Bette Davis and Robert Wise, Oscars 1987

[@BillXWarren]

This was after one of her strokes; it was an act of immense courage for her to appear on the show at all.

[@stephenrafter1980]

I don't think so.

[@scootergreen3]

Yes, you are right.

[@JeromeGentes]

Ah, Bette. I remember watching this live, and looking at it now, how the audience showed their respect by letting her be her.

[@trippytrellis7033]

Me, too. I think Bette was heavily medicated. This was her last Oscar appearance before she died two yrs later. Great actress.😷

[@auntiedionne5333]

William looked a bit 'Hurt' though, when he didn't get his name called.

[@SymphonyBrahms]

The Oscar audience saw a legend that night. The greatest film actress of all time. The great Bette Davis.

[@BLTKellys]

Barbara Stanwyck was better than her.

[@nengaidah8380]

@@BLTKellys at least she's better than you!

[@diegoalcantara3645]

​@@BLTKellysdebes estar drogado para decir semejante estupidez

[@fortunecat4735]

​@@BLTKellysnobody asked about your opinion. This is a video about Bette, not Barbara. But I'm sorry everyone who has a brain knows that Bette Davis will always be the best actress of all time.

[@BLTKellys]

@@fortunecat4735 she was a scenery chewing ham. Stanwyck was worth ten of her.

[@lucasbulhoes]

TOTALLY AMAZING! BETTE DAVIS COULD DO ANYTHING SHE WANTED!!! HAHAHA!!! NOBODY COULD EVER THINK OF SHUTTING UP THAT LEGEND!!!

[@icaliver]

At this point of her life, She wasn’t there to present, she was there to PRESIDE 👑

[@gdntsweetheart]

BETTE DAVIS...My favorite and best actress of all time!...Great movies...she can never be replaced.

[@sharoninglima1217]

The legend Bette Davis. My favorite!!! 💜💜

[@kathrynbellerose3925]

Pure talent. No comparison in Hollywood today. RIP, Bette.

[@727angelo]

Bette Davis, was a legend, the biggest and best star hollywood ever produced. Just for her to agree to do this was an event and honor for everybody to witness her appearance. She is old and probably on various medications. People were lucky just to see her that night!!!!!

[@rickyparrilla2426]

A Legend. A Legend. Have to say it twice because that word gets thrown around a little to much today.. What a strong presence as a young and mature woman. Bless you Betty. RIP.

[@RenanCMaia]

Paul Newman was so tired of losing that he didn't even attend. It was his seventh nomination.

[@slc2466]

I think Newman thought they were going to do it to him again and pick Hoskins, who was probably his biggest threat that year.

[@robertosucci1151]

Ironically enough he did not show up for him winning. He was damn good in a lot if films

[@patbulfin5459]

I think he was directing a new version of the glass menagerie.

[@JackCoxx]

Of what I saw Hoskins was the best of those 5 but my god Newman should have had it much earlier in his career. Well Deserved.@@slc2466

[@stevenvoorhees3107]

As I remember, Paul thought not attending the ceremony would bring good luck. He may've attended the ceremony each time he'd been nominated (8 nominations overall). Ironically, just one year before, Paul was awarded an honorary Oscar (as the late Joel Siegel put it, an honorary statuette is the Academy's way of saying "i'm sorry."). This had happened before. In 1981 Henry Fonda won his first and only competitive Oscar for ON GOLDEN POND. The year BEFORE -- in 1980 -- an honorary Oscar was bestowed upon him.

[@1justice2012]

I love to hear Bette Davis speak, she had more to say than all of the actors that were there.

[@edkeaton1085]

It was so great to see Paul Newman finally win his first Academy Award for Best Actor for a role that he had been nominated in the same category for 25 years ago in "The Hustler" which was "Fast Eddie Felson". Newman couldn't have played the character any better than in "The Color of Money" (1986), opposite Tom Cruise. His performance was awesome and memorable! 😊😎

[@sdkelmaruecan2907]

Yep but its another case of sympathy/overdue Oscar that took the place of a more deserving one... Hoskins had won in every award he was nominated for... except that one. He was truly phenomenal in "Mona Lisa".

[@jacobsaunders3963]

@@sdkelmaruecan2907 no Paul Newman was phenomenal and deserved it

[@MrS98VAC]

How did she not win the oscar for Baby Jane ? How ????????

[@drstrangelove6558]

Beacuse Mrs. Bancroft was a better choice that year. Davis as Jane was a really an Amazing performance dont get me wrong on that, buut she could nt just be as good as an charcter who attacked the title role. :)

[@nondescript2892]

because they preferred acting and subtlety over high camp ? just a guess ...

