(cont'd) The fact that she published her book on Mother's Day, after Bette had a stroke, says two things, directly: One, she under-estimated her mother's strength. Two, She did it with the understanding that Bette was going to die, which shows how much of an opportunistic, attention whore she is. And anyone who writes their own version of ANY religion, as B.D. does today, shows that they see things as they want to see them, not based in reality. Regardless, we love Bette & always will. R.I.P.
I don't believe anything in B.D.'s book. She couldn't get over the fact that her mother was dedicated to working & still made time to be with her family. She claims that Bette never approved of her marriage, yet she signed the legal papers for her to marry at 16. Bette may not have been able to make her marriages work, but she always looked after her children & did what she could to provide for them. Which wasn't easy, as Bette was growing old & had to prove herself in a youth-obsessed industry
Polar opposites: A stingy, rude, condescending old hag (Barbara) and a stunning, brash, ambitious, respectable, strong older woman (Bette). Bette had more grit, guts, balls, sweat, and brains than any other woman of her era. Barbara's just a pissy old bat.
@gombis666 Well if she was pissed about her last name, she shouldn't have married Jeremy Hyman and be grateful for all the things her precious mother has given her.
From her first comment "wackable", Barbara Walters comes across as crude, crass and insulting. She has all the grace, sensitivity and respect for others of a hard, manipulative, old hooker. What a series of nasty questions designed to exploit this great lady for a bit of cheap sensationalist scandal and nastiness. What a contrast to the Calvert interviews.
Bette Davis with her intelligence and wit even after all her troubles shows what a true lady is and what trash Walters is.
Barbara totally got it wrong when describing "All About Eve"..First of all Margo Channing WAS NOT a Hollywood actress, she was a New York stage actress. Secondly, Margo WAS NOT torn between her career and her love for Bill Sampson (Gary Merril), but rather she was concerned about growing older and still being desirable for him....FAIL on Ms. Walters
@jhecht424 Barbara wa wa is a bitch!...u are so right on...the idiot did not do her homework...hell, my daughter saw All About Eve when she was nine...she is nineteen now, and she gave me the best compliment...she stated that I remind her of Ms. Davis...uh no...she had real balls....:D
What a shallow person! Now that I am older and wiser. I see that Bette Davis was an obsessed BITCH! I take her daughter's side! I don't think she knew what a charity was or an underdog. She had it easy! That is the irony of her BULLSHIT saying, "I did it the hard way!" Fuck You Bette! YOU FOOL! You were WEAK! You don't fool me!
OMG, her Lesbian lover, Kath Cermak, should have been smacked for dressing up La Davis in those clown outfits and wigs. Remember the dress and matching hat that had big multi-colored buttons all over them?
REALLY tried to watch this interview - as BETTE DAVIS is one FASCINATING creature....HOWEVER, Barbara Walters HAS to be THE Worst excuse for an interviewer/journalist EVER.
The Dick Cavett interview from years earlier was much more interesting and enlightening. My suggestion would be to watch that interview.
@edwardjames50 I think she was very sexy too, not a Marilyn Monroe-ish way but a more confident way. She had an aura. I especially liked her in All About Eve.
One of the greatest actresses of all time. Particularly for the era she came from, where, really, a lot of "great" actors weren't such a great actors. She was a cut above and I loved her attitude. You couldn't have a weak spine around this woman and I loved that about her. Thank you for posting this. She is to be admired by all women across the globe.
Barbara: "Did you get mellow or mellower as you got older?"
Bette: "I'm afraid not!"
Bette Davis remained just exactly the same in her character despite her age.
Along with Lauren Bacall, she concentrated on being memorable, which I applaud very much. I adore both of the actresses. Seeing Bette, I realize no wonder Lauren Bacall idolized her and imitated her. If only Bette had been a
"When you came to Hollywood, you were hardly thought of as a sex symbol..." what the hell kind of a segue into a question was that? Damn Barbara, that was borderline insulting!
@samweezy there is something wrong with it. However, this was a MUCH different time. That word wasn't thought of as wrong. But yes, in today's standards that is very wrong.
Seriously? I don't know when this interview was, but Bette died in '89. Retarded was the polite term for what used to be called feeble minded years before that. It is no longer used, but it was a proper and polite term years ago.
Maybe you find it wrong because this is 2012. But when the interview occurred probably close to 30 yrs ago, retarded was an acceptable and polite term.
What's with all of the hate towards Barbara? Bette seems to like her just fine. Stop the childish remarks about her speech impediment -- she does her job; asks the questions you want to hear answered. So shut it.
I have a clipping from an old Life magazine that shows an antique factory time clock for employees that Bette Davis bought at an auction. She worked at the factory where the time clock had been when she first started working and she said that she vowed to someday own that clock...good for you Bette, the blue collar workers of America will always love you!
