You must watch Sunset Bouvard with Gloria Swanson and William Holden. If you loved this love you will love Sunset Bouvard. Its brilliant. I love some of these older movies, that acting can not be surpassed by todays acting because the stories they tell are written for 13 year old boys.
Shandor, I've seen this movie at least 20 times, but your review and assessment of the film was awesome! I especially admire your appreciation of the production - the acting, lighting, composition - it was brilliant. Thank you!
In 1978 I saw Bette Davis in person on stage, she showed clips from her best movies and did a guestion and answer, I was so thrilled seeing her one of old Hollywood's best. I meet Edward (Victor Bouno) at a gas station in San Diego got his autograph. Love this movie thanks for the memories. Peace ✌️ Gary
Great reaction to a great movie! I hope the following Bette Davis movies are on your list for reactions: Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Little Foxes, Jezebel, The Letter, Of Human Bondage, The Petrified Forest, Dark Victory, Now Voyager, and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.
My two favorite Bette Davis movies are Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte and Dead Ringer. In Dead Ringer she plays two roles....... her and her twin. Both 1964 B&W movies..
Bette Davis is my favorite actress so I’m biased. Next, please do HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964). Same director, along with 3 other actresses from Hollywood’s Golden Age going at each other. It’s a murder mystery set in a rundown plantation in the Deep South and IMO it’s an even better movie than this one and the ending is much more satisfying.
Love your channel and your reactions! So glad you appreciate this film. Especially appreciating the best actress of all time, even to this day: BETTE DAVIS. Your next Bette Davis films to react to should be: 1. The Little Foxes (1941) 2. Jezebel (1938) and 3. Old Acquaintance (1943). Kudos!
New Subscriber! I really enjoyed this react. The film really blew me away when I first watched it many years ago, as the performances are so powerful and it’s such a tragic story. So sad. Bette and Joan I enjoy tremendously in films, they are so magnetic and so talented. I am off to watch your reaction to All About Eve now. Kind regards from the U.K 🧘🏻♀️🙏🏻🧘🏻♀️
Idk if someone already mentioned the following but in 1991 there was a remake with legendary British actors and sisters Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave. Vanessa as Blanche and Lynn as Baby Jane. It was good, if not at least for great performances by those ladies. It's available on Tubi.
There's actually a recent American miniseries called Feud: Bette and Joan (2017) that follows the making of the movie as well as how the actresses were basically pitted against each other off-screen. The behind the scenes of WHTBJ is vicious.
I have been a long time Davis and Crawford fan. To me, Bette Davis best performances are these: The Little Foxes (she is SO evil she makes Baby Jane look like Bambi) and Mr. Skeffington, in which she plays a non-evil character, to absolute perfection. You cannot trully appreciate her acting talent until you see the other end of the her spectrum. On the other hand, I like Joan Crawford better because I liked her star persona which was very glamorous and over the top. She was also a great actress. Humoresque is probably one of her best perfomances and the film is a noir masterpiece.
That is Joan Crawford. Davis and Crawford hated each other in true life because they were considered the two best actresses but they were in competition their whole lives
Crawford was an unstable, wicked piece of work in her private life and that unfortunately began to bleed out into her professional life as she grew older. On the contrary, Bette wasn't a hateful psycho like her co-star. Though she did lead a fiercely private life away from tabloids, she was by most accounts from those knew her a loyal friend, loving mother and overall good person away from the cameras.
It’s a fallacy that Davis and Crawford hated each other. They actually respected each other professionally but were never friends. That trashy series Feud was a piece of fiction full of camp nonsense.
I recall them working together. No fued. But I guess if it was it would have been from Betty Davis wanting control of her own work. She was a force to be reckoned with.
You must see Dead Ringer (1964) with Bette Davis; she plays a twin; actually she plays a twin in 2 movies; also The Post Man Always Rings Twice (1946) with Lana Turner; The Bad Seed ( 1956)
Good reaction to this gothic horror romp. The same director - Robert Aldrich - also directed the film noir “The Killing Of Sister George” (1968), a black comedy which centres on an actress whose world disintegrates when she is fired from her leading role in a quaint soap opera in which she plays a sweet village nurse. In real life she is an alcoholic butch lesbian in a sado-masochistic relationship with a much younger woman. The acting is superlative, the script crackling and outrageous and it’s bitter sweet in turns hilarious and poignant. I think you would enjoy it.
