Bette Davis and her famous line "What A Dump!" (extended clip)
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- Bette Davis and her famous line "What A Dump!" (extended clip) from the movie "Beyond the Forest" with Joseph Cotton and David Brian. As mentioned in the eBook novel "Waiting for the Real World to Catch Up!" by Brian S. Alexander. Scottrick, a crazed inventor, was always chasing rainbows - Now it's your turn - buy the eBook and let loose his marvelous, madcap, mayhem! With special celebrity cameos by Tina Fey, Meredith Vieira, Martha Stewart, and others! Now available for the Kindle, Nook, iPad, and more!
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Vastly underrated Davis performance. One of her bravely 'over the top' performances (another is Baby Jane) in which she scorches up the screen but never makes a false move.
Bette Davis always plays over the top performances. She's from the old school Hollywood back when Melodrama was a popular genre in film. I wasn't until the 60's when Bette started performing with more naturalism. That was around the time America began preferring naturalistic acting. Although there were already actors and actresses that act with naturalism from that time examples being Greta Garbo, Barbara Stanwyck and Irene Dunn.
@@abandonedfragmentofhope5415 Old school? As if she were in a troupe of players putting on The Drunkard. If there was an 'old school' she was literally in a class by herself. Her USE of the space on screen was masterful and flawless (Little Foxes is a good example) and was a collaboration between great
directors and HER FACE.
@@poetcomic1 I'm not saying she wasn't in her own league. All the greats are. I'm just saying over the top performances from her is many. And I love Baby Jane, Dark Victoy and The Letter so no need to tell me.
@@poetcomic1the proof of her greatness is you can't take your eyes off of her! She's such a huge presence that I forgot how tiny she actually was!
Nobody does it like Bette!!
I don’t know but all her scenes in this movie seem like a skit because it’s so funny every time!
I’ve seen this movie.. and even if it was a flop as said, with Bette in it it’s so good still. Her acting is beyond anything in Hollywood .
The movie was a flop only with the critics. But it did make money as the movie attracted millions of women to the theatre to see what could be them in the future. My mother saw the movie on its initial release at the movie theatre and she said it was packed with housewives (it was a weekday matinee)
somebody please put full Bette Davis movies on here
Oh yes pleaaaase!
Yessss
download them ... you can poach them from a hundred different sites. .. she doesn't care, she's DEAD! ... but STILL GREAT!
Mark Marsh but that’s still stealing. Y’all always gotta justify stealing stuff
Yes, please, full movies.
It's too bad that another famous line from this movie isn't included here. It was, "I just can't stand it here anymore! " That's exactly how Bette Davis felt about Warner Bros at that point...
With that classic "what a dump" line, the original is always the best!
Such an outstanding actress ..... Rest in Peace Miss Davis 🙏♥️
The funny thing is that Elizabeth Taylor delivered that line more like we would expect Bette Davis to than Ms. Davis herself!
Yes, "...Virginia Woolf" brought me here. I must say I was disappointed by Davis' delivery after having heard Taylor's.
Valentino Miller what? Liz was a really mediocre actress
Ivan Kanaan On what planet? La Liz won two Oscars and despite being trained in the studio system from childhood intuitively held her own against Method leading men Monty Clift and James Dean. Just because she was breathtakingly gorgeous doesn't mean she was untalented.
Alfredo C
I never said she was untalented
Ivan Kanaan Do you know what mediocre means? (Hint: It is not possible to be both mediocre and talented. Not on Earth anyway.)
Her phrasing was way more subtle than impersonators have lead on.
if it wasn't for Liz Taylor (or Mike Nichols for that matter) the popularity of the famous 'what a dump' line, wouldn't have been what it is. To be fair, there's much more to Bette than just a trivial line, she was pure talent at its best and it's not fair she's now remembered for that stupid line.
I am 64 and had forgotten all about this line. The one I do remember her for is, "you better fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night".
takitogoestoNY Garbage. She's not remembered for that line.
Edward Albee wrote the play. So actually he is the one who takes credit for that line.
True. All about Eve and it's used in everyday life now.
Fasten your seatbelts is Bette's most memorable line I think.