I have come to be a great Bette Davis fan. My beautiful Paternal Grand Mother also was a huge Bette Davis Fan all the way back from her first movies in the 30's They both had big beautiful eyes & looked similar They both smoked the non filter cigarettes & each time a Bette Davis film was on TV everyone would call my Nana & tell her to turn the TV to the movie even if she had company she would turn the kitchen TV set on & keep it low. Bette & Judy Garland are my top favs!
I am glad they don't use the word retarded anymore. My 8yr old beautiful niece has Downs Syndrome and itwasn't until she was born and we learned more about it, the less D.S. & Retarded went hand in hand.She functions very welland thank God a lot has been learned and more schools are well equiped to deal with special needs children. My niece Emily is the joy of our lives. Bette made sure that her daughter was and still is well taken care of.
If anyones wondering why Bette seems to have trouble speaking, her stroke messed up her control over her vocals and she had to learn how to speak properly again.
@jga665 that popped out to me too!! how politically incorrect! she seems to be losing a couple of screws on "the view" lately too. overworked i guess, poor gal.
@gamagan1 This was before political correctness. You could say "blind" instead of "visually challenged", "midget" instead of 'little person". In another generation "special needs" will be considered bad and "those with impaired functioning" will be PC. You should watch George Carlin on Euphemistic Language.
@gamagan1 OK, PROFESSOR, "retarded" is not a bad word. It's a diagnosis. It's on the medical sheets of the population that I serve and work with. And the term "special needs" wasn't used until 15 or 20 years after this interview was done.
@gamagan1 it became a "bad word" because kids started calling eachother "retard" and now they will call eachother "special needs" or whatever the new term is until it becomes a "bad word" then they will have to make up something else...it happens every few years.
@seethevolcane You're WRONG. Your Mom didn't teach you nothing. GO watch an interview you can relate to then, like one which features a bimbo actress who has silicon boobs, capped teeth and a mind like an empty room ..
Obviously you don't think its important for older actresses (or people for that matter) to have a voice. They should have the door closed on them and be forgotten. Only remembered for what they were. Your opinion is obscene. Her courage, determination, and spirit are to admired. That is what she stood for. She would have told you to screw yourself.
@seethevolcane Well Dr. Freud, your projection in your posts is most ridiculous. Bette Davis decided to be interviewed on national television, decided to write a book and also decided a long time ago to have a very public career. She sure the heck had a right to choose when she would "withdraw" from public life. Whether you realize it or not your sentiment is the ultimate narcissism as it is doubtful you will ever be in the same elite class or know how this issue of "dignity" relates to it ...
@Anjoel22 Precisely. And MOST excellent comment... Don't let these types of people who use words in order to demean others and control (in the guise of being for their own good)... ever manipulate you...Bette would never have stood for it ... Old smart people have a lot to give like her and she IS better than healthy psychologically...what he said was a most cruel thing...some people are life killers...
@MissGarland18 Barbara Walters always asked un ncecessary questions that really aren't any of our business knowing. Why she asked Bette about sex was just to "shock" us when it really came across as being an idiotic wuestionsand Bette Davis knew it.
@NFitalianGuy-Oh yes I know, shock value questions almost always come across as idiodic, and their a way to trick people into answering something they never would have in their life, but also, I know that there will always be at least one or two people who have thought about the question that was asked, so most shock value questions, even though they are stupid, are always thought about by "someone" in the world, but all in all Bette was a strong & talented woman, that is the main point =)
'All About Eve' is my favourite movie. I mean, EVER. Thanks for posting this! (I'd subscribe, but You Tube said, 'You have too many subscriptions compared to the number of your subscribers.' I'm a lot like Miss Davis. YT has another think coming.
Barbara isn't a very good interviewer. There's no conversation, it's one topic to another without any connection so they don't go in any depth about anything.
Bette Davis, on the other hand, was the real deal. The great Sarah Siddons would have agreed - just as she would have agreed that MERYL STREEP IS THE MOST OVERRATED ACTRESS IN THE HISTORY OF ACTING.
@AdamCartwrightMyLove YEP UR RIGHT AND SHE WILL TELL U JUST LIKE IT IS, IN REAL LIFE AND ACTING LOVE HER AND JOAN, BEST FEMALE ACTRESS EVER, SIT ONETHE EDGE OF UR SEAT AND DONT BLINK MOVIES, GOTTA LOVE EM
@carlaird no she didn't Barbara had a lot of great questions if she had stupid questions then why does she always get celebrities to come to her to be interviewed.
Love this interview but smoking very likely contributed to her stroke. I would also not bitch about losing the Baby Jane Oscar. Anne Bancroft in the Miracle Worker is one of the most awarded performances of all-time.
Meryl Streep said in an interview that Bette Davis said to her that, she (Meryl Streep) reminded Bette of herself when she was a young actress. I don't know, I don't see what's so great about Meryl Streep.
@jandtsmom Streep's 16 Academy Award nominations and several Emmys show that her peers think so highly of her. And she has been a top film star for over three decades, which is so rare for a woman. I bet you have not even seen five of her films. let alone seen her on stage as I have. What an inane remark.
