Golightly11 Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 The most recent episode of FEUD re-created this performance by Bette Davis from THE ANDY WILLIAMS SHOW where she was promoting BABY JANE: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMEfXZsCt44 I was wondering if that Bette Davis performance really happened (I was really hoping it had) and I just had to go and look it up-- needless to say, I was not disappointed! I love that she did that! She didn't seem to take herself too seriously and it looks like she was having fun; I enjoyed seeing that side of her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Bette starred in Two's Company, a Broadway musical in 1952. Here's Bette singing "Turn Me Loose on Broadway" from that show: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Bette starred in Two's Company, a Broadway musical in 1952. So, I take it there was no Janet Wood character in this one, eh Swithin?! Just the Jack Tripper and Chrissy Snow characters. Now, didn't havin' only TWO character in this thing make it harder to get to all those little comic misunderstandings that drive the plot? (...well, you'd THINK so anyway, now wouldn't ya?!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 So, I take it there was no Janet Wood character in this one, eh Swithin?! Just the Jack Tripper and Chrissy Snow characters. Now, didn't havin' only TWO character in this thing make it harder to get to all those little comic misunderstandings that drive the plot? (...well, you'd THINK so anyway, now wouldn't ya?!!!) Huge cast: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/twos-company-2203 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Huge cast: https://www.ibdb.com/broadway-production/twos-company-2203 I see the blacklisted Jules Dassin directed this play, Swithin. Going to his Wiki page just now, I read where it said Bette helped him get this work. And so, it seems she was instrumental in not only lending help to Victor Buono during a trying time(if that scene in this series is to be believed, of course), but also helped out Dassin a decade earlier when he needed it. (...interesting, isn't it...commendable too, I'd say) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 I see the blacklisted Jules Dassin directed this play, Swithin. Going to his Wiki page just now, I read where it said Bette helped him get this work. And so, it seems she was instrumental in not only lending help to Victor Buono during a trying time(if that scene in this series is to be believed, of course), but also helped out Dassin a decade earlier when he needed it. (...interesting, isn't it...commendable too, I'd say) The play also had some of the greatest Broadway musical supporting talents: David Burns, who would go on to play Senex in A Funny Thing... and Horace Vandergelder in Hello Dolly; Maria Karnilova, who would create the roles of Tessie Tura and Golda; and her husband, George S. Irving, who, until he died a few months ago, was one of only two cast members still living from the original cast of Oklahoma!; Stanley Prager, who later played Prez in The Pajama Game on stage and screen; and the lovely Ellen Hanley, who graced Fiorello. The 18-year old Tina Louise was also in the cast. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 wow. the music for the BABY JANE THEME is the same- I am pretty sure- music that plays in the background of the first scene at the neighbor's house. i really get a kick out of the generic "rock" instrumentals that are always playing on a radio whenever a teenager is at home or a scene is set on a beach in a film made in the late fifties/early sixties. man, if they had played this over the opening credits, it would've been a very different experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 someone has done a comparison of the two. Susan is not giving me Bette; and neither are her breasts. (whod'a thunk, and maybe it was a good bra, but, my, wasn't Bette the chesty one?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Bette starred in Two's Company, a Broadway musical in 1952. Here's Bette singing "Turn Me Loose on Broadway" from that show: Yes, I'd forgotten about that! It was a revue type show. Songs and sketches. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 someone has done a comparison of the two. Susan is not giving me Bette; and neither are her breasts. (whod'a thunk, and maybe it was a good bra, but, my, wasn't Bette the chesty one?) Bette hated wearing bras. At WB she had the foundation sewed into the costumes. Unsure how she handled "them" in her later years.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Bette hated wearing bras. At WB she had the foundation sewed into the costumes. Unsure how she handled "them" in her later years.... this is the single most fascinating piece of information i have learned on this site and i thank you for it. citation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 this is the single most fascinating piece of information i have learned on this site and i thank you for it. citation? LOL. I read it somewhere. (not online!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristineHoard Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Hibi, I read or heard that, too. I can't recall where but it wasn't that long ago. Bette had a "shelf bra" built into her wardrobe/undergarments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Hibi, I read or heard that, too. I can't recall where but it wasn't that long ago. Bette had a "shelf bra" built into her wardrobe/undergarments. LOL! Seems to me I found that out recently too, but cant remember where! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyCronin Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 I'll lend support to the comments on Bette's undergarments. I've read about it in a number of Davis biographies...I'll see if I can find some specific citations and quotes. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted March 28, 2017 Share Posted March 28, 2017 Let it all hang out!