Bette Davis Declares Frank Capra A "Great Director"

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Bette Davis salutes Oscar-winning Director Frank Capra at the 10th AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute To Frank Capra (1982).
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@fran_1978 13 жыл бұрын

Bette Davis = the most fascinating actress / human being ever.

@scotnick59 4 жыл бұрын

She was a genius, without a doubt. Her face was better than beautiful (in say the Vivien Leigh mold) Else-wise, she'd never have been able to play SO many varied roles!

@jorgedominguez1957 3 жыл бұрын

Not really, Joan was.

@EJperfection 14 жыл бұрын

Give me chills when everyone stood up for her! Go Bette! You certainly deserved that ovation! 'cause you are the GREATEST!!!

@rickram1961 11 жыл бұрын

Bette Davis was the best actress we ever had

@lucatiberi9285 4 жыл бұрын

When she came to life, they threw the mold away! She was unique! A great, amazing artist!

@zxingzxing 5 жыл бұрын

Frank Capra was a truly Great Director and Bette Davies a Magnificent Actress.

@65wiseman 5 жыл бұрын

Guts Bette Davis certainly had!

@ukelelito 14 жыл бұрын

Simply" The GREATEST OF ALL TIMES". I love you, Bette.Your fan from Argentina.

@missuniworld 11 жыл бұрын

100% LEGEND!!!

@jennjphoto 4 жыл бұрын

This is class which you will never see again in Hollywood.

@aalomaira 14 жыл бұрын

Love her, the greatest woman in the film industry. G-d bless her RIP Bette.

@f.p.3975 Жыл бұрын

What a charming, charismatic, hypnotic lady! I wish I had met her or lived in her time!

@castalia60able 12 жыл бұрын

She was a TOUGH COOKIE!! Great actress with great attitude.. RIP Bette

@mctalks 12 жыл бұрын

I respect that Bette is an actress, not a song but damn, how can anyone deny those " Bette Davis Eyes? " Every time I hear that song, I think of her movies...

@65wiseman 5 жыл бұрын

She must have really admired him because they fought like hellcats making POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES.

@ajaxfitch 12 жыл бұрын

Frank Capra is the best

@shawnanthony1992 12 жыл бұрын

Listen, i'm a 19 year old guy and i think she is absolutely beautiful. She's glowing! I love how she looks on the Dick Cavett show too, with the beret and glasses.. She's spectacular :) "But y'ar Blanche! Y'ar in that chair!" - They don't make them like her anymore.

@Gemini530 4 жыл бұрын

“Oh really? Did she like it? ...She liked it.”. 😂😂😂

@tracydavis8982 3 жыл бұрын

I like everyone's quotes, from Bette' lines from the (1962) Movie, "What Happened To Baby Jane."👍😆

@pnavrrha Жыл бұрын

how does it feel to be 30 and look back at this my dude

@shawnanthony1992 Жыл бұрын

@@pnavrrha No regrets. Bette is an Angel

@KL467KL 12 жыл бұрын

Kim Carnes sang a song in the early 1980's named "Bette Davis Eyes". I enjoyed listening to it, although I didn't know much about Bette Davis when I was in junior high. I certainly do now. She is a wonderful actress!

@Danimal300zx 12 жыл бұрын

This is a year before her stroke. Still healthy here and still looks like the younger Betty.

@ultimatebigbreak 11 жыл бұрын

True class and movie star status makes people spontaneously give you a standing ovation!

@gregoryian123 8 жыл бұрын

Capra = best Christmas movie made . Bette Davis old Hollywood can't beat it & last I don't believe that is C Leachman at .47

@vasyazadov 13 жыл бұрын

Bette Davis is amazing

@janfirbondesto1021 9 жыл бұрын

Imagine claudette colbert standing for bette davis... wow

@gulmerton2394 4 жыл бұрын

If I may say so, thank god Clodette Colbert was not able to play All about Eve!

@samjones4451 5 жыл бұрын

What a good job she did. Perfect.

@HighMindedLunacy 13 жыл бұрын

I would have given anything to have dinner and a martini with Bette

@juancarlosucedaperez3815 5 жыл бұрын

The greatest actress in Hollywood's history. Meryl Streep's predecessor.

@karolinesmail489 5 жыл бұрын

I agree 💯

@hypolyxa7207 3 жыл бұрын

Implying Streep is in the same league as Bette Davis.

@mmjhcb 2 жыл бұрын

Streep? In Davis' league? 😂😂😂

@rhondabitler5474 Жыл бұрын

Sounds like you disagree. Me too.

@RMS1103 14 жыл бұрын

A wonderful, all-American original..love her.

@TTatitalks 7 жыл бұрын

Love those glasses 😋

@jeanettesmith765 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite actress.

@Hyramess 11 жыл бұрын

As Charlotte Vale said to Jerry's little girl in Now Voyager, when the child was heartbroken over being unwanted, unloved and filled with painful awareness that she was not very pretty, "You may not be beautiful in the way you wish to be, but if you develop your character by becoming interested in other people, you can have something ELSE -- something much BETTER -- something that will LAST. Those are not the exact words, but they carry the point. Bette, had the "something else."