I love watching her really old movies! I love her presence on screen. For me Meryl Streep is the next best thing to Bette Davis in my eyes anyway. Both my favourite actresses. Bette will always be remembered as one of the greatest actresses of her time! <3
I don't mean to be rude, I <3 BETTE DAVIS, but she stated that smoking didn't seem to effect her?! Is that why she developed cancer and a stroke? This comment she makes is at 3:56.
@Jitpring Nothing ever will compare as the Golden Age of hollywood never! But today in our era Ms. Streep is the one that can be appointed as the greatest living actresses and not only by fans and her fellow actors, even the entire hollywood and critics say that!
@EJperfection Streep being considered a great actress, or the greatest, is only further testimony of the rank poverty, the utter puerility of this age. I stand by what I said, and I don't care if all the world disagrees. I cry out from the rooftops: MERYL STREEP IS THE MOST OVERRATED ACTRESS IN THE HISTORY OF ACTING.
@Jitpring Well Bette Davis disagrees, she admired Meryl Streep and thought she reminded her of herself. So even if you do cry from rooftops, forgive us if we trust our own love of Streep, backed up by Bette Davis who never said anything unless she meant it, rather than your opinion of her.
Davis and Hepburn is right. Streep is overrated. The reason why she got noms more because we don't have alot of actresses don't stretch their acting but at the same time, streep is still using a photorealistic (similar to method acting) acting which is phoney and unreal.
@Dramactica Uhh, Bette Davis had high praises for Meryl Streep! She singled out meryl streep, wrote her a letter w/compliments hoping one day to work with her...
As for hepburn, oh pa-lease, this is the same woman who thought nobody would take glenn close seriously as an actress because of her feet..lol she was a hater!
Don't get me wrong, she was a great actress but the difference for me is that I always am aware that I'm watching Hepburn in her scenes.
Really great interview. It's amazing to me how long the network took to talk to "Big Names" back then. Ten minutes, and this is only part one. Now-a-days, they spend half an hour telling the audience who's going to be on and then have the guest on for three minutes tops, it seems. Sure wish interview shows were the same now!
One day if I got the chance man if I got the chance, I'd be as great an actress as Bette Davis, an icon like Marilyn Monroe and I'd just be being myself. You have my word. I'm original and I'm ambitious. I love you
I've always thought that bette davis was beautiful when she was young, i wasn't aware that she wasn't thought of as beautiful. She was very beautiful just look at pictures of her back then.
its scary watching her smoke at that age
oishitomoro 7 hours ago
She looks completely different in this interview! She looks nothing like herself!
MyMusicalSoul941 5 days ago
@mybigredlip Who cares? Not the retarded people. You know why? Because they're retarded and don't know any better.
cizzam21 5 days ago
smoking not doing her any harm its what probably killed her?
Brighteyes1ful 1 week ago
She had a stroke, which comes from blocked arteries, which cigarettes are known to do, but "Oh it doesn't seem to do me any harm". LOLZ Ok Bette...
tall32guy 1 month ago
(cont'd) The fact that she published her book on Mother's Day, after Bette had a stroke, says two things, directly: One, she under-estimated her mother's strength. Two, She did it with the understanding that Bette was going to die, which shows how much of an opportunistic, attention whore she is. And anyone who writes their own version of ANY religion, as B.D. does today, shows that they see things as they want to see them, not based in reality. Regardless, we love Bette & always will. R.I.P.
cherrybombx27 1 month ago
I don't believe anything in B.D.'s book. She couldn't get over the fact that her mother was dedicated to working & still made time to be with her family. She claims that Bette never approved of her marriage, yet she signed the legal papers for her to marry at 16. Bette may not have been able to make her marriages work, but she always looked after her children & did what she could to provide for them. Which wasn't easy, as Bette was growing old & had to prove herself in a youth-obsessed industry
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cherrybombx27 1 month ago
LOL @ margo channing was a hollywood actress MARGO WAS A BROADWAY ACTRESS SORRY BABS
ILUVCF1961 1 month ago
Polar opposites: A stingy, rude, condescending old hag (Barbara) and a stunning, brash, ambitious, respectable, strong older woman (Bette). Bette had more grit, guts, balls, sweat, and brains than any other woman of her era. Barbara's just a pissy old bat.
cherrybombx27 2 months ago
Barbara Walters still looked good back then and Bette had aged...
SummerInTahoe 2 months ago
watching interviews, post-stroke, is inspiring. She just kept on going until the end. And that makes her the biggest star in the world.
Videoboy27 3 months ago
Id be pissed off too if my last name was Hyman.
gombis666 3 months ago 2
@gombis666 Well if she was pissed about her last name, she shouldn't have married Jeremy Hyman and be grateful for all the things her precious mother has given her.
TexasHoldEmGurl 1 month ago
walters has roaches in her cunt.
fran9860 3 months ago
I want to BE Bette Davis.