She always said she "threw away" the line, she really didn't do much with it, and she was right. However, I think this movie was better than it was given credit for being even though Bette Davis wasn't fond of it at the time. I still think it holds up pretty well, I wish it were truly available on DVD.
I agree. I love the line in this movie, "me, mistake a man for a deer?" She said this when referring to the man she killed as to whether it was intentional or not.
The internet online fascination is killing the DVD business. Because of this, these type films of the past will be lost forever as many online sites don't have the inclination or the will to hunt down and post these films in their entirety.
An underrated movie.. Davis did rather well with the part. It is a sad little tale of someone, from the get-go, just can't stand where they were born, live and just want to get out. And being a woman, Miss Davis so sadly shows the very limited options that a woman in her circumstances; has-- to get out of such an emotionally stifling LIfe.
@@jackanthony976 the Hollywood copyright police are as much to blame for this film absence too
Well copies of the film must be somewhere. I saw the film in the movie theatre in 1977 and 1982. I also rented it on VHS tape from the video store around 1985 before the Internet killed the video store business.
Thank you for posting this video and for keeping it active. I watched this movie recently for the very first time and am still pondering it. 🙂 (Chase)
If you try to imitate that phrase, the subtlety gets you every time. She stalls on the "d" and makes sure the "p" has a thud, like a large exclamation point. The paradox is that she is inimitable, so fine was her art, but that doesn't stop any of us from trying! Nowadays the PC gays with trust funds want to blend in so they don't think it's fun anymore. Tant pis pour eux!
I laugh at all her expressions on this movie, lol she’s had it, from this very film project to the director and the studio, she’s over it lol
I want this written on my tombstone, lol
What a dump!
If I can't get out of here, I'll die.
great montage! excellent editing! thanks!!!
Wicked Bette!!!💃
Rosa Moline. "She was a 12 o'clock woman in a 9 o'clock town". lol
Am I the only one who thinks she looks gorgeous in this movie?
Yes.
Even from knowing the general plot of this movie, you'd still never be able to tell from this amalgamation of clips. The way the clips present themselves you'd think there were 5 different plots going on in the movie. My goodness this film was all over the place.
WOW she looks so good with black hair like really beautiful💖 she should have kept that look when she was young
I don't care what they say, I like this movie a lot.
So do I. My mother told me about the film when I was 13 as it was playing on television. My mother said she first saw the film when it was originally released in 1949 in one of the gorgeous baroque old time movie palaces in downtown Los Angeles.
01:13 Hey, I wonder if Bette Davis knows which film has the line "What a dump!".
It's been driving Elizabeth Taylor crazy for ages.
I LOVE Jenny LOL so sarcastic hahahaha
I know! Lol!
You slap him Bette Davis! 😲🤭That will teach him to watch his mouth! 🤔🤔You deserve some respect cos you certainly have earned it! 🤩😍😘
With her hair black, Bette looks like Morticia...from the Addams family !!!
😆😆😆😆😆😆
Need to watch the full movie. Impossible to find, alas.
Hahaha, classic Bette Davis! :)
Bravo!
“If i Don’t get out of here I’ll die.” And she did. Eventually. lol
Porf q sean completas y suptituladas gracias
I would love to see the entire movie! Y
The movie would always play at revival theatres. It does sometimes play in New York City at the one or two revival theaters left.
i watched it on youtube, you just have to search for it, i think shes fantastic in it, its one of my fav performances from her
Goliath sparrow mine also
Bette told Jack Warner that he wanted the picture completed she wanted to be released from her contract. I think she was impulsive. Love the maid! She put Rosa in her ace
Did Bette Davis ever comment on the reference to the film in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
I'm pretty sure she did in her book "That and That." Davis came to find it humorous the line became so legendary. She said people always remembered her saying it in an exaggerated way in BTF, and she'd say it in her one-woman show. I'm pretty sure she also references it being said in WAOVW.
+Katie Kat *Whoops, it's "This 'N That." I have a copy; you'd think I could have spelled it correctly from the start!