[@bduhe219]

a.k.a. overacting. i do not think Bette overacted, she played it exaggerated because the character was exaggerated. she is from a different acting school/style. the old school actors are not "method actors" as we see so many today. it is an obvious portrayal of a character, as opposed to these in the "method", which is a much more "realistic" approach to a character. one makes themselves that character by drawing from one's own experiences to relate to the character's feeling, emotions, predicament. the old way, was much more overplayed, because these screen actors came for the stage. it is a different way to play a character.

[@gatewayski1]

Miss Davis was genius in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? and she has given dozens of great screen performances, yet, Miss Bancroft was absolutely brilliant as Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker, and I have to say, Miss Bancroft deserved/earned her Oscar for that film.

[@martianboy]

Its a shame it wasn't a tie with Anne Bancroft - both were terrific performances for different reasons...Joan Crawford campaigned against Bette didn't she?

[@brexitannia9703]

My all time favourite actress absolutely brilliant made of strong stuff no one can touch her.

[@lakevubud]

Bette was being Polite in waiting for the individual applause to die down after she read the nominee's name. She was right to do so. However the TV DIRECTOR panicked with the timing and cut off her mike making her look off track. And she was further being polite in Introducing Robert Wise. It doesn't even matter. Bette being the queen of Hollywood deserved better respect from a tv director.

[@stephenrafter1980]

She is treated the same as everyone else. And rightly so. She wanted more camera time to herself. She would go on all night long if she wasn't cut off and cost the academy hundreds of thousand pounds. She was a media addict

[@MbartM96]

@@stephenrafter1980 I think you’ll find she gave the industry more than they could repay. She was a Star with a capital S. Not to mention she had recovered from multiple strokes before this, and her speech was slowed by this.

[@auntiedionne5333]

I was wondering why we didn't hear her announce the rest of the names!

[@1justice2012]

Is obvious you don't know anything about Betty Davis, she had a couple of strokes, is a miracle she got to walk and talk again, that's the reason why she drag her words, but her mind was very sharp. We all enjoy watching Betty D. except for you.

[@somethingsomeone5305]

What?

[@Kathleen-gl5wh]

'Bette' Davis

[@auntiedionne5333]

Who are you talking to, dear? We're all loving her here along with you?

[@Carpenterdane]

Aw.....that was very nice and respectful of her.

[@tiffsaver]

Robert Wise was one of my favorite directors of all time. He directed so many great, seminal American films, that if you look up his contributions, you will be AMAZED. RIP.

[@AlanCanon2222]

Agreed, it seems he could turn his hand to any genre and put out a mature, well crafted picture. I have seen about a dozen of his pictures, and the rest are all on my bucket list. Klaatu Borada Nikto!

[@tiffsaver]

@@AlanCanon2222 Klaatu, Borada, Nikto, my brother!!!

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@tiffsaver I even like his Star Trek movie. Growing up, we were always at church when the show was broadcast in re-runs, so Star Trek: The Motion Picture was the first piece of Star Trek that I got to see all the way through. It's an intelligent film, and I don't mind its slow pacing. More 2001 than it was Star Wars. I have a great deal of affection for it to this day.

[@AlanCanon2222]

@@tiffsaver I even like his Star Trek movie. Growing up, we were always at church when the show was broadcast in re-runs, so Star Trek: The Motion Picture was the first piece of Star Trek that I got to see all the way through. It's an intelligent film, and I don't mind its slow pacing. More 2001 than it was Star Wars. I have a great deal of affection for it to this day.

[@tiffsaver]

@@AlanCanon2222 This guy even directed one of the greatest sci fi movies of all time, "The Day The Earth Stood Still"!!! He was a GIANT.

[@sararshleweet90]

Bette Davis is one in a million, a very special lady and one of my role models

[@KingTriton1837]

She was incredible!!! Very sharp and poissd and such an awesome sense of humor!

[@CamnayR24]

Well the fact that she could still get up there and get through that is amazing. Seeing that she passed away shortly two years after this explains a lot. She was great though.

[@michaelmuldowney8]

The late Bob Hoskins tells the story that himself James Woods, Dexter Gordon and William Hurt spent much of the show in the bar drinking toasts to Paul Newman. He says he was glad he didn't win as he was in no state to make any sort of speech

[@pablovandernayar5087]

Michael Muldowney e

[@temitm7500]

He or she???