UllrichOpera 4 months ago 3
Godness sake Barbara was awful conducting that interview it was like she did'nt want to be there and i found her to be shouting most of the time.
MyJustified 4 months ago
From her first comment "wackable", Barbara Walters comes across as crude, crass and insulting. She has all the grace, sensitivity and respect for others of a hard, manipulative, old hooker. What a series of nasty questions designed to exploit this great lady for a bit of cheap sensationalist scandal and nastiness. What a contrast to the Calvert interviews.
Bette Davis with her intelligence and wit even after all her troubles shows what a true lady is and what trash Walters is.
pinchmeImnotdreaming 4 months ago 12
@pinchmeImnotdreaming She wasn't talking to Mother Teresa...Bette Davis (even though I loved her acting) was crude herself.
LadieWebster 1 month ago
@pinchmeImnotdreaming I had to watch it twice to see what you saw, and it is not there.
Ms. Walters could not have been more gracious. P.S. it was the "Cavett" interviews.
TerryComo2010 2 days ago
Barbara totally got it wrong when describing "All About Eve"..First of all Margo Channing WAS NOT a Hollywood actress, she was a New York stage actress. Secondly, Margo WAS NOT torn between her career and her love for Bill Sampson (Gary Merril), but rather she was concerned about growing older and still being desirable for him....FAIL on Ms. Walters
jhecht424 5 months ago 4
@jhecht424 Barbara wa wa is a bitch!...u are so right on...the idiot did not do her homework...hell, my daughter saw All About Eve when she was nine...she is nineteen now, and she gave me the best compliment...she stated that I remind her of Ms. Davis...uh no...she had real balls....:D
annahrwth242 4 months ago
So smart, witty, and still sexy (in that Bette Davis way).
gombis666 5 months ago
god I hate Barbara...
wannabeangel83 6 months ago
4:37 "Until you are impersonated there is nothing about you that is different" That is soooooo very TRUE!! Count it all joy!
Meeerah1 6 months ago
I wonder what Bette Davis looked like nude at this age
SuperBnichols 6 months ago
@SuperBnichols lmao that's disgusting.
ZephyrhillsSS 4 months ago
B.D "Hyman" ? Jeesh. I'd change my last name.
gombis666 6 months ago 2
all you people need to stop hating on barbara walters, if it wasn't for her we wouldn't have this interview.
jl1100 6 months ago
She said mentally wetarded.Its mentally Chawenged miss walters
HERBLANDZ 7 months ago
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What a shallow person! Now that I am older and wiser. I see that Bette Davis was an obsessed BITCH! I take her daughter's side! I don't think she knew what a charity was or an underdog. She had it easy! That is the irony of her BULLSHIT saying, "I did it the hard way!" Fuck You Bette! YOU FOOL! You were WEAK! You don't fool me!
marinello6 7 months ago
She always had the most amazing eyes and she was a phenomenal actress! <3
xtinaandravenfan 7 months ago 3
this is sad
maidmoira 7 months ago
Bette is Hollywood, she is a true legend
Aussieguy2402 7 months ago
Jaja she was a funny gal, and said things straight up.. I really like that part when she talks about , what a dump! Lol
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As the gargoyle she'd become here, she was still more attractive than she'd been decades earlier.
edwardjames50 8 months ago
As the gargoyle she'd become here, she wasstill more attractive than she was decades earlier.
edwardjames50 8 months ago
OMG, her Lesbian lover, Kath Cermak, should have been smacked for dressing up La Davis in those clown outfits and wigs. Remember the dress and matching hat that had big multi-colored buttons all over them?
edwardjames50 8 months ago
One of the greatest starlets to ever grace the silver screen. May she forever rest peacefully.
BETTE DAVIS (1908-1989)
DutchKalhoun 8 months ago 4
REALLY tried to watch this interview - as BETTE DAVIS is one FASCINATING creature....HOWEVER, Barbara Walters HAS to be THE Worst excuse for an interviewer/journalist EVER.
The Dick Cavett interview from years earlier was much more interesting and enlightening. My suggestion would be to watch that interview.
macraeman 8 months ago 3
Bette Davis is my idol. I LOVE her. what year was this interview? Clearly the 80s if the big hair and shoulder pads are any indication.
missdivinestalls 8 months ago
How I despise that haughty old hack Barbara Walters.
Messylin 8 months ago
Bette Davis was hot back in the day...i wish was alive back then
jfilesbooks 8 months ago
@jfilesbooks ~ Hot, maybe when she was standing next to a bonfire. What a skank.
edwardjames50 8 months ago
@edwardjames50 I think she was very sexy too, not a Marilyn Monroe-ish way but a more confident way. She had an aura. I especially liked her in All About Eve.
maszlagma 7 months ago 4
One of the greatest actresses of all time. Particularly for the era she came from, where, really, a lot of "great" actors weren't such a great actors. She was a cut above and I loved her attitude. You couldn't have a weak spine around this woman and I loved that about her. Thank you for posting this. She is to be admired by all women across the globe.