She also spoke about it with Barbara Walters in an interview, she said she did very little with it and it became famous thanks to Elizabeth Taylor, it’s available to watch on YT
Bette’s husband here is played by Joseph Cotten, the same actor who played Dr Drew in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte. Well, I guess that was his revenge for being treated so badly here! (Of course, everyone in Hollywood liked Cotten, including Davis).
2:02
Well, come to London. !
l o l
As I walked into Joan Crawford's mansion I said "What a dump" then she gave me a slap.
Me too but in my case she beat me with a wire hanger.
Gosh ….I’m in love with the contempt and disrespect she shows her man
Bette was Pure Camp. Rip
***This was the last film in the Bette Davis at Warner, where she reigned absolute since the 1930s. Soon after, she left the studio, 'cause her movies no longer yielded as before and the productions made her unhappy. Bette plays Rose, a bored and unfaithful wife, or a villain by the standards of the 1940s.Unlike the housewives of the time, she owns the nose itself, does not respect her husband and is not content with the role of women idealistic doctor without financial ambitions. It is not pretty, has no definite profession but want greater flights: live in Chicado and marry a millionaire suitor. The problem is that the script is unconvincing and works against Rose / Bette Davis. Besides wanting to play the independent, the woman is cold, calculating, lazy, and because of its ambitions becomes unfaithful and murders. The story is a cold water shower in women who have dreamed of a more hectic life, away from the prison of an unhappy marriage. Beyond the Forest it is not a great movie - far from it. But Bette has good dramatic moments, especially in the final scenes, with the longest death scene of cinema. The following year, Bette Davis gave a comeback. She adjusted her bollards, wore fashionable clothes and starred in Fox, All About Eve, the biggest hit of her career, catching the big star of prestige.
+Mauricio Exenberger Thanks for your comments, I didn't know these details.
This movie did get bad reviews and it probably was based on the script and ironically the very next movie she did, just when the industry was ready to discard her was All About Eve for which she got an Academy Award nomination. However it is this movie that her the iconic line "What a dump" is in. And the next movie that I have mentioned has her iconic line "fasten your seatbelts, it's going to be a bumpy night". It doesn't get any better than this. This era is when movies were really movies with a strong story line.
All about Eve wasnt her next film- it was payment on demand/bill of divorcement
it wasnt her last film, Whatever happened to baby jane i think had some Warners connection and Dead Ringer was a Warner film
Goliath sparrow It's good to know there are other BD fans out there like myself. This was her last film for Warner's under contract with them. There are several others with ties to Warner's but we was "free lancing" by then.
"What a Dump!"
Only me thinks its like margo channing's talking style? 😮
You know I ALWAYS think a famous line is from another famous actors movie...also...
I also thought 'what a dump' was from ALL ABOUT EVE....but,
"Fasten your seatbelts. It's going to be a bumpy night." That movie scared me though...
One of Bette's other great lines is to Donna Drake. "ya stupied cigar store
Indian".and she kicks her to the side.
🤔 Bette was too old for this part. She said it herself. lt's a lousy movie & why it isn't on Dvd? So l can have it,Lol! A BD fan.
Tony Negron 👍🏽😉💯
But she did look great
@Be. Wise cautionary note though, Bill Clinton was interested in Monica Lewinsky so some mysteries remain unsolved.
Bette was NOT too old for this part. There are thousands of women who are pushing 40 and are reaching the age of desperation for a new life..a new man.
HHHWWWWWWWHAT A DUMPPAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH
I've never heard Bette Davis saying "peta peta peta" have u?
She never did, that's why
In Bette's own words, with regard to this movie: th-cam.com/video/Jq9WNLWQs7I/w-d-xo.html
Martha
Okay, Martha?! Are you happy?! Are you satisfied now?! Can we go to bed?! Or are you going to bring "it" up? Well, Martha? ... *Well?!* 😉😏
I think Ms Davis looked incredibly hot with long dark hair!
At 1:47, who's the white chick wearing blackface? Man, that was cringe worthy. Lo!
Not black face. Portraying Indian girl
If I were a man I'd be afraid of her.
for brief moments she was Gorgeous!!
Better be
Katharine Hepburn who?
I'm sure she acted the h*** out of the park but that dark hair did her no favors. She always said that the what a dump line wasn't real but obviously it was.