Seconding the suggestion you watch the multipart series Feud:Bette and Joan. Susan Sarandon does a great job as Ms Davis and Jessica Lange is transcendent as Joan Crawford. While it's truthish rather than hard fact,they definitely capture the aging actress dilemma and late old Hollywood.
Ooh, good choice! I've only seen a few Bette Davis movies and only a couple Joan Crawford movies and this makes me want to check out more, too. Bette Davis was still alive when I was a kid so I saw a couple of her later movies when they were new (Witch Mountain and The Watcher in the Woods), and I used to watch Death on the Nile every time it came on TV. She's not the star of that one per se, it's an all star cast. As far as movies from Agatha Christie stories go it's a good one, much better than Murder on the Orient Express. And don't even bother with the Kenneth Branagh remakes, they were 👎🏽
Anybody else see that Charles Adams cartoon of the Addams Family looking in on Jane Hudson torturing Blanche and turning away going this is too sick even for us?? lmao
See wonderful Bette in "JEZEBEL" 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 "Petrified Forest" "The Magnificent Ambersons" "The Nanny" "All About Eve" "The Virgin Queen" "Beyond the Forest" "The Little Foxes" "The Letter"
Fun Fact; Bette Davis and Joan Crawford couldn't stand each other in real life, its actual tv show called Feud, based on their hatred for each other, this makes the movie even better!😂
In real life when this movie was made, Bette Davis was quite attractive. She and Joan had a bit of a rivalry. It was her decision to go over the top make up and it won her accolades! I saw this movie as a child and it still makes me uncomfortable.
You should watch Feud Bette & Joan. It’s a limited series about the two actresses and their mutual hate of each other. Most of it is a behind the scenes perspective of the making of whatever happened to baby Jane. In the scene of Jane kicking Blanche Bette Davis really did kick Joan Crawford on the head requiring her to need stitches. The scene near the end of the movie where Jane dragged Blanche off the bed and out of the room to escape to the beach Joan Crawford wore a lead belt causing her costar to injure her back. Bette Davis was nominated for an Oscar but Joan Crawford was not. If she had won she would have been the first three time winner. Joan Crawford campaigned against her and she lost to Ann Bancroft for the Miracle Worker. Bancroft wasn’t able to attend. To add insult to injury Joan Crawford arranged it so she accepted the Oscar for Mrs. Bancroft. 34:25
There are some suggestions out there that Baby Jane Hudson was sexually abused by her father. I can see where that would be a possibility. If anyone has ever read the novel and knows, let me know.
What triggered Blanche do it, her agent and producer wanted her to tell Baby Jane at the party the company didn't want her anymore and that whole evening Baby Jane was making fun of Blanche and her stupid movies.
They both didn't win the Oscar, but Crawford got dolled up and accepted the Oscar for another actress who won. Davis was furious as she didn't attend. 😮😵👎🏼
Just for the record: Bette Davis herself imagined the strange make-up and hair she uses the entire picture. And about all the talks refering to their feud, Miss Davis herself, years later, said it was a little bit exagerated. They were not close friends, but they were two great professionals and treat each other with respect on and off set. ✌️
This movie started a whole sub genre of exploitation films featuring older actresses- so called “hag-sploitation” movies! Joan Crawford is unforgettable as a prostitute tempting a preacher in the pre-censorship code film “Rain” (1932). And there’s an excellent tv series “Feud” whose season one dramatizes the rivalry between Davis and Crawford and the making of “”Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.”
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford never much cared for each other. You should put Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte on your list too. It came out in 1964 and had Bette Davis looking a little better but just as much of a b****. It's pretty good too.
Yes! Crawford was originally cast in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte as well but she "dropped out" halfway through filming and Olivia de Havilland stepped in to play her role.