MsTessG 9 months ago
Greatest actress of All time. BETTE DAVIS
lowkeygoddess 9 months ago 2
70 sumthing years old and recovered from a stroke ,she stills manage to smoke a cigarette....i love you bette davis
terrance123890 9 months ago 2
The two people that checked dis-like on this video must not like Barbara Walters, because hearing and looking at Bette Davis is pleasurable, indeed.
lindalovesmusic1 9 months ago
I ALWAYS WONDER WHY DO WE HAVE TO LOOK OLD WHEN WE GET OLD? I NOTICE WHITE WOMEN LOOK OLDER THAN WOMEN OF COLOR
sexytrannienj 9 months ago 4
she was still breathtaking as an elderly woman
lilmissbobo79 9 months ago
i wish joan crawford lived after "Mommie Dearest" was published
KURISUCHRIS99 10 months ago
Barbara: "Did you get mellow or mellower as you got older?"
Bette: "I'm afraid not!"
Bette Davis remained just exactly the same in her character despite her age.
Along with Lauren Bacall, she concentrated on being memorable, which I applaud very much. I adore both of the actresses. Seeing Bette, I realize no wonder Lauren Bacall idolized her and imitated her. If only Bette had been a
non-smoker...
Bluejeans0701 10 months ago
"When you came to Hollywood, you were hardly thought of as a sex symbol..." what the hell kind of a segue into a question was that? Damn Barbara, that was borderline insulting!
doda 10 months ago
Greatest actress of her era.
TonyLyndellWilliams 10 months ago
I love it when she says "What a dump!" :D
NYsoul99 10 months ago
bette and joan the greatest actresses of all time!!!
chrisdelacruz1 10 months ago
"who was mentally retarded.."....why do i find that wrong?
samweezy 11 months ago 10
@samweezy. Presumably because you were raised to believe that speaking the truth is politically incorrect and somehow offensive.
AppallingRetroTrash 6 months ago
@samweezy - hypersensitivity?
gombis666 1 month ago
@samweezy there is something wrong with it. However, this was a MUCH different time. That word wasn't thought of as wrong. But yes, in today's standards that is very wrong.
sodacorn92 1 month ago
@samweezy She didn't even say challenged, just retarded.
mybigredlip 1 month ago
@mybigredlip
Seriously? I don't know when this interview was, but Bette died in '89. Retarded was the polite term for what used to be called feeble minded years before that. It is no longer used, but it was a proper and polite term years ago.
younghoss 6 days ago
@samweezy
Maybe you find it wrong because this is 2012. But when the interview occurred probably close to 30 yrs ago, retarded was an acceptable and polite term.
younghoss 6 days ago
People call Barbara the 'queen' yet I find this interview and others i see so unimpressive.
kmcl11 11 months ago 2
Margot Channing a hollywood actress Barbara? Really? That character was a stage actress
Hagazussa56 11 months ago
I never got the Barbara Walters thing. I think she is the worse interviewer. But no doubt about it...she gets the interviews.
blkchk 11 months ago 2
@blkchk Indeed
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TheChino341 11 months ago
What's with all of the hate towards Barbara? Bette seems to like her just fine. Stop the childish remarks about her speech impediment -- she does her job; asks the questions you want to hear answered. So shut it.
Silverbolt100 1 year ago
@Silverbolt100 COmpare this ith 60 minutes and tell me who asks what ppl want to hear.
kmcl11 11 months ago
I have a clipping from an old Life magazine that shows an antique factory time clock for employees that Bette Davis bought at an auction. She worked at the factory where the time clock had been when she first started working and she said that she vowed to someday own that clock...good for you Bette, the blue collar workers of America will always love you!
darlinkula1 1 year ago 4
Even with here stroke I'd rather listen to Bette Davis than Barbara Walters' incredibly annoying speech impediment.
funkeekatt 1 year ago 3
I have come to be a great Bette Davis fan. My beautiful Paternal Grand Mother also was a huge Bette Davis Fan all the way back from her first movies in the 30's They both had big beautiful eyes & looked similar They both smoked the non filter cigarettes & each time a Bette Davis film was on TV everyone would call my Nana & tell her to turn the TV to the movie even if she had company she would turn the kitchen TV set on & keep it low. Bette & Judy Garland are my top favs!
NFitalianGuy 1 year ago 2
MIss Garland18 you are exactly correct!
SuperSandiana 1 year ago
Bette Davis really should have won an Oscar for What Ever Happened To Baby Jane. The Oscars is a fraud!
magyarwho 1 year ago
@magyarwho Joan Crawford rigged it.
mybigredlip 6 days ago
I am glad they don't use the word retarded anymore. My 8yr old beautiful niece has Downs Syndrome and itwasn't until she was born and we learned more about it, the less D.S. & Retarded went hand in hand.She functions very welland thank God a lot has been learned and more schools are well equiped to deal with special needs children. My niece Emily is the joy of our lives. Bette made sure that her daughter was and still is well taken care of.
