Silent Star Billie Dove on Her Success, Her Loves and Her Career
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- Опубликовано: 2 дек 2020
- The talented and legendary Billie Dove worked through a bout of laryngitis in 1995 to discuss her time in the Ziegfeld follies, as well as her career as a silent actress into early pre-Code movies, working with Clara Bow, Douglas Fairbanks, Chester Morris, director Lois Weber and her romantic relationship with Howard Hughes.
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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.
Have you shared any pictures of it online? I'd love to see!
Wow
Are they for sale
More of these archival interviews, please! These voices give such valuable insight into the formation of the Hollywood that we know today.
AGREED!!!!!!! I LOVE THEM TOO!!!!
Well said and well put !
Agreed
I encourage all to watch the life and career of Billie Dove. She was such a huge star
Where's Robert Osborne when we needed him? This interviewer was beneath that which Miss Dove deserved.
She is so crass and loud & makes Billie look even more gentle and calm
Agreed! 100%. So crass.
Eeek! That interviewer's voice was like listening to clashing symbols!
Ms Dove is so sweet, I would have talked with her for days :)
Could not agree more.
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!
Did you ? Where was it held .. what connection do u have to this legend ??
Billie Holiday's favorite actress and guess where Eleanora Fagin chose her show biz moniker...
@@rkomgm3932 Billie Dove died on December 31, 1997. Her funeral was held about a week later at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, CA. She was laid to rest in a crypt next to her father. Her exact place of rest is Freedom Mausoleum, Sanctuary of Freedom, Crypt 21796.
A few days after her passing I joined a group of friends who were given a private tour of the cemetery. The gentleman conducting the tour showed us the final resting places of many famous entertainment celebrities. I mentioned to this gentleman that Ms. Dove had recently died and asked if he knew where she was going to be laid to rest. He said, "Here. Her funeral is next week and it's open to the public. Would you like to go?" I said yes. So he and I went. We were among only about a dozen other people who attended the funeral.
The afore mentioned article by Michael G. Ankerich is titled "The Flight of the Elusive Dove" and appeared in the June 1994 issue of _Classic Images._ I also recommend the book _At the Center of the Frame: Leading Ladies of the Twenties and Thirties_ by William M. Drew. There is a lengthy chapter on Billie Dove in it. Some of the illustrations used in the chapter came from my collection.
@@jknuttel thank
you so much for your reply !!
Most informative !
What illustrations do you have ?
@@rkomgm3932 What was used in the book by William M. Drew was a lobby card from the 1924 Technicolor western _Wanderer of the Wasteland_ (sadly, a lost film) and a shot of Billie in aviation garb standing next an airplane. I have stills from some of her other films in my collection. There is a good bit of Billie Dove memorabilia out there.
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.
It's not easy, with elderly people, whose minds are on a different track.
Agree. If you have Billie Dove for an interview, and she comes prepare with photos and stuff... let her talk all day! Later edit the interview. But all we hear is someone yelling at her and confusing her even more. A shame. Billie was great!
Billie Dove is a lovely lady. So much remembrance and captivating story presentation.
Lucky young lady whom was able to interview this graceful woman.
That woman has interviewed many, many celebrities and always with the same brash, harsh, uninformed, ignorant method. What a horror!
My goodness, she is adorable!! 😍
What a gentle, beautiful soul. I could never see her angry. A calm, sweet spirit. Bless her, she's with Angels now. 💘
Beautifully said.
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?
Billie starred in "The Roughneck"(1924), and I've got several of its lobby cards. What a natural beauty!
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!
Elegant and very talenter actress. Very interesting interview.
I agree 100 per cent !
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 😊
Class act,could listen to her for hours❤️
I heartily concur.
She was fantastic.
what an enchanting woman. I could listen to her for hours. Lovely interview
She was still beautiful
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
It is beautiful to see such wonderful actress.
Indubitably !
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 !
Exactly. She's practically yelling
No class, and she has no love for this actress, either. She ain't giving her nothin!
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.
What a lovely woman. Felt like the interviewer didn't show her enough respect.
The interviewer is appalling. She ruins the interview by asking questions in such a classless, rude manner.
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
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
Wonderful interview with a bright star of the silent screen,
So true.
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.
My Grandfather evidently had a huge crush on Miss Dove.
Your grandfather had good taste.
This was nice,, A Real Classic Hollywood Silent Movie STAR...
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.
It’s so wonderful to hear about her career in her own words! Please post more of these interviews!
I certainly have a notion to second THAT emotion !
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)💃💃💃🐏🐏📺🎥🎥🎥🎬🎬🎬🎬🎬🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🎙🎙👤
A couple of corrections. If Billie Dove was born in 1903, she would have been mostly in her 20's in the 1920's and in her 60's in the 1960's and early 1970's. Thank you.
Such rare and fascinating footage!
Indeed !
This is who Billie Holiday named herself after when she changed her name from Eleanora Fagan for the stage.
That Holiday named herself for Billie Dove was the reason I wanted to understand better who she was. 🙏🏼
Obsessed with her story. So good
What a blessing Thankyou and such an incredible woman her life was so amazing 😻
She was a classy lady.
That's for sure !
The interviewer is too intrusive.
The dreadful interviewer is the small price to pay for wonderful stories otherwise untold.
... 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....
