I don't think she lost one single brain cell from the stroke - sharp like a tack right until the end. What a woman!

Omg I absolutely love her, I love her wit, and humor. She is hilarious. She can roast anyone. She is delightful and to me she was beautiful. A legend and a icon. Miss Bette Davis was a true star.

She was amazing. Totally honest. Pure Class.

I always loved her and she is in good spirits here bless her, we shall never see the likes again.

Funny, hilarius, ironic, sharp, gorgeous....a legend!

she was a sweetheart

What an amazing woman! SO honest & what a sense of humor!

I'm against smoking, but no one better dare tell Bette Davis not to light up on stage.

Nobody in all those years stole JC 's show from him like that. She took over completely.

Love her little girl laugh at 78

i love this WOMAN!!!! BRAVO!!!

love seeing Bette that age still with it, she was an amazing woman.

Thank you for this clip. What a woman....so full of life. I will always remember her.

we will never see the likes of this type of character again.

Thank you for posting. I love seeing what she had to say about about any thing thrown at her. I said it once and I will say it again I wish I could have been brought up in that life time to meet and talk with this very sassy and very smart woman.

Yes, in 1987 she was invited for the Kennedy Center Honors. She was one of the honoree's that year =)

What an amazing woman! SO honest & what a sense of humor! Man she was petite!!

She was feisty!

This is brilliant! Thanks for posting this. Ms. Davis is truly sensational.

She has been gone for quite sometime, what an amazing icon, classy and timeless. Absolutely a super star, no one can come close. Miss you, Ms Davis!

Fantastic lady- still sharp as a tack!

She's a hoot.

Bette Davis & Johnny Carson. two legends and like they both said at the end: remarkable persons :)

Better Davis is full of spunk, she's so tiny & I love her laugh - RIP dear Better ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Johnny: you're having a lot of fun tonight, arentchya Bette: yes i am, im very surprised LMFAO how can you not love her!

She is sooo funny and nice to see her having fun with Johnny

we will never have another Bette that's for sure... they come like her any more..

Wonderful - deliciously dry wit from an extraordinary woman!

Omg she's such a spunky lady! LOL

I think she means Gary Merrill.

Bette is AMAZING. Today's stars are so boring in comparison.

She is so funny!

On rare occasion a human being comes along that you wish could live A thousand years, Miss Davis would definitely be one of the chosen Few. Brilliant to the very end.. all hail Miss Davis! 💕🇺🇸🏆👍🚀💫

Bette Davis was the "Best" !!!

i love when she refers to the ex-president as" little ronnie reagan" and hope it doesnt encourage any more actors do do the same as him. lol!

so great... she was on a roll this night!

@cheeriosinabowl I think she was beautiful. Very unique type of beauty. I think she was beautiful in All About Eve :)

...She had the audience in the palm of her hand. She was quite a lady. 👍💯🤗

Her honesty and youthfulness

loved this and thought, wow, what a lady with a sence of humor!

Best interview ever with her!!

She is so articulate : her wit and charm.

Never a beautiful woman? Are you kidding me? Bette was certainly a gorgeous woman.

NOT DRUNK!! Results of a stroke -- like Dick Clark and Kirk Douglas, it affects your speech.

she was one of those timeless eternal stars....living in the last golden years... she carried them her entire life... and i can feel the magic and the bitchness when i watch her... just amazing... love you lady...! we have this sparkles no more....

thx for posting this.

Ahhhhh, Bette 😘 Thanks for all your chutzpah and humor that comes with time.

this woman smokes more than me..

Her last years were tough, but I'm glad that she lived long enough to witness the public adulation and ovations that she received whenever she appeared on any talk show. The lady was a Treasure.

The stroke made her funnier and more easy going

Betty Davis is so charming. I think she was ahead of her time from the very start.

love this woman bad!!!!

she was so beautiful

... Safe to say that Bette, Johnny, & Gary could all have swapped a few tales of drunken parties gone awry.

Wow. She's fabulous.

@01pitypat she's a "hot ticket" as my folks used to call, sharp, funny, elderly women.

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (Lowell, Massachusetts, 5 de abril de 1908-Neuilly-sur-Seine, París, 6 de octubre de 1989) fue una actriz estadounidense de teatro, cine y televisión. Destacó por su facilidad de interpretar personajes antipáticos y fue ampliamente apreciada por sus actuaciones en filmes melodramáticos, históricos y ocasionalmente de comedia, aunque sus mayores éxitos los alcanzó con dramas románticos. Es considerada como uno de los mayores mitos cinematográficos.

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When was this interview? I'm glad to see she looked very well recovered here.

She was the Woman! The Woman!

I thought she was a cute petite woman in her early pictures....

merry x-mas to you too.

Wow! They don’t make em like that anymore❤❤❤

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OMGosh, is this the one with Martin Short comes on after her?

She looks wonderful here. Makes me she wonder if became ill again the following year because she looked thinner when she started promoting her book.

What year is this? I think this is actually before her stroke and her daughters book despite others comments.

@MikeSings82 Did you find out how old Bette Davis was in the interview? I'd like to know, too. In fact when did she die and how old was she when she died? Do you know?

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how old is she here? Such a dramatic change in appearance from the Dick Cavett interviews

When was it that Bette said the line about "whenever possible, take Fountain." Was that even Bette? ~Trav

I don't recall Madonna ever having this much bravado. Sultry, yes, brash no.

Did Ronnie ever invite to the White House??!

She’s quite a chip off the old block

when she says Gary she means Gary Cooper, correcT?

She is drunk as usual. Good actress though. 😂

They don’t make them like Bette Davis and Kate Hepburn anymore! Carson was poor in this interview. His questions were awful, he kept glancing around, and he didn’t really show much deference to one of Hollywood’s greats.

I'll never understand the derogatory comments about President Reagan...from anyone.

She seems smashed out of her head! great actress non the less

The only Democrat I not only don’t disdain, but admire and adore lol

She never was a beauty or beautiful woman .... but she was a superb actress and very interesting to listen to. A gem of a woman from an era long gone .....

Ms. Davis speaks about then Pres Reagan, and says that we (meaning his fellow actors) used to call him "little Ronnie Reagan". I have yet to read or hear of any other actor referring to Reagan as Little Ronnie Reagan. This is a made up story by Ms. Davis. Then Ms. Davis says that she's surprised that Reagan has turned out as good (on occasion) as he has. She makes it sound like Reagan was only an actor his entire life and that he didn't do anything else--- sorta like Ms Davis' life ??? Reagan was Governor of California from 1967 to 1975. I guess Ms. Davis doesn't remember those years. Probably "busy" sitting around smoking and drinking and wasting her time. A perfect example of someone who chose to do nothing but act, and then is jealous at Reagan who stopped playing that foolish game and got himself elected Governor TWICE and then President TWICE. While Ms. Davis drank and smoked herself to her death.