NFitalianGuy 1 year ago
barbara: people used to imitate me....now i'm pweased. LOL
cvillekeith 1 year ago
for all the comments about Barbara using the word 'retarded'...remember this was the 80s and it was an acceptable term.
robyben1980 1 year ago
bette and barbara...both massachusetts girls!
wntoply6 1 year ago
If anyones wondering why Bette seems to have trouble speaking, her stroke messed up her control over her vocals and she had to learn how to speak properly again.
MasterMacabre13th 1 year ago
lol this woman is f*cking amazing
dangeroussuzie 1 year ago
she also singled out lindsay wagner. any comments?
TheMalibumoon 1 year ago
did barbara say retarded? I thought she was against the use of that word...
jga665 1 year ago 3
@jga665 that popped out to me too!! how politically incorrect! she seems to be losing a couple of screws on "the view" lately too. overworked i guess, poor gal.
daisypeachy 1 year ago
@jga665 Well retarded IS a medical term afterall
MasterMacabre13th 1 year ago
@jga665 she should have said special needs, thats the respectable way
gamagan1 1 year ago
@gamagan1 This was before political correctness. You could say "blind" instead of "visually challenged", "midget" instead of 'little person". In another generation "special needs" will be considered bad and "those with impaired functioning" will be PC. You should watch George Carlin on Euphemistic Language.
cvillekeith 1 year ago
@cvillekeith its still special needs, they need special attention to help them through thier needs, ok
PROFESSOR
gamagan1 1 year ago
@gamagan1 OK, PROFESSOR, "retarded" is not a bad word. It's a diagnosis. It's on the medical sheets of the population that I serve and work with. And the term "special needs" wasn't used until 15 or 20 years after this interview was done.
cvillekeith 1 year ago
@gamagan1 it became a "bad word" because kids started calling eachother "retard" and now they will call eachother "special needs" or whatever the new term is until it becomes a "bad word" then they will have to make up something else...it happens every few years.
cvillekeith 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
A fine actress, but this is an obscene appearance.
At some point, you ring down the curtain. Turn out
the lights!
seethevolcane 1 year ago
@seethevolcane You're WRONG. Your Mom didn't teach you nothing. GO watch an interview you can relate to then, like one which features a bimbo actress who has silicon boobs, capped teeth and a mind like an empty room ..
Isawthemwhen 1 year ago 2
@seethevolcane
Obviously you don't think its important for older actresses (or people for that matter) to have a voice. They should have the door closed on them and be forgotten. Only remembered for what they were. Your opinion is obscene. Her courage, determination, and spirit are to admired. That is what she stood for. She would have told you to screw yourself.
Anjoel22 1 year ago 27
@Anjoel22 It's a question of dignity and knowing when to withdraw
from the public stage. Narcisscism is not condoned.
seethevolcane 1 year ago
@seethevolcane Well Dr. Freud, your projection in your posts is most ridiculous. Bette Davis decided to be interviewed on national television, decided to write a book and also decided a long time ago to have a very public career. She sure the heck had a right to choose when she would "withdraw" from public life. Whether you realize it or not your sentiment is the ultimate narcissism as it is doubtful you will ever be in the same elite class or know how this issue of "dignity" relates to it ...
Isawthemwhen 1 year ago
@Anjoel22 Precisely. And MOST excellent comment... Don't let these types of people who use words in order to demean others and control (in the guise of being for their own good)... ever manipulate you...Bette would never have stood for it ... Old smart people have a lot to give like her and she IS better than healthy psychologically...what he said was a most cruel thing...some people are life killers...
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MissGarland18 1 year ago
Barbara Walters is a twat...Bette Davis is a goddess...Plain and simple comment =)
MissGarland18 1 year ago 85
@MissGarland18 Barbara Walters always asked un ncecessary questions that really aren't any of our business knowing. Why she asked Bette about sex was just to "shock" us when it really came across as being an idiotic wuestionsand Bette Davis knew it.
NFitalianGuy 1 year ago
@NFitalianGuy-Oh yes I know, shock value questions almost always come across as idiodic, and their a way to trick people into answering something they never would have in their life, but also, I know that there will always be at least one or two people who have thought about the question that was asked, so most shock value questions, even though they are stupid, are always thought about by "someone" in the world, but all in all Bette was a strong & talented woman, that is the main point =)
MissGarland18 1 year ago
@MissGarland18 I totally agree with you.
SuperSandiana 1 year ago
@SuperSandiana...Good to see someone else does too =)
MissGarland18 1 year ago
@MissGarland18 There was never a truer statement. Serious.
astucity 11 months ago
@astucity...thank you =)
MissGarland18 11 months ago
@MissGarland18 I agree. I've always thought Ms. Walters was overrated. She is a poor interviewer,
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BeemerryNYC 1 year ago
Brutally honest. You don't see that in Hollywood anymore.
