Bette Davis talks about Gladys Cooper & Claude Raines
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- Phillip Oliver said: "Terence Rattigan's play SEPARATE TABLES brought Kerr her fifth Academy Award nomination as a repressed spinster whose life is governed by her overbearing mother (played by Gladys Cooper)."
Notice how Gladys did the same shtick in NOW, VOYAGER. - บันเทิง
Claude Raines was an underappreciated actor . He was always one of my mother's favorites , too
Yeah, The Invisible Man is still one of the best performances ever seen.
His manic laugh has been copied by generations of film actors. Rains is one of the all time greats.
Hardly "underappreciated"
In his day he was very appreciated. Especially for his performance in Casablanca as Captain Louis Renault. Great actor. I remember him as a kind old rich man who claimed to have amnesia in an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Presents episode called Door Without A Key. His performance with young Bill Mumy really moved me. th-cam.com/video/fZcJXvfsjYE/w-d-xo.html
Wasn't your mother's appreciation enough?
@@mja91352 Totally agree. Another example of the overuse of that word when it doesn't fit.
No matter how big a star Bette was, she always paid tribute to others. She is class with a capital C!
Not always. When you were a professional she would pay tribute to you. Even Joan Crawford she praised as being very professional. However she had no praise or tribute for Fay Dunaway who she felt was very unprofessional.
Don't forget Richard Harris also played Dumbledore in Harry Potter
@@muffassa6739 she did talk about Richard Harris.
She really hit the nail on the head. This interview took place the year I was born in 1971. She recognized that her generation was passing on. Now I see the same thing. We’re moving toward a time when there will not be many of us left who remember the world before the internet or social media. I had a conversation once with my nephew and can’t imagine how we made it work without it. Mortality is a sobering reality.
The world has been falling apart since the Internet. What are you talking about?
I was just telling someone the other day how I'm one of the last of the 20th century generation, life was so much better before all the technology and media, was telling them i don't shop on line, I don't scan, don't use Facebook, tik tok ect. ect...
@@jayceew.rabbit9358 I was born in 67. I'm one of the last too. I don't use any of those things too. I wish it were the early or mid 70s. Free TV with great TV shows and movies and old movies and silly 60s TV shows all day and late night old movies. In NYC anyway. The music was wonderful with the oldies stations playing 50s and 60s music too. Great magazines and newspapers. And no atmosphere of Hate.
Though undeserved, I think Bette Davis' reputation for being difficult stemmed from her complete respect for the craft of acting and nobody epitomized it more. Everything she said about Gladys Cooper was true of herself. Her chemistry with Claude Rains in Mr. Skeffington was wonderful and to hear her echoing my sentiments made me love them both even more.
I loved how she called Claude Rains "gorgeous".
Hi Carolyn.. in his youth, 20 to about 30-ish, he was absolutely "gorgeous". It wasn't until he started drinking and smoking heavily that he pretty much lost his good looks by the time he passed away. Plus, I really think that BD was thinking about him as gorgeous internally as well.
@@hankaustin7091 He was good looking in his 50s.
And she was right!
I think she ment more his talent and personality.
They had great chemistry.
Gladys Cooper steals every scene in "Now Voyager".
A totally believable actress.
Bette Davis makes some amazingly astute observations here. I find it impossible to disagree with anything she said. Certainly she was, with all the greats she mentioned, one of the very greatest stars in that undeniably Golden Age of film.
Bette Davis was absolutely wonderful in just about all of her movies. There will never be another Bette Davis. We were so very blessed to have her up there on the silver screen. We are now left with her brilliant performances that have and will continue to entertain us for many years to come. Thank you, Miss. Davis for being you.
She Was Right ... We Will Never See Actors & Actress Like That From Her Time ... Even The Comedians ... Bette Davis & All Those Great Stars ... Legendary Icons Are Missed!!
Kardashians are actors.
Totally agree with you
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myphonyaccount That’s despicable. They’re incredibly pathetic compared to the Golden Age of Hollywood.
Bette Davis is so honest and extremely smart. I have never missed one of her movies. I think she was beautiful, although she did not seem to think so.
I would like to think that in the ending of 'Now Voyager' she married the doctor, Bette Davis adored Claude Rains and wanted him in her pictures whenever he could, classy lady.
