I have three photo albums that belonged to Billie Dove. Very cool actually, she obviously loved films and was a fan herself. She had collected autographs from many of the actors she worked with. I found them in a storage unit I won at auction.

More of these archival interviews, please! These voices give such valuable insight into the formation of the Hollywood that we know today.

I encourage all to watch the life and career of Billie Dove. She was such a huge star

Ms Dove is so sweet, I would have talked with her for days :)

In the 1920s and early 1930s, Billie Dove was considered to be the most beautiful woman in films. I became fascinated with her when an article about her by Michael G. Ackerich was published in _Classic Images._ I actually went to Billie's funeral!

What a gentle, beautiful soul. I could never see her angry. A calm, sweet spirit. Bless her, she's with Angels now. 💘

Even as old as she was she was still beautiful What a lovely, classy elegant lady! That is definitely missing in so called “stars” today!

My goodness, she is adorable!! 😍

I've interviewed persons for media and it requires a lot of research if you want to draw out an interviewee's personality, stories and message. Listening to this question yeller betrayed a lack of research - total absence of tact, timing and empathy - I'm grateful though, Billie's story has been archived albeit truncated and perhaps coloured with rose-coloured lenses. A unique star, what a shame a professional and polished interviewer equivalent to the interviewee wasn't used. Thank you for uploading.

Where's Robert Osborne when we needed him? This interviewer was beneath that which Miss Dove deserved.

She's 91 in this and she is still so beautiful. Why did the interviewer cut her off while she was talking about "Blondie of the Follies" and take her back to Howard Hughes?

I'm amazed how these lovely talentes ladies speak so nice and kindly about such ruthless place as Hollywood and also about other actors/actresses

Oh my!!! This is everything. I saw the Ziegfeld Follies as a pre-teen in the 70s. I was sure I would have my wedding like the stage sets 😊

Elegant and very talenter actress. Very interesting interview.

Class act,could listen to her for hours❤️

She was fantastic.

Thank you for posting and so glad TCM thought to do these archival interviews. What a fascinating interview to get to hear stories and experiences of how life was back in the 1920s/1930s and what it was like working for Ziegfeld and acting in the silent era. They may go unappreciated/unnoticed by majority of people but thank you. Hopefully TCM continues to do this for as long as they can. It's important to preserve history so all these stories don't get lost.

It is beautiful to see such wonderful actress.

She was still beautiful

what an enchanting woman. I could listen to her for hours. Lovely interview

What a true star love the stories

Wow! I love beautiful Billie Dove!💕 This interview with her is priceless! ⭐️🌺🌸

thanks for being patient with Billie.... it was wonderful to hear her stories

Now this women was a true legend and icon...who never gets any recognition, or gets her flowers, and is somewhat forgotten....depending on your age, what a shame, this women needs to be talked about more and brought to relevance...they need to do a biopic movie of this glamorous Women's life. She was part of Cimema since it's exception...she was part of the silent Screen Era and one of the biggest stars and continued to do movies into the 1960's. And small parts in 1970's. 6 decades of a Hollywood career. This women was in her 60's in the 1950's and in her 30's in the 1920's....she was alive during the Titanic, WW1/WW2 and the Spanish flu Era and during Edwardan Era, and during 16 presidents, Holly Golden Era, segregation, Jim Crow, The Depression, Assassinations, Golden Era of Rock "N" Roll, Vietnam, the birth of Disco, and 1970's, advent of Cable television and Music videos in the 1980's, advent of computers, video games, And the 1990's Era....Gee she lived through so much during her longevity, in her 94 year on this planet. Think about this...she is old enough to be Betty Whites mother 😮 What a great and extraordinary actress. This women was around before Hollywood and during Vaudeville...this is such a special interview because nobody of her generation is still with us. This women would be 119 years old now. Just imagine all the stories she can tell you from the 1910's and the 1920's. This is such a National Treasure What an incredible classic Interview from a women who lived through it all and seen it all. This a Gem of a interview. RIP To the great incomparable Billie Dove (1903-1997)💃💃💃🐏🐏📺🎥🎥🎥🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🎙🎙👤

My Grandfather evidently had a huge crush on Miss Dove.

This was nice,, A Real Classic Hollywood Silent Movie STAR...

What a lovely woman. Felt like the interviewer didn't show her enough respect.

Wonderful interview with a bright star of the silent screen,

It’s so wonderful to hear about her career in her own words! Please post more of these interviews!

Interviewers always are on the “ attack “ and seeking dirt . This one , her voice , she should be silent in silents . Screeching voice ! A very unpleasant interviewer and bossy and shrill for a class act lady and true beauty of the early pictures !

As an interviewer I would have been honored to interview one of these legends. It’s a shame how this interviewer talk to this actress.

What a blessing Thankyou and such an incredible woman her life was so amazing 😻

Such rare and fascinating footage!

