Bette Davis as Dolley Madison--"Footnote on a Doll", Natalie Schafer TV

[@richardgornalle4536]

Bette Davis, in her day, was certainly a "star". In today's speak she would be a "super star" or even a "mega" star. Whatever label is given, she was great at her job, giving me decades of wonderful entertainment. Thanks heaps for this clip. Terrific stuff!

[@KarmicSalt]

She is an ICON

[@roziakibli4490]

This is the first time I see this film. Absolutely amazing. There is nothing that Bette Davis can not do on film. We miss this grand awesome acting. There has never been one like her before nor after. ❤❤❤❤

[@ferdylondon]

She was simply astonishingly good. One look from her can send me into elation or despair. Short productions like these distilled and condensed her skills. She will always be my screen goddess. ❤

[@jackiekidwell5004]

What a delightful found gem this is !! Bette Davis was always almost strictly interested in doing historic dramas, and very obviously, it is her forte !! Bette Davis and Natalie Schafer in a movie together ?? Two superb actress's who put today's actresses to shame !! Marvelous seeing them together !! 😀😀😃😃😄😄 Thanks for the upload !!

[@ginenelafontaine8343]

The robotic subtitles were as entertaining as the movie.

[@bevharris3105]

Hope no one out there is using them to learn English!! Heaven help them

[@steveweinstein3222]

They read like they were translated from English to Urdu to Arabic to Gaelic and back into English.

[@ceejay4688]

Lol, .

[@Prof.Tarfeather]

Yes can you turn them off? Google if deaf if you're using the Google on KZbin. I had a glitch in my keyboard that turned everything I wrote into gibberish whenever I hit send. It looked like the close caption gere.

[@tamarikimani5701]

​@@bevharris3105 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@melanie_luv2_sew]

To possess Power and Grace...Bette Davis.🥰🤩🤩

[@cherylbusch6236]

Wonderful story-nothing like the hateful vitriol we now live out day in and day out in, 2021. Heartwarming to see repentance and forgiveness acted out. The acting was superb! But then what can one ever say about, Bette Davis-simply the best of the best when it comes to acting! ❤️

[@williamf4544]

Wow ive never seen this before - what a treat - thank you and kind regards from Scotland

[@louisescanlon7478]

This was great. I love Bett Davis. Please continue putting up these clips. 🤗

[@jjmboston5832]

Thank you for posting. Hadn't seen this one before.

[@garymazzeo3490]

ANYTHING, with Bette Davis is worth watching!

[@Spiderman7Bob7]

This is a gem. I love anything & everything BETTE DAVIS. You could never find this stuff anywhere else, but some nice intelligent person who knows how to share this material with other fans. Almost all of Bette's movies are on DVD, but very little on her TV work. I wonder if anyone ever thought of putting a box-set of Bette Davis's TV movies and short films on DVD ! Don't you think that would be a wonderful idea ? There is so much TV material and series out there to chose from that I think a box-set of Bette Davis TV movies and such would be a hit.

[@actionsub]

Bette had also made three different guest appearances on the "Wagon Train" TV show: "The Ella Lindstrom Story" (1959, S2 ep. 18) "The Elizabeth McQueeney Story" (1959, S3, ep 5) "The Bettina May Story" (1962, S5, ep 12) In each appearance, she plays a different character, but at the same time shows a lot of nuance and acting range.

[@dianalee8967]

she's one of my favorite actresses I could watch her on and on I wish this was longer but I never get tired of her is one of the greatest actress ever lived in my opinion thank you for the video

[@bellaboop1]

The subtitles are hilarious! Davis called the 50s decade 'The Dark Year's' having to do a lot of television work and other projects way below her standards. She always did a great job with them though! There are many true gems among the costume jewelry.

[@auntiechercher4266]

Bette was going through a tough time in the 1950's. She married Gary Merrill and the marriage was a rocky one. She adopted a daughter who turned out to be brain damaged. And she started having bad dental problems. She wasn't getting work like she used to and her looks started to tank despite only being in her early forties. Cycles of life . . . .

[@bellaboop1]

@@auntiechercher4266 The real problem with their marriage is that Davis didn't marry Gary Merrill. It was Margo Channing who fell in love with and married Bill Sampson. I heard this confession in an interview where they never really knew each other, they fell in love with each other's characters in the movie.

[@auntiechercher4266]

@@bellaboop1 Yeah, I heard it too . . . dumb analogy in my opinion. They married too soon after knowing each other for only a short period of time. It was a tough decade ahead for Bette, but the one bright spot was her son Michael - which came out of that marriage.

[@SleepyLestatSF]

this was delightful and far more engaging than I expected!