"We're never going to have that same kind of person anymore" that is so true! Each era is different from the next, and what's unique about this era, what makes this era, Bette Davis's era, special, is that every actor, every performer, had their own distinctive style, and every performance they gave and every production they starred in or were featured in, was classy and tastefully done. And they spent grueling hours perfecting it.
Wow, you stated this 11 years ago. So true and we are definitely in a New Era. The films I went to go see in the movie theaters in the 1970’s and 1980’s are now considered classics on TCM.
same could be said for an appliance
I am sad that most people you ask today would have no idea who Gladys Cooper, Walter Huston or Claude Rains were. I hate that. When I was young I knew all the silent stars, but now it seems there is a little interest.
Robert Osborne I totally agree. I am younger than you are and was a teenager in the 1980s and yet I still knew who all the stars were from the 1920s through to the 60s. I was interested in history and film and what went before. It was inspiring. These days, young people only know or care about what is literally in fashion right this very moment, and 99% of then wouldn't even know who Bette Davis was let alone Claude Rains or Gladys Cooper!!!!! Imagine if you said Thelma Talmudge, Lilian Gish, or Clara Bow to them???? Perhaps it is thanks to television re-runs of golden years films through the 1970s that my generation were able to reacquaint themselves with the stars of our parents' generation. Nowadays television doesn't replay any of these old films for free. They want you to buy them via subscription and so that limits knowledge about actors and actresses for current generations. With free-to-air television in the 1970s and 1980s, we were able to get an education about film history FOR FREE!!!!!! Bette Davis, Mae West, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland and others were well, well before my time and yet I grew up watching them and came to love them as if I were born in a much earlier era. Current generations are impoverished intellectually even though they have MORE information available to them - technically speaking.
I'm 22, and I LOVE Claude Rains. Always have; always will. He's my favorite actor alongside Christopher Walken.
I am 16 and I love Claude Rains....and you are right, people hve forgotten the greats. My generation more so than yours.
I am in my 30s and I remember borrowing at the library a dictionary of movies (basically all movies released in Italy, foreign and not, from the silent era till the mid 2000s summarised and reviewed by a movie critic) and learned all about these old stars and so on. I remember staying up at night just to watch Casablanca and Sunset Boulevard as they were on TV late at night for some reason. I wanted to watch these classics. I also found Some Like It Hot much more hilarious than many modern comedies.
I love classic Hollywood movies and the stars back then.
Kudos to Bette for giving Gladys Cooper her dues..If you see a movie with Gladys Cooper in it you will always see a great performance..Loved her in "The Bishops Wife"great scene with Cary Grant and Cary getting stuck in a chair in her drawing room..Great stuff!..
David Niven, the Bishop, gets stuck to the chair in that movie.
5:21 - that moment gets me every time I see this interview, and her comments on whether actors are happy people. So incredibly truthful and moving. I adore this woman.
Top woman like the way she talks about actors passed away appreciating admiring them.
Oh! I love her ending for Now, Voyager! Perfect. Lovely Claude Rains.
I love that Miss D and Calude Rains were friends. They were both so brilliant apart and together. Also appreciate her candor here about actors being moody. So honest...whether or not you feel yesterday was better than today, it is inarguable that today's age of sound bites and tighly controlled press appearances have eliminated this level of honesty and introspection.
I love how Bette felt about Claude Raines, but oh the chemistry between her and Paul Henried was so magnificent in Now Voyager. The ending scene where they stare into each others eyes was incredible. She probably would have found the stability and contentment with the Dr., but when it came to hot passion it was Jerry all the way. I love that movie and Bette was superb in it. :)
God, was she prophetic about future talent. She saw it all.
