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Hello, its looking drier, clearer for a time overnight, with a touch of frost and a few fog patches around but there is another weather system coming in that is going to give us some rain for part two of the weekend tomorrow. And still through this evening and into tonight, north east Scotland Holding on to some showery rain, whereas elsewhere, you can see the clearer weather for a time, allowing temperatures to fall close to freezing, but temperatures heading up in the west as the night goes on, some rain arriving in northern ireland, wales, and south west england, and with that, there will be a freshening wind as well. All of that pushes its way north and east across the uk tomorrow so well all see some rain at some stage of the day. There will be a few heavier bursts around as well. Northern ireland brightening up a bit in the afternoon but there will be further heavy showers to come here, and it will be a windier day across the uk. These are average speeds, gusts of up to around a0 mph, nearer 50 on some exposed coasts. Still feeling quite chilly in parts of scotland and north east england, whereas elsewhere it will be turning milder. Thats it, bye bye. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines talks continue in brussels with both sides warning theyre unlikely to reach a post Brexit Agreement by tomorrows deadline. The former bank of england governor expressed his concerns. Undoubtedly, there will be challenges if an agreement is not reached. Four Royal Navy Patrol ships are being put on standby, to help protect britains fishing waters, in the event of a no deal brexit. World leaders are holding a virtual Climate Summit addressing the summit, borisjohnson laid out his priorities in renewable energy. We are putting our foot to the accelerator, in a carbon friendly way of course, with a ten point plan for a green industrial revolution. The us regulator authorises the Pfizer BiontechCoronavirus Vaccine donald trump says itll be rolled out immediately. I dont know if you read the obituary a couple of days ago of a bette davies superfan, i bet she was here to watch this version of talking movies. 0n the 70th anniversary of one of her career defining films all about eve, talking movies looks back at the life and times of bette davis. Hello from new york. Im tom brook and welcome to this special edition of talking movies, in which we pay tribute to one of the greatest actresses of 20th century american cinema, bette davies. Many people know her because of her famous lines, fasten your seat belts, its going to be a bumpy night from her picture, all about eve, or, i would kiss you but ive just washed my hair from the cabin in the cotton. She was a real survivor, born in 1908, she made some 100 movies over a six decade career. This year marks the 70th anniversary of one of her more celebrated pictures, all about eve, set right here in new yorks theatreland. Chef so we are going to start this tribute to bette davies by looking at that movie in a bit more detail. We are all busy little bees, full of stings making honey day and night. Arent we, honey . All about eve has become a true classic. Bette davies plays margo channing, a successful stage actress, getting on in years who is befriended by an ardent young fan, eve harrington, who insinuates herself into channings life. Harrington desperately wants everything that channing has and uses her to advance her career. Bette davies brings all her skills together perfectly to give a performance that really brought about the films success. I think without bette davies youd have a hollow centre. Because if you really tried to deconstruct all about eve, it exists on its surface, thats the pleasure of it, its about show people. To some extent, they are superficial but obviously with great actors like bette davies, you also have this incredible force of will beneath the surface. And thats what she gives it, even though you never actually see her character, margo channing, performing on stage. There is such a sense of power. Too many, this satire on ambition in the showbiz world written and directed byjoseph mankiewicz is noteworthy because it has one of the most famous lines in movie history. Fasten your seat belts, its going to be a bumpy night. All about eve is also memorable because it has marilyn monroe, later to become a huge star, in one of her earliest roles. But in nearly all appraisals of the film, which earned 1a 0scar nominations, is praise the bette davies performance. And you pose as a playwright . A situation pregnant with possibilities and all you can think of is everybody go to sleep. What i really like about all about eve is that you see that shes so funny and in her autobiography, she talks a lot about how she didnt particularly think she was good at comedy. And i dont find that thats true at all, i actually think she was hilarious in her private life, shes hilarious in her interviews and i think that in margo channing, you see that she has this real gift, kind of, for this drawing room, kind of, cafe society comedy. And i wish that she had been able to do more of that, or let herself do more of that. Youve heard of her great interest in the theatre . We have that in common. Then you two must have a long talk. Margo channing eve harrington relationship, one of mental and protege, is very much at the heart of all about eve. It has spawned copycats. All about eve has been reproduced effectively, that central relationship was being conjured in all about my mother, even the favourite, the extraordinary recent movie about queen anne, is to some extent about an all about eve situation. Its become the prototype and people will often use that as shorthand to describe the essence of the movie. Funny business, a womans career. The things you