I think this is the same interviewer who was recording interviews with several stars around 1995 and 1996, including Lizabeth Scott and Jane Wyman and Anita Page. She is not a skilled interviewer and her voice is grating, but her subjects were always gracious.
She'd probably been told to speak way up for Ms. Dove's hearing. Also, Ms. Dove was losing her place. Also, she did not think her questions would be used, only the answers. But more importantly, this interview was conducted 25 years ago, and you're here yelling at a person to stop doing interviews ...
@@matthewrettenmund8358 Agree. I'd bet that the more involved re-directions were edited out. This is a LONG interview....with so much interesting....unique information about Billie's time on the stage and on film.
@@matthewrettenmund8358 why do Madonna fans always find each other on random silent movie star interview videos.
What a terrible, strident interviewer who displays no class or understanding or patience-- and zero warmth towards such a gentle lady... really ruins it.
This interviewer was probably edited out anyway. They do that a lot. The final cut will be just a collection of clips of the person interviewed, telling their stories and recollections.
agree 1st thing I noticed, just a fact collector
it's like imagine your worst nightmare of an interviewer and then get someone that mimics them that is even worse....just dreadful....so dumb and disrespectful to this lovely lady....tragic...
I thought the very same and found her voice just grating on the ears. Such an annoying person makes you long for finishing and charm schools to be a staple of social developement.
HOW can you, who KNOW NOTHING about interviewing, call the interviewer "terrible'? AS MUCH as we would like to HEAR 70 YEARS of memories, it's just NOT LOGICAL! BE GRATEFUL for what we DID get to hear!
THANKS BILLIE, THANKS 2MILL. UPLOADER!!!!!!!
GREAT ACTRESS!!!!!!!
Back when WOMEN/LADIES were JUST THAT! CLASS! INTELLIGENCE!!!
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
I wonder if she ever wrote her book?
What a beautiful lady su h warmth
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!
She contrasts with Louise Brooks who said Clara was a social pariah. She said Clara was socially unacceptable. She said, "we were friends".
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.
The interviewer is shouting at the lady, which is very disrespectful and unptofessional.
ruclips.net/video/1SqFDB72jKo/видео.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.
This interviewer is totally inept.
wonderful interview and lady. However, in spite of having been an incredible beauty, she kind of reminds me of Beulah Bondi..
The interviewer is shouting at her. Not acceptable on any level.
If they ever do a biopic, Jessica Lange could do this part, no contest!
Jessica Lange? A lovely actress to be sure, but I think she would be a little too old now.
@@jknuttel You are right. I just thought she looked like her, and they seem to have some of the same qualities.
@@watershedbarbie9685 Quite frankly, the only contemporary actress I can think of whose beauty is on the level of Billie Dove is Bollywood star Aishwarya Rai…but that's just my opinion.
@@jknuttel I will look her up. Thanks!
@@jknuttel Whoa. She got covid!
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
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 )
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"?
I believe that when this program aired, the questions were cut and narration led into the answers only. This is a “rough cut” so to speak. In regards to her giving disingenuous answers, she did not come From our “let’s be real” era, society in her day was all about keeping up appearances. She was a child of Victorians as much as a flapper. Not to mention the culture at the time of ultra fluffy studio publicity. Nothing is real with stars
Poor interview skills by an untalented, extremely rude interviewer. BE. QUIET. AND. LISTEN.
Why is the interviewer screaming at Billie Dove?
She's not on mic. Billie is mic'd, so the interviewer is shouting to be picked up on the mic.
She was 92 at the time and the interviewer wasn't mic'd so probably couldn't hear as well.
@@RowantheHearingAssistDog Not to mention the interviewer is lousy.
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."
?
You must be VERY young. You should discuss the past firsthand with people who lived through it. Women have been "working" long before the 1970s... under sexist rules and pay... but employed, nonetheless.
@@richarddixon7855 The concept that women were (and are) paid less than men is a canard. A lie that has been refuted over and over again.
As a retired educator myself, having taught 10,000 students over 36 years, I can attest your teachers were under informed in telling their students that women were not allowed to work prior to the 1970s. That is simply hogwash!
@@richarddixon7855 Indeed. My grandmother was a pediatrist with her own practice in the 1950s. and she wasn't considered all that unusual.
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.
Actually, she was a bigger star than you'd think
@@scotnick59 Yes, she was a huge star.
She was a big star!
Hush it... You know nothing
She looks nothing like her younger self. Appears to be bad plastic surgery. I enjoyed listening to her.
She was 92! She looked lovely for her age.
@@MrMd217 absolutely, and she had such inner beauty and grace that really comes through in this interview. I'd be happy to look half as nice in my seventies!
The interviewer is so rude and so wrong for Billie. Disrespectful to this ladies age and dignity.
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.
This is a woman in her 90's! Looks pretty great to me. She was a beauty when she was young.
@@marygoodson4920 Dig that heavy gold necklace that is probably 24-karat gold!
@@nonenoneonenonenone I love her statement necklace as well!!! It’s soooo fabulous and Art Deco in style. Women of that generation had such taste and style in the way they accessorised. I love how she’s wearing it over a beautiful sunflower yellow turtle neck sweater. She looks so chic. This is in contrast to the way so many stars now wear plunging necklines down to the waist and expose themselves completely and inappropriately. There is so little modesty these days.
Wtf Is wrong with people. Disrespecting someone's life story