Bette Davis....probably hands down the best performer who ever existed......notice how effective her reactions are, she doesn't even have to be talking but you know exactly what her feeling is. Amazing.
This is a slick 25 minute drama that nowadays would be padded out to 2 hours fifteen minutes and would be none the better for it. Everything here is established instantly and perfectly - location, character, backstory, suspense, plot twists. Totally efficient, enjoyable and fully dramatic. It was TV but no one was slumming it or doing it half heartedly, it's a great little piece.
..... and the black n white cinematography. I'm guessing she was wearing Coco Chantal. Edith Head did her gown for All about Eve. I just read "Miss D & Me". Every Bette Davis fan should read it. Her last words and wishes are bittersweet.
Bette Davis was my favorite since l was a very young age now lam 73 years young. I could not wait to see her movies. She was my number ONE. Every movie she did l could not get enough of her only she could do her movies she had a different way of walking l saw one of her movies that she was like 18 or 20 years old. Only one Betty Davis.
I lost it when she was out on the ledge. How unnerving. Bette Davis was the greatest actress who ever lived. 25 minutes of sheer suspense. Bravo, Bette ❤️
High heels on the croncrete ledge 20 stories up!! 😅 Her masterful, full throttle performance, as always, captivating. I love watching her. I could marathon shorts and movies with Bette Davis all day and all night.
love the way bette is so precise with words 'i must see him tonight' 'i must talk to him', 'well surely he would have come back to tell me'.....makes a change from slang, swearing etc....ohh for the good old days!
So glad to have been introduced to Better this way, I’ve seen a couple of her films but these shorts give me good impression of how talented she was and give me an appreciation of her talents
Bette Davis wisely moved into television when her movie career cooled down. And then along came a little movie called “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”, putting her picture career back in gear.
LOL. Only Bette Davis could make an incoherent, illogical melodrama like this work! Bravo! And I know it's wrong, but I loved "Dr. Smith," hamming it up too. Thanks for posting!
I knew that he was involved but I didn’t know she knew. Great twist. Betty always delivers a performance that is natural and at the same time there’s that energy of the expression of her being that entertains you.
Don’t you wish that the great Bette Davis did audiobooks? Can you imagine her reading “The Godfather”? Or the classic “Wuthering Heights”? A good children’s fairytale, Hansel and Gretel. That would’ve been something! But then again, just to hear Bette Davis read names and numbers from a phone book would’ve been an event.
That was smashing! I am impressed with this piece. Davis and did some smashing acting in the 50s on television. Thank you for posting. I wish we had pieces like this on television these days.
Yes she did! I miss this quality of actors. It seems many of the shows from the 70's and some of the 80's had some of the best story lives. The camera work was wonderful!
... for all of those who are giving negative comments about an actor from the Bronx (Jonathan Harris) playing a Chinese, can’t you understand that it hasn’t been 2020 forever. And quit saying that there was racism in films ... blah blah blah. It’s called acting. It’s an industry that’s different from any other. It is an art form that is different from all the others and different from regular every day professions and work. It’s make-believe! Not only that, it’s only been within the relative past 100 or 200 years that women have been allowed and accepted to play theatrical performances as a given. Look it up! Women’s roles in ancient Greece and in Japan and even in England were performed by men. Not only that, it’s only been the past 100 or so years that to be in the theater was an unsavory career, especially for a woman. Actors and actresses had the worst reputations, and this was for the United States and Europe, although I think Europe was a bit more broad minded about the acting profession. I wish that all you people who want to clean up yesterday’s cultures using your 21st century high moral grounds had a sense of history. By the way, I think a lot of us enjoyed Jonathan Harris‘s performance. For pity’s sake, it’s a 30 minute television episode. And it reflects the time in which it was made ... and I’m happy to see Bette Davis give another good performance. Because 300 years ago, she wouldn’t have been allowed a theatrical performance. Accept history on its own terms. It is your own time of living that you can rail against and work for change.
The telephone operator is Lisa Lu who appeared in Crazy Rich Asians as Ah Ma - 60 years later!! Aki Aleong who plays the police assistant is also still acting!
Yes! And the hotel bell person/messenger is veteran TV/movie/voice actor, James Hong! Met him at a coffee shop in SF in the 1980's when they were filming the Golden Child (w/Eddie Murphy). Unfortunately, that movie was a flop, but James has always been one of my fav character actors...and a very nice guy!
Fabulous ,at her usual best . Glad for UA-cam to have these on as including myself had little if any Knowlodge that many the biggest movie stars did some these half hr series for tv . Work is work no matter what one does ! But seen Crawford , Allyson , since in these .
That's Dr Smith from Lost in Space playing Hong Kong Sam. This was presented by General Electric Theater. In the 1950s and 1960s there were a lot of anthology series on the air with great casting and scripts.