drop on your way up the ladder so you can move faster. Nowadays, all about eve is interpreted very differently, depending on who you consult. It has been labelled homophobic, misogynistic and feminist. It has been labelled homophobic, misogynistic and feministlj it has been labelled homophobic, misogynistic and feminist. I think it is doing its best to be feminist. I think it is feminist for the time, it is about what it takes for a woman to succeed in any business. It is about what it takes for a woman to succeed in any businessm is cracking entertainment, i think that women are sources of power in it to out and the men are lame shirts with nice heads on top. I dont think of it as misogynistic or homophobic, although people do all these readings into these things and find all things beneath the service that will probably never intended to be there. But to me it is a film that sucks you in from the get go. Every time i think it on, turn it oni every time i think it on, turn it on i think, i will watch five minutes and then i end up watching the whole thing. Bette davies had a remarkable career, she was a grant, Hollywood Star and was constantly breaking new ground. She was the first act to get ten 0scar nominations and she was the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement award from the american film institute. Emma jones has been taking stock of bette daviess career. Bette davies was a ferocious combination of green and worker bee. That ethic drove her from her new england home to broadway and then to hollywood, where, by her mid 20s, she had already made two dozen films. I first was that Mildred Rogers in 1934s of human bondage. Do you know what you are, you are a cripple, cripple, a cripple. He spent a lifetime studying bette davies, was this the first of the unsympathetic characters that she relished playing . Bette played her to the hilt, she went for broke with this part. It astonished audiences and critics. They sat back and they said, who is this woman . She is one of the best actresses working on the american screen. Her image changed, they stopped trying to turn her into a sexy, sort of vamp character and they started to promote her as one of the best actresses working in hollywood. Mildred didnt produce an 0scar but she did get one the next year playing an alcoholic actress in dangerous. The year after that she was taken to the high court in london for refusing to play weaker parts in her contract. Only good directors and producers could give me good scripts. She lost the case but she won a nickname, battling bette. She was at her peak during world war ii with 0scar nominations and the star of masterpieces in the little foxes, as a socialite in dark victory and now, voyager, who finds a illicit love on a cruise ship. Winning those 0scars, they inhabit very different lives where they are unafraid to look and glamorous where they show character suffering quite often. In many ways you could say she redefined what a star turn was. She had to show an actress going full hilt and demonstrating everything she had to offer. Full hilt and demonstrating everything she had to offenm full hilt and demonstrating everything she had to offer. Itjust seems like women where her great fa ns seems like women where her great fans and her box office during those yea rs . Fans and her box office during those years . Was there something very relatable about bette davies . She was not tall and willowy and, you know. Herface was not tall and willowy and, you know. Her face wasnt perfectly symmetrical in the ways that classic aesthetic beauty is considered to be. She had equality with her eyes, she reached out to the audience, their women, pull them she reached out to the audience, theirwomen, pull them in. There she reached out to the audience, their women, pull them in. There was a sympathy there that i dont think has been duplicated in the same way. Thanks for nothing. But the actress herself and her fans for having babies in the baby boom years and her box office decline. In the movie, the star as a washed up actress seem to be her fateful one had their greatest rivals, joan crawford, pointed her in the direction of 1962s what ever happened to ba by direction of 1962s what ever happened to baby jane. Direction of 1962s what ever happened to babyjane. It direction of 1962s what ever happened to baby jane. It gave direction of 1962s what ever happened to babyjane. It gave her a new career. It is an amazing performance and it won her a new audience. The kids caught onto this and it put her into horror, thriller and it put her into horror, thriller and exploitation movies. It gave her and exploitation movies. It gave her a different kind of stardom. She became a cult star. By the 1980s, she had passed into legend with a hit song, bette davies eyes. She suffered a bout of Breast Cancer and stroke in this role and was considered one of the greatest. She died in 1989 aged 81. She was gifted with a talent for playing the ha rd est with a talent for playing the hardest talent, but also tenacity. It gave her longevity and integrity if you could rival. I had the privilege of meeting bette davies several decades ago when she was shooting on location on a small island off the coast of maine. The film in question was the whales of august, which wasjust film in question was the whales of august, which was just referred to. Interviewing bette davies was a terrifying experience. She could be quite intimidating. And on the day i visited, she seemed to be in a vile mood and i think she found me rather irritating. Anyway, for reasons i cannot remember, i was woefully unprepared for the encounter. It was all very bewildering and just before the interview began, she lit two cigarettes in her mouth and she kept puffing on them the whole time during the conversation. We