Tht beating er up scene tht wasn't nesasary the best part is wen she say wat am I goin to do and wen she lok at herself in mirrOR and bkurp sobbing it funny wen she says ers u money I nver dud anything she a comical actress in ds scary though
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Bette Davis should have won an Oscar for "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" No question about it!
If you love Bette Davis, try “Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte.” It’s right up your alley.
Yes indeed, gave my sister and I nightmares when we watched in the 70s.
unfortunately I never found this one on dvd and now been looking through streaming services and didn't succeed yet.
Oh 100000%!!! What a film
Bette Davis is the greatest actress of all time, the GOAT!
A BRILLIANT film from two BRILLIANT ICONS of Hollywood. Davis/Crawford.
Check her out when she first started 'Of Human Bondage', and later 'Dark Victory' and of course 'Now, Voyager'
You must watch Sunset Bouvard with Gloria Swanson and William Holden. If you loved this love you will love Sunset Bouvard. Its brilliant. I love some of these older movies, that acting can not be surpassed by todays acting because the stories they tell are written for 13 year old boys.
The ending of this movie definitely has Sunset Blvd vibes.
Agree!
Tangential to Baby Jane on other grounds is Mummy Dearest.
@@Bfdidc not to be snarky, but do you mean *Mommie Dearest,* with Faye Dunaway, or are you talking about, like, a parody or something?
@@angelagraves865 Oops. I botched that one, didn't I? I meant Mommie Dearest.
Shandor, I've seen this movie at least 20 times, but your review and assessment of the film was awesome! I especially admire your appreciation of the production - the acting, lighting, composition - it was brilliant. Thank you!
And Joan Crawford - The Women, A Woman's Face, Mildred Pierce, Sudden Fear
ITS A BRILLIANT FILM .,......so many people dont know about betty and her wonderful films .....i watched so many when i was young ....
In 1978 I saw Bette Davis in person on stage, she showed clips from her best movies and did a guestion and answer, I was so thrilled seeing her one of old Hollywood's best. I meet Edward (Victor Bouno) at a gas station in San Diego got his autograph. Love this movie thanks for the memories. Peace ✌️ Gary
Victor Bruno’s fine when he doesn’t think he’s King Tut.
Great reaction to a great movie!
I hope the following Bette Davis movies are on your list for reactions: Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Little Foxes, Jezebel, The Letter, Of Human Bondage, The Petrified Forest, Dark Victory, Now Voyager, and The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex.
If you like film noir..Double Indemnity is a must watch.Bette Davis has been my favorite actress for 40 some years.Thanks for this❤
A Great early Bette Davis Film I Love "The Letter"!
My two favorite Bette Davis movies are Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte and Dead Ringer. In Dead Ringer she plays two roles....... her and her twin. Both 1964 B&W movies..
just say twins, not her and her twin.
This movie scared me as a young adult. Wow. Brings back chills.
Dark Victory is an early Bette Davis which is worth watching. I love your reaction! My Mother used to say “and we’ll all go to the seashore!”
I love how you go through this movie. Betty Davis was a genius actress
Bette Davis is my favorite actress so I’m biased. Next, please do HUSH HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE (1964). Same director, along with 3 other actresses from Hollywood’s Golden Age going at each other. It’s a murder mystery set in a rundown plantation in the Deep South and IMO it’s an even better movie than this one and the ending is much more satisfying.
One of the gratest movies of all times. Just found this channel. Loved it as well!
Brings up memories of movies like How Awful About Allen, Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? and Whatever Happened to Aunt Alice.
Love your channel and your reactions! So glad you appreciate this film. Especially appreciating the best actress of all time, even to this day: BETTE DAVIS. Your next Bette Davis films to react to should be: 1. The Little Foxes (1941) 2. Jezebel (1938) and 3. Old Acquaintance (1943). Kudos!
New Subscriber! I really enjoyed this react. The film really blew me away when I first watched it many years ago, as the performances are so powerful and it’s such a tragic story. So sad. Bette and Joan I enjoy tremendously in films, they are so magnetic and so talented. I am off to watch your reaction to All About Eve now.
Kind regards from the U.K
🧘🏻♀️🙏🏻🧘🏻♀️
Idk if someone already mentioned the following but in 1991 there was a remake with legendary British actors and sisters Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave. Vanessa as Blanche and Lynn as Baby Jane. It was good, if not at least for great performances by those ladies. It's available on Tubi.