@InFltSvc 4 жыл бұрын

He was a real trooper!

@gjpp3239 2 жыл бұрын

There will NEVER be another Bette, EVER

@sarocammar 13 жыл бұрын

she's got Bette Davis Eyes

@Vistamister 12 жыл бұрын

@lorrainewands Nicely put. Your comment reminds me of something Jimmy Stewart said about It's A Wonderful Life which which was not a success when released but which, over the years, had become a holiday favorite. He said Capra would be touched to know that as he was so proud of the movie and was disappointed it was not a hit when released. Robert Osbourne, I think, chalked it up to WWII being over and a public intent on moving forward whereas this movie takes place in the past.

@grease58 13 жыл бұрын

the lady at :47 is Michelle Lee (from "Knots Landing" fame)

@Judas88-f3m 6 жыл бұрын

She aged fast! 1977 to 1982 then watch the late 80s. Wow

@renan.csmaia 6 жыл бұрын

Tyler Hastings She smoked a lot and had a stroke in 1985.

@gulmerton2394 5 жыл бұрын

With all the cigarettes she smoked throughout her life and in each and every scene of her movies, one wonders how she didn’t die at 50 of a lung cancer! Why a breast cancer?!

@THX-kw2jh 2 жыл бұрын

"She Has Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes 1981

@bloodorigin 14 жыл бұрын

I would of love to meet here

@cmcb09 10 жыл бұрын

Even after her stroke she looked great considering, still a very well preserved woman for her age. It just caused her years to catch up a bit.

@richardfuchs3690 3 жыл бұрын

This was a year prior to her stroke.

@jannamebaotocuaruneterra6211 2 жыл бұрын

I love her voice 🥴

@catman3552 5 жыл бұрын

I heard there were a few problems during the filming of Pocketful of miracles,but apparently things worked out ok.

@SuperSandiana 13 жыл бұрын

Hi class & being herself! I wish I could have known her! I wish I was her reincarted!

@DAVE1R1111 4 жыл бұрын

is that LILLIAN GISH glaring at BETTE DAVIS -- and not clapping (in pink dress at 2:12 )? loll maybe she was foreseeing those 2 working together in several years on "Whales Of August" ?

@javiervalverde2374 3 жыл бұрын

No that isn't her I think. It's someone else.

@stephenmccollum1391 4 жыл бұрын

Bob Hope sitting at table with Frank and Betty

@Hyramess 11 жыл бұрын

She was WONDERFUL at playing comedy. Just look at The Man Who Came to Dinner, if you don't believe me.

@akrenwinkle 10 жыл бұрын

The blond at :47 is Cloris Leachman. The brunette behind her, I don't know... to answer bedista.

@Ampicokid30 10 жыл бұрын

The brunette is actress Michele Lee.

@ladyvee7110 10 жыл бұрын

The blond isn't Cloris Leachman.

@akrenwinkle 10 жыл бұрын

ladyvee7110 It's Cloris. Aside from being a very busy actress at the time, she had been one of the stars of a 1977 TV remake of Capra's "It's a Wonderful Life" called "It Happened One Christmas." So that is a tie-in between her and Mr. Capra.

@ladyvee7110 10 жыл бұрын

A Krenwinkle Ok, if you say so. Have a good one. ;-)

@akrenwinkle 10 жыл бұрын

ladyvee7110 Cloris was the mother on the first Lassie TV series in the 1950s, that's how long she's been around, so we've seen her in a lot of different hairstyles over the years that can alter her appearance.

@tjbedista 13 жыл бұрын

who's the lady in 0:47?

@javiervalverde2374 3 жыл бұрын

Michelle Lee of Knots Landing

@lakevubud 14 жыл бұрын

@itsjustme2919 , this is before the days of Telepromptors.

@lakevubud 13 жыл бұрын

@Michel1961ify , 1982

@agustinmontanes1848 3 жыл бұрын

@koln1996 12 жыл бұрын

Ironic!!! She trashed "A Pocketful of Miracles" and Capra throughout the 1960's!!!

@julianmarsh1378 4 жыл бұрын

The only reason to stay alive when you get old is to have a last chance to become wise.

@rickfassel7176 5 жыл бұрын

Joan crawford was not there

@jennjphoto 4 жыл бұрын

She was dead...

@f.p.3975 2 жыл бұрын

Also, as far as I know, she never worked with Frank Capra...

@f.p.3975 2 жыл бұрын

I was wrong...she was directed by F. Capra in a silent movie..."Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" (1926)

@lousanchez2797 2 жыл бұрын

Her voice sounds so sinister

@itsjustme2919 14 жыл бұрын

You know, for an actress, Bette was never very good at speeches. Im surprised she looked at her notes so much and kept looking down. I would have thought she would have read it over so she could maintain eye contact! I thought she would have memorized it like a script...