Episode Transcript
[00:00:03] Speaker A: Greetings everyone.
This is Moya with How Bette Davis Saved My Life with a new segment for How Bette Davis Saved my Life, life lessons from classic Hollywood called Late to the Party.
As you can hear, the party has already started and what I mean by late to the party is recent movies that Georgia and or I have recently seen and you've probably already seen but we want to talk about them.
So sit back, relax and enjoy this brand new segment of How Bette Davis Saved My Life, life lessons from classic Hollywood called Late to the Party.
Hello everyone and welcome to another exciting episode. Like I already said in the intro and I've got my drink and I'm always leave the party to come and talk to you for a hot minute. And sending all my just gratitude to our subscribers, especially our new subscribers and of course our veteran, our OG subscribers for those of you who are listening as well. Howdy, howdy, howdy hooray for Hollywood especially well classic Hollywood. Let me make that distinction. The golden age if you will. And again thank you so much to all of our new subscribers. We are well on our way to I have to double check if we are not at 50 subscribers which is invisible nothing on YouTube in the streaming world but it means something to us, to Georgia and I so just thank you so much, so much for all your support in that regard. And today you know of course it's, it's late to the party and still not let's send out our shout outs and love to Georgia while she's still on sabbatical taking a little break to take care of some personal issues and we miss her so much.
So you know, let me know in the comment section section tell Georgia hi let us know, let her know how you feel about missing her. And I miss her so much. So howdy Georgia. Whenever you listen to this to this because she does listen, she does listen and or watch, she watches as well try to catch up on the show. So today is a little different because excuse me it's late to the party but almost everyone especially if you're a Bette Davis fan, you have seen of human bondage the 1934 version starring she and Leslie Howard, one of my favorite actors. George's can cannot understand why I, I find him attractive. He's not like handsome and it's not very big or brawny or you know, beefy or whatever but I just, I like him. I, I, he looks smart. How much attract I guess not nerdy like nerd but he looks smart, he looks intelligent. So I'm Attracted to intelligent looking guys without necessarily looking nerdy. Anyway, so.
But this is a classic film for all sorts of reasons. Of course. It's by.
Written by w. It's a book by W.
Somerset mom. And I have a few pictures I want to share with you about the movie and just give you a brief, brief overview because I'm practicing, you know, I'm still trying to practice keeping these, these episodes like under 10 minutes, 15 at the max, but really under 10 minutes. At least 10 minutes. So for those of you who are uninitiated of a. Of Human Bondage again by the great W. Somerset mom novelist, this movie, it takes place and it's, it is a. It's a drama, it is a love story of sorts, but not in a traditional sense where it's love all the time, but it is, it is where you see.
Let me see. How can I put this?
You see it later on in the movie. Let me just put it like that. So let me, let's share this. What I have for you and my thing, it says it's sharing and I don't quite see that it is sharing. Let me try to get this because I did have some pictures up for you as well, but I think my Internet is a little slow in getting it going. So let me stop sharing and then go back to it because I did want you to see the image of, of Betty. And Betty's like really young here and to caught her. She, she said I was never that young. You know, she can't believe she was ever that young. And so, but she was. And so she had to be in her like late 20s, early 30s here. And if, you know, let me know how. There we go. How, how old she was here. But this is like I said, 1934.
And so this is of obviously her and Leslie Howard and he's of course of Going with the Wind fame. He played Scarlet, obsessed over this poor man. And of course now I can't. Ashley. Ashley. All right, so that's where I first knew him from. And then later on probably this movie and other things. But anyway, for whatever reason, he's Philip. He plays Philip. He's this Dr. Philip McCarry or something like that. But anyway. And he, this is the cafe he visits. But whatever reason, unknown to mankind, he gets obsessed with this waitress played by Betty Davis named Mildred.