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arturo Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Let it all hang out!!! ....or down! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arturo Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 all right. i started watching episode three and i got to the scene where Bette and CRAWFORD are having it out on the set over the latter's backdoor suggestion to Hedda Hopper that Davis would take a supporting nomination for BABY JANE (yeah, right.) in lieu of actual fluid, back and forth or complicated dialogue, the writers of this tripe are having the two of them recite trivia, and trivia that I really doubt either one of them would've known (do you really think Joan remembered on the spot that Judy Holliday won in 1950? and "Miss Judy Holliday" at that- what are you Blanche Deveraux?) Lange is not giving me CRAWFORD; Sarandon stumbled all over last night's episode- she only periodically remembers she's supposed to be Bette and starts clipping her words and waving the cigarette in the air. it's not working. it CLUNKS. there's not a genuine moment in this thing; well, maybe that's not a fair criticism because this is about HOLLYWOOD, how's this: it's a fifth grade book report, a well-produced wiki entry, a needlessly superficial and forced affair that really hasn't been any fun at all. I'm torn about the show, thinking it could've been better, in writing and directing, and my mind catching inaccuracies and anachronisms. However, I want to like it, dealing as it does with the vanished Hollywood of old.....one of the reasons I cone to this website. So I just sit and try to enjoy it without too critical a mindset. As for the trivia, at least in the instance mentioned here, I think Davis must've replayed the night in 1951 over and over, stewing over it for more than a decade. And Crawford might've been on top of the drama of that night also, if only have something she could use against her rival. As for the "What a dump!" line from BEYOND THR FOREST, with which she enthralls Victor Buono, I don't know if it had become a camp classic at that point, several years before WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. Overall, I'd give the show a solid B, for intent and effort. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arturo Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Aldrich directed a really good Western starring Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward and Burt Lancaster called Vera Cruz. Definitely an "A" movie with a First rate cast. And another fascinating Noir, The Big Knife, with Jack Palance and Ida Lupino. Those two along with his popular macho fare and Baby Jane makes me think that he had the potential to be a great director--his output was definitely uneven but perhaps he just never had the opportunity to get the right backing. I haven't seen Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, so I would be curious to know what people think of that movie. But I've seen Dead Ringer several times - - Aldrich was right about that one; it didn't quite work out. But Bette got her old friend Paul Henreid to direct a first-rate cast and a first-rate production. Even though the movie is really not very good, Bette performs and dominates it, showing herself to be every inch the consumate professional actress and movie star that people paid to see. Princess, You made the understandable mistake of confusing two 1954 movies with Gary Cooper dealing with Mexico. GARDEN OF EVIL is the film starring Susan Hayward, not VERA CRUZ; Mexican actress Sarita Montiel was featured in the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess of Tap Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Princess, You made the understandable mistake of confusing two 1954 movies with Gary Cooper dealing with Mexico. GARDEN OF EVIL is the film starring Susan Hayward, not VERA CRUZ; Meand probably haven't watch the Gary Cooper Western since then either. ### Haven't seen either since I was 10 years old - -and probably haven't watched a Gary Cooper Western since then either. When I was in grade school, I used to have a thing for Gary Cooper and Randolph Scott westerns. And then I grew up--they're all just nostalgic memories for me now. But Burt Lancaster was pretty nasty in Vera Cruz, as I can recall. The memory of that still scares me a little bit. LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LornaHansonForbes Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 . As for the "What a dump!" line from BEYOND THR FOREST, with which she enthralls Victor Buono, I don't know if it had become a camp classic at that point, several years before WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF. as someone who finally got to see BEYOND THE FOREST relatively recently, I think I can safely say it became an instant camp classic on release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 VERA CRUZ? The most I remember about that one is how amused me and my step brother were over how WHITE Burt lancaster's TEETH were! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 ....or down! LOL. Gravity is a killer..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hibi Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 as someone who finally got to see BEYOND THE FOREST relatively recently, I think I can safely say it became an instant camp classic on release. LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoyCronin Posted March 29, 2017 Share Posted March 29, 2017 Well last night I leafed through about 6 Davis bios and couldn't find much about her brassiere choices (or lack thereof) and no index was helpful, as in: Davis, Bette (undergarments of): p 54-56 There was a discussion of her first screen test for Wyler wherein she wore a too-tight, low cut dress to emphasis what she decided were her best features, and Wyler made a comment about dames showing their chests off in order to get a job...... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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