[@ryohn5468]

Maleficent, Mrs Howell, and Bette Davis. Wonderful ensemble!

[@annabrown7302]

BETTE DAVIS WAS UNIQUE THERE WILL NEVER BE ANOTHER BET5E DAVIS❤️

[@believec3962]

what a beautiful story. Bette Davis was my favorite actress. if you haven't seen the movie where she plays a twin, it's a must see!

[@rochellewant5418]

New sub here...and one who adores Bette Davis. I had no idea that she did these little episodes, so I am grateful to have found your channel...thank you soooo much!!!❣️🙏🏼👌🌺 Do you have my 2 favorite movies per chance?? “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane”, and “Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte”? Ohhh I love those ones👍

[@stephenwilliams1269]

What a de pure delight of TV Fluff, Bette Davis and Natalie Schafer.

[@Prof.Tarfeather]

here. Davis was a superb Actor. She could play any role toperfection.

[@barcelonachair6487]

The best subtitle translation was virginity for man. LOL

[@jeanower9669]

Great wee film! Bette Davis ❤

[@mariarooney6262]

Such great actors. You can just play their voices and I would know who they were. Very distinctive.

[@Sinistraa]

I simply can't separate Eleanor Audley's voice from the Disney villains she provided the voice acting for! Nobody speaks so beautifully these days.

[@aprils376]

So true! :)

[@robertdoherty2001]

Usually played society matrons and snobs; hilarious as Eddie Albert’s mother in ‘’Green Acres’’.

[@farrellmcnulty909]

I loved her as the head of the PTA on the Dick Van Dyke Show (the one in which Rob forgets to reserve a bunch of tickets for the Alan Brady Show).

[@janisg7409]

Wasn’t she Mrs. Drysdale (sp) in Gillighan’s Island?

[@roringusanda2837]

​@@janisg7409Mrs Howell...Lovey!

[@bhaj4588]

The subtitles for this make it hilariously funny!

[@MissLachine]

Beautiful story 💜🌟🌟. Thank You 😊

[@markbrookes6557]

I'm so glad I was able to hear the dialogue because if I would have read it, I would have been completely befukled!

[@elbertkitching9906]

One of the greatest of all time

[@Weesperbuurt]

Bette was 49 playing “nearly 70.” a A gutsy actress foremost not a shallow “star.”. First aired 24 April 1957 on The Ford Television Theatre.

[@AMEER-114-]

Can u date the other Bette 57/58 teleplays by month/day ? With malice toward one Stranded For better for worse The cold touch The starmaker Fraction of a second

[@JudgeJulieLit]

In a way, an American reprise of Bette's having played (in 1939 and 1955) a much older grande dame of state, Queen Elizabeth I ... with nary a shift of accent, but a far more compliant and forgiving tone.

[@JustMe-mp8on]

Very good show and check out the funny subtitles!

[@MsBackstager]

Bette looks glam in that white wig.

[@Escherlife]

Why hasn’t anybody mentioned the hilarity of the subtitles? 😂👍

[@LINDABELLAMY-q3j]

😂😂😂😂😂the subtitles was a whole different story. Film amazing. ❤❤❤❤❤

[@rochellewant5418]

Bette Davis n the “Virgin Queen” scared me when I was little, lol. The way they made her up was spooky. I still love the movie though, AND Errol Flynn💞

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Her white face makeup and dark lips as QE1 may have braced audiences for Bette's 1962 turn as Baby Jane Hudson, if not for Bette's compleat slide to a tour de force travesty of the cynical older slattern.

[@omennemo2364]

Please fix the closed captions. It looks like a small child writing or someone sending a code.

[@douglasvancier7683]

OMG it's Mrs. Howell, the mother on Green Acres and Bette all in one show.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

And "Lovey" on tv sitcom Gilligan's Island. In real life Natalie and Bette both disapproved of Joan Crawford's ruthlessness.

[@kallen868]

@@JudgeJulieLit Lovey is Mrs. Howell.

[@clarktownsend506]

The subtitles are completely wrong and very distracting

[@rachelgarber1423]

Ikr, I had to keep ignoring them

[@kathyflorcruz552]

3:34 "mi5 on shop make a foodie fest". 😂😂😂😂😂

[@MrQbenDanny]

BRAVO!!! Love how BETTE tapped into her old school mistress "CORN IS GREEN", character for this strictly paycheck appearance!!! Love Schaefer and the contract player Yentas!!!!!

[@rachelgarber1423]

I was unaware of that story

[@cathythompson4965]

Watched this for the hilarious subtitles.

[@jtrain5615]

Lovey Howell!!

