TV Tuesday: Bette Davis on the Dick Cavett Show

This is probably my favorite talk show interview ever: Bette Davis on The Dick Cavett Show in 1971. I feel like I've been yakking about it a lot lately, so I figured I might as well post one of my favorite parts--when Davis talks about kissing on screen, including a particularly devastating early experience helping other actors screen test their kissing skills. Davis and Cavett are a marvelous pair: the grand, but candid Hollywood legend and the starstruck, but eloquent boy from Nebraska.

Classic New Releases

Warner Home Video/ TCM Spotlight Collection Woo hoo! The second volume of the Esther Williams Collection is now available! The titles are: Fiesta, Easy to Love, Million Dollar Mermaid, Pagan Love Song, Thrill of a Romance, This Time For Keeps

Warner Home Video Karloff and Lugosi Horror Classics: The Walking Dead, You'll Find Out, Helen Parrish. AKA: Here Come the Boogie Men, Zombies on Broadway, Frankenstein 1970

Universal Studios The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 1--One Night in the Tropics, Buck Privates, In the Navy, Hold That Ghost!, Keep 'Em Flying, Ride 'Em Cowboy, Pardon My Sarong, Who Done It?

The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 2-- Hit the Ice, In Society, Here Come the Co-Eds, The Naughty Nineties, Little Giant, The Time of Their Lives, Buck Privates Come Home, The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap

The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 3-- Abbott and Costello Go to Mars, Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion, Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man, Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer, Boris Karloff, Comin' Round the Mountain, Lost in Alaska, Mexican Hayride

The Best of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello: Volume 4-- Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops, Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy, The World of Abbott and Costello

Kino International Classic Educational Shorts Volume 1: How to be a Man (1949-1970) and Classic Educational Shorts Volume 2: How to be a Woman (1948-1982)

Classic Links

Audrey Hepburn outfits to be auctioned—
Press Trust of India

A fabulous profile of determined Hollywood pioneer Mary Pickford—
Silents and Talkies

A pic of young Bette Davis, before the fire in her belly translated to the silver screen—
Art Deco

A Modern Musketeer DVD review (I love the title cards)—
The Douglas Fairbanks Museum

Classic Hollywood stuntwoman dies at 92—
UPI

Great pics of Cary Grant through the years—
Classic Hollywood Nerd

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Classic Links

Veronica Lake and the peek-a-boo bang—
FilmPhiles

Style icons we classic movie fans can appreciate—
Perpetual Flapper

Part two of that great Joan Crawford find from last week—
Allure

I love these old movie mag write-ups! Here’s April 7, 1932—
Hollywood Heyday

A lovely gallery of Gina Lollobrigida pics—
Classic Forever

Quote of the Week

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

--Bette Davis

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Classic Links

I’ve never seen this amazing pic of Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland together in 1942 (Wow--you can actually see the tension between them)—
Film Noir Photos

Flappers and the Halloween fringe dress myth—
Perpetual Flapper

This looks like fun: the 31 days of Halloween at Classic Film and TV Café—
Classic Film and TV Café

A Tony Curtis Interview—
Courant

Classic Links

Mr. Bogart defends his own (this vintage article is sort of bizarre)—
The Guardian

Leslie Caron says Warren Beatty told her she was too old to play Bonnie to his Clyde (She was five years older than him, and he was her lover at the time. How charming.)—
IMDB

Roger Ebert’s Great Movies: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) (I just re-watched this movie, and I remembered how well Ebert described it in this review.)—
Chicago Sun Times

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