She was so kind to me I first met her when I was 18 and had a great friendship with her I was a nobody but she treated me like a friend. I miss her so much. It was a great privilege to have known you. God bless you my darling. Xx
Bette Davis - I do agree - "Work is the one thing that won't disappoint you!" She felt relationships cannot bring you what you want but work does. Boy - do I believe her! It's what made me the happiest when I was working. Thank you for clarifying this to everyone.
Some people are being really harsh. Consider she was the breadwinner for her mother and sister for years. Their father dumped them when they were young. Her mother had sacrificed to get them the best education she could, promoted their interests. She was probably emotionally immature, living in that bubble. She probably lost faith in her husband after giving up that chance at motherhood.
Bette - despite it all was a "strong" woman and had to be. I marveled at her appeal as an actress and what she had to do to survive the Hollywood Circus!
Bette's WORK was exceptional-- anything else is NOT subject to others' approval. She was a wise, talented, feisty, determined woman. I loved her personality.
I don't know much about her but I really like her attitude and views of life.. still now... in 2010, her words and views are current... very strong woman.
WOW! She is just ... WOW! Every single thing she said in this interview was amazing. It was only 4 mins long, but i LOVE her philosophy and outlook on things. This, to me, makes her even more beautiful at 71 than she was in her Hollywood years. I
Her cigarette was her caricature, it was part of her iconic presence. Of course it is always sad when such a powerful, strong person meets demise, but to imagine Bette Davis without her cigarette would be like Bugs Bunny not having a carrot, or Fred Astaire with no dancing shoes.
Bette Davis was not just in a league of her own,she was the league of them all. Meryl Streep today is by far the best living actress ,but Bette Davis is the best ever actress of all time..and that is that. PERIOD.
@MissGarland18 ~ I'm a young actress and I try to gather all the advice I can from the greats like Bette. They were so full of wisdom and life experience.
In time even great actors are forgotten or forsaken in memory. But there are some actors who's star power and unique lives, and their contributions to art, help to sustain their memory. Bette Davis is one of those film and stage actors that transcended the conventional and we are still marveling her in 2010.
Bette was always so proud of her New England ("Yankee, good stock," she'd say) heritage, having been raised in Lowell & Newton, Massachusetts. It's one reason she originally raised her kids on the East coast, didn't want them becoming spoiled, Hollywood brats. She was a real pistol, and, as with missing Lucille Ball, the world's not been quite the same place without her.
Look at this beautiful cinematography my father shot of Bette Davis! He told me she had no AC so he made her happy and used buckets of ice and a fan to keep her cool! I remember watching this episode with my Dad! The phone always rang in our home after a great story like this. This is a portion of it. I just love how he zoomed in on her when she dragged her cigarette, my dad was so opposed to smoking. Lol.
Like this great actress I too had 2 abortions as a married woman & mother to my son, I don't regret doing it, but I do regret having to have been in that situation regardless of how it happened. My husband & I have moved on & we continue to have a very happy & loving relationship in a wonderful family, we got past it, too bad others cannot.
So right .. love your job ..that's the least disappointing thing u can have .. and it's the best relationship one ever posses as compared to human relationships
Everyone always talks about how great she was in All About Eve, but it was far from her finest performance. Margo Channing and Baby Jane Hudson are certainly her flashiest roles, where she gets to shout, cry, bellow and generally chew the scenery to a shameless degree. Any third-rate actress can do that. Her finest performance is a tie between two roles: Charlotte Vale in Now, Voyager, and Regina Giddens in The Little Foxes. As Charlotte, her emotional responses to her mother, her doctor, her lover and her adopted daughter are all recognisably from the same character, but there are subtle gradations of vocal tone and body language depending on which person she is talking to. A great deal of her performance as Charlotte depends on her eyes. Before her transformation, as fat, neurotic Aunt Charlotte, her spectacles magnify her eyes, giving her an owlish, quizzical, overly anxious appearance. Then, as 'Camille Beauchamps', her frequent wearing of large-brimmed hats hides her eyes and makes her mysterious: she is not yet ready to reveal her unaccustomed beauty. Finally, after her mother's death, her eyes are compassionate and understanding, both with her lover Jerry Durrance and his daughter Tina. This is a finely shaded, marvelously subtle performance, perhaps her finest on film. As Regina Giddens, by contrast, her eyes and mouth are minimised by the rice-flour, quasi-Kabuki makeup she affects, which gives her a frightening, murderous appearance. Her emotions are tightly controlled, as rigid as the corsets she is obviously wearing beneath her postbellum Southern gowns. The scene in which she *SPOILER ALERT* watches impassively while her husband suffers a fatal heart attack is a masterpiece of cool restraint wedded to smoldering, inner intensity. This is my favorite performance of hers. Compared to these renditions, her Margo Channing is uninteresting, an uneasy mix of the worst tics of Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead that is loud, unsubtle and ultimately forgettable.
