My mother was named after Bette Davis although that wasn't her real name my grandmother my mom's mom named but I didn't know that until a few years ago that her real name was Ruth Elizabeth Davis but my mom despised her and didn't like her not her movies my late mom was born in 1938 I like to watch her in some of her movies but she was such a b**ch and just plain evil and treacherous but she was a great actress and I don't understand her feud with Joan Crawford or was that done sort of a publicity stunt or was it really real!

YES!

True, and don't forget..Bette was Jealous of JOAN. Bette wasn't threatened by Olivia. Joan was a different story.

Yes Joan was definitely a different story,....Joan was on another level.

I agree she starts out as a slightly naive young woman and by the end of the movie she is bitter and twisted.

Ditto

@@JohnLee-pt5jz in the end she sees that the 2 men in her life, her dad & her boyfriend could care less about her. They were both very cruel to her.

Love that movie!!!

she just died :(

Now she belongs to the ages.

And still beautiful until the day she died.

Oh yes I agree.Listening to the sort of upbringing they both had via her sister Joan Fontaine it is not surprising they had a wonderful family upbringing and cultivated from a very early age beautifully educated and accomplished.They both had self respect ingrained into them and it shows.

She got two. The woman with the most have twice as much.

She would disagree with you. Ha. She knew some of her movies weren't good. That's why she went on a one-woman strike. But I totally agree that there will never be another like her and she DEFINITELY deserved more than 2 Oscars. =D

You guys are gonna get so mad but I don’t really like Bette Davis. I find her weird but I want to like her. I’ve seen her in the Baby Jane movie but I’m wondering if there’s other movies I should watch in order to appreciate her??

@@DonnaChamberson Maybe you could try her earlier works, All About Eve, Dark Victory, Watch on the Rhine, Little Foxes, The Letter, Now Voyager, The Petrified Forest, Marked Woman, The Great Lie, if you want to see her do comedy try The Bride Came C.O.D.. She did a lot of great movies and even when they’re not great she’s still great in them. She gave her all no matter how silly the plots were and even if she hated doing them.

*Lol no. She was a great actress on her own, but she was eclipsed, always, in all aspects, by the great Katharine Hepburn--as an actress and as a person.*

We will NEVER return to any aspect of civilized life, refined culture, or craftsmanship that we had up to the 1960's. As Andy Rooney, the prophet of 60 minutes remarked, everything will just continue to get worse.

Kirk Douglas' wife, Anne, looks pretty good at 100 years old too.

Get your eyes checked

She is all dried up like a mummy!

@@johnnymfan5065 she is all dried up like a mummy too!!

As has Cicely Tyson

2legit64 102 ! amazing

She still with us? 😲 would be nice to hear her secret of long live.

The beautiful Olivia lives in her luxury town house in Paris. She does have problems walking.

April 2020..lockdown..stay safe 🙏

For sure. There are some great Hollywood actresses today but they lack the charisma that the studio system could create so perfectly.

'Snake Pit' is a pretty f.u.ed movie that ripped the web of lies off the way mental illness (especially among women) was mistreated, abused, required little more than a man to say, "She's CRAZY" for a woman to lose all automony.

Unfortunately it was because of movies like Snake Pit, that we as a society decided "insane asylums" were cruel and unusal so now we have all these random crazy people running loose and wild and killing innocent people

​@@tonyhoward7004''' no that was due to mentally addled Ronnie Reaganomics who thought it would be cheaper,, read a history book!

I love that movie ! I think she took the Oscar for that part . She deserves it !

One of the greatest movies ever.

Yes, indeed. She deserved the Oscar® for her riveting performance.

Chiara Offreduccio Honestly, I sensed it early on. She was too meek and shy..ppl like that harbor anger as well as hurt. Plus she was bound to inherit some of her dads charateristics. But i agree..it was a stunning onscreen transformation

YES

Olivia, on July 26, 2020 has gone on to the ages.

LOVE that movie!

I love watching Davis movies. I always thought that casting Olivia de Havilland in Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte was brilliant.

Leslie Howard and Olivia were together also in a film with Bette Davis a comedy named Its love Im after in 1937.

”Melanie and ashely”?

@@Mixedpixieshe was referring to two characters from Gone With The Wind (Ashley played by Leslie Howard and Melanie played by Olivia De Haviland)

I really like In This Our Life too though interestingly I think Bette herself hated her performance in it.

I agree. Olivia actually sued FX and Ryan Murphy for defamation over the way they portrayed her in Feud. They didn't consult her or ask her permission to use her name and likeness. She originally won her lawsuit, but unfortunately she lost after FX and Murphy appealed the case. It's amazing that she filed suit at 101 years old to protect her reputation. She will be 103 this July.

The Feud shouldn't been made...

Couldn’t agree more! She’d have been much better portrayed by someone like Naomi Watts or Tea Leoni. Catherine pissed me off in that role. Thank god she wasn’t in it much.