This LEGEND had wit,magnetism and wisdom and was and remains even today a rare breed.Her work ethic and straight forward way is en-trancing.When you watch her films she is the creme da le creme of acting and as a person with her intelligence and presence SHE IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS...."LEGEND" that is what Bette was and all these years later still remains xxxx
I believe most of the people saying Ms. Davis is rude are young. She was always this way, and interviewers scrambled for her and audiences loved her. Bette Davis was loud and proud until the end of her life. She admitted her mistakes and was justifiably proud of her successes-she earned 2 Oscars out of 10 nominations, a record many thought might never be broken. She died of cancer in 1989 at age 81, so was just 63 here, but her hair style and clothes make her look older. The "full interview" on YT is not full- this clip is not in it-however, take all the clips together and her intellect, intuition and honesty about her life and career are wonders to behold. Yes, yes, yes she could be hard to work with, but many actors and directors worked with her more than once. She could be very generous, for example she mentions Alexis Smith (longer clip); who never became a big movie star, but was currently receiving raves on B'way for her starring role in Sondheim's "Follies." Presumably Cavett's audience would have known something of this at the time; that at age 50, Alexis Smith was having the biggest hit of her career. She'd been on the cover of Time and was on her way to winning a Tony. Bette says "who knew?," and that "she must have had it in her all the time." The Hollywood she worked in is gone, but Bette Davis lived long enough to see its transformation. It would not surprise her to see the product it's churning out, and the lack of actors with the star quality, work ethic and willingness to fight for what was right that was typical of her day. She has been gone almost 25 years, and no one has come close to replacing her, or Claude Rains or Gladys Cooper, and so many others. I'm betting no one ever will.
I do not think she is rude at all.
Nothing rude about her. She spoke with certainty and thoughtfulness. If someone nowadays thinks that's rude, they're not playing with a full deck. I note that Dick Cavett didn't find her rude at all -- he had her on so that Bette Davis could be Bette Davis and the studio audience and the TV audience loved it. He had her on three times over the years, and each time she was the only guest.
those young people are the keyboard warriors who are rude behind the safety of their keyboards
I wish I knew more people like her.
robert cooke young people today are used to being praised and molly-coddled by their ridiculous over protective Gen X parents! That's why! So everyone who doesn't tell them that life is easy and you can "do whatever you want" is deemed "rude." Gen Z and millennials (including gen Y) haven't known candour and honesty in the vein of BD's, and so to them she is rude. They don't understand that in those days older people had a certain way of speaking and were shown respect. It was just the way they were. Now it's seen as "rude." And yet, Millenials are the rudest of all generations with their silent treatment, passive aggression behind their keyboards, their exclusion of the world around them with earphones in their ears listening to endless noise, and extremely tacky with their licentiousness and immoral conduct publically. Young women now all look like cheap hookers and young men look like dirty, overly muscly, tattooed pimps and gangsters. So, who is really ruder?
Bette Davis was in a class all by herself. There will never be another.
Every time a see a Bette Davis movie on TV im glued to her performance,you can't keep your eyes off her ..
It's good to hear that Bette Davis appreciated many of the actors and actresses she worked with. I knew she did because I'd read books about her and comments by her about them. She loved Gladys Cooper who played her domineering mother in Now, Voyager. Miss Cooper was a fine actress and she received her first of three Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress. (The others were for The Song of Bernadette and My Fair Lady.) Bette once said in a book that you're as good as the people you work with and she always wanted good character actors in her films. And she usually had them.
Nobody talks about it, but Bette Davis used absolutely PERFECT grammar, both in her interviews and in her movies. She insisted I think, that the language be flawless. She used contractions which were perfect for the moment -- in Now Voyager, she even said things like "Mayn't I taker camping.... Who would have kept such beautiful language in a character part but Bette Davis? Her grammar and use of the English Language were just about perfect!
One of the best people to come out of the US. She was the epitome of class,intelligence,charisma and wisdom. You just look and listen in awe of her intellect and forward thinking views. A brilliant actress professional,perceptive and she was the very essence of class.....As an actress she was as good as it gets.....Of all the people past & present she is one i would of loved to of met....Just brilliance in every way....brilliance.
This interview was in 1971 cause in the interview Bette Davis says Gladys Cooper died yesterday.
Gladys Cooper died in 1971.
This interview date was: November 18, 1971
Gladys Cooper died November 17, 1971
Gladys cooper was on the show april 30 1971 with her son in law robert morley. Great interview also.
Such detective work.
Bette raves about Herbert Marshall twice in one minute. Women really did love him.
Her remark when he mentions Bob Hope, and her delivery of it, are priceless.
Gladys Cooper, excellent actress. We will never see her like again.
