I wouldn’t go that far.... although I am a huuuuuge fan of hers,” beautiful “... I am not sure about that.. but I think she was never as beautiful as in Jezebel. Never. Thanks to the make up and hair artists of the time who could work miracles and transform an average or dull looking person, into a stunning beauty. she may have been a “beautiful “ person inside....although, determined and strong headed would apply more. Anyway, a lot of fun and very honest about her work in interviews until the end of her life.

She was beautiful and she could actually act. Not many actresses can play that wide range of characters she played.

@@gulmerton2758 She was really pretty as a young woman and cute looking, she was beautiful. Maybe not the greatest beauty out there but looks were never her main thing anyhow. She did aged fast because of smoking and drinking but at least didn't try to look youthful all her life and that did help her with later roles.

Oh please she was the biggest ham there was, nothing real about her.

Right? 😂

She didn’t have Vivien’s childlike quality.

I always considered Vivien acting fake and subpair in that movie against rest of the cast. Its really a shame Bette didn't land that role. Her and Clark Gable punched the same weight while Vivien was just a nobody and a miscast.

@@frozen1762you are insane. Vivien is magnificent in that film.

Bette would have a problem playing a much younger version of Scarlett.

What was so bad is that in that time period respectable white women did not fraternize with slaves in that manner.

Julie did it to herself, she was a spoiled brat who deliberately tried to take Pres away from his wife and no decent woman does that even to this day!

@@madeleinebaier5347 Even her Aunt Belle told her she could not fight marriage, but she persisted, and she got what she deserved.

But Julie isn’t a respectable Southern white woman. That’s the point of the whole movie!

@@mauricesavard2149 True. Consistent with the Hays Code she got her just desserts too. 🙂

Me too. I loved the scene where Bette is arranging flowers waiting for Pres and there is some lovely singing by coloured folk unseen. I think it is My Pretty Quadroon? I had to look it up. Max Steiner did great scores, especially for Bette, and yes, I think she was pretty and a great actress.

it was the familiarity that was objectionable.

It’s not that- she’s doing this to prove her seniority to her lost love’s new northern wife- they’re looking at her with disdain because she instigated a duel between his brother and current lover- who died.

@@Libruhh Exactly, she's trying to make her competition, who is from the north, feel left out and out of place, and she's using the slaves like they were her playthings. The nice young woman from the north is disgusted by Bette and by the sight of all the poor enslaved people.

Mahan James Leon Scary? How so?

Not scary in the conventional sense. But Imagine having to live with someone like her. She wrecked everything she touched.

Peter Piper the Megan Markel of her day😂

I've been trying to find this out for months and still can't get an answer!! The song is very catchy and it's so frustrating when I want to sing it for my self and don't even know how it goes. Also this very song appeared in the film The great lie (1941) also starring bette davis and was also sung by people of colour in the wedding scene (sung in the background, so I also couldn't hear any lyrics that would make sence). I felt like they were singing: "That way will souit ya, that way my honey", but could not find anything.

Did some research and found out it’s called Susie Girl. I found it in Negro Folk Rhymes: Wise and Otherwise. It’s on page 76 of the google books version. Ring 'round, Miss Susie gal, Ring 'round, "My Dovie." Ring 'round, Miss Susie gal. Bless you! "My Lovie." Back 'way, Miss Susie gal. Back 'way, "My Money." Now come back, Miss Susie gal. Dat's right! "My Honey." Swing me, Miss Susie gal. Swing me, "My Starlin'." Jes swing me, my Susie gal. Yes "Love!" "My Darlin EDIT: Did a little more research and found the song was sang by The Hall Johnson Choir and it’s also called Ring-a-Round Miss Suzie.

@@edienandy Thank you so much!

@@edienandy Thank you so much! I've been researching on that too -- for years and finally found it now. Thank you.

T4TEXASTOM JOHNNYCAT The pronunciation is the way the country people, who weren't well educated, would have said it. Betty Davis is singing it the way the slaves would have.

That was the actual pronunciation in the South at this time. See the explanation here: en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/rookus

the actual fuck?

girl shut up

Many were. Treated well. True!

BLTKellys like Scarlet love for mammy like her 2nd mother

+Alfie Flynn Boyd Millar True

vomit

Chiedu Egbuniwe they just reproduced the age time. How could suppose show by another way?? Come on...

Of course, they are portraying enslaved people but are portrayed as ‘happy slaves’!

it was the 30's of course it's racist

Embarrassing??

@@jessiem276 it’s kinda racist

@@edienandy Kinda?? It's VERY racist! They were living in a society that had racism as its very bedrock.

@@edienandy Just a little. 🙂

@@CathyKitson It's also a racist depiction of the time period. Old Hollywood almost always had slaves act childish, stupid, and naively happy to serve their masters. Instead of trying to depict any of the emotion they would have actually felt.