@@katycheeseburger umm Naomi or Tea look anything like Olivia di, nor would they have brought anymore to the table than Catherine did lol, (I think all three are talented but still)

Leelo Haskin Don’t you think Tea could’ve been made up to look like a young Olivia at least? I can see it but maybe not everyone would agree.

Yes, I noticed that. A little bit cringe making.

That was so strange

@@ginnylorenz5265 maybe she wasn't very keen on physical affection, but she seemed to cherish the friendship

That's how I feel about 2020... I'd rather 2018 any day than this year.

I hope things are better for you. It's been rough admittedly

Phaedra Ovid

Tony Negron she didn’t say she was nominate for an *Oscar* specifically.

She was. It was her first oscar nomination in fact. She lost to Claudette Colbert for "It happened one night".

They say there was an uproar when Davis wasn't nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for "Of Human Bondage" and Davis was a write in for Best Actress by many. And of course her 1936 win for her 1935 film "Dangerous' was considered Bette Davis' consolation Oscar for not being nominated and winning, as she should have been for "Of Human Bondage" the previous year.

No, she wasn't nominated. A lot of Academy members wrote her name in and ultimately she came in third because of that but she was not a nominee for that movie.

Bette was spectacular in that film! Ferociously good & an unforgettable performance .

It must have felt like getting an annoying thorn removed when classless Crawford left . I say classless because her behavior was such . Walking off the set and faking an illness , leaving the cast an crew hanging

lol and you think bette's behaviour was classy? acting like a school yard bully and doing anything she could to get joan to quit? give me a break, bette was way worse then joan, taking a picture with a coke to piss joan off, imaturity at it's finest

Except when it came to here sister.

She was not kind to her sister

Linda Easley .

Ever since the end of censorship in the 1960s, modern film producers seem compelled to make things "realistic" by including vulgar language and sex acts. Back in the golden years of Hollywood, that was not permitted. I grew up watching the old movies and prefer their subtlety. If I wanted things to be "realistic," I'd drive down to Walmart and watch people at the checkout counter.

LoveFlatfootin1 Perfectly stated. I must’ve been born in the wrong era for I love Old Hollywood. It seemed like a classier time. It was also a time when actors had to rely on true talent instead of special effects or tawdry sex scenes. The actors/actresses always looked so glamorous unlike the trash of today. I miss the likes of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, Rita Hayworth, Marilyn, Cary Grant; the list can go on and on. My point is there will never be a time like the Golden Age of Hollywood. It actually saddens me when I see Kim Kardashian being touted as Hollywood royalty when she is only famous for a sex tape and a lackluster reality show. True talent is gone & trashy reality tv has taken its place. The Golden Era would be turning in their graves if they saw what constitutes as talent in today’s society.

It gives me hope for the future to know there are some younger people who appreciate these things. Thanks!

No problem! My grandmother taught me well. She is the one who introduced me to the likes of Marilyn Monroe and that got me interested in the other players in Old Hollywood. My gram hated modern Hollywood and scoffed at the "stars" of today. She also was a one of a kind classy lady who taught me the importance of taking care of my appearance. I only wish she were still here for me for she taught me a lot.

LoveFlatfootin1 : I agree. Now they love to shock. I started to watch "Orange is the new black" and I wanted to vomit. I stopped watching it, even though there's an actress I adore. Because there were not only crude scenes of lesbian sex, but even people urinating, or going to the bathroom... It was horribly disgusting! I don't understand how people can watch such things!

Yes i would have loved to have seen that ! Everyone knows about the fued between bette and joan, but from what ive read, it was bette who was the bigger bitch, i think joan respected bette as an actress, it was joan who sent the script of baby jane to bette toinvolve her in the project..butthings seemed to get worse between them after that film was made

Bette said later that they used a stand in so you only saw the slap from the back of her head. Bette said, "Olivia and I are great friends. But she has wanted to slap me for years, and I'm not going to give her the chance now!"

Joan instinctively knew Better Davis was her equal and she could not intimidate Bette. Others have commented Crawford was rude and temperamental!

@@7777lizabeth face it...it wasn't pepsi in her glass...but i still love those joan crawford films..met her once on "the caretakers" set in 1963...i knew the dorector hall bartlett...

I think she lost to Jane Wyman for that.

Mjgirl55 hi, that part was a little uncomfortable to watch I thought

Yez. I noticed that

Bette seem to have a social problem in a way especially with other women....She seem to get insecure around women who appear more beautiful then her.

Its all about pride...thats the problem 😔

Willie Mitchell I don’t think so. Olivia seemed to fly down that ramp and literally flung herself on Bette. It is evident, to me at least, that Bette was caught unawares. I’m sure after the show they had a cocktail or two over a good old chin-wag!

I agree the style suits her but I wonder though if it’s a wig?

clevelandphil Complete with gum.

I think she was jealous cause he romanced every woman , except her. She wanted him