[@lorrainetavares1753]

@@temitm7500 I thought the SAME as you & I absolutely loved Bette Davis: but she & Joan Crawford were obviously men & they literally hated each other & were constant rivals!! JC was insanely jealous of BD & also EXTREMELY CRUEL to the helpless children she adopted: including in his will!!! This transgendering has been going on in "HELLYWEIRD" & the music industry forever & it's all now "COMING OUT": into the open: some I already knew: but MANY I didn't: new revelations are manifesting fast!!! 🤔😲

[@itstheburnz]

We were at home dying laughing at her flubs and wise cracks...the sound of muuuuusssic.... Thaaaank you.. reeeealy, thaaaank you..

[@TheLorenzissimo]

absolutely magnificent!!! this is a STAR .....

[@RC-vv6nr]

The one and only Bette Davis the greatest actress of all times! RIP

[@xxcharmed1xx]

There will never be another like her.. God i miss her!!

[@jazzdub4958]

Just like her iconic screen characters, Bette showed toughness to get through her section even though modern standards at that time of presenting & standing longer and reading more would have exceeded the times she would have been used to in her heyday. So happy to see how she command respect from everyone with that no nonsense attitude, but also sadness as within two years she would pass away. Bette and Robert - titans of classic cinema.

[@mickeytor]

Bette was pretty angry about this, according to an interview she did with ET the next day. I remember watching this live. I think the problem here is more a reflection of the changing times than anything. In her day, the presenter just read the names. There were no clips. They only started doing the clip thing for the Oscars a couple of years before this particular broadcast. Not sure if they rehearsed at all. Regardless, it makes for a fun moment of live TV. You might notice that on these awards shows today, the announcing of the nominees names over the clips is all pre-recorded.

[@MrFabinhoFlapp]

No, the list of nominees aren't pre recorded.

[@TheTerryE]

SHE WAS TOTALLY OUT OF IT.

[@renan.csmaia]

MrFabinhoFlapp Yes, in the acting categories at least.

[@paul8926]

What a dump!

[@auntiedionne5333]

@@MrFabinhoFlapp Yes they are. They were last night for sure.

[@arturotorre3961]

Extraordinaria actriz, la mejor de todos los tiempos.

[@andygeorgiou5976]

hi the Lady read her part then he was to talk she was doing her part she is a actor doing her job love you Mrs Davis love you so much you rock lady happy happy

[@jayiijay]

Love the intro of the incomparable Bette Davis, "First Lady of the Silver Screen". I don't believe anyone ever got an intro like that before, and only Olivia de Havilland since. The Oscars get little right, especially in their political popularity contest selections, but this was a great moment.

[@TheTerryE]

Are you just making that up? THAT INTRO IS NEVER SAID IN THIS CLIP ANYWHERE.

[@laniejean6618]

Lillian Gish was called the First Lady of American Cinema

[@jayiijay]

Just because something isn't mentioned in an intro doesn't mean it isn't true. You want her entire biography? If you weren't lazy you'd google and find it easily, rather than trying to be insulting. Shame on you. @@TheTerryE

[@jayiijay]

Correct. Gish was essentially the first. But Bette Davis was commonly referred to what I stated, as the greatest in the opinion of many. Here's one link. www.liveabout.com/bette-davis-biography-4580471@@laniejean6618

[@nsesite]

Thank you Thank you Ohhhh Realllyyy!!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!!!

[@pedrososa]

She was fabulous until the end of her life: “we have to wait a second” ….”you must let me say something about you first”…”just a moment” …”now you get on, that’s right”..

[@lesliesmith5797]

She was always in perfect form 🌸, so lovely and classy 💎

[@Rob-zs7hz]

How gracious of Bette to honour Roberts accomplishments. What a woman ! What a talent !

[@BroadwayBabyyy744]

Without her...and several others....most of those people including the crew wouldnt have been there. The oscars would never have been what they were. She was showing grace and class, which by this point the show was starting not to be. The audience had patient and grace on her. Never would happen today. I know they had time crunch but by god.

[@mircea82]

Bette rocks. She was the best. And she's so funny in the last minute. The following day the press said she made a total fool of herself but she did it on purpose. We'll never see her like again.

[@AndreaGiampietroPoesia]

- Now, you get on... That's right... - Thank you, my dear. 😂

[@jorgepablolloyddelgado3668]

Tremenda diva Betty , bella elegante una verdadera estrella

[@scotnick59]

The Queen of old Hollywood just soaked up that admiration!

[@portly24]

Bette Davis a uniquely brilliant actress - it was somehow in keeping that she left the stage with a dramatic exit like that, it may seem like a faux pas but in fact it'll still be remembered far longer than many of the slick performances we normally get on these occasions - ill she may be but she commanded the stage for the short period she was on it: poor Robert Wise learned like so many before him that its best not to share a performance with the great Bette Davis if you want to be noticed

[@fran_1978]

Miss Bette Davis, the best actress ever.