I just found your channel. I love Bette Davis. My favorite movie was Of Human Bondage. Thank you for uploading these movies. I intend to watch all her movies.
1. Nice to see BD looking glam. 2. She had a very masculine way of smoking. 3. Shades of her very best movie, "The Letter." 4. Bette's character has got GUTS. 5. What a WEIRD little story. Very cool.
It's not the same actor. This is Aki Aleong. The actor in The Letter was Victor Sen Yung. The Letter was made 18 years before this TV drama. There's an almost 20 year age difference between the two men.
.... I read somewhere that Bette Davis purposely used the cigarette as a prop, as part of her character and part of her performance. Someone could do a compilation of Bette Davis smoking and I would watch it!
Forrest Tucker and Bette Davis. Not a smidgeon of chemistry. And Davis - a caricature of herself. Still, campy and suspenseful as far as 30 minutes will take you and fun to watch. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Most excellent early TV - nothing like this today, sadly. Thanks for sharing this suspense gem, especially with "Dr Smith" from Lost In Space as the Chinese "detective"!
🏆 JONATHAN HARRIS (Dr. Smith from LOST IN SPACE) Great as Chinese Man Hong Kong Sam... BETTE and JONATHAN together years before he became famous on tv having a good time hamming it up ... Another classic piece of television 📺
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Bette Davis....probably hands down the best performer who ever existed......notice how effective her reactions are, she doesn't even have to be talking but you know exactly what her feeling is. Amazing.
I don't agree at all. She is a very good actress, but just too overwrought. Like Crawford. Just too much.
@@MisterSplendy Ohhhh....when the story requires an overwrought character she's the best IMO.
Every one of these short movies is a precious gem. We can only admire them while we have them.
"There are no bullets in that gun Frank". That is a superb ending.
Indubidubly 🙂
Only Bette Davis can pull off holding a gun in one hand, her purse in the other and look totally plausible! Thanks for this entertaining little gem!
also climb on 8 story ledge in high heals
if she had a cigarette hanging from her bottom lip at the same time it would not have surprised me.
@@beverlylawyer2286 while smoking a cigarette
Lol. True
This is a slick 25 minute drama that nowadays would be padded out to 2 hours fifteen minutes and would be none the better for it. Everything here is established instantly and perfectly - location, character, backstory, suspense, plot twists. Totally efficient, enjoyable and fully dramatic. It was TV but no one was slumming it or doing it half heartedly, it's a great little piece.
..... and the black n white cinematography. I'm guessing she was wearing Coco Chantal. Edith Head did her gown for All about Eve. I just read "Miss D & Me". Every Bette Davis fan should read it. Her last words and wishes are bittersweet.
Well said 👍
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I think that you meant “Coco Chanel”.
tom the whiner
Bette Davis was my favorite since l was a very young age now lam 73 years young. I could not wait to see her movies. She was my number ONE. Every movie she did l could not get enough of her only she could do her movies she had a different way of walking l saw one of her movies that she was like 18 or 20 years old. Only one Betty Davis.
I lost it when she was out on the ledge. How unnerving. Bette Davis was the greatest actress who ever lived. 25 minutes of sheer suspense. Bravo, Bette ❤️
And she took her handbag, and did it in heels, what a gal!
@@tasscatThat made it even more unrealistic
TWENTY FIVE MINUTES and I went through an entire gamut of emotions and a complete surprise at the end.
Betty Davis commands the stage... Either you have it or you don't and Betty Davis created it!!!
Loved it! Much better than current tv shows!
Great one! Very Alfred Hitchcock. Bette Davis, as always, was the best.
High heels on the croncrete ledge 20 stories up!! 😅 Her masterful, full throttle performance, as always, captivating. I love watching her. I could marathon shorts and movies with Bette Davis all day and all night.
Has all the powerful of a full length movie but takes only 25 minutes to watch! Fits perfectly into my day.
love the way bette is so precise with words 'i must see him tonight' 'i must talk to him', 'well surely he would have come back to tell me'.....makes a change from slang, swearing etc....ohh for the good old days!
Its that new england background of hers!
Being a stage actress first helped her.
Indubitably ! Her diction was impeccable !
So glad to have been introduced to Better this way, I’ve seen a couple of her films but these shorts give me good impression of how talented she was and give me an appreciation of her talents
Love seeing these classic shows and Bette Davis is wonderful!!
Lots of twists and turns by way of plot. Top notch acting and not a wasted second. Nice to see Mr Harris from lost in Space in support
his makeup was a mess lol
Better than what's on tv now.
Amen!
Way
I certainly have a notion to second that emotion !! :-)
It doesn't take much at all to surpass the junk produced today.
It would be an ideal society if we have today’s modern technology along with the old days’ decorum.
Only if accompanied with compassion, moral values, personal accountability and integrity.