i think it is pretty sad, to have to feel, that work is more important to us, than human relationships. i think, work gratified her, and people disappointed her. in work, one strives to create the best, in human relationships, the variable is more unstable...for her...i guess.
But she was an artist...and for her work means art. And for any artist, the art is as important as anything. Doubtful she'd say that if she'd been a secretary.
Ironic, we have so many, more entities--electronic, print and Internet--devoted to celebrities now than ever before. And yet there are so few, real "stars" left on earth anymore--they're all gone to the heavens. Bette may be gone to the heavens now, but when she was here she certainly raised some hell!
How sad to give up the love of your own child to a career. The kiss and hug of your own child, a little piece of you in your arms, I don't believe a career is worth more than a life that you bring into this world. But that's HOLLYWOOD FOR YOU!
What a remarkable woman. So ahead of her time. She was part feminist, part pacifist. Unbelievable that she knew her work was her life at such a young age. Many more should take note. I am 40 and I have chosen not to have children, simply because I don't want them. However in the 1930's and 1940's, this was almost unheard of. Putting a career before children? Wow.
Why is it that Bette and Katherine Hepburn, and a few other older Hollywood actresses had so much fervor and absolute clarity on who they were and wanted out of life?! So many actors today don’t have 1/8th the perspective? Was it the times and struggles back then that they had to bulldoze through? Or just were born with those genes? I think a combination of both. I would love to be around them and just listen to their wisdom. I think Jane Fonda and Goldie Hawn have it too, Cher says some pretty kool things too. I guess it comes with experience? So, the younger ones just need some more seasoning till they have strong views and r their own person? What’s the formula? Had she gone the child route, there’s no guarantees with kids. U never know how fulfilling it could be? My friends kids are so spoiled and difficult to handle, well the oldest of her 3 kids is. She’s drained by her demands. And my friend is a strong person, but her kid still gets her way. I’m not sure Bette did it wrong like some ppl think? Some think she should have chosen kids over acting? It is what it is. There r enough ppl who went the kids route and put themselves aside to allow others to fulfill their dreams instead. The world is over populated. Nothing wrong with choosing ur career, yet she still had kids anyway. One biological. I think Bette was under appreciated. I think she was so much more than meets the eye. I wish others got to know her more. I think she had so much to give. 🌝🌼🙏
I don't think the "work" statement is too far off. Bette, before any other person - perhaps, before even herself, loved acting. It completed her and it was here she felt the most alive and vibrant. In her line of work, she didn't have to depend, necessarily, on someone else. So in essence - she is saying you can't depend on others to make you happy; only loving yourself can truly make one feel at peace.
Come to think of it, I really don't think there's been anyone after Bette Davis who could measure up to that kind of acting. I'm also talking about Katharine Hepburn too, among other actresses of Hollywood's past. They had an extraordinary knack for acting. I mean these days, all you see is comedy, fantasy and action movies (in 3D). There's been some good drama movies. But I feel like nothing from the contemporary era measures up to the classical era (the "Golden Age" of Hollywood).
Yes and I find that quite horrid that she refers to it so casually. Not ONE but TWO abortions!!!!! .... which were simply inconvenient for her stellar career. These Hollywood actors have no shame and no moral compass. I don't care who it is, but terminating another life just because it's inconvenient for you to have that child (even though she was a well off, privileged white actress who knew what she was getting herself into) is shameful and morally bankrupt. It doesn't matter what feminist tropes you play out or position here, facts are facts and can't be twisted timo suits personal agendas. People should think about that before they go to bed with others. To have one abortion is shameful. But to have two, is criminal.
