 pounds and near death, she kept on going with sheer determination, she was a force of nature with unending energy. The comments make me lol. Bette would crack up.
@@stmichl9433 I'd tone down the bloviation, too! Clearly you believe that anything a woman can do, a man can do better. Even the best of the drag queens, Charles Pierce, was not looked upon fondly by Bette. Why? He couldn't empathise with her as Sarandon (or any woman in the business) could, and resulted to portrating a hollow caricature of the woman. But hey, that's drag.
@@stmichl9433 goodness, talk about projection. You seem to have tied yourself into a fallacious knot. If drag in its entirety is about parodying and satirising female performers, why would a drag performer have been better suited for the role than Sarandon? And as for transphobia; I don't think the trans community would be particularly thrilled with your conflating them as whole with drag.
Bette Davis made a record in 1976, including the song "I've Written a Letter to Daddy' (sung both as 'Baby Jane' and then continuing as Miss Davis). It was put out on CD (I bought it for the sheer 'camp' value of it). When the album was released, Miss Davis signed copies for hundreds of people lined up around the block.
Just saw this on Feud tonight,. So great. Susan nailed it. I'm thoroughly enjoying this series. Already missing the scenes of Bette and Joan making the movie. Jessica and Susan are doing an amazing job.
The movie was making a mint and Bette had a percentage in her contract so she sold it in every way she could. Smart business lady as well as one of the finest actresses of Hollywoods Golden years.
She's just GREAT here! Love her sense of humor. Bette just had a blast singing. The best is that didn't take herself so seriously (here.) How many stars of that caliber or with her credits & acclaim would dare to have this much fun - on live TV. Hollywood royalty with a twist.
I encourage Betty Davis to sing this song, we were very good friends as I did so encourage her to take parts that were not always beautiful. How I wish her real spirit was still in that body. A giant she was as to always be as wherever you are lady I will always love thee. How I wish this world really knew what the old world used to be like. This character Betty Davis was remarkable!