A person whose like we shall never see her like again. She was a diligent learner, a total professional with the highest standards, full of fear but also fearless, aggressive, smart enough to be submissive at the right time and always looking for her next challenge. One of the few stars who wasn't a disappointment off screen but every bit as colorful, as interesting, as intelligent and as challenging
as in film roles.
Love how she admired Gladys Cooper, she could have kept the whole interview to herself.
I love you Bette Davis . It is YOU who is beautiful!
Bette's voice is like she's shooting words at you from a machine gun. I'm grateful to have enjoyed Bette's films while she was still alive and the best thing about TH-cam is discovering these interviews that you've never seen before. I saved an old Life magazine clipping that told the story of Bette buying an antique factory employee time clock, when Bette first began to work she worked in the factory where the time clock came from and vowed to one day own it and her dream came true. Thank You!
I laughed one time when I heard some one call Lindsey Lohan a Legend.. I almost spit out my pepsi when one of the entertainment shows mentioned her. If people today think that any celebrity working in hollywood today, are of legendary status, then we are in for trouble in the entertainment field. No one is larger than life any more. Today, They all look alike and not one person has that Unique quality about them that makes them special.
I'm a decade late and I get what you said, but early in her career there was a feeling in Hollywood that Lindsey was going to be a big deal. She really seemed like something special. It wasn't based so much upon the catalogue of her work that existed, but what was expected to come.
Teens now call everyone they like a legend or "iconic". They have no idea what these words mean clearly. There are very few modern legends around nowadays.
Agree completely. Where are the Bogarts, Cagneys, Waynes, Stewarts, Coopers, Grants, etc? There are only minnows now
So true about the passing of those of a certain era. Their way, their discipline, their knowledge of the craft; we lose something when its not passed on.
What a fabulous interview. I totally agree with Dick Cavett about Claude Rains in "Deception." He makes that whole film and I thought Bette Davis was amazing in it.
She really said a mouthful. You can't find talent like Claude Rains or Gladys Cooper (or Bette Davis, for that matter) anymore. Nobody today has anything on Bette Davis.
Amazing how interesting and eloquent the old actors are....
She saw the future of the entertainment business.
I really could listen to her for hours and hours. Who will talk to us first hand about this era now with such details?I like that Cavett let her speak. She’s so much more interesting than any question!
Her beautiful remarks about Gladys Cooper, Claude Rains, Walter Huston and Richard Harris are so eloquent and classy. That's the real Bette Davis. Iconic is too small a word for her. She's so damn funny too!
They just dont make them like this anymore! Loved her in the letter!
Dan D. Dirges I think The Letter is one of my all-time favourites and yet no one ever talks about it anymore. That central scene where she stumbles out of the house onto the porch and down those stairs shooting the gun, the way she does it, is one of the most arresting moments in cinema history to me. You can hear dogs barking and crickets in the background and that makes it so surreal. It sends chills up my spine. She was riveting in that film. It's a great story and very much a part of Davis's "star text."
@szs voc She was beautiful when she was young. Look for her in her early pictures.
Love how she's so generous of her co- stars' talents-- no diva me attitude.
She brings up something that we all experience at points in our lives: ends of eras.
Gladys Cooper was truly iconic! Modern actors over-play the role. Gladys could, by a simple raising of the eyebrow or a shrug of the shoulder convey much more than the expansive acting so popular today. And yep, even at 80 (as she was in "The Happiest Millionaire) she was simply lovely to look at and watch on screen - especially in her duet with Geraldine Page! What a hoot, but what an understated bit of genteel cattiness between them!
Bette Davis is absolutely right about how great many English actors are. Claude Rains is marvelous. Should be studied in acting school. When legendary actors like Bette Davis compliment a dependable character actor -- that's the ultimate compliment & respect.
There are many character actors who carry a scene & make a starring actor shine brighter. This is why people like John Wayne & Clint Eastwood, producer Hal B. Wallis -- use the same actors in each of their films. Dependability. They deliver every time. Peter Lorre, Walter Huston, Basil Rathbone -- actors that were scary good. You could learn from them just being in a scene with them. Later, much later, the older Burt Lancaster became one of these types of actors -- especially in Field of Dreams.