You're right. I believe Bette Davis was trying to wear something for the country and cover up as much as she could because of age. I also think that Davis had giving up trying to put on a glamourous look. In her last years she would put on corky outfits with buttons all over. Not classy and glamourous, but diferent and unique.
She was relaxed and this interview is done at home. Davis was never into Hollywood glamour, and initially resisted the studio's efforts to glamorize her. Perhaps you're just to young to remember the fashion of the late 70's, but in any event, there is nothing extraordinary about her outfit. She was an elderly lady by this point.
Sorry, but even less commercials, a "60 Minutes" segment (except for Andy Rooney & "Point/Counterpoint") should be more than four minutes and twenty-two seconds (4:22). Is there another part to this yet to be uploaded, or will this be all, just an edited version? If the latter, is the complete episode available for purchase from CBS News?
Wow: 1) If one didn't know better, he or she would think that Mike Wallace was his son Chris! 2) Bette Davis looked like Rue McClanahan in her final years.
@surearrow I have no idea why you think she was horrid and shallow. She was straightforward and honest and by far one of the greatest, if not THE greatest actress of all time!
@catguy00 I totally agree, she did reject the morals of the past with regards to sexual freedom and that I guess is what makes most fans of Bette Davis love her. How she didn't try to fit in, but she tried to be unique and do it her way instead.
Wow, how honest of Bette to confess to having 2 abortions on 60 Minutes. In her book,"This N That" she wrote that on her last film she contacted Kim Carnes who sang the song,"Bette Davis Eyes" and asked for T-shirts from her concert to give to the cast & crew.
This was the interview well her son and notorious daughter B.D. sings her praises. One of the many examples of the opposite of the lies she tells to this day.
@wiccan4 The cancer didn't come until 1983. She did always wear hats. But she also did have thin hair. So it could be she just decided to wear a hat, or maybe her hair really was thin. But she didn't have cancer yet.
Adoption in the USA has bee made so difficult and so costly and nearly impossible. the restrictions and criteria for adoption in the USA is so prohibitive. My friend finally had to go to China to adopt a little girl and bring her back here. The little girl has graduated from college and is very successful. What a wonderful life she has thanks to the chayotic system we have here in the US. My friend is a career woman, plenty of money, a good background and she still was not eligible.
Ron B when people chain smoke, they are self medicating internal psychological pain. It's as simple as that. Her abortions would've weighed heavily on her regardless of the libertine attitude she espouses in the interview, as if these 2 unborn children would've been such an intrusion into her fame-seeking. This was clearly a woman in pain: people always say how "honest" she was. But was she? Is that true? Was she honest or just acting "honest." Bette, like all egoists, is a mistress of manipulation and a liar. A fun fabulous liar, but still a liar! If you listen closely you will witness that she undoes herself. She is conflicted about morality, clearly because on one hand she says she loves the moral code of "today" and how she wishes she was born in today's generation and in other interviews rails against nudity on screen and sex scenes and stripping. It's hypocritical. She attempts to straddle both moral codes. The only thing I can say here is that in Bette's defence, she probably believes her own lies and so for her , she is speaking the Truth. But there is no doubt that the abortion revelations are very telling about her inner life. She was either very honest or very immoral and careless. Or both.
Is this the woman who has inspired "Bette Davis Eyes"? Pretty sure of herself and a very strong character supported by years of experience of life. I like her, has a mind of her own and thinks, really important to think for yourself and to have basis and fundamented opinion of the world around you. Hate empty headed fools that go with the crowd and like because they like and hate just because they hate, a better world must be made of individuals that think for themselves...
Bette Davis was a wonderful gift to the world and i am glad that i can watch her movies for life!!
Amen
She was so honest about marriages and abortion. This talk is not easy even today.
Such a frank, unassuming and intelligent woman. Still had those wonderful eyes....
RIP You are missed.
I too love Bette Davis, may her soul RIP forevermore.