There's actually a recent American miniseries called Feud: Bette and Joan (2017) that follows the making of the movie as well as how the actresses were basically pitted against each other off-screen. The behind the scenes of WHTBJ is vicious.
I have been a long time Davis and Crawford fan. To me, Bette Davis best performances are these: The Little Foxes (she is SO evil she makes Baby Jane look like Bambi) and Mr. Skeffington, in which she plays a non-evil character, to absolute perfection. You cannot trully appreciate her acting talent until you see the other end of the her spectrum. On the other hand, I like Joan Crawford better because I liked her star persona which was very glamorous and over the top. She was also a great actress. Humoresque is probably one of her best perfomances and the film is a noir masterpiece.
The actress playing the neighbor daughter, is BD Davis, Bette Davis's daughter.
Surprising her acting isn’t that good. In fact, her dialogue with the woman who plays her mother is somewhat cringey
That is Joan Crawford. Davis and Crawford hated each other in true life because they were considered the two best actresses but they were in competition their whole lives
Crawford was an unstable, wicked piece of work in her private life and that unfortunately began to bleed out into her professional life as she grew older. On the contrary, Bette wasn't a hateful psycho like her co-star. Though she did lead a fiercely private life away from tabloids, she was by most accounts from those knew her a loyal friend, loving mother and overall good person away from the cameras.
Not true.
You just watched the dumb
“Fued”.
It’s a fallacy that Davis and Crawford hated each other. They actually respected each other professionally but were never friends. That trashy series Feud was a piece of fiction full of camp nonsense.
I recall them working together. No fued. But I guess if it was it would have been from Betty Davis wanting control of her own work. She was a force to be reckoned with.
You must see Dead Ringer (1964) with Bette Davis; she plays a twin; actually she plays a twin in 2 movies; also The Post Man Always Rings Twice (1946) with Lana Turner; The Bad Seed ( 1956)
You have to watch more Bette and Joan movies! Love your reactions. I would recommend Dark Victory (1939) for Bette and Possessed (1947) for Joan
The Letter, Little Foxes, Dark Victory and In This Our Life best Bette Davis films EVAH
Of human bondage and All about Eve are other great Bette Davis movies.
Good reaction to this gothic horror romp. The same director - Robert Aldrich - also directed the film noir “The Killing Of Sister George” (1968), a black comedy which centres on an actress whose world disintegrates when she is fired from her leading role in a quaint soap opera in which she plays a sweet village nurse. In real life she is an alcoholic butch lesbian in a sado-masochistic relationship with a much younger woman. The acting is superlative, the script crackling and outrageous and it’s bitter sweet in turns hilarious and poignant. I think you would enjoy it.
It's on my list now!
Seconding the suggestion you watch the multipart series Feud:Bette and Joan. Susan Sarandon does a great job as Ms Davis and Jessica Lange is transcendent as Joan Crawford. While it's truthish rather than hard fact,they definitely capture the aging actress dilemma and late old Hollywood.
Try and early Bette Davis film - Jezebel, Dark Victory, The Old Maid, The Letter, Now Voyager
What helped thier performance is that they really didn't get along
Ooh, good choice! I've only seen a few Bette Davis movies and only a couple Joan Crawford movies and this makes me want to check out more, too. Bette Davis was still alive when I was a kid so I saw a couple of her later movies when they were new (Witch Mountain and The Watcher in the Woods), and I used to watch Death on the Nile every time it came on TV. She's not the star of that one per se, it's an all star cast. As far as movies from Agatha Christie stories go it's a good one, much better than Murder on the Orient Express. And don't even bother with the Kenneth Branagh remakes, they were 👎🏽
"SUNSET BOULEVARD"
"STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE" (ANOTHER BLANCHE!!)
