Here, here, ""anastasia46!" Today's actors and actresses, whether on film and in television or from the stage, truly do not speak with the same eloquence and precise diction as the actors and actresses of yesteryear. For one thing, without the Hollywood studio system to provide lessons in elocution and enunciation, and private schools as well public school systems no longer providing a rigorous curriculum of classical scholarship, professional actors today are products of largely incompetent educational systems more concerned with social engineering and private or public babysitting than in actual imparting of significant knowledge. Thus actors today not only do not know how to speak correctly, they also often do not know of what they speak. In television productions especially, the dialogue involving younger characters is delivered as a series of run-on sentences, paying no mind to the existence of punctuation. Incoherent mumbling spoken in a rapid fire manner does not communicate effectively. And in stage plays with most productions now reliant upon headsets to make the dialogue and monologues audible, actors and actress are no longer learning how to project their voices so they may heard in the distant orchestra seats, let alone in the second and third balconies of a theater. Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier and their likes would be turning in their graves if they could hear and see what has happened to their once fairly competent profession.
Amoungst being a BRILLIANT actress & a wonderful humanitarian- her Manners are impeccable..A very interesting lady- have always loved her, too bits xxx
Thank-you thank-you for posting this. It's far and away the best documentary ever done on Bette Davis. Leave it to the BBC to nicely cover one of America's greatest screen legends. Meanwhile A & E (and gag me please) the Lifetime television network, tragically failed to even find a pulse.
Sorry its off topic but what is the best marilyn monroe documentary just want to know since i hate how marilyn documentaries interview the most pro women GS or most pro men HH about marilyn.
Thank you soooooooooooooo much for posting this! I adore Bette shes my favourite old hollywood actress, what a lady. The Letter and Jezebel are 2 of the best movies ever made! She was just incredible in both! Again thanks so much for posting much appreciated! :)
Bette was more of an actress and Kate more of a personality. Kate was herself (and amazing) in her movies. She told Peter O’Toole that she never acted, she just spoke the lines. Bette tore into it!!
i love her voice. i always thought she was gorgeous. the old hollywood stars were so much better than what we have today.
Here, here, ""anastasia46!" Today's actors and actresses, whether on film and in television or from the stage, truly do not speak with the same eloquence and precise diction as the actors and actresses of yesteryear.
For one thing, without the Hollywood studio system to provide lessons in elocution and enunciation, and private schools as well public school systems no longer providing a rigorous curriculum of classical scholarship, professional actors today are products of largely incompetent educational systems more concerned with social engineering and private or public babysitting than in actual imparting of significant knowledge. Thus actors today not only do not know how to speak correctly, they also often do not know of what they speak.
In television productions especially, the dialogue involving younger characters is delivered as a series of run-on sentences, paying no mind to the existence of punctuation. Incoherent mumbling spoken in a rapid fire manner does not communicate effectively.
And in stage plays with most productions now reliant upon headsets to make the dialogue and monologues audible, actors and actress are no longer learning how to project their voices so they may heard in the distant orchestra seats, let alone in the second and third balconies of a theater.
Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier and their likes would be turning in their graves if they could hear and see what has happened to their once fairly competent profession.
I could listen to this woman's voice for days... Looooove Bette Davis
I cannot describe how much I love and admire this woman!
Amoungst being a BRILLIANT actress & a wonderful humanitarian- her Manners are impeccable..A very interesting lady- have always loved her, too bits xxx
That voice..that look.....that walk.....incomparable
Thank-you thank-you for posting this. It's far and away the best documentary ever done on Bette Davis. Leave it to the BBC to nicely cover one of America's greatest screen legends. Meanwhile A & E (and gag me please) the Lifetime television network, tragically failed to even find a pulse.
Sorry its off topic but what is the best marilyn monroe documentary just want to know since i hate how marilyn documentaries interview the most pro women GS or most pro men HH about marilyn.
Thank you soooooooooooooo much for posting this! I adore Bette shes my favourite old hollywood actress, what a lady. The Letter and Jezebel are 2 of the best movies ever made! She was just incredible in both! Again thanks so much for posting much appreciated! :)
love listening to her speak 😊
Great Bette!
My favorite actress of all times.
Always thought Bette was 10X more fun to watch than Hepburn
La Extraña Pasajera
nonsense.
I agree totally 100%
Bette was more of an actress and Kate more of a personality. Kate was herself (and amazing) in her movies. She told Peter O’Toole that she never acted, she just spoke the lines. Bette tore into it!!
@@thomstephens Yes: but Kate did win 4 Oscars
LOVE YOU,LOVE YOU, LOVE YOU for this! Thanksssssss
Thanks for this posting I am it will be enjoyable !!
Bette had appeared on Broadway along with Mr. George Arliss in "The man who played GOD", before going to Hollywood.
They certainly do not have actresses like this anymore with the exception of Meryl Streep
Here she is looking like the Brazilian actress Fernanda Montenegro.
And Kate Winslet
@2504marcus Hello :-))))))
Benevolent is questionable !