talked about her career in hollywood and the film she was shooting on location. What colour is your hair now . The film she was making was a drama involving two elderly sisters. The co stars included lillian gish, a legendary name in silent film. You havent done a theatrical film for quite a longtime, what was it that attracted you to this particular picture . The same thing that a tt ra cts picture . The same thing that attracts me to any picture i like, it isa attracts me to any picture i like, it is a good script. That is the reason i accept something. What is it you like about the script . You are asking me to tell the plot, i just liked the script. |j are asking me to tell the plot, i just liked the script. Ijust liked the script. What about the character, do you like the character . Yes, i think shes interesting. It is the first time i have ever played a blind woman, which is a challenge. When you play a blind woman day after day, you get the feeling you cannot see anything, it isa the feeling you cannot see anything, it is a hypnotic kind of thing, you really dont see anything. What about working with lillian, she is quite a legend . Yes, i have enjoyed meeting her very much. You are a legend as well . She is a legend from silent pictures and i am not. They say i am silent pictures and i am not. They sayiama silent pictures and i am not. They say i am a legend. I think you should only be called a legend after you have gone. It is a bit bold to have legend. I meet young people and they often remember lines from your pictures, very famous lines . Yes, i have quite a few famous lines. 0ne is, fasten your seat belts, from eve. Another one is, i would love to you but i havejust eve. Another one is, i would love to you but i have just washed eve. Another one is, i would love to you but i havejust washed my eve. Another one is, i would love to you but i have just washed my hair from one of my first films, cabin in the cotton. I cannot claim credit for those lines, they were written byjoseph mankiewicz and other people. Do you think acting becomes easier as you get older . No, the more famous you become the harder it is to live up to that fame. You set a certain standard for yourself and other people and you mustnt let down that standard. We are strong stock. What do you hope the audience will get out of this film . |j stock. What do you hope the audience will get out of this film . I hope the producers and all of us get a lot of money, that is what we are making it for. Wejust lot of money, that is what we are making it for. We just have to wait and see, but that is our biggest hope. There is no way of telling whether the film is going to make money is there . If we had people who could guess that, they would be very important to us, wouldnt they . No, it is all a gamble. You can only do something you believe in and have the audience does. Thank you very much indeed. You are very welcome, you are very welcome and you are very brave to break this freezing day on this island. Lovely to meet you. A persistent theme in the work of bette davies was one of Mental Illness. In several of her films she portrayed characters who were explicitly or implicitly struggling with mental had problems, rarely seen. You like making fun of me dont you . In1942, you like making fun of me dont you . In 1942, bette davies started in now voyager, in which he plays charlotte vale, a woman with Mental Health problems he was transformed by a psychologist and then embarks on a passionate love affair. It features one have a most restrained performances, for which he was nominated for an oscar and it was Ground Breaking in its depiction from a woman suffering from Mental Illness. It stands at the very interesting emblem for female cinema because it shows a sense of hope and interiority for the character that i dont think you see in a lot of other representations of women dealing with Mental Illness. Lunch. She tilted closer to her in 1962 in whatever happened to baby jane. She played a famous grown up child actress suffering from an unidentified form of Mental Illness and tortures her sister. Although it isa and tortures her sister. Although it is a more sinister performance, she finds moments of sincerity and the film works to understand how life in hollywood can ruin a womans mine. She had a reputation of being combative on the set and when combined with her wild eyed acting style, led some critics and historians to diagnose her from afar as being bipolar, suffering from poor general Mental Health. Typically, there is no evidence this was the case and some say this armchair psychology as a destructive dynamic that was too common for actresses at the time. I could give you chapter and verse on male directors behaving badly on set. People would say they were monsters, sadist, they wouldnt say they were bipolar. That is a label that get slapped a lot more on a woman. Bette davies played a lot of women who we re davies played a lot of women who were just on the edge. Like in crisis, traumatised, you know, working fiercely to try and get get back something that they needed. And the way she played those characters was all out. Other characters she played in films like jezebel, was all out. Other characters she played in films likejezebel, the letter, or in this our life, have characteristics that can be associated with Mental Illness, such associated with Mental Illness, such as narcissism, paranoia or a kind of sociopathic, even though they never describe it that way specifically. She certainly put a lot of madness into these characters. It makes for an interesting read of her career, in which the actress, he was often mislabelled as crazy, challenges viewers to ascertain the difference between Mental Illness and the woman who has simply been pushed to the brink by a patriarchal society. What is fascinating for me as a woman who is fascinating for me as a woman who is diagnosed with bipolar disorder, adhd and anxiety, i am hyper aware of these portrayals and the sort of complications for women and how easily women get diagnosed or looked at as mad. And that is true in biographies of actresses, it is true in how we talk about film characters and it is true in how we talk about women even today, even though we have made so many gains in the Mental Health field since now voyager came out in 1942. As both oui voyager came out in 1942. As both our understanding of Mental Health and the pressures women in hollywood ensure continued to grow, the work of bette davies gets more important. Ata time of bette davies gets more important. At a time when major female stars had to fight for roles with some emotional depth, she pushed to explore the intricacies of the human mind in ways that we years ahead of her time and perhaps even ahead of ouis. Bette davies has long enjoyed a strong Fan Following and that includes some gay people who really embrace her. And the actress has long been parodied by drag artist. Bette davies has gay icon status around the world as we now report from berlin. Suppose you drop dead . What about your industry . Strong. If it fits me im going to wear it to the ball. Not like some i know who marry the first tart. Fear. Wiped my mouth. There are many words to describe bette davies. She has won over audiences all over the world with a strong following in europe and america, particularly with older gay people familiar with her work. What is it about bette davies that makes her a gay icon . She took on significance among the Gay Community when she was famous. I think it was because of her strong mindedness, her strong wilfulness to really battle the patriarch e and to stand up battle the patriarch e and to stand upfor battle the patriarch e and to stand up for what she believed in. You dare. Betty davis is not only an icon to the Gay Community but also to the drag community. It is because she is so fun, not to make fun of, but to perform and make larger than life than she already is and she is larger than life. This is a woman his mannerisms are iconic, headline readings are like no one else, so drag queens obviously look capitalise on that. I made your favourite. On rupauls drag race, alaska one an applause for her spoof of what happened to baby jane. Clear people have typically been cast out of society so when somebody like bette davies comes along and she says, i bette davies comes along and she says, lam not bette davies comes along and she says, i am not going to do that, i am going to continue working and carry on. We as gay people see that and we find strength in that, we find inspiration from that. She didnt care about being ugly, dirty but as long as her role was perfect and complete. The big thing is really, i think bette davies never really, i think bette davies never really was a real diva, but a really clever woman who really wanted to work good and hard and was really straight. I distinctly remember addison crossing you off my guest list, what are you doing here . With plenty of accolades to her name, she has remained an enduring gay icon but is her appeal dripping down to newer generations and audiences . feel she has over into greater culture. There are songs, bette davies eyes. We know her as this idea of movie star. So, yeah, i think the children know who she is. My hope they do. If not, we should teach them. Shes got bette davies eyes. Well, that brings our special tribute to bette davies addition of talking movie to a close. I hope you have enjoyed the programme. We are online and you can find us on facebook and twitter. So from me and the rest of the Production Team in new york, london and berlin, its goodbye. Shes got bette davies eyes. Shes got bette davies eyes. Shell expose you. Shell expose you. Shell expose you. She knows you. She knows you. Shes got bette davies eyes. Hello, its looking drier, clearer for a time overnight, with a touch of frost and a few fog patches around but there is another weather system coming in that is going to give us some rain for part two of the weekend tomorrow. And still through this evening and into tonight, north east Scotland Holding on to some showery rain, whereas elsewhere, you can see the clearer weather for a time, allowing temperatures to fall close to freezing, but temperatures heading up in the west as the night goes on, some rain arriving in northern ireland, wales, and south west england, and with that, there will be a freshening wind as well. All of that pushes its way north and east across the uk tomorrow so well all see some rain at some stage of the day. There will be a few heavier bursts around as well. Northern ireland brightening up a bit in the afternoon but there will be further heavy showers to come here, and it will be a windier day across the uk. These are average speeds, gusts of up to around 40 mph, nearer 50 on some exposed coasts. Still feeling quite chilly in parts of scotland and north east england, whereas elsewhere it will be turning milder. Thats it, bye bye. This is bbc news. The headlines at five talks continue in brussels with both sides warning theyre unlikely to reach a post Brexit Agreement by tomorrows deadline. Four Royal Navy Patrol ships are being put on standby, to help protect britains fishing waters, in the event of a no deal brexit. World leaders are holding a virtual Climate Summit addressing the summit, borisjohnson laid out his priorities in renewable energy. We are putting our foot to the accelerator, in a carbon friendly way of course, with a ten point plan for a green industrial revolution. The us regulator authorises the Pfizer BiontechCoronavirus Vaccine donald trump says itll be rolled out immediately