Billie Dove, was the actress, who Howard Hughes fell deeply in love with, supposedly Howard Hughes heard rumors that she had a S.T.D., and it wasn't true, but living with Mr. Hughes, he poured gasoline,, and burned all of her clothes, Mr. Hughes (needless, to say), was crazy.

The person conducting the interview is HORRIBLE. Oh my word. Ms. Dove is delightful.

TCM interviews need to STOP being obnoxious, negative, and disrespectful. Sick of it

Obsessed with her story. So good

This is who Billie Holiday named herself after when she changed her name from Eleanora Fagan for the stage.

She was a classy lady.

THANKS BILLIE, THANKS 2MILL. UPLOADER!!!!!!!

GREAT ACTRESS!!!!!!!

The interviewer is too intrusive.

Back when WOMEN/LADIES were JUST THAT! CLASS! INTELLIGENCE!!!

What a beautiful lady su h warmth

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z7mheadznJjOe6M.html This is a link to the life and career of Billie Dove heralded as the most beautiful woman in the world at the time. Stunning looks and she was talented too and Howard Hughes claimed she was the love of his life although she refused to marry him....watch the link and you will see how gorgeous she was! Her son was an actor also and died in 1995 and he was in the Thin Man....he was also very good looking. She learnt how to fly planes and she had a very full life. Pity most of her movies perished. I adore her. Thanks for putting this up I enjoyed watching her indeed.

The interviewer is appalling. She ruins the interview by asking questions in such a classless, rude manner.

I wonder if she ever wrote her book?

How can I get the TCM channel when Comcast Xfinity makes you buy the sports package, I’m not interested in🤬 Apples mixed with rotten tomatoes!

The dreadful interviewer is the small price to pay for wonderful stories otherwise untold.

She contrasts with Louise Brooks who said Clara was a social pariah. She said Clara was socially unacceptable. She said, "we were friends".

... and let her speak, stop trying to lead her-- she has more interesting stories than you have questions. I feel so sorry for this woman who has so many stories to tell but has this person constantly yelling at her. PLEASE don't do any more interviews....

wonderful interview and lady. However, in spite of having been an incredible beauty, she kind of reminds me of Beulah Bondi..

Billie Dove is divine- the interviewer so brusque, insensitive and unkind. Really I professional too- interrupting talking about beeps and the temperature Horribly upsetting to watch.

Maybe I’m having a Mandela effect but I swear to god Billie dove was still making movies until 1984 I probably got her confused with fay Wray and Lillian Gish

If they ever do a biopic, Jessica Lange could do this part, no contest!

Why is the interviewer screaming at Billie Dove?

The interviewer is shouting at the lady, which is very disrespectful and unptofessional.

This interviewer is totally inept.

So funny how the person asking the questions is continuously trying to get Mrs. Dove to claim the industry was sexist, but Mrs. Dove refutes it every time. People keep trying to get others to confirm their own mendacious biases about the past all the time. I was told over and over again in school that before the 70s, "women weren't Allowed to work."

I think she misremembers BLONDIE OF THE FOLLIES. She and Marion Davies did not play sisters. Her role of Lottie was "the heavy" from the get-go of the film. She and Davies' Blondie were friends but rivals. I also don't buy her naivete about signing on to a Davies film at MGM and still thinking she was going to be the star? Davies was ALWAYS the star of her pictures. And she didn't know Hearst was producing? He produced all of Davies' films. Makes for a good story but I tend not to believe it. Otherwise a good piece except from the woman barking from off screen. Did they actually air this with that horrible "interviewer"?

The interviewer is shouting at her. Not acceptable on any level.

Billie Dove was lovely - a real lady - the interviewer however will never be a lady - a loud shallow load voice and when showed the amazing pictures of Billie didnt even have the decency to say how beautiful she looked . This would work better of the person interviewing was cut out - she has a really nasty voice

What a terrible, strident interviewer who displays no class or understanding or patience-- and zero warmth towards such a gentle lady... really ruins it.

Wow this interviewer is repulsive 🤮 so impolite barking questions at Ms Dove 🕊 who maintains her finishing of each question ... classy lady ( this interviewers technique is obviously from barking questions at celebrities in moving cars )

This interviewer borders on abusive.

The cameraman could have done a better job interviewing this LEGEND! SHAME on TCM !!!

Very nice. She wasn't a big star, but her name is still around, mainly because of her relationship with Howard Hughes. He probably stifeled her career, out of jealousy.

She looks nothing like her younger self. Appears to be bad plastic surgery. I enjoyed listening to her.

The interviewer is so rude and so wrong for Billie. Disrespectful to this ladies age and dignity.

Poor interview skills by an untalented, extremely rude interviewer. BE. QUIET. AND. LISTEN.

I have to agree that Billie Dove is wonderful in the interview but whoever is interviewing her is terrible, a harsh voice and really quite impolite

That is a dude.