Bette Davis tribute by Meryl Streep

Beautiful tribute! Very touching.. For me Meryl is the greatest now in our time and Bette Davis is the greatest in her time. So both are the GREATEST of all time! :))

And Davis was one of the early 'big" film stars to recognize the value of television, wasn't afraid the then-new medium would cheapen her image, in fact praised soap operas and TV films as providing some better opportunities than theatrical releases.

And Davis wasn't afraid, in 1962, to take out an ad in "Variety" selling herself, after many thought her career over. She was hired for "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" and wasn't afraid the appear grotesque. In fact, her boldness started a trend of older actresses playing horror films.

One of Davis' very early roles was as a very unappealing, Cockney prostitute who took advantage of a club-footed professor, in Somerset Maugham's "Of Human Bondage."

Davis won her first of two Best Actress Oscars the following year, for a film ("Dangerous") she hated. But Davis and her peers knew her first Academy Award was really for her role in "Bondage" the previous year.

And the reason Bette Davis was such a good actress was because she had the wisdom, very early in her career, to realize the true actors and actresses are character actors.

Beauty only takes one so far, and after one's ingenue or leading man days are over one jolly well better know how to play a role, any role--be it a gangster, a mental patient, a prostitute, a spinster librarian.

Meryl Streep is a wonderful woman and actress. Love, Love, Love Bette Davis! What movie was 4:29? Those bangs make her look adorably cute!

Bette is one of the greatest. Love her! Meryl is one of the greatest living actresses today. It would have been really nice to see those two work together, but I'm glad Meryl said she's worked with Bette through an inspiration :)

The woman on the right at 0:52 couldn't look more bored. Next time decline the invitation you douchenozzle.

Meryl and Bette did meet on several occasions (mostly at the Oscar ceremonies) Talk about passing the torch

"The private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex".