Bette Davis - They're Either Too Young Or Too Old | Thank Your Lucky Stars | Warner Archive
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When would-be producers Dr. Schlenna (S.Z. Sakall) and Farnsworth (Edward Everett Horton) want to sign Dinah Shore (Herself) to perform in their war effort fundraiser extravaganza, they are forced to deal with Miss Shore's problematic bandleader boss, Eddie Cantor (Himself). Enter a wannabe star who looks like a twin of Eddie Cantor (also Eddie Cantor), a band of Hollywood Indians and dozens of stars out to and entertain the GIs and fun is had by everyone, including the celebrities on stage.
Directed By David Butler
Starring Eddie Cantor, Dennis Morgan, Humphrey Bogart
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Love that Davis had a Sense of Humour and wasnt afraid to Kid her sophisticated screen image !
Even though she's not a singer, she pulls it off.
Bette Davis knew how to play to her strengths.
If you had to pick one performer, performing one particular song at one moment in history, this is the perfect example. A small little sample of why for a brief moment in our past we all came together and literally worked together and saved the world. Quite a difference when you look at the events of today.
Beautifully said.
I couldn’t have said that better.
She is so freaking fabulous.
Mae west/dick cavett
Bette Davis, one of the greatest and glamorous actress ever to walk the planet.
No one can say, "daaaling" like Bette Davis!!!!!!!!!! 😚😚😚😚
Miss Bette is so fantastic and stupendous - there is nothing that she cannot do
Otherworldly 💫💫
Her look in this scene is so cute and shrewd at one time. Bette was a great actress
Bette Davis was 35 in 1943. Seeing her get tossed around at 3:45 is hilarious.
I never seen Bette sing in a musical film before, she's great :)
When she was asked to do a retake of her jitterbug, Bette Davis said one time was enough.
Great work, Bette! And you look gorgeous!
She owned all her scenes. Wow.
Bette one of the greatest actresses who ever walked the planet, is also a great comedienne. It com'es out naturally.
I like her in her earlier movies. She became more mannered later.
She speaks so many truths in this scene lmao. What a great moment!
My parents were from that era and it always fascinated me. Even though the world was at war the Country and people pulled together worked hard tried hard and did everything they could. We simply lost all that.
So true
This?
Is iconic. Just iconic. Like Davis.
That dance looked painful, what a pro.
Bette actually hurt her leg badly during this scene. The young guy who danced with her was a huge fan and was terrified to swing his idol in the air plus Bette hated the swinging part and told him to just forget that she’s Bette Davis and get it over with. She ended up finishing the scene in one take and refused to do it again♥️😁✨
She tore her meniscus. Lol that’s what it said in her book. I’ve had one of those and they are SO PAINFUL. 😅
@@LaDivinaLover If that's true then she kept it together really well during the scene!
@@melissameyers7347
Indeed. She was ever the trooper! What a pro!
I've heard Bette sing this song in her later album when she was much older. But I've NEVER seen this musical clip of her before, and I've seen everything she's ever done, I think.
She's so beautiful!!!
its completely Bette, fabulous!
Bette's great feat was her talent as a film actress' triumph over her modest talents in most other ways. She couldn't sing, so she DIDN'T sing, she merely scatted and acted it. Brilliant.
She out-Dietrichs Dietrich in this great spokes-song--so sophisticated and funny. She couldn't carry a tune in a bucket but she could play comedy marvelously. She should have done more. It was she who was primarily responsible for the creation and success of that nightclub exclusive to the armed forces, The Hollywood Canteen. She did more for the war effort than ten John Waynes...
She acted the song as she did in Baby Jane and all the times she sang in her films and on Tv
@@timirish2563 That was well said couldn't of said better because you're so right she worked tirelessly non stop for the servicemen and war effort gave her all
@@timirish2563 Also the fabulous John Garfield played a huge part. He and Bette worked tirelessly to set up the Hollywood Canteen. Garfield was inspired by his visit to the Stage Door Canteen in NYC.
All the studios mustered their contract talent to 'volunteer' for patriotic wartime revues. Bette was the prime mover behind WB's project, which remains one of the most amusing, partly bc it majored on unlikely singers: Errol Flynn, John Garfield and Hattie McDaniel as well as Bette herself.
Jack Warner wanted to keep the profits, but she shamed him into donating them to the Hollywood Canteen.
And she was one of the big forces behind the Hollywood Canteen in the first place.
Please get more of Bette Davis films on iTunes!
I love it, Bette Davis dancing. I've been searching this for years. I read on her documentary when she danced. thanks much for sharing. I'm a huge fan of Better.
Years later she told how that young dancer seriously hurt her knee and she could barely finish the number.
Brilliant lyrics.