@@Fred-mp1vf ... I'm sure they had most of those back then. Especially moral values and compassion and kindness. Something that people today lack.
Bette Davis was one fine actress. ❤
Bette Davis wisely moved into television when her movie career cooled down. And then along came a little movie called “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?”, putting her picture career back in gear.
Baby Jane is one of my favourites!
Another Masterful Work by the Incomparable Bette Davis. Thank you for posting this.
The frantic chase for an elusive husband, takes many forms. You can feel her panic and confusion.
wow Bette Davis was just a brilliant actor.
Great acting, but wow!...an even better well written story/ plot. What a surprise ending to this great crime mystery. Thank you.
So glad to finally see some of the pilots she shot. No matter how big she was she remained in love with the work!
Of course...these were the years when she HAD to take this work since the studios were being shady to her.
Yes ! She was a real pro ! Gave her best, whether it was a film, a stage performance, a TV program or a radio show ! :-)
What pilots ? This is avstand alone tv drama... there was no intention yof making a series after this.. stop
What pilots ? This is a stand alone tv drama... there was no intention of making a series after this.. stop
I think they say TV is a cool medium, and Bette had 'hot', big screen energy. But I love seeing these shows. Thank you so much!-
Excellent screenplay and acting all around...but especially Bette Davis. She was a real Gem!
She was extraordinary!
Bette Davis showing how it’s done on the big screen and TV. Boom!!!!
LOL. Only Bette Davis could make an incoherent, illogical melodrama like this work! Bravo! And I know it's wrong, but I loved "Dr. Smith," hamming it up too. Thanks for posting!
If course, I knew I'd seen him before, thanks, trying to remember was driving me mad!
Actress for excellence for me
I knew that he was involved but I didn’t know she knew. Great twist. Betty always delivers a performance that is natural and at the same time there’s that energy of the expression of her being that entertains you.
Don’t you wish that the great Bette Davis did audiobooks? Can you imagine her reading “The Godfather”? Or the classic “Wuthering Heights”? A good children’s fairytale, Hansel and Gretel. That would’ve been something! But then again, just to hear Bette Davis read names and numbers from a phone book would’ve been an event.
Wow, what a twist! I didn't have a clue, but how smart she was.
That was smashing! I am impressed with this piece. Davis and did some smashing acting in the 50s on television.
Thank you for posting.
I wish we had pieces like this on television these days.
we do, the kardashians
Yes she did! I miss this quality of actors. It seems many of the shows from the 70's and some of the 80's had some of the best story lives. The camera work was wonderful!
Daniel Hammond there aren’t any actors like this anymore
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... for all of those who are giving negative comments about an actor from the Bronx (Jonathan Harris) playing a Chinese, can’t you understand that it hasn’t been 2020 forever. And quit saying that there was racism in films ... blah blah blah.
It’s called acting. It’s an industry that’s different from any other. It is an art form that is different from all the others and different from regular every day professions and work. It’s make-believe! Not only that, it’s only been within the relative past 100 or 200 years that women have been allowed and accepted to play theatrical performances as a given. Look it up! Women’s roles in ancient Greece and in Japan and even in England were performed by men. Not only that, it’s only been the past 100 or so years that to be in the theater was an unsavory career, especially for a woman. Actors and actresses had the worst reputations, and this was for the United States and Europe, although I think Europe was a bit more broad minded about the acting profession.
I wish that all you people who want to clean up yesterday’s cultures using your 21st century high moral grounds had a sense of history.
By the way, I think a lot of us enjoyed Jonathan Harris‘s performance. For pity’s sake, it’s a 30 minute television episode. And it reflects the time in which it was made ... and I’m happy to see Bette Davis give another good performance. Because 300 years ago, she wouldn’t have been allowed a theatrical performance. Accept history on its own terms. It is your own time of living that you can rail against and work for change.
Magnificent comment from beginning to end. Thank you for taking the time!
The telephone operator is Lisa Lu who appeared in Crazy Rich Asians as Ah Ma - 60 years later!! Aki Aleong who plays the police assistant is also still acting!
OMG
thank tou! always nice to see another woke person in the comments😍
Yes! And the hotel bell person/messenger is veteran TV/movie/voice actor, James Hong! Met him at a coffee shop in SF in the 1980's when they were filming the Golden Child (w/Eddie Murphy). Unfortunately, that movie was a flop, but James has always been one of my fav character actors...and a very nice guy!
Brilliant. Love it! Bette🥰🤗👏🏻
I love that she really embraced doing TV
Bette is and has always been my favorite actor. Hello yes.
Great, love Betty Davis!!
Great movie, I never saw. Thank you. She was a great actresses.
She didn't have to go to extremes, to get noticed, like today's actresses.
Love Bette Davis. Thank you for uploading.
I totally agree !!
Great movie 🎥 although the download wasn’t the best it was still watchable.
That final scene! Wow!