"HUSH, HUSH SWEET CHARLOTTE"
ANY BETTE DAVIS MOVIES!!❤❤❤❤❤
Anybody else see that Charles Adams cartoon of the Addams Family looking in on Jane Hudson torturing Blanche and turning away going this is too sick even for us?? lmao
Crawford brought the book to Davis...she thought it was a great vehicle for them both.👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
See wonderful Bette in "JEZEBEL" 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
"Petrified Forest"
"The Magnificent Ambersons"
"The Nanny"
"All About Eve"
"The Virgin Queen"
"Beyond the Forest"
"The Little Foxes"
"The Letter"
Please react to Joan Crawford in Sudden Fear. If you like film noir, I think you would enjoy it.
Fun Fact; Bette Davis and Joan Crawford couldn't stand each other in real life, its actual tv show called Feud, based on their hatred for each other, this makes the movie even better!😂
In real life when this movie was made, Bette Davis was quite attractive. She and Joan had a bit of a rivalry. It was her decision to go over the top make up and it won her accolades! I saw this movie as a child and it still makes me uncomfortable.
There is a colour version of this movie, but it has no where near as much impact as the B&W version
You should watch Feud Bette & Joan. It’s a limited series about the two actresses and their mutual hate of each other. Most of it is a behind the scenes perspective of the making of whatever happened to baby Jane. In the scene of Jane kicking Blanche Bette Davis really did kick Joan Crawford on the head requiring her to need stitches. The scene near the end of the movie where Jane dragged Blanche off the bed and out of the room to escape to the beach Joan Crawford wore a lead belt causing her costar to injure her back. Bette Davis was nominated for an Oscar but Joan Crawford was not. If she had won she would have been the first three time winner. Joan Crawford campaigned against her and she lost to Ann Bancroft for the Miracle Worker. Bancroft wasn’t able to attend. To add insult to injury Joan Crawford arranged it so she accepted the Oscar for Mrs. Bancroft. 34:25
The young blonde teen who lived next door is Better Davis daughter in real life.
Really? That's cool!
There are some suggestions out there that Baby Jane Hudson was sexually abused by her father. I can see where that would be a possibility. If anyone has ever read the novel and knows, let me know.
What triggered Blanche do it, her agent and producer wanted her to tell Baby Jane at the party the company didn't want her anymore and that whole evening Baby Jane was making fun of Blanche and her stupid movies.
They both didn't win the Oscar, but Crawford got dolled up and accepted the Oscar for another actress who won. Davis was furious as she didn't attend. 😮😵👎🏼
Nice video
Just for the record: Bette Davis herself imagined the strange make-up and hair she uses the entire picture. And about all the talks refering to their feud, Miss Davis herself, years later, said it was a little bit exagerated. They were not close friends, but they were two great professionals and treat each other with respect on and off set. ✌️
You saw the accident getting hit in front of gate
This guy doesn't even mention Joan Crawford in the intro!?
I don’t think he knew! He was surprised to see her name in the opening credits.
@@Divamarja_CA Exactly!
"Ratburger"- don't give Baby Jane any ideas!
B&W on purpose, adds that sinister quality.
This movie started a whole sub genre of exploitation films featuring older actresses- so called “hag-sploitation” movies!
Joan Crawford is unforgettable as a prostitute tempting a preacher in the pre-censorship code film “Rain” (1932).
And there’s an excellent tv series “Feud” whose season one dramatizes the rivalry between Davis and Crawford and the making of “”Whatever Happened to Baby Jane.”
The title reminds me of a great comedy What About Bob.
Where are you from (your accent)?
I'm from Hungary.
so, "Shandor" is that Hungarian?
Yes. Actually it's "Sándor", but then people would mispronounce it.
@@shandoratthecinema4098 I understand. I'm somewhat of an amateur linguist. Bust I only know a few basic phrases of Hungarian.
Bette Davis and Joan Crawford never much cared for each other. You should put Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte on your list too. It came out in 1964 and had Bette Davis looking a little better but just as much of a b****. It's pretty good too.
Yes! Crawford was originally cast in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte as well but she "dropped out" halfway through filming and Olivia de Havilland stepped in to play her role.
Tht beating er up scene tht wasn't nesasary the best part is wen she say wat am I goin to do and wen she lok at herself in mirrOR and bkurp sobbing it funny wen she says ers u money I nver dud anything she a comical actress in ds scary though