Sometimes these character actors would really deliver -- even get nominated for Academy Awards. The late
Richard Jaeckel in Sometimes a Great Notion. He played also the sergeant in The Dirty Dozen.
There was Art Carney, Jack Albertson, Theodore Bikel, Shirley Booth (opposite Burt Lancaster), Walter Brennan (nominated 4 times), Victor Buono, George Burns, Red Buttons, Peggy Cass, Richard Castellano, Seymour Cassell, Broderick Crawford, Bobby Darin, William Demarest, Michael Dunn (in Ship of Fools who went on to be Dr. Loveless in The Wild, Wild West), Peter Falk, Sam Elliott, Sally Field ( just a TV actress who became marvelous), Anthony Franciosa, & tons more who were always second-tier suddenly going for the gold. Most recently the actor who does all the Farmers Insurance commercials -- J.K. Simmons ("Whiplash").
Many surprising names, some just comedians. I marvel at these actors.
I can watch Bette davis all day long doing interview after interview. She talked more than the host and you find yourself not minding at all that she is dominating the interview. :)
Saxon C The point of an interview is for the audience (or reader) to get to know the subject- not the interviewer. A good interviewer serves up the ball to the subject who then has it in her Courville.
She was so smart, spoke very truly and was so very amazing!
It's such a pleasure to watch this. She was simply the greatest actress in American film. Her body of work is legendary.
I've watched this interview a number of times and I find it more fascinating than the time before. I could listen to actors of this caliper for hours and hours talking about the movie industry. Claude Rains and Gladys Cooper...WOW!!!
We haven't seen nor will we see the likes of her again...the great one herself ms. Bette Davis, such style n class
Wow I just began an interest in Bette Davis,way before my time unfortunately. What film should I see first? My mother said Mr.Skeffington-sounds very interestingI I like what she has to say as herself.Very unique, observant and a seemingly brilliant woman and actress
What a wonderful tribute to Gladys Cooper and Claude Rains and Bette was correct..when they died..when SHE died...there's nobody to replace them.
One thing I always liked about Bette Davis, if she respected another entertainer, she'd be more than happy to talk about it.
She was on What's My Line in 1964, and she was beside herself praising Barbra Streisand, who was on Broadway at the time in Funny Girl. She REALLY liked Barbra!
This interview was in November of 1971, for those interested. 💗💗
Even at an older age she had great fashion sense
Agreed!
Love Bette!
Great interview. Dick Cavette's interviews are a national treasure. Will there be anything worth watching from Jimmy Kimmel in 30 years?
drjohnson98 Not really.
That's a hard no
I agree. Dick Cavette was a great interviewer & listener. He was engaging & let his guests speak of value. Today's host's are chat shows with minimal dialogue.
She had so much class.
If there is an actor at all working today who comes close to Bette Davis, I'd argue it's Kate Winslet (albeit Kate is a slightly warmer person than Gladys) but there's an air about seeing Bette at this age that makes me think Kate will be almost identical when she reaches that same age
I also loved how Bette always referred to her coworkers by Miss Last-Name - Miss Crawford, Miss Cooper, etc - there's something very respectful in that
I think she was right about Voyager. But Claude Rains and Bette together were a dynamite couple. You could see on screen they really worked so well together. And Herbert Marshall....who could forget the staircase scene in The Little Foxes. I think she was right about the quality of English actors at the time. And Bob Hope too! There will never be another Bette Davis.
Cavette's comment that the great stars of the golden era could rise above and make a bad movie interesting, whereas today's stars need a good film is spot-on. They are our royalty.
"Now, Voyager" I just bought on DVD and it was an amazing Movie and Bette Davis was astounding in the film. "All About Eve" has to be my favorite Bette Davis, movie. I have found Bette to be better than Katharine Hepburn. Bette was more interesting to watch on screen and off during inteviewslike this. Hepburn was a great dramatic actress but way too stern and serious whenever she was interviewed. But these legends were true to themselves and to their publice very upfront and unique.
If she acted with Brad Pitt or George Clooney she would not have been not be able to stand it. Those two are unbearable to watch on screen.
Lizzy Allan I completely agree, especially Brad Pitt. That man has one stoic expression for every emotion he portrays in all his movies.