And you know, we love Betty, but I mean, you know, she, she's average looking, nothing to write home about. But he gets so obsessed with her, he lets her move in with him and in the Movie and I have not read the book unfortunately and just sideline Prageru, Larry Elder and Michael knows, I believe of Daily Wire they actually did a critique of this book. I did not know that until I started doing research for this. So I'm sorry, I don't have anything on that. But it's all on YouTube or social media. Go look at that. Larry Elder and Michael knows, I believe did a critique of the book. But anyway, you know, like I said, she's not anything to write home about. And you know, and Betty didn't mind and that was, she was, this was really a breakout role for her because she had been in different stuff before, but this was really her first on screen breakout role. And of course this is the movie that started the right in campaign for her to win best actress of that year. And of course she should have won.
But anyway, he likes this woman for whatever freaking reason.
Just takes. I don't know why an interest in her.
Maybe the book gets into it. But like I said, it wasn't nothing anything really special about Mildred, right?
And so, but Betty Davis was so groundbreaking because she played. She didn't want to be glamorous for the role because.
And you'll see later on because she knew that the role didn't call for that. And Mildred, there was nothing really captivating in Mildred, right? And then later on Kim Novak and Lawrence Harvey, I believe their, his name is, they did a remake in like the 60s. And of course it's not the same. You need better, you need Leslie, you really need Betty for that gravitas. Nothing against Kim Novak, but you know, it's hard to improve on perfection.
But Kim Novak is, was a, was a bombshell, right? So you can see how, you know, maybe the guy fell for her, maybe the movie, the book, that's what it was about. I don't know. But like I said, he here, Betty did not play that. And I think because of the audience, you're thinking, bro, what are you doing? You know, why, why her? And so, and it kind of may allude to a little class.
I, I don't, you know, you know, he played Professor Pygmalion in a movie with him and Wendy Hiller. And so, you know, is it Pygmalion of him was a classes or elitist of him to think he could maybe reshape and mold Mildred into a lady?
I don't know. But anyway, he hooks up with her to his detriment. And I'm not going to get into all that. This movie is free on YouTube to his utter detriment. But what I want to talk about, you guys, was the scene, these scenes. To me, there were several scenes, excuse me, in this movie that just really just changed my life, if you will, and just made me really appreciate Betty.
And I want to talk about that screen. That screen. Talk about that scene as I'm getting a message on here. But I want to talk about that scene because it just was so pivotal. So let me just show you the scene that I'm talking about.
End of human bondage.
That just whenever they show it, I just stop and I.
I have to look at this and analyze it over and over and over again.
So let's take a look at that. So what I'm going to show, Philip realizes that Milliard is for the streets. She has another man. She flaunts him. She belittles Philip.
And we're gonna see. He's been patronizing him and he knows this. But this dude, what is that when you call it when you're a sadist or masochist, whatever, he hates himself. He has very low self esteem. And then it's exchanged with this gentleman who becomes his kind of a mentor and like a. Like a father figure to him. He kind of talks about that a little bit. So let me. Let's share this tab and let's start this because I want you to see just how wild and cruel and how to scene is so profound to me. So let's just set up. So he's having dinner with these people and Francis D. Becomes a love interest. Eventually, you know how this goes. And then Mildred crashes out. Guys, for those who. Who don't know the slang, she loses her freaking mind. Now you don't want Philip at all. You're very abusive to him. But then you act a pure fool when he starts to pull away from you and becomes out of your bondage, if you will.
[00:10:56] Speaker B: Good appetite. Roast beef and beer.
I was married to a lady once.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: Good heavens.
[00:11:07] Speaker B: Never marry a lady, my boy. Oh really? Why? Because a lady has a point of view, a personality and an individuality all to devil you with. Hang it all. You want a wife who can cook your dinner and look after your children. Don't you think so, Sally?
[00:11:22] Speaker C: Father, I think you talked a hind leg off a donkey.
[00:11:25] Speaker B: Well, it's clean fun. Now, Sally waited on me. I'll wait on you. Take my chair here while I fetch you and the young man some cheese.
[00:11:33] Speaker C: Thank you. Father.
What do you think of us?
[00:11:38] Speaker B: You don't know what this means to me.
You see, I practically never had any family. This is almost the only place I've ever known that's had the quality of home.
[00:11:50] Speaker C: Thank you, father.
[00:11:58] Speaker B: It's no use mooning over Carrie.