Yes, you are so right! The lyrics are so great in this song. The song was a collaboration with composer Arthur Schwartz and composer/lyricist Frank Loesser, who went on to write hit musicals such as “Guys and Dolls,” “How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying,” two classic musicals with great film adaptations. Thinking about how clever and funny the lyrics in many of Loesser’s songs are, I would bet the lyrics to this song are his. Arthur Schwartz wrote many classic popular songs, such as “By Myself,” “Dancing in the Dark” (from “The Band Wagon,”1931) and “That’s Entertainment (from “The Bandwagon,” 1953).
My fav actress ever
I didn't know she could sing, she did a great job combining Talk & Sing in this performance. The other version I heard was Jane Froman's.
No, she can't sing at all. But that couldn't stop her giving a great performance. This is just genius.
She's terrific!
Bette Davis, Vivien Leigh and Meryl Streep, the greatest of all greats.
And Salma Hayek
And Shirley too
yessss i 100 percent agree omg in that order aswell
First two agree
LOL......dat waz soooo silly. Loved it! 🥂
Made me wince watching her in the dance routine. Love Bette Davis.
I saw her in an interview telling the jitterbug champion to just " go for it" and not tell her what he was going to do. She really banged her knee on the floor also.
Bette 😩😢♥️
I express thanks to Warner Archive Instant for sharing these videos, this will be my first time viewing. If Ms. Davis is actually singing, her voice is beautiful.
Yes, Bette Davis is the one singing in this with her actual voice! And she is wonderful!
Thank you for verifying sir.
RareEnigma™ I think she has a very good voice
@@noelmaldonado5117 Her's is an untrained singing voice. But she SOLD that number!
It's not a voice to write home about, guys, c'mon. An untrained singing voice in the era of studio system? I am thinking after some deliberation she must have been encouraged to keep it under wraps, except of course for the morale efforts for the odd world wars
Thank you I never seen this ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Extremely clever Frank Loesser lyrics. "I'll never never fail ya...when are in Australia" " When flying over Egypt...your heart will never be gypped" LOL
thanks for posting this. I was looking for a copy of this song with only the song this just what I needed. thanks
Bette era perfetta in tutto quello che faceva !!! che artista che era !!!
You can also spot perennial movie drunk Jack Norton in this number (mostly with his back to the camera).
One of the greatest😸👍
The Greatest!!
Wow! Hit it better!
That strange poster portrait of enlisted men. But delighted to see her as I've only heard it. Thanks!
She Nail It Love Her 💘 One Of The Greatest Actress Ever RIH Beautiful Angel 😇 💖 You Are Love And Miss
Oh, she got her share during the war believe me!
Me rn😭😭😭 relates!
Magnificent
"You marched away and left this town as empty as can be
And I am like the driftwood in a deadly calm at sea
I can't sit under the apple tree
with anyone else but me.
For there is no secret lover
that the draft board didn't discover.
They're either too young or too old
They're either too gray or too grassy green
The pickings are poor and the crop is lean
What's good is in the Army,
what's left will never harm me
They're either too old or too young
So, darling, you'll never get stung
Tomorrow I'll go hiking with that Eagle Scout unless
I get a call from grandpa for a snappy game of chess
They're either too warm or too cold
They're either to fast or too fast asleep
So, darling, believe me, I'm yours to keep
They're isn't any gravy,
the gravy's in the Navy.
They're either too fresh or too stale
There is no available male
I will confess to one romance
I'm sure you will allow
He tried to serenade me,
but his voice is changing now.
They're either too bald or too bold
I'm down to the wheelchair and bassinet
My heart just refuses to get upset
I simply can't compel it to,
with no Marine to tell it to
I'm either their first breath of spring
or else, I'm their last little fling!
I either get a fossil or an adolescent pup
I either have to hold him off or have to hold him up
The battle is on, but the fortress will hold
They're either too young or too old
(Orchestral Break)
I'll never, never fail ya
while you are in Australia
Or out in the Aleutians
Or off among the Rooshians
And flying over Egypt
Your heart will never be gypped
And when you get to India
I'll still be what she's been to ya
I've looked the field over
And lo and behold!
They're either too young or too old"
Anyone else but me thinks that Bette Davis should have had her own fashion line or shop after acting, considering her talent with a needle and thread?
She was quite the elegant one.
My country Australia named in this song
Let's give it up for the Mayor of Mayberry! I swear I've seen that taxi in some other Warner Brothers movies.
Baby Jane notwithstanding, I never knew Bette could sing and she’s not bad!
During the jitterburg scene, Davis hurt her knee. You can see her rubbing it when she's back outside. The director asked to do the scene again but Davis declined.
She told how in the dance when she fell she seriously hurt her knee and barely could finish the number.
I winced when her knee hit the floor. Looked like it hurt, but she carried on like a pro.
@@ev8870 Is that why she’s grasping her knee at the end?
@@Tonabillity I think so, but, like the consummate actor she was, she incorporated it into the character. Truly brilliant.
@@ev8870 No kidding. I was watching with the sound off, and the emotion emitting from her face is simply soul-shaking!!
I don’t know what it is, but I feel like Bette Davis never looked more like Bette Davis than she does in this scene.
I know what you're saying. Her eyes really stand out in this scene.
I DON'T CARE about our age difference. I would LOVE to meet you.
💗
HaHaHa... Oh No with the Jitterbug!!!
ah ha ah ha
Not bad.Heared some songs of Loesser now. But "Wonderful Copenhagen" is and remains his best work
How about 'Guys and Dolls'?
She looks like she’s being attacked in that dance break.
FLYNN WAS ALWAYS THE BIGGEST STAR FROM THIS MOVIE
It's Bette, but I like the Hattie McDaniel number better.
I know lol Ice cold Katie please marry the Soldier.
I have not seen this for years, remembering it for Bette dodging high notes and being thrown around. Now it comes over as less farcical, more wistful, with that gesture of renunciation at the end that anticipates Margo Channing. Bette was always good at frustration.
Like many an amateur, she phrases the lyrics' plays on words too deliberately: reciting rather than throwing them off, as a past mistress of acting while singing such as Ginger Rogers would have done. Bette should have used speak-singing like Rex Harrison.
But she gets the message over. There were a lot of sex-starved ladies on the wartime home front, and this is as much a song for the times as 'Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree' was for the guys whose poster she was contemplating.
fabulous, its funny to think while Tokyo Rose and Axis Sally were telling servicemen that their girlfriends were cheating on them the American response was there aren't any handsome men left to cheat with
It’s like they wrote a song just for me ~🤨
Gorgeous lady!! Wish she was as famous as marilyn
Now we can see so many of her films why she kept working.
She IS!!!!!
I came here because of a separate peace book
Lol she is 111 years old herself and talking about "they're too old".
She would be in her 30s here, dumbo. She's not old.
@@stmichl9433 r/woosh
Haha, She was 34-35 here so yes i can understand if a 18 year old would be too young and a 65 year old too old.
@@stmichl9433 You have to live in the present.
Snelle Psycho I am living in the present! Where do you live? You're clueless
She's lousy as a singer and the so-called dancing is all passive, but B. D. is to be commended for adding such vulnerability as an artist to the war effort - the last great war involving the US. There are far better recordings of the song, the best being the deliberate snippet of Kitty Carlisle Hart in Woody Allen's
"Radio Days" (even the Maxwell House coffee sign is truncated if you look at the stills shot during production). Thanks WB for the BD shtick.
(\) FK Frederic Kahler, Apalachicola
This part is not that good of bette Davis as errol flynn part is way better than hers it crazy she as more like than errol flynn it sad people can't see. Wow.
Smoking is so dirty and ugly.
She was a great actress, but to me, she was not very pretty.
I disagree
That's the point she made...thus she's beautiful!
Legend has it that the Warners employee sent to meet the newly signed Bette from the East missed her bc 'Nobody looking remotely like a movie star got off that train.'
She was much more than pretty.
she is cute though
"You marched away and left this town as empty as can be
And I am like the driftwood in a deadly calm at sea
I can't sit under the apple tree
with anyone else but me.
For there is no secret lover
that the draft board didn't discover.
They're either too young or too old
They're either too gray or too grassy green
The pickings are poor and the crop is lean
What's good is in the Army,
what's left will never harm me
They're either too old or too young
So, darling, you'll never get stung
Tomorrow I'll go hiking with that Eagle Scout unless
I get a call from grandpa for a snappy game of chess
They're either too warm or too cold
They're either to fast or too fast asleep
So, darling, believe me, I'm yours to keep
They're isn't any gravy,
the gravy's in the Navy.
They're either too fresh or too stale
There is no available male
I will confess to one romance
I'm sure you will allow
He tried to serenade me,
but his voice is changing now.
They're either too bald or too bold
I'm down to the wheelchair and bassinet
My heart just refuses to get upset
I simply can't compel it to,
with no Marine to tell it to
I'm either their first breath of spring
or else, I'm their last little fling!
I either get a fossil or an adolescent pup
I either have to hold him off or have to hold him up
The battle is on, but the fortress will hold
They're either too young or too old
(Orchestral Break)
I'll never, never fail ya
while you are in Australia
Or out in the Aleutians
Or off among the Rooshians
And flying over Egypt
Your heart will never be gypped
And when you get to India
I'll still be what she's been to ya
I've looked the field over
And lo and behold!
They're either too young or too old"