She would have eaten those dumb-asses alive!
agree on Clooney but couldn't disagree more on Pitt; he's magnetic.
@@BlueSpirit3743 Magnetic? Dull would be my adjective. The personality of a doorknob in every film I've ever seen him in. When did he ever show brilliance? Or inner understanding?
@@ruthiebelle1 well, one that always sticks out for me is 'Seven'. probably his best.
Went to see Now Voyager in Paris at an English cinema and there were several screens--rare idea that long ago WAY before here in the US. So I'm sitting in the lobby and a young woman came in to announce the film (didn't know that was particularly happening) and all she said was "Bet daVIS Bet daVIS". NOT Betty Davis. Took me a couple of seconds to realize what she was saying and a group of us followed her back to the screening room! LOL!!!
Bette Davis has always been my favorite actress because she was bigger than life and loved her acting craft.. She said we should all look as if we are working at our craft instead of sailing through with no regards. She said this is from her prospective but I truly believe that is very very true.
Pshaw... he's MY gorgeous Claude Rains!!!
Her beautiful remarks about Gladys Cooper, Claude Rains, Walter Huston and Richard Harris are so eloquent and classy. That's the real Bette Davis. Iconic is too small a word for her. She's so damn funny too! They were all such amazing actors.
Dick Cavett was the best interviewer ever.
jimbob jim he knew/ knows what he's talking about.
Catholicus I had my head down that was going on he opened his mouth too many times. Someone like her because she's so well spoken he should just let it go on. She had some great stories to tell. Carson had her on and i don't think he interrupted her at all.
(2/2010, approx.)
Strangely, I hit on this clip looking for something about Claude Rains because I was so taken with his performance, with Ms. Davis, in a film I am watching on TMC as I write this, "Deception" (ain't post-digital technology grand!), and this is what came up.
I loved this interview with Cavett, but I think Ms. Davis is wrong:
"Deception," is a terrific, and surprisingly adult-themed, movie, Rains is a revelation, and it is, as far as I know, the only "film noir" about Classical Music.
RAINS RULES.
@@ervogan
Next time I see it, I'll watch it with that perspective in mind...
I always thought of "Humoresque" as the musical version of "Body and Soul," but I'll watch it that way and see if I agree.
(Addendum, five years later)
Between 1970 and 1974, approximately, NBC had Carson, CBS had Griffin, and ABC had Cavett, at a time when our society seemed to be unraveling, on a daily basis, due to Viet Nam, etc....
...and on a nightly basis we were able to find entertainment, sanity, and circumspection, on ALL THREE NETWORKS.
(In light of who inhabits "late-night" now, tell your children... or your grandchildren... and see if they believe it, or can even comprehend it.)
I love how she said about bob hope, well that’s not the same thing, funny!
One of the greatest of her generation. The likes of which will not pass this way again.
What strikes me is the pace of that interview. Yes, the interviewer might be interrupting her at times, but still she's got time to spek! Name just 1 actress today who would be allowed to say all she's able to say and stop in the middle of sentences. Nowadays, you have 2 seconds to speak your mind and then you're interrupted!
she's interrupting him!
Exactly- she's interrupting him. That's Bette - somebody speaking first is not going to stop her from ignoring them and going ahead herself.
Love her or hate her - there she is😄
@@talesfromtheclassroom @Rheinhart Silvento Yeah but my point was she had time to do it, nowadays guests have no time to say ANYTHING, let alone cut their host!
@@spaceboy2095 because numbskull broadcasters decided our attention spans were too short.
And Joe Rogan laughed all the way to the bank.
It also helps that Dick Cavett is the greatest talk show host of all time.
my favorite actress and favorite variety show - thank you for posting. But Bette's right - you are not going to have these type of actors anymore. Look at it today - they lack the substance these classy and timeless personalities had.
Never was crazy about Dick Cavett but he could do interviews with stars
and make it like a cozy evening at home. Amazing lady, Ms Davis!
She was brave and classy to the very end. We miss you, dear Bette.
I like how they dance around toward the end with trying to say but not say that hollywood and the "stars" in it just did not measure up anymore. Kind of a take on what Norma Desmond says in Sunset Boulevard, "I am big. It's the movies that got small." Davis and Cavette are saying that both got small.
Gladys aged better than most. "Now Voyager" as the evil mother and "My Fair Lady" as the Professor's indifferent mother. As far as Bette goes ... she held your attention -- she was fiercely wonderful. RIP BD.
i have never loved voyager before
but after hearing the theory that she will
eventually settle for claude rains makes
my love for the movie starting to spark
again
I know HollyW in those days had a "product" to turn out, and plugged holes, and Bette mostly always played high drama, but- she is SO funny! Maybe her life experiences made her humorous later, but she should have made more comedies! Alas...
I absolutely love this woman
I agree with Bette on just about all of this. Our British actors helped propped up Hollywood and Claude Raines was wonderful as the other gentlemen she mentioned. It was generous of her to
acknowledge them. Bette was wonderful too. She is full of common sense over all of this. All
this actors are very much missed. The moderns to me are just not there for me personally.
Thank you for this.🙏🇬🇧. Dame Gladys Cooper great too. We have produced wonderful actresses
here as well.
What I liked about Bette is that she told it as it was, like it or not. Her archrival, Joan Crawford, was always putting on an act by being overly sweet, and trying to camp up a preppy accent even though she was from rural Texas.
atlantic1119 They has more in common than they realised.Both had daughters that wrote scandalous books about them,both had a strong work ethic ,both were great actresses,both have an impressive body of work .JC though did suffer sexual abuse as a teenager.
@Nick Xero Not everyone has to agree with me or indeed you, it's just a matter of opinion/taste.
Fun fact: Miss Davis and Professor Rains were a hot item. According to his daughter she loved him but he wanted more of a 'friends with benefits' thing. He would marry six times, never happily except for the last time and she was more like a full time nurse in his last days. Wished they both would been happier.
Love Bette, Gladys, and Claude !!!! 🌹
Bette Davis was the greatest actress ever and Claude Rains was the greatest actor💚
YES
Paul Muni?
Davis was wonderfully articulate and generous. I loved watching her on talk shows during the 1970's when she talked about her heyday in Hollywood. But, she was much more complicated than she presented herself. Bette was a most difficult artist.
Gladys Cooper was superb in ‘Now Voyager’ in playing the tyrant mother. Her speech, the cadence of her voice, and her body language meant she dominated the scenes when opposite Bette Davis. She was a star of the theatre for many decades, playing every conceivable role, and this served her in good stead when making films. As for Claude Rains, his captivating and polished voice, and the movement of his eyes, mesmerised cinema audiences for well over thirty years. He was one of Hollywood’s greatest male character actors. Rain was another actor who was a scene ‘stealer’ because of his striking presence.
La cosa che ammiro in Bette Davis e' che lodava sempre i suoi colleghi
She loved Claude in real life. Unrequited as he was gay
She makes some very astute points here
Note that Bette as ever dominates the chat. That's the price you pay for being in the presence of our greatest film actress
A woman of class, wit and endless acting talent. How telling that talks about all those whom we will never see the like of again. Well Miss Davis, we shall never see the like of you! A star in the sky.
haha i know, she's like, "Hello, this is MY time thank you, you anted me to talk, so honey, I'm gonna TALK!"
Too cool, love her.
Such an amazing and wonderful person!
r.i.p Gladys Cooper
In case anyone is wondering who Gladys Cooper was, the part people might know the best was as the old lady in the Twilight Zone episode with Robert Redford, where she believes he's death and she doesn't want to let him in.
Rebecca White She was amazingly good in it.
She was a superb actor on the English stage for years before she appeared in films. She was a pin-up at the turn of the last century for good reason.
Though it was a minor role, Gladys still dominated the screen as Olivier's sister in "Rebecca"
@@suzannesadiiqa totally, she was a stunner in the Edwardian era - I’ve got almost 50 postcards featuring her from that period
Davis really respected professionalism
Producer: We've got Bette lined up for the show
Cavett: Oh goody
Having worked her way to the top of her feild she has earned the right to SPEAK.And people want to listen to her,i think Meryl Streep summed it up perfectly she said Bette Davis was "...The jewel in the crown of acting" and she was.She has on her grave stone "She did it the hard way" and SHE DID!!!!
That brooch is INSANE