[@ThePhyscoGoth]

She didn't do anything wrong hear lol Bette Davis a Gothic Icon XD

[@60srecords]

Great Paul Newman, he was great, great for whatever he did..

[@silviareyes136]

Shut up everybody. She's the best actress in Hollywood history. S

[@DadInTaiwan]

OMG, I don't remember ever seeing this. Wow. Thanks Bonnie :-)

[@sknyrd77]

Don't blame Newman a bit for not being there. The Hustler, Cool Hand Luke, The Verdict. Newman SHOULD have won at least 2 Oscars right there!

[@rc2464]

Bette set the bar at the beginning of talking movies - everyone else that followed had to try to jump over it.

[@peladito2006]

Una de las mas grandes de la historia del cine.!

[@Dannybermeo007]

Thanks for this video!

[@rayito2005]

Actriz clásica de los años 30's , 40's su máxima época.

[@user-mj8nf2vp7q]

Bette Davis... throwing shade & taking names!😅😂🤣

[@rhymeandreasoning]

Now find the video on KZbin with Bette being interviewed by Joan Rivers about all of the hoopla and trash that was written about Bette after this moment-Bette has some good stuff to say..A must watch..

[@rut6929]

NOBODY UPSTAGES THE QUEEN OF HOLLYWOOD THEEEEEEE QUEEEEEEEEN OF HOLLYWOOD!!!!!!! LOL

[@cstoczyn]

HAPPY 85th ANNIVERSARY, OSCARS!!!!

[@pablovasconselos5408]

Talvez a pessoa, uma das atrizes Mais talentosas do cinema

[@jasonws1972]

They did cut her microphone and she was not happy about it...for her response please see......BETTE DAVIS on "LATE SHOW WITH JOAN RIVERS" 1987 (1/2) She talks all about it!

[@suat365]

Well deserved by Paul Newman. He was phenomenal

[@ficxify]

*_Thank you, thank you_* ... *_Ooouhh reeaaalyy! Thank you, thank you_* #looooooooooooooooool jeje

[@fingersmcgee2762]

i just had to see this because im a paul newman fan and grew up on his movies

[@KubaMusikWeltMusik]

gracias por este Video

[@cellardoor199991]

Thanks

[@zane401]

True grit is what describes the Davis legend !

[@scott12061972]

I still get pissed when I watch this and they cut her mic. Bette, in my opinion can say and do as she wishes in front of the academy, on any stage or any time any where. SHE HAS EARNED EVERY MOMENT. How dare they cut her.

[@stephenrafter1980]

Bette would do anything possible for extra camera time. She got into trouble for doing it here. She was the best in her own head. There is a name for that kind of bold behaviour now. Can anyone guess what it is.

[@caixapreta2]

did she forget to annouce the other four nominees?! HAHAHAHAH

[@caixapreta2]

Lgwolf Wilson oh thank you! so actually they cut her sound off.. this is ridiculous!

[@yowsep78]

I think she did lol Poor Betty!!!

[@dollyrawlins5470]

yowsep78 no her microphone wasn't working

[@dollyrawlins5470]

Gustavo Pinto no her microphone wasn't working

[@stephaniestanley8041]

NO One actor ever had greater roles

[@jaywolf4183]

The best Oscar host ever.

[@ania9421]

Bette❤️❤️

[@nancydemoss7904]

A total legend. No one like her since although Meryl Streep is right on Bette's heels!

[@bannon1000]

You can not make the Queen of silver screen look silly. If she felt they had Miss Davis was renowed for taking off heads at 20 feet if she thought some one was at it with her....Miss Davis was unique and so talented she refined talent.

[@65wiseman]

This is kinda sweet.

[@antmagor]

It’s a damn shame she never did comedy. Specifically what I would call Witt sharp comedy. Because she was a natural. She had some of the best one liners and great delivery.

[@TIPTON340]

The press made a huge thing about it saying she wasn't on top of her game anymore because of her previous stroke years before. By the way, on a totally diffrent subject: DEXTER GORDON RULES!

[@ppuh6tfrz646]

2:30 Rest in peace, Bob. Sadly missed.

[@chriscanale9535]

love Bette

[@garycambridge5513]

I can see why Susan Sarandon played her - she is the spitting image in her early days

[@MrCristoforoantonio]

I could not agree more.

[@MissGraceAngels]

awww!!!! great actress!!! we never forgive u Miss Davis!

[@gucciboy1952]

L' INCOMPARABLE BETTE DAVIS une actrice une star un femme extraordinaire

[@pepenegao1]

HAHAHAHA I never laughed so hard! Bette was the best!

