Bette Davis And Peggy Wood 1972 Interview - PART 1 | The Dick Cavett Show

Actresses Bette Davis (All About Eve, Jezebel) and Peggy Wood (The Sound Of Music, MAMA) sit down with Dick Cavett to discuss their personal and professional journeys in part 1 of this FULL rare and exclusive interview.
What's your favorite Bette Davis or Peggy Wood movie? Tell us in the comments!
Date aired - May 15th, 1972 - Bette Davis, Peggy Wood
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.
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What's your favorite Bette Davis or Peggy Wood movie? Tell us in the comments!

[@johnaspinall5457]

Any chance you can have your KZbin channel dig out late December 29th 1969 interview with Robert Shaw and Woody Allen? I’d be interested to see who they interacted together. Best wishes

[@YoreHistory]

I LOVE "What about Eve"...Bette is just so good in that.

[@lapislazuli7876]

@@YoreHistoryAll About Eve, The Letter and Now Voyager are my favourites. Haven’t seen enough of Peggy Wood to say. Just know her in Sound of Music as mother superior. But she had a huge career way before that.

[@JohnRobie]

Dick Cavett is still with us. What an amazing host and interviewer.

[@lapislazuli7876]

And So handsome

[@Texaslawhorn]

​@@lapislazuli7876 Yes. He looked great in those suits. I think Bette found him cute. I enjoy all of her interviews with Dick.

[@Luzanne.]

Davis’s laugh is everything!

[@lapislazuli7876]

He was so charming and sexy.

[@aimeestorrie9256]

Love Bette Davis interviews

[@michaelverbakel7632]

I never knew that Bette Davis really did any theatre or stage work, just films or television. I only heard that she publicly performed only one Broadway play many years earlier and the show basically bombed and that turned her off theatre. Since then that she lived in New York she probably saw a lot of the theatre shows.

[@VladSicoe]

The way these two ladies speak is so classy and elegant, I love it.

[@lapislazuli7876]

I love how they wear gloves and carry their handbags on stage!!!!!! It’s incredible!!! Actresses now are so tacky and cheap the way they dress, speak and behave. This is a masterclass in how to do interviews and speak in a public forum

[@cindymaceda2999]

Now, on talk shows, actresses try to show as much skin as possible and make sure they use a four-letter word in the interview. 😢

[@cindymaceda2999]

I’m binging on Bette Davis interviews and am loving it ! Can’t get enough wisdom.

[@lapislazuli7876]

What Peggy says about luck is so true. I’ve often thought so many people in films are really quite mediocre and yet somehow they’re famous. And yet I know lots of other people who were far more talented and better looking. It really is mostly luck, and also these days that luck is about nepotism. More and more actors these days are only in films and famous because they have famous parents and families. That used to only be the case occasionally. But now, almost everyone you see on screen is there because of who they slept with, or born to, or married to. Nepotism rules Hollywood.

[@frankspencer7504]

Bette Davis mannerism's are everything

[@doninvictoria]

Please keep posting these: you are forever young🖖

[@lapislazuli7876]

Dick Cavett’s blonde combover & hairstyle and Bette’s blonde combover pageboy wig look almost identical!!!!!! 😂

[@brianrodney712]

" Don't put your daughter on the stage, Mrs. Worthington " is a song, words and music, by Noel Coward

[@elizabethgalligan1805]

I always thought peggy wood was British. She has a nice transatlantic accent 😊👍

[@lapislazuli7876]

Even American actors spoke that way back then. Now they all sound like hookers and very common.

[@cindymaceda2999]

Everyone who was educated spoke with this accent in those days. It was the correct way of speaking in polite society. Unfortunately, nowadays, Americans feel they have to use 4-letter words in every comment.

[@brettdavis6884]

Remember when people had class?

[@cindymaceda2999]

Trump released the forces of the underclasses.

[@johnaspinall5457]

Any chance you can have your KZbin channel dig out late December 29th 1969 interview with Robert Shaw and Woody Allen? I’d be interested to see who they interacted together. Best wishes

[@jamesriccardo2225]

"We have a little surprise for you, Bette." "DON'T YOU DARE!" with the cigarette hanging out of her mouth 😅

[@andrelemire9915]

💛💛💛🌟🌟🌟

[@grokeffer6226]

👍👍👍

[@marcchristie180]

Thanks for sharing. Any chance you can share footage with original commercials? Kind of creates a nice time capsule.

[@cindymaceda2999]

Dick Cavett, if you are reading this, if Reincarnation really happens, I would like to come back as you in my next life.

[@01zegar]

Bette had to be after a party :) look at her eyes :)

[@cindymaceda2999]

Bette Davis Eyes. 👁️👁️

[@cayetano-fd6kh]

Her eyelids and lower part of the eyes are very puffy and swollen. She probably worked hard but partied hard too.. This is 1972; She was only 62 or 63 years old.. Today they would have fixed her eyes and skin so well.. Her dry wrinkle skin was the result of years of smoking cigarettes, a carcinogen to our delicate human health.

[@cayetano-fd6kh]

@cindymaceda2999: "Bette Davis Eyes". A nice 1981 hit song by Kim Carnes.

[@stevemacchia5782]

Bette is thin here but so stylish.

[@saugusguy]

Better outshines peggy... But realistically no matter who she's on a stage with she always seems to dominate

[@DavidCollans]

Your quite right as regards bette as.being dominant..but she.was,a great actress from Hollywood if not the best one she would nót let the producer push her around az would happen to most.female stars at that time she could really act. 😊 Bést 😊

[@DavidCollans]

She will always Be remember as the most talented,actress in hóllywood 😊

[@thehandsofstone]

Bettys cigarettes aged her

[@fifthbusiness1678]

Nah ... it’s just that she’s not wearing her trademark glasses.

[@cynthiacurrie5589]

Not at all, in my opinion. She always looked much younger than her age. She outshone other actresses due to her vibrant personality and magnetism. She didn't look and seem old until the terrible book B.D. wrote--Bette adored her daughter and never criticized her, even after the book.

[@LaDivinaLover]

It’s not the cigarettes it was the whiskey.

[@lapislazuli7876]

@@cynthiacurrie5589I don’t agree. Bette is 64 here but looks a bit older. In those days people looked older than they do now. Think of how Helen Mirren or Meryl Streep and those actresses look these days in comparison. It’s true that plastic surgery is rife now. That’s not to say Bette isn’t amazing or charismatic but she did drink a lot apparently, and was a chain smoker. But that’s what created her chic look. I love how she dresses. Bette was super chic. Love the smooth pageboy bob hair here in this interview. Her combover pageboy hair and Dick’s combover hair almost look identical!!!

[@tapper701]

Sometime after this Bette had a facelift & eye bags removed. Look her up in interviews during the 1980's ...@@lapislazuli7876

[@yvonnedobell8793]

Bette davis doesn't look that good there, she has big bags under her eyes, but in an interview in 1977, she looked fabulous, maybe she had a little work done?