73Jace 1 year ago 6
A hard women.She seemed to stick to her convictions.You knew where she was coming from.
openedup09 1 year ago 2
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and god created this force of nature.....
mariandevadas 1 year ago
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and god created this force of nature.....
mariandevadas 1 year ago
'All About Eve' is my favourite movie. I mean, EVER. Thanks for posting this! (I'd subscribe, but You Tube said, 'You have too many subscriptions compared to the number of your subscribers.' I'm a lot like Miss Davis. YT has another think coming.
louiseduvee 1 year ago
my aunt looks just like her... shes my bette davis living doll... lol..... my personal baby jane
MrGaidzak 1 year ago
Barbara isn't a very good interviewer. There's no conversation, it's one topic to another without any connection so they don't go in any depth about anything.
toothbrush55 1 year ago
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What a total idiot Barbra is.
MrCafiero 1 year ago
what a woman!!! the best!!! true hard working artist!!!
Ladyluck2806 1 year ago
she was still miss bette. my fave actress. ever since i saw "the letter". ilove the opeing . bang bang!!
east215 1 year ago
OMG i can't believe it doesnt even look like her at all very sad with the stroke and all
allenshepard 1 year ago
I love Bette Davis...I was her as Baby Jane for Halloween when I was 7. lol.
jaynebaby1 1 year ago
Bette Davis, on the other hand, was the real deal. The great Sarah Siddons would have agreed - just as she would have agreed that MERYL STREEP IS THE MOST OVERRATED ACTRESS IN THE HISTORY OF ACTING.
Jitpring 1 year ago
Really increible just see her! Truly a LEGEND!!!
EJperfection 1 year ago
improve the sound. god is talking!
Ash8604 1 year ago 3
Could never forget the Great Bette Davis
AdamCartwrightMyLove 1 year ago 2
@AdamCartwrightMyLove YEP UR RIGHT AND SHE WILL TELL U JUST LIKE IT IS, IN REAL LIFE AND ACTING LOVE HER AND JOAN, BEST FEMALE ACTRESS EVER, SIT ONETHE EDGE OF UR SEAT AND DONT BLINK MOVIES, GOTTA LOVE EM
gamagan1 1 year ago
if barbara really liked ALL ABOUT EVE, she should have known bette's character was a BROADWAY, not Hollywood actress...do your research!
VTMCompany 1 year ago 5
at least she's honest!
shaybean54 1 year ago
"peter, peter, peter" came from 1935's dangerous so she did say that line
lilchuy01 1 year ago
DO YOU SUPPOSE JIMMY HOFFA IS HIDING IN BARBARA WALTERS' VAGINA?
fran9860 1 year ago
@fran9860 that was the one place i forgot to look!
itsjustme2919 1 year ago
Bette Davis,
i will always ge grateful that I saw her in Scarborough in 1975, doing her show.
JoeWPratt 1 year ago
isnt she a fucking LADY OR WHAT? this is what i call...A REAL DIVA!
elsoda 1 year ago 3
Barbara had a LOT of stupid questions back then!
WHAT-A-DOPE!
carlaird 1 year ago 3
@carlaird no she didn't Barbara had a lot of great questions if she had stupid questions then why does she always get celebrities to come to her to be interviewed.
vickone32 1 year ago
Love this interview but smoking very likely contributed to her stroke. I would also not bitch about losing the Baby Jane Oscar. Anne Bancroft in the Miracle Worker is one of the most awarded performances of all-time.
roccoh21 1 year ago
Sadly we will probably never see another actress like Bette again.
SteveODonnell25 1 year ago 4
Meryl Streep said in an interview that Bette Davis said to her that, she (Meryl Streep) reminded Bette of herself when she was a young actress. I don't know, I don't see what's so great about Meryl Streep.
jandtsmom 1 year ago
@jandtsmom Streep's 16 Academy Award nominations and several Emmys show that her peers think so highly of her. And she has been a top film star for over three decades, which is so rare for a woman. I bet you have not even seen five of her films. let alone seen her on stage as I have. What an inane remark.
roccoh21 1 year ago
@roccoh21
(Meryl Streep?) EVERYONE is entitled to their own opinion. And yes I have seen her movies, I just don't care for her as an actress, so what?
jandtsmom 1 year ago
I love watching her really old movies! I love her presence on screen. For me Meryl Streep is the next best thing to Bette Davis in my eyes anyway. Both my favourite actresses. Bette will always be remembered as one of the greatest actresses of her time! <3
xtinaandravenfan 1 year ago
I don't mean to be rude, I <3 BETTE DAVIS, but she stated that smoking didn't seem to effect her?! Is that why she developed cancer and a stroke? This comment she makes is at 3:56.
TheNepenther 1 year ago
when she laugh at 3:22 her laugh does sound like her younger days
shinznay 1 year ago
BETTE was AMAZING...
justininsc88 1 year ago 11
1:41 uh Barbara, All About Eve was about a famous New York stage actress...