This interview was done exactly 33 years ago today. Miss your elegance and grace Bette. RIP
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She was so kind to me I first met her when I was 18 and had a great friendship with her I was a nobody but she treated me like a friend. I miss her so much. It was a great privilege to have known you. God bless you my darling. Xx
@@joao-paulo-santos2 Dude I wrote that 7 years ago
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Bette will forever remain my all time favorite actress. Ones like here just don't come around that often.
God bless you Bette!
Wish the whole interview had been posted!!
She's a joy to listen to.
Bette Davis - I do agree - "Work is the one thing that won't disappoint you!" She felt relationships cannot bring you what you want but work does. Boy - do I believe her! It's what made me the happiest when I was working. Thank you for clarifying this to everyone.
I don't think there will ever be anther Betty Davis what a great lady she was every true full and honest also a great actress
Just 1 more thing. I met Bette Davis in 1987 when i was 16 years old at a book signing. You will be happy to know she was very nice
God, what a force she was.
Some people are being really harsh. Consider she was the breadwinner for her mother and sister for years. Their father dumped them when they were young. Her mother had sacrificed to get them the best education she could, promoted their interests. She was probably emotionally immature, living in that bubble. She probably lost faith in her husband after giving up that chance at motherhood.
Amen
Bette - despite it all was a "strong" woman and had to be. I marveled at her appeal as an actress and what she had to do to survive the Hollywood Circus!
She can do no wrong in my eyes ....
Bette's WORK was exceptional-- anything else is NOT subject to others' approval. She was a wise, talented, feisty, determined woman. I loved her personality.
Always enjoy her interviews.
I don't know much about her but I really like her attitude and views of life.. still now... in 2010, her words and views are current... very strong woman.
She will *nevah* be replaced by anyone ever
Kirk Barkley
How come u didn’t spell “ever”, evah?! Lol!
Bette is a freakin legend!!!
They just don't make 'em like this anymore, what a legend!
I love Bette she is my total idol!thanks for posting!
She was nothing short of amazing not only as an actress, but as a person as well.
WOW! She is just ... WOW! Every single thing she said in this interview was amazing. It was only 4 mins long, but i LOVE her philosophy and outlook on things. This, to me, makes her even more beautiful at 71 than she was in her Hollywood years. I
MARVELOUS! I adore her so much. The best ever! ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS! Thank you for posting. She's just so divine.
Her cigarette was her caricature, it was part of her iconic presence. Of course it is always sad when such a powerful, strong person meets demise, but to imagine Bette Davis without her cigarette would be like Bugs Bunny not having a carrot, or Fred Astaire with no dancing shoes.
Bette was right. We are born alone and we die alone.
We also live alone.
@@jaywolf4183 Aye.
Exactly
Amen!
We are born alone? Then why do we have parents who is helping being born
I love her attitude!!!
Bette Davis was not just in a league of her own,she was the league of them all. Meryl Streep today is by far the best living actress ,but Bette Davis is the best ever actress of all time..and that is that. PERIOD.
@MissGarland18 ~ I'm a young actress and I try to gather all the advice I can from the greats like Bette. They were so full of wisdom and life experience.
She was so real.
Listening to you talk in this particular interview, Bette, you prove that it takes all kinds.
Ms Davis had a fascination for hats and this one is on point fashion of that day. Great interview.
In time even great actors are forgotten or forsaken in memory. But there are some actors who's star power and unique lives, and their contributions to art, help to sustain their memory. Bette Davis is one of those film and stage actors that transcended the conventional and we are still marveling her in 2010.
Bette was always so proud of her New England ("Yankee, good stock," she'd say) heritage, having been raised in Lowell & Newton, Massachusetts. It's one reason she originally raised her kids on the East coast, didn't want them becoming spoiled, Hollywood brats.
She was a real pistol, and, as with missing Lucille Ball, the world's not been quite the same place without her.
I loved the film Jezebel so much
All About Eve is my favorite Bette Davis movie! She was absolutely phenomenal! She's truly an acting legend and she's an inspiration to me.
Oh how much I love you Bette Davis
Look at this beautiful cinematography my father shot of Bette Davis! He told me she had no AC so he made her happy and used buckets of ice and a fan to keep her cool! I remember watching this episode with my Dad! The phone always rang in our home after a great story like this. This is a portion of it. I just love how he zoomed in on her when she dragged her cigarette, my dad was so opposed to smoking. Lol.