[@jennygibbons1258]

Worth it for the subtitles... hilarious - might as well have been Klingon ...🤔🤣🤣🤣

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Subtitles were a useless waste of screen space. No sense of the sense of the drama, nor try at intelligibility.

[@519forestmonk9]

Wow these subtitles are a real help

[@infonut]

Bizarre ain't they.

[@MsBackstager]

The captions are not even close.

[@nancycurtis488]

Wow…..Mrs. Howell from Gillian’s Island and the actress who voiced the Wicked Stepmother/Old Hag in Snow White and the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella…….I wish I knew their names but I don’t…….excellent actresses both of them.

[@vm6824]

LOL the subtitles!! More entertaining than the show.

[@leemclaury6251]

This is before Mrs. Howell took a boat ride with 6 others . They didn’t have room for Bette on the small boat .

[@zeldasmith6154]

Bette Davis wanted to work. She said a month off was enough. She had to sell herself all the time not only to get the part but to get a good script and a good director.

[@paulaltman9751]

DOLLEY Todd Madison.

[@aeichler]

Thanks!

[@georgesherrill3371]

This is a great movie! But, WHO did the subtitles, a Tibetan monk?!

[@sohara....]

Looks like automatic computer-read-out. 🤤

[@justinkey3181]

Goodbye Beatrice, thank you for a most interesting afternoon.

[@jeanettecook1088]

In 1837, women didn't wear that style of clothing. The costumes in this one weren't well researched, but the acting is marvelous.

[@rochellewant5418]

...until reading this, I personally wouldn’t have known this about the wardrobe...nor do I care. I found everything on point and that includes what the actors were wearing.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

It may be that these lady characters whose fashion heyday was an earlier decade (especially Dolley Madison, here cash challenged) conservatively wore the glad garb of their youth.

[@anyonymswede]

From What year is this?

[@quester09]

Bette and Natalie together

[@waiter1971]

I'm looking for a Bette davis tv drama from the 1950's. Bette plays a aspiring writer who is belittled by her writing teacher.

[@suzettespencer-jones3863]

I think it's called With Malice Toward One. I watched in on KZbin yesterday

[@robertdoherty2001]

Sort of a cross between ‘’The Corn is Green’’ and ‘’Mr. Skeffington’’.

[@rosamariahenry3524]

Who is responsible for the unfortunate captions.

[@LisaRichards_123]

Is that Mrs. Thurston Howell the third?

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Subtitling errors start at 0:37 with (instead of "here is my list for my lawn tea on Saturday"), "his finest mine aunty on Saturday." It goes downhill from there, into a continual mire of word salad gibberish.

[@sohara....]

in comment above , reply to anither comment, I said it looked like computer read out .. but it's worse than that! It's a mystery 🤔🙂☺

[@GenerallyGeneralLee]

Worst voice-activated subtitles ever

[@flenif2247]

Bette doesn't play a victim

[@Anaxiphile]

A title advises that the scene opens in 1837. The character at her writing desk receives a note from “President and Mrs. Van Buren.” Van Buren’s wife died in 1819, and he never remarried.

[@MrBounce01]

Bette Davis. Does she ever stop the same B e t t e D a v i s performance?

[@Lori-PAX]

Was this AI sub titles? Hilarious, almost as good as Bette Davis.😂😂😂

[@lbar9720]

I feel sorry for anyone who had to rely on the close captioning to understand this story; what a crap-shoot that was!! LOL Good story though.

[@_MissANGIE]

Mrs. Thurston Howell III (Lovely) please not sail on the USS MINNOW!

[@MsBackstager]

Any relation to Dolly Madison ice cream?

[@aeichler]

Dolly Madison was a First Lady, married to Pres. James Madison. The ice cream was named after her.

[@mairamergeshova9399]

Her English is so understandable,sweet.

[@dilly1863]

Another creative jumble of subtitle words accompanies this great movie. Who releases old movies with idiotic subtitles???

[@patsysmothermon7861]

The sub titles are Horrible!!😮

[@bojack40]

There’s some real hammy acting and poor direction and editing here. This was a rough period for BD, she must have wondered what happened to all that talent from the 1940s and the studio system. And she’s only 50! That said, it’s a nice little story. A vignette if you will.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

For a lady famous in cameo.

[@dallyx66]

James Neilson was a pretty well known film director for Universal.

[@MsBackstager]

Nasty Mrs. Howell.

[@JudgeJulieLit]

Here, rehabilitated.

[@robertd.carver6240]

Whoever was responsible for the subtitles--ungrammatical AND inaccurate--should to "taken out and hung for the coldblooded murder of the English tongue!" For example: "Nothing I can't mice."

[@ron-waynehoekstra7007]

What is with the pathetic sub titles ? Irritating . And Not needed .