Thank you so much for this I really enjoyed this. 🤗⚘🤗⚘🤗⚘🤗⚘
Yes, Bette!!! What an ending!!!
Never heard of the Bette Davis show but I love it Thanks
I love it when a plan comes together.
Fabulous ,at her usual best . Glad for UA-cam to have these on as including myself had little if any Knowlodge that many the biggest movie stars did some these half hr series for tv . Work is work no matter what one does ! But seen Crawford , Allyson , since in these .
Exactly. Work is work . Bette called these her 10. Dark years but she was way too critical. She did a lot of fine work. Like here .
We lost a great treasure the day this wonderful actress drew her last breath.
Great ending..just great!!! And Jonathan Harris's makeup was crazy....
Bette Davis is another actor that gives her best! Thanks 😅
Betty Davis, I didn't know she did these types of shows.
That's Dr Smith from Lost in Space playing Hong Kong Sam. This was presented by General Electric Theater. In the 1950s and 1960s there were a lot of anthology series on the air with great casting and scripts.
yes...and oh how racist of them to have him playing that part.
@@D.C.22 Racist? Don't be ridiculous!
How right you are ! Its a shame that the number of anthology shows dwindled over time. :-(
@@D.C.22 how is that racist? It's called acting.
I recognized him from his nose and eyes.
I just found your channel. I love Bette Davis. My favorite movie was Of Human Bondage. Thank you for uploading these movies. I intend to watch all her movies.
Thank you for uploading these rare television films! Muchas gracias!
I heartily concur !!
Love it!
That was really a great little movie!!!
I'm going to start saying THANK YO just like Bette. Love this stuff! Do watch "The Letter". You're welcome.
thankyou! LOOOVE Betty Davis!!
Very good!!
Bette Davis is very good in this show
The great Bette Davis! Thanks.
Classy.
Top cast. Great story.
there are no bullets in that gun, Frank. Amazing.
I love the surprise ending, great story.
TY for posting this gem.
I very much enjoyed this
Wonderful how it moves quick with not one but two finale surprises! Thanks, Alan Eicher.
Good movie 🎥👌👏👍😌🙌🎥👌👏👍😌🙌🎥👌👏👍😌🙌🎥
Is that Jonathan Harris?
Oh, the pain! The pain!!
Quite a surprise ending,Wonderful!!!!!
Loved it!! Tha k you for showing this!!!
Yes, love this davis gem!
Just great! Thanks for such a rare treat :)
Good. Can't fault Bette Davis. Good reliable performance. Direct and to the point.
scaling a wall in spiked heels - man what women is unbeatable!
I instantly recognized Jonathan Harris despite the makeup.
❤❤❤love the great actress Betty Davis
1. Nice to see BD looking glam.
2. She had a very masculine way of smoking.
3. Shades of her very best movie, "The Letter."
4. Bette's character has got GUTS.
5. What a WEIRD little story. Very cool.
I'm pretty sure the actor in the police station was in The Letter - didn't he play James Stephenson's assistant?
Certainly seemed like him! Amazing.
"The Letter " was my favorite, too.
It's not the same actor. This is Aki Aleong. The actor in The Letter was Victor Sen Yung. The Letter was made 18 years before this TV drama. There's an almost 20 year age difference between the two men.
.... I read somewhere that Bette Davis purposely used the cigarette as a prop, as part of her character and part of her performance.
Someone could do a compilation of Bette Davis smoking and I would watch it!
Excellent! Thank you
Oooo I loved this!
Forrest Tucker and Bette Davis. Not a smidgeon of chemistry. And Davis - a caricature of herself. Still, campy and suspenseful as far as 30 minutes will take you and fun to watch.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I thought they were believable as a married couple and I didn't find it at all campy. :)
I believe the man who played "Hong Kong Sam" also played Dr. Zachery Smith on "Lost in Space".
It’s the eyes😊
Jonathan Harris steals all the scenes he's in. Great episode.
Oooh! That was a good one!
Oh I loved this. Thanks for sharing
thank you, good story good actors.
TY for the uploading, brilliant little drama! :-)
We will be in the bar. Nuff said xx
Most excellent early TV - nothing like this today, sadly. Thanks for sharing this suspense gem, especially with "Dr Smith" from Lost In Space as the Chinese "detective"!
What a good show. I kinda figured out the twist at the end, but it was still good.
Betty Davis WE LOVE YOU x
🏆 JONATHAN HARRIS (Dr. Smith from LOST IN SPACE) Great as Chinese Man Hong Kong Sam... BETTE and JONATHAN together years before he became famous on tv having a good time hamming it up ... Another classic piece of television 📺
Excellent! Thanks for posting this!
Alan thanks for posting these old shows
Thank you so much! :)
That was good, whaat a twist!
Never saw Bette Davis and Forrest Tucker in anything together. How novel.
These are so good!