Interesting
She seems so honest. We miss you Betty Davis. We need more like you in sinnlywood.
Like this great actress I too had 2 abortions as a married woman & mother to my son, I don't regret doing it, but I do regret having to have been in that situation regardless of how it happened. My husband & I have moved on & we continue to have a very happy & loving relationship in a wonderful family, we got past it, too bad others cannot.
What a great video! Thanks so much for sharing!
So right .. love your job ..that's the least disappointing thing u can have .. and it's the best relationship one ever posses as compared to human relationships
Only a true artist could have performed as well as she did in All About Eve.
existential It's to picture anyone else playing Margo Channing. Davis was just perfect for that role.
Everyone always talks about how great she was in All About Eve, but it was far from her finest performance. Margo Channing and Baby Jane Hudson are certainly her flashiest roles, where she gets to shout, cry, bellow and generally chew the scenery to a shameless degree. Any third-rate actress can do that. Her finest performance is a tie between two roles: Charlotte Vale in Now, Voyager, and Regina Giddens in The Little Foxes. As Charlotte, her emotional responses to her mother, her doctor, her lover and her adopted daughter are all recognisably from the same character, but there are subtle gradations of vocal tone and body language depending on which person she is talking to. A great deal of her performance as Charlotte depends on her eyes. Before her transformation, as fat, neurotic Aunt Charlotte, her spectacles magnify her eyes, giving her an owlish, quizzical, overly anxious appearance. Then, as 'Camille Beauchamps', her frequent wearing of large-brimmed hats hides her eyes and makes her mysterious: she is not yet ready to reveal her unaccustomed beauty. Finally, after her mother's death, her eyes are compassionate and understanding, both with her lover Jerry Durrance and his daughter Tina. This is a finely shaded, marvelously subtle performance, perhaps her finest on film. As Regina Giddens, by contrast, her eyes and mouth are minimised by the rice-flour, quasi-Kabuki makeup she affects, which gives her a frightening, murderous appearance. Her emotions are tightly controlled, as rigid as the corsets she is obviously wearing beneath her postbellum Southern gowns. The scene in which she *SPOILER ALERT* watches impassively while her husband suffers a fatal heart attack is a masterpiece of cool restraint wedded to smoldering, inner intensity. This is my favorite performance of hers. Compared to these renditions, her Margo Channing is uninteresting, an uneasy mix of the worst tics of Bette Davis and Tallulah Bankhead that is loud, unsubtle and ultimately forgettable.
The way she smokes her cigarette. I love her so much such a staunch lady she was
Love her so much. She looks a lot like my Grandmother.....Bette and Phyllis Diller hehe!
Great interview. 5 ***** Tks for posting!
Old Hollywood made a millions off of female stars. She stuck up for herself and knew what she was worth. Love her.
How amazing is this woman...?
i think it is pretty sad, to have to feel, that work is more important to us, than human relationships. i think, work gratified her, and people disappointed her. in work, one strives to create the best, in human relationships, the variable is more unstable...for her...i guess.
But she was an artist...and for her work means art. And for any artist, the art is as important as anything. Doubtful she'd say that if she'd been a secretary.
I just realized her and Joan Crawford were both Aries strong bold women
omg. what an awesome woman. I love her.
The best actress off all time - R.I.P dear Bette
I loved this woman. She was the epitome of class. You can't buy class, you have to be born with it.
Ironic, we have so many, more entities--electronic, print and Internet--devoted to celebrities now than ever before. And yet there are so few, real "stars" left on earth anymore--they're all gone to the heavens.
Bette may be gone to the heavens now, but when she was here she certainly raised some hell!
I love how she talks
Bette was 24 NOT 26 when she married Ham. Bette was born in 1908 & they married in 1932
How sad to give up the love of your own child to a career. The kiss and hug of your own child, a little piece of you in your arms, I don't believe a career is worth more than a life that you bring into this world. But that's HOLLYWOOD FOR YOU!
Bette Davis, the Empress of Hollywood. Will always 🖤
What a woman! So feisty, even in old age
What a remarkable woman. So ahead of her time. She was part feminist, part pacifist. Unbelievable that she knew her work was her life at such a young age. Many more should take note. I am 40 and I have chosen not to have children, simply because I don't want them. However in the 1930's and 1940's, this was almost unheard of. Putting a career before children? Wow.