[@SheriSomething]

She was indeed, a real kick!

[@drstrangelove6558]

im SOOOOOOO happy that Mr. Newman finally got his OSCAR!!!!!!!!:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):):D But i Think He is a screen legend and he deserved the hole four oscarwins! For (Cat on a hot Tin Roof (1958), (the Hustler (1961), (Cool hand Luke (1967) and (the Color of Money (1986) in the best actor catagory! But unfortantly only won this Oscar for the color of Money! here is what i Think Mr. Newman should be nominted for all his Oscars:2003 nominated Oscar best actor in a supporting role (Road to Peredition (2002)1995 nominated Oscar best actor in a leading role (Nobodys Fool (1994)1987 won Oscar best actor in a leading role (the Color of Money (1986) 1983 nominated Oscar best actor in a leading role (the Verdict (1982)1982 nominated Oscar best actor in a leading role (Absence of Malice (1981)1978 nominated Oscar best actor in a leading role (Slap Shot (1977)1974 nominated Oscar best actor in a supporting role (the Sting (1973)1970 nominated Oscar best actor in a leading role (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid (1969)1968 won Oscar best actor in a leading role (Cool Hand Luke (1967) 1967 nominated Oscar best actor in a leading role (Harper (1966)1964 nominated Oscar best actor in a leading role (Hud (1963)1962 won Oscar best actor in a leading role (the Hustler (1961)1959 won Oscar best actor in a leading role (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) 1957 nominated Oscar best actor in a leading role (Somebody up there likes Me (1956)

[@nicolin4]

meravigliosa bette

[@mr-cs2ip]

Que diosa que fue la Davis..

[@brandonharlow3608]

Bette completely OWNED him! She just took the moment like a true alpha dog! God love her. The only one she could never pull something like this on would have been Crawford.

[@jamest681]

Bob Hoskins oscar hands down.

[@drstrangelove6558]

Mr. Newman deserved this one and 3 more, `hands down´ on your comment :D.

[@SuperRod88]

Exactly. Had Mona Lisa made now he'd won easily. I mean, he won all the previous awards before the Oscar....which failed him.

[@DavidThomas-tw6my]

Legend

[@RenanCMaia]

Que mulher fantástica era Bette Davis! Eles deveriam ter lhe dado um Oscar honorário naquela ocasião. É verdade isso de que cortaram o microfone dela na hora do anúncio dos indicados? Ficou muito estranho, além de ter sido uma grande falta de respeito com essa dama da sétima arte.

[@kicilmarinho462]

Bette Davis Love

[@lynnturman8157]

Some might think it arrogant of Paul not to be there for this. When asked why he wasn't, he said: "It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 30 years. When you finally catch her, you tell her 'Sorry but I'm too tired.'"

[@kennyotoole1492]

She is adorable 😂😂😂

[@benjaminsepulveda8177]

La más grande actriz de todos los tiempos.

[@mr-cs2ip]

Después de khaterine herpburn..

[@benjaminsepulveda8177]

Bette Davis fue superior a Katherine por kilómetros...

[@starlight2815]

Hahahahahaha "Ooh a piece of Candy"!

[@oacaparov]

Bette Davis was "The Puto Amo"!!

[@GetToDaChoppa-k5r]

Bette Davis. Enough said.

[@TeamJRob]

At this age and after her stroke, of course Bette would have had to rehearse this with an understanding director before the live show who would could then see if she was able to deliver the lines she needed to in the amount of time alloted for the segment. If not, perhaps given something else to do. It did make her look incompetent, and that's was unfortunate. She went on Joan Rivers soon to be cancelled late nite talk show afterwards and had her say about it. Watch that clip.

[@jibberjabberr]

Back when the Oscar’s meant something

[@lexkanyima2195]

So ?

[@alexandreintouch1847]

and this was Paul Newman Oscar win ..... finally

[@davidl9781]

I also think Bette Davis was great and a legend. That is not the issue here. She was in no mental shape to take on this task, as evidenced by her fumbling around with papers while Robert Wise was already well into his remarks on behalf of Paul Neuman. And, then, when she found what she was looking for, appearing totally clueless to that fact that she missed the boat and he was well into his remarks, she stops him dead and wants to awkwardly rewind to what she had hoped she might have done BEFORE he started speaking. WAY before. That, my friends, is called "old persons syndrome." Any number of nursing home patients would have done the same thing. She should not have been given this assignment. She could have easily been recognized and honored that night in a different way, not by putting her on the spot with a task that was beyond her cognitive abilities. It was no different than wheeling out a quadriplegic and expecting them to dance...quickly, and on the beat.