Rocket7910 1 year ago
Was this filmed in 1984?
yaywhewclips242 1 year ago
She must have been sooo ashamed off her daughter ! I would have been!!
RachelWest91 1 year ago
You deserve so much better than B,D, Hyman.
Christina5Archer 1 year ago
The only actress today that can even mention Bette Davis's name is Merryl Streep.
Genevaave 1 year ago
@Genevaave Not even close. Meryl Streep is vastly overrated.
Jitpring 1 year ago
@Jitpring Nothing ever will compare as the Golden Age of hollywood never! But today in our era Ms. Streep is the one that can be appointed as the greatest living actresses and not only by fans and her fellow actors, even the entire hollywood and critics say that!
EJperfection 1 year ago
@EJperfection Streep being considered a great actress, or the greatest, is only further testimony of the rank poverty, the utter puerility of this age. I stand by what I said, and I don't care if all the world disagrees. I cry out from the rooftops: MERYL STREEP IS THE MOST OVERRATED ACTRESS IN THE HISTORY OF ACTING.
O age, thou art shamed.*
O shame, where is thy blush?**
-Shakespeare, Julius Caesar,* Hamlet**
Jitpring 1 year ago
@Jitpring Well Bette Davis disagrees, she admired Meryl Streep and thought she reminded her of herself. So even if you do cry from rooftops, forgive us if we trust our own love of Streep, backed up by Bette Davis who never said anything unless she meant it, rather than your opinion of her.
toothbrush55 1 year ago
@toothbrush55 Then Bette Davis was wrong about her. Again, the truth is this:
Meryl Streep is the most overrated actress in the history of acting.
Jitpring 1 year ago
@Jitpring
Davis and Hepburn is right. Streep is overrated. The reason why she got noms more because we don't have alot of actresses don't stretch their acting but at the same time, streep is still using a photorealistic (similar to method acting) acting which is phoney and unreal.
Dramactica 1 year ago
@Dramactica Uhh, Bette Davis had high praises for Meryl Streep! She singled out meryl streep, wrote her a letter w/compliments hoping one day to work with her...
As for hepburn, oh pa-lease, this is the same woman who thought nobody would take glenn close seriously as an actress because of her feet..lol she was a hater!
Don't get me wrong, she was a great actress but the difference for me is that I always am aware that I'm watching Hepburn in her scenes.
Tusc9969 1 year ago
@Tusc9969 You're saying that Katherine Hepburn couldn't act? Have you seen Long Day's Journey into Night?
bphutchins 1 year ago
@bphutchins No, read my comment again...I clearly gave hepburn credit by calling her a great actress..but she's a bit overrated!
Tusc9969 1 year ago
Bette is a legend, love her.
egglady 1 year ago 28
Waht a classy dame
eburnsed 1 year ago
this is fantastic
babycakes8884 1 year ago
i hope walters also had interviewed crawford.
GustaveKwak 1 year ago
the life of Barbra is like a mirror in the life of Joan.
dacatholicbandorgan 1 year ago
@dacatholicbandorgan Pardon me I meant Bette's.
dacatholicbandorgan 1 year ago
Really great interview. It's amazing to me how long the network took to talk to "Big Names" back then. Ten minutes, and this is only part one. Now-a-days, they spend half an hour telling the audience who's going to be on and then have the guest on for three minutes tops, it seems. Sure wish interview shows were the same now!
kincaide67 1 year ago
i think it was rude how B.D was so against her mother
even though bette loved her so much
KURISUCHRIS99 1 year ago
LOL can u imagine Walters face if someone lit a cigarette during an interview today. Interesting how Americas age seems to restrict more and more.
snorp73 1 year ago 2
One day if I got the chance man if I got the chance, I'd be as great an actress as Bette Davis, an icon like Marilyn Monroe and I'd just be being myself. You have my word. I'm original and I'm ambitious. I love you
LouisaTheDreamer 1 year ago
Holy crap look how shes sitting wow!she seems badass!
blossomcandy01 1 year ago
I've always thought that bette davis was beautiful when she was young, i wasn't aware that she wasn't thought of as beautiful. She was very beautiful just look at pictures of her back then.
facefavour 1 year ago
barbara looks amazing here!!
goldentomcat 1 year ago
Old Hollywood died with Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich and all the others. No young hollywood has the charisma like them
ariesflame85 1 year ago 6
One of the Greatest Actors of the 20th Century. Thank U Bette! Thank U so much!
rickw1100 1 year ago
What a true legend God rest her soul!
SexyLiLLeilaniMya 1 year ago
what year??
Bonzy1969 1 year ago
Loved her acting in "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane," and "All About Eve."
wildellnaddaha 1 year ago 2
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juanitamorrisbraden 1 year ago
check out leighton meester's bette davis eyes version. she sung it very well and leighton's got bette davis' eyes. :)
enydnightshade 1 year ago