Bette Davis was always herself and I could never imagine her any other way! kudos to Bette!
I love Bette Davis!!!
Why is it that Bette and Katherine Hepburn, and a few other older Hollywood actresses had so much fervor and absolute clarity on who they were and wanted out of life?! So many actors today don’t have 1/8th the perspective?
Was it the times and struggles back then that they had to bulldoze through? Or just were born with those genes? I think a combination of both. I would love to be around them and just listen to their wisdom. I think Jane Fonda and Goldie Hawn have it too, Cher says some pretty kool things too. I guess it comes with experience? So, the younger ones just need some more seasoning till they have strong views and r their own person? What’s the formula? Had she gone the child route, there’s no guarantees with kids. U never know how fulfilling it could be? My friends kids are so spoiled and difficult to handle, well the oldest of her 3 kids is. She’s drained by her demands. And my friend is a strong person, but her kid still gets her way. I’m not sure Bette did it wrong like some ppl think? Some think she should have chosen kids over acting? It is what it is. There r enough ppl who went the kids route and put themselves aside to allow others to fulfill their dreams instead. The world is over populated. Nothing wrong with choosing ur career, yet she still had kids anyway. One biological.
I think Bette was under appreciated. I think she was so much more than meets the eye. I wish others got to know her more. I think she had so much to give. 🌝🌼🙏
Besides her smoking when she is not supposed to,she was an amazing woman.
Such a class act!
Her television career was booming at the time of this interview. She had won a best actress Emmy award two years earlier.
You are right. And in just about every one of her movies She's chaining those smokes, along with her love interests.
I love how she French inhaled!
I don't think the "work" statement is too far off. Bette, before any other person - perhaps, before even herself, loved acting. It completed her and it was here she felt the most alive and vibrant. In her line of work, she didn't have to depend, necessarily, on someone else. So in essence - she is saying you can't depend on others to make you happy; only loving yourself can truly make one feel at peace.
love Bette .💖💖💖😀😀😀
3:16-3:19 French inhale. What a badass
How can one not fall in love with an Aries woman? Such headstrong with a masculine arrogant quality to them.
Come to think of it, I really don't think there's been anyone after Bette Davis who could measure up to that kind of acting. I'm also talking about Katharine Hepburn too, among other actresses of Hollywood's past. They had an extraordinary knack for acting. I mean these days, all you see is comedy, fantasy and action movies (in 3D). There's been some good drama movies. But I feel like nothing from the contemporary era measures up to the classical era (the "Golden Age" of Hollywood).
Where's the entire video? I want to see the whole video.
This is very enlightening, I never knew she had 2 abortions from her first marriage. Amazing lady and greatly missed.
Yes and I find that quite horrid that she refers to it so casually. Not ONE but TWO abortions!!!!! .... which were simply inconvenient for her stellar career. These Hollywood actors have no shame and no moral compass. I don't care who it is, but terminating another life just because it's inconvenient for you to have that child (even though she was a well off, privileged white actress who knew what she was getting herself into) is shameful and morally bankrupt. It doesn't matter what feminist tropes you play out or position here, facts are facts and can't be twisted timo suits personal agendas. People should think about that before they go to bed with others. To have one abortion is shameful. But to have two, is criminal.
Bette Davis would have made a terrific high school teacher!
No one would have skipped her classes.
Such a great choice to depict the 5th Warner!! Kate would be perfect! LOve her as well as Bette Davis!! Bet she'd smile at that one!!
Amazing and beautiful woman spiritually and physically. They don’t make them like this anymore❤️loved her .
I love Bette Davis more than anything, but I have to ask.. what the hell was she wearing?!
You're right. I believe Bette Davis was trying to wear something for the country and cover up as much as she could because of age. I also think that Davis had giving up trying to put on a glamourous look. In her last years she would put on corky outfits with buttons all over. Not classy and glamourous, but diferent and unique.
