I love this woman,she was just a one off so real and true to her self and when she looks upset she oozes dignity-there can never be another MISS DAVIS.
Ms Davis Queen of Warner Bros. accepted the part and 2nd billing after Paul Lukas so that the film could get financed and distributed. A truly great Lady
Ty, we are constantly haunting the same videos. HA. It cracks me up every time. Bette Davis is easily one of my favourite personalities. I think I almost like her candid more than I do in films. Which is quite something, because in films I can't take my eyes off of her. What a woman.
I have always been somewhat indifferent to 'Watch on the Rhine and as a serious Bette Davis fan I wonder why? It has the manufactured quality of Agitprop (considering that Lillian Hellman was a card carrying communist all her life perhaps that is why. the Little Foxes was full of awful speech making and etc. about exploitation, and such but God bless Dashiel Hammett for slashing it all away to leave the bare bones of the drama and yet still giving the 'message'.
Those tv prints of the classic films in the 1970's and 80 's were really terrible...seeing them now in the restaured digital versions it's like a fog has lifted and the sound has come above water again.....must have been awfull for her to see her work in such terrible shape...film preservation has come a long way
Of course it is everything Davis said, not a great role--albeit with a couple of fine moments, and that she was in it for name value. That seemed clear when I saw it. It's really not even a great movie except for its propaganda value. I liked Lukas but don't know that his performance was Oscar worthy that year.
I love this woman,she was just a one off so real and true to her self and when she looks upset she oozes dignity-there can never be another MISS DAVIS.
Ms Davis Queen of Warner Bros. accepted the part and 2nd billing after Paul Lukas so that the film could get financed and distributed. A truly great Lady
*BETTE DAVIS* The Brightest Star in the Sky!!!
airdate Nov. 18th, 1971. Bette age 63 discussing the 1943 WWII classic!
She's teary-eyed. It must've reminded her of the past esp. the challenges she went through at Warner's.
I really doubt that to me it was more of just being modest and watching herself perform.
Ty, we are constantly haunting the same videos. HA. It cracks me up every time. Bette Davis is easily one of my favourite personalities. I think I almost like her candid more than I do in films. Which is quite something, because in films I can't take my eyes off of her. What a woman.
Thank you for posting all of these!
BRAVA MISS DAVIS BRAVA!
wonderful to see
Yes, THANK YOU
Question for someone born in 1993…..was she the one that had the song written about her? Betty Davis eyes?
Yes
I'm here because of slushii
In the story, Lukas is the husband taking out the fascist, and is married to BD.
I have always been somewhat indifferent to 'Watch on the Rhine and as a serious Bette Davis fan I wonder why? It has the manufactured quality of Agitprop (considering that Lillian Hellman was a card carrying communist all her life perhaps that is why. the Little Foxes was full of awful speech making and etc. about exploitation, and such but God bless Dashiel Hammett for slashing it all away to leave the bare bones of the drama and yet still giving the 'message'.
Those tv prints of the classic films in the 1970's and 80 's were really terrible...seeing them now in the restaured digital versions it's like a fog has lifted and the sound has come above water again.....must have been awfull for her to see her work in such terrible shape...film preservation has come a long way
Of course it is everything Davis said, not a great role--albeit with a couple of fine moments, and that she was in it for name value. That seemed clear when I saw it. It's really not even a great movie except for its propaganda value. I liked Lukas but don't know that his performance was Oscar worthy that year.