Sally never kisses a gentleman until he's been here twice.
You must ask me again sometime.
Do it yourself.
[00:12:14] Speaker C: Why don't you come next Sunday, Sam?
[00:12:59] Speaker A: For those of you who are listening, they're just showing like time elapsing where he is spending a lot of Sundays, if you will, with Sally and her dad.
And I'm going to advance it a little bit. And here comes Mildred because she's realized that he's pulling away from her and she no longer has her hooks in him. To quote the ojs famous R B group, shout out to the ojs Now, Sally, Sally. Mildred has had a child with her lover.
And you know, Philip is a super simp. And again fellow we kind of see. He's lonely, low self esteem. He has this disability. He's not well off like his colleagues who are also in medical school.
And he is prime prey for users like Mildred. But we will see. Those, those. Those type of users, like unsophisticated users like her, they never ever come out on top. So I fast forward a little bit. And so Mildred, you know, she has the baby. Not Phillips, but he's taking care of him and.
And so now she's realizing he's pulled away from her. And this is her reaction.
It's classic, man. I love it. Love.
[00:14:35] Speaker C: Sam.
[00:15:05] Speaker B: Baby. All right.
[00:15:07] Speaker C: I'm very grateful to you, Philip.
[00:15:11] Speaker B: If I could afford it, I'd given you a place of your own.
As it is, you're welcome to my room.
[00:15:17] Speaker C: I don't know what will become of me and.
Baby, you ain't taking us in.
[00:15:24] Speaker B: Oh, you'd have got on, I expect.
[00:15:27] Speaker C: You've always been much nicer to me than I deserved.
I'm beginning to realize how silly I've been.
[00:15:33] Speaker B: Well, you couldn't help how you felt.
Let's not talk about it, shall we?
[00:15:40] Speaker C: I don't feel like that now.
[00:15:43] Speaker B: Okay, Mildred, let's have no misunderstanding about this.
The reason you're here is because.
[00:15:48] Speaker C: I know.
Because you once liked me enough to want to marry me.
[00:15:56] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:15:57] Speaker C: Well, at least I can cook for you and keep your flat clean.
Maybe someday you.
You'll feel better about me and things will be like they used to.
[00:16:18] Speaker B: No, thanks.
I'll smoke it later.
Well, good night.
[00:16:30] Speaker C: Good night.
Sam.
Landlady came upstairs a little while ago. She said, Mrs. Carey, she said, how can you stand it?
[00:17:34] Speaker B: Well, what's the matter with them?
[00:17:35] Speaker C: They're indecent. Disgusting, I calls it. They have drawings of naked people about.
If you want to know what I think, I've half a mind to take them down myself.
[00:17:46] Speaker B: You do nothing of the kind.
I. I love those pictures, Mildred.
I love them for what they were meant to.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: Now, what's. And I'm gonna pause it right here.
So you see, no good deed goes unpunished.
This man is given a roof over her head. Along with her baby and stability.
But she's. She's for the streets. And for those of you who don't know that one either, she's a twamp. Like.
Like Georgia would say, a twamp rhymes with stamp.
And she. She just common. No class and appreciative. But we can see in other movies where women who, quote, unquote, the elite and had class, they didn't appreciate a good deed, or whatever you want to call it. A man taking care of them. Because if that's what you are, that is just what you are. It doesn't matter if you have a dollar or a million dollars. You are just classless. So I'm gonna fast forward a little bit where he makes this declaration to her and just rocks her world. Man, it was crazy.
So he comes into fortune and she, you know, despises him now because he has absolutely no interest in her whatsoever.
[00:19:34] Speaker C: Where were you?
[00:19:36] Speaker B: Ethel?
[00:19:37] Speaker A: News.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: What are you doing up?
[00:19:41] Speaker C: I couldn't sleep.
[00:19:47] Speaker B: Hadn't you better put on something warmer?
[00:19:49] Speaker C: Oh, I'll be all right.
Just let me stay here.
[00:20:01] Speaker A: Phil.
[00:20:04] Speaker C: Phil, I love you so.
[00:20:06] Speaker B: Oh, nonsense.
[00:20:07] Speaