Great show! I would love to see on here the 1971 show with Phil Silvers and Pauline Tabor! That was an amazing one! Thanks for allowing us all the privilege of seeing these great episodes!
Love how Bette refers to everyone in her profession with their titular forms of address of Mr or Miss or Mrs. It’s so gallantly professional and really sets the actor or actress apart from being a mere chum or acquaintance. It’s almost medieval, I love it. Imagine actors doing that now? The only place that kind of reverence has been reserved for these days is in the world of high fashion or haute couture where fashion designers are still referred to by their staff as Mrs Prada, Monsieur Saint Laurent, Madamemoiselle Chanel and so on. These courtly forms of address have been all but lost and really do set professional artists and artistes apart from the hoi poloi. Bring it all back!!!
Bette used her cigarettes, her handbag, her jewellery, her gloves and her hair as props. What was she unwrapping in this interview? Candy? Cigarettes? She was a fabulous mannerist. She couldn’t sit still. She had terrific nervous energy, which is what gave her performances in motion pictures such character and uniqueness.
Bette seemed so much more modern compared to Peggy Wood. Peggy (born in 1892) was 16 years older than Bette (born in 1908), yet Bette seems like she’s from another era, and even dressed in a more modern way. She also had more libertarian morals and manners, speaking about sex and marriage in ways you can see Wood held back from. Bette was kind of hip at any age. She was sassy. Look at Peggy’s Edwardian hairstyle and pearls compared to Davis’s strict, black, cinematic minimalist modern (Balenciaga’esque) style! It’s quite a study in generational style changes. Cavett’s boyish and rakish interlocutions and witticisms add a kind of 70s hipster comedic flair to the set, and makes for quite a moment in TV history.
Bette really was the greatest champion of cinema. She’s very candid. In an age when actors all pretend snobbishly that they love and prefer theatre more than cinema, and that somehow cinema is a poor cousin to motion pictures, Bette is completely honest in her love and championing of cinema. She was completely modern and way ahead of her time in that way.
Any chance you can have your UA-cam channel dig out late December 29th 1969 interview with Robert Shaw and Woody Allen? I’d be interested to see who they interacted together. Best wishes
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Watch Part 1 of this rare and legendary interview, here! ua-cam.com/video/K7mr4evjlHc/v-deo.html
Great show! I would love to see on here the 1971 show with Phil Silvers and Pauline Tabor! That was an amazing one! Thanks for allowing us all the privilege of seeing these great episodes!
Loved the English rat story 😅
Love how Bette refers to everyone in her profession with their titular forms of address of Mr or Miss or Mrs. It’s so gallantly professional and really sets the actor or actress apart from being a mere chum or acquaintance. It’s almost medieval, I love it. Imagine actors doing that now? The only place that kind of reverence has been reserved for these days is in the world of high fashion or haute couture where fashion designers are still referred to by their staff as Mrs Prada, Monsieur Saint Laurent, Madamemoiselle Chanel and so on. These courtly forms of address have been all but lost and really do set professional artists and artistes apart from the hoi poloi. Bring it all back!!!
Yes, I love that about her.
Two ladies, they don't make them like that anymore!
Bette used her cigarettes, her handbag, her jewellery, her gloves and her hair as props. What was she unwrapping in this interview? Candy? Cigarettes? She was a fabulous mannerist. She couldn’t sit still. She had terrific nervous energy, which is what gave her performances in motion pictures such character and uniqueness.
Did Peggy say Don't set yourself afire? when Bette lit the cigarette. She made me roar.
My God Cavett was one of if not thee most boring person ever on TV. Well maybe Michael Landon but Cavett has zero personality, talent.
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Mother Abbess, from "The Sound Of Music"! I really need to see more Peggy Wood films.
There aren't many
@@diegoandres2906yes I don’t remember many of her films at all.
Bette seemed so much more modern compared to Peggy Wood. Peggy (born in 1892) was 16 years older than Bette (born in 1908), yet Bette seems like she’s from another era, and even dressed in a more modern way. She also had more libertarian morals and manners, speaking about sex and marriage in ways you can see Wood held back from. Bette was kind of hip at any age. She was sassy. Look at Peggy’s Edwardian hairstyle and pearls compared to Davis’s strict, black, cinematic minimalist modern (Balenciaga’esque) style! It’s quite a study in generational style changes. Cavett’s boyish and rakish interlocutions and witticisms add a kind of 70s hipster comedic flair to the set, and makes for quite a moment in TV history.
W😅oooooo part 2
Bette really was the greatest champion of cinema. She’s very candid. In an age when actors all pretend snobbishly that they love and prefer theatre more than cinema, and that somehow cinema is a poor cousin to motion pictures, Bette is completely honest in her love and championing of cinema. She was completely modern and way ahead of her time in that way.
Any chance you can have your UA-cam channel dig out late
December 29th 1969 interview with Robert Shaw and Woody Allen? I’d be interested to see who they interacted together. Best wishes