She was relaxed and this interview is done at home. Davis was never into Hollywood glamour, and initially resisted the studio's efforts to glamorize her. Perhaps you're just to young to remember the fashion of the late 70's, but in any event, there is nothing extraordinary about her outfit. She was an elderly lady by this point.
It was the 70-80’s
Shes going horse riding dear lol
Maybe she's got curlers under the hat and scarf?
@darrylhaynes Love the way she delivers that line....so cool.
Sorry, but even less commercials, a "60 Minutes" segment (except for Andy Rooney & "Point/Counterpoint") should be more than four minutes and twenty-two seconds (4:22).
Is there another part to this yet to be uploaded, or will this be all, just an edited version?
If the latter, is the complete episode available for purchase from CBS News?
"Two!"
Wow:
1) If one didn't know better, he or she would think that Mike Wallace was his son Chris!
2) Bette Davis looked like Rue McClanahan in her final years.
@surearrow I have no idea why you think she was horrid and shallow. She was straightforward and honest and by far one of the greatest, if not THE greatest actress of all time!
TY for sharing :)
@catguy00 I totally agree, she did reject the morals of the past with regards to sexual freedom and that I guess is what makes most fans of Bette Davis love her. How she didn't try to fit in, but she tried to be unique and do it her way instead.
such a fascinating woman.
All you people that are so against abortion, how many of you are in favour of modern day warfare???
Wow, how honest of Bette to confess to having 2 abortions on 60 Minutes. In her book,"This N That" she wrote that on her last film she contacted Kim Carnes who sang the song,"Bette Davis Eyes" and asked for T-shirts from her concert to give to the cast & crew.
A green cap ontop of a white scarf folded into a sort of snood....very creative & very pre gangsta. Bette loved off beat head gear.
If any other women said the things this woman just said they wouldn't be held so highly...American society is so hypocritical
This was the interview well her son and notorious daughter B.D. sings her praises. One of the many examples of the opposite of the lies she tells to this day.
she's got Bette Davis eyes 🎶
Wow! Bette was a PISTOL! I LOVE her! This is the first time I've seen her speaking candidly! She was something.
@wiccan4 The cancer didn't come until 1983. She did always wear hats. But she also did have thin hair. So it could be she just decided to wear a hat, or maybe her hair really was thin. But she didn't have cancer yet.
either way she was lucky to make it to 81
He won't let her finish her answers.
i want to see the rest of the interview..
@MissGarland18 ~ Thank you very much! :)
Adoption in the USA has bee made so difficult and so costly and nearly impossible. the restrictions and criteria for adoption in the USA is so prohibitive. My friend finally had to go to China to adopt a little girl and bring her back here. The little girl has graduated from college and is very successful. What a wonderful life she has thanks to the chayotic system we have here in the US. My friend is a career woman, plenty of money, a good background and she still was not eligible.
I can tell that the abortion issue that her husband begged her to have caused a lot of turmoil deep inside.
Ron B when people chain smoke, they are self medicating internal psychological pain. It's as simple as that. Her abortions would've weighed heavily on her regardless of the libertine attitude she espouses in the interview, as if these 2 unborn children would've been such an intrusion into her fame-seeking. This was clearly a woman in pain: people always say how "honest" she was. But was she? Is that true? Was she honest or just acting "honest." Bette, like all egoists, is a mistress of manipulation and a liar. A fun fabulous liar, but still a liar! If you listen closely you will witness that she undoes herself. She is conflicted about morality, clearly because on one hand she says she loves the moral code of "today" and how she wishes she was born in today's generation and in other interviews rails against nudity on screen and sex scenes and stripping. It's hypocritical. She attempts to straddle both moral codes. The only thing I can say here is that in Bette's defence, she probably believes her own lies and so for her , she is speaking the Truth. But there is no doubt that the abortion revelations are very telling about her inner life. She was either very honest or very immoral and careless. Or both.
Is this the woman who has inspired "Bette Davis Eyes"?
Pretty sure of herself and a very strong character supported by years of experience of life. I like her, has a mind of her own and thinks, really important to think for yourself and to have basis and fundamented opinion of the world around you. Hate empty headed fools that go with the crowd and like because they like and hate just because they hate, a better world must be made of individuals that think for themselves...
LMAO 😂 that hat Elmer Fud "where's that pesky wabbit"