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Home › Entertainment

HerTube | 10/06/2008 12:00 am

HerTube: Remembering Bette Davis (Video)

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis died on this day in 1989. wOw celebrates this brilliant woman’s life with a tribute video by Meryl Streep. Click on the play button below to watch.



Read more about: Bette Davis, Celebrities, Film, HerTube, In Memoriam, Meryl Streep, Video

21 Reader Comments (so far…) Sign In or Register to comment

f p
“I’d luv to kiss ya, but I just washed my hair.” What a great line—what a great actress.
By f p on 10/06/2008 12:18 am
Kryssi K
Meryl + Bette = Perfection. Too bad they never got to work together. Dark Victory is one of the most beautiful stories in cinematic history. Definitely my fav Bette performance. I should post photos of all the Bette posters and memorabilia I have in my room. Or maybe not - it gets pretty scary. LOL
By Kryssi K on 10/06/2008 12:25 am
f p
Meryl and Bette—that either would have been a great film or a volcanic eruption of epic proportions :-)
By f p on 10/06/2008 12:39 am
Kryssi K
Hey, if Davis and Crawford can make Baby Jane work, ANYTHING IS POSSIBLE!
By Kryssi K on 10/06/2008 12:50 am
f p
no kidding—lololol
By f p on 10/06/2008 12:57 am
Kryssi K
By the way - wOw - this video does NOT seem to be showing up! I’ve tried it in Mozilla and IE, while all the other videos posted on this site DO work, so…there may be a bug that needs to be fixed. I only knew which vid this is because I HAPPENED to discover it myself a couple nights ago on YouTube - how many Bette tributes narrated by Meryl could there possibly be?
By Kryssi K on 10/06/2008 2:23 am
Mommy Dearest
Kryssi dahling, the video isn’t working because I don’t WANT it to work. Who wants to look at that old hack, anyway?
By Mommy Dearest on 10/06/2008 10:58 am
Kryssi K
Love your work, Joanie Dearest, you were a bit underrated as a more realistic/subtle actor of your time (in fact, YOU deserved an Oscar for Baby Jane). But as far as looks go, one word - tweezer. You were so radiantly femme in the 20s and 30s, what happened?!
By Kryssi K on 10/06/2008 4:18 pm
Mommy Dearest
I REALLY don’t take criticism well, Kryssi dahling, but since it’s first thing in the morning and I just finished icing my pores, I’ll say this. Eyebrows are such an important part of facial expressions, don’t you think, dear? And as our eyesight dims over the years, well we tend to possibly emphasize what we are unable to see as well. You young ungrateful women will get your time, too, dahling. So don’t let’s criticize mommie, now, and grab a toothbrush and let’s start scouring the bathroom, shall we?
By Mommy Dearest on 10/07/2008 10:18 am
phyllis Doyle Pepe
This video is not operating, however, I don’t need a video to remember Bette Davis who fought for her rights in the motion picture business and pretty much got what she wanted. Kryssi, you mentioned Dark Victory. When I was in high school I took a segment of that play for my declamation in a regional contest; I won, thanks in large part, I think, in my ability to deliver it as close to Davis as possible. Besides “Now Voyager”, another favorite film of mine is “Mr. Skeffington” with Claude Rains, a superb actor if there ever was one. Davis played Fanny: loud, brittle, and precious, like fluorescent Ming porcelain. In the course of the story, which runs from the outbreak of the First World War to the later stages of the Second, she ages from an ingénue with a herd of frustrated admirers to a rattled doll in a wig. Young Fanny marries Job Skeffington (Rains) for money rather than love, and it takes her the rest of the movie to switch her priorities. (Her shrink explains, “That’s where a husband comes in––when your romantic days are over.”) The interesting part of this film is the fact that Skeffington is a Jew and encounters prejudice at home and near-destruction abroad. Rains vs. Davis: it’s a great match of opposites, and the final scene is, rightly and movingly, an honorable tie.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 10/06/2008 8:10 am
georgia fatwood
Good job, Phyllis! Does your weekly local paper have a spot for a movie reviewer?critic? Polish your resume, girl! Used to be they paid by the line…..
By georgia fatwood on 10/06/2008 8:44 am
phyllis Doyle Pepe
Ah, Georgia, my ripe, fragrant peach of a gal–––I’d ask you the same question in terms of a column of some kind. For me, I’m through with deadlines, with pressures, with pay checks and play mates–––I make my own bread when the yeast takes hold. Can you imagine being a film critic nowadays? You’d have to watch these inane films that soar at the box office; the masses don’t seem to flock to the small independent films that I would be interested in. Thanks, but no thanks as someone said about a bridge somewhere.
By phyllis Doyle Pepe on 10/06/2008 10:11 am
Rho
I cannot see the video either. Bette was my favorite of all time. Glad it’s not just me, I was beginning to think it was my computer. Hopefully it will be fixed.
By Rho on 10/06/2008 10:31 am
Mommy Dearest
I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a note of hearty approval.
By Mommy Dearest on 10/06/2008 10:38 am
Kryssi K
Come on, admit it. You two didn’t get along because you were TOO MUCH ALIKE. I bet you even secretly respected each other on some level. ;-)
By Kryssi K on 10/06/2008 3:10 pm
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