I think it was a marvellous interview and his questions were not inappropriate at all, He was able to get her to open up about her career and the actors she worked with, I would never have known she hated Edward g Robinson or would have loved working with Clark Gable. Bette was one sharp women right to the end, she could really handle herself, she was brilliant and I loved this interview, he was not hard on her at all .❤️❤️
Thank you endlessly for the precious Bette Davis interviews 🙏 Hope you have more, they're real gems. And thank you for sharing all these videos, it must be a lot of work.
I don't know whether she is the greatest actress ever; I've seen some of her films (Dark Victory, Jezebel, Now Voyager, All about Eve, Baby Jane but also Strangers: the Story of a Mother and Daughter, with Gena Rowlands...amazing both of them!) and I've found her performances stunning! For sure she was a brilliant, unique, irreplaceable artist and human being! A true star who has always relied only on her acting skills and intelligence...Love her!
Better Davis was a trooper no better what life threw at her she kept getting up a star for ever rip . <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="455">7:35</a>
The questions he asked were really appalling. You could see she was also appalled and quite annoyed. He also failed to let her promote her book which is why she was there!!!!! Then just ignored her after she thanked him and he moved on. So bad. Why such inane questions? Who was the best kisser on screen? Who did you hate working with? All of that is pointless. So many great questions he could’ve asked about “the films” and “the work” (as she would call it), yet he didn’t. We really didn’t learn anything about her or her life by his poor choice of questions and very lazy interviewing style. The best interviews she did in the 1970s were with Dick Cavett, with whom she had great rapport. By the 80s, in this Wogan interview, she was quite ill and she seems extremely unwell in this interview and it seemed to be painful for her. One of the most fabulous interviews she did was the one with Frederic Mitterrand in Paris, France.
@@lapislazuli7876 The day Joan passed, Burt Reynolds went to Bette's home to take her to a party and she told him she wasn't ready to go on without her, so Burt went to the party without her. When she got to the party she found Burt and remarked, "Well, the cunt died today." A man from Sex And The Cinema was standing beside Burt and he said, "Bette this a writer from Sex And The Cinema." Bette replied, "But she was always on time and always knew her lines." Burt and Bette had a good relationship as friends.
That’s the difference between Americans and Brits. In Britain it’s considered bad taste to try to sell things in conversation, wheras in the US profitmaking seems part of everyday interaction.
They only worked together once. They didn't know each other personally. I've just watched an interview with Joan by a British journalist where she was lovely about Bette and said how much she enjoyed working on Baby Jane.
Absolutely one of the Star of Stars. Endlessly fascinating. But, my God, 79? She looks 100. Yes, I know she was very sick, but it’s the cigarettes that made her old, way before her time. She once recounted that Mae West told her, “Stop smokin,’ it does disgustin’ things to the face.”
@@1tinahaj If anyone didn't know, cigarette smoking has been for decades known to increase the risk of getting breast cancer, and it recurring later after diagnosis and treatment. I expect two people to reply. One will say "you can get breast cancer without smoking." Yes, I know. Another will write, "My aunt Sally smoked four packs of Luckies a day and lived to 94, but my cousin Clem got run over by a tractor at 32." Yes, I know.
Her walking to the stage like a doll whilst big band music played was a bit nightmarish. Fascinating interview though with one amazing actress and sharp character.
She didn’t enjoy much around these years - she was in an awful lot of pain with her health - she could barely sit for periods of time without pain which explains all the shuffling around the did. She was very testy most of the time but you can see glimmers of enjoying this interview. She got to talk quite a bit about her work here which was unusual for the interviews around this time. In all this was one of the better interview records of her last years than the usual crap the US chat show hosts subjected her to. I’d argue the best interviews she did at this time were all for British television - check out the Gloria Hunniford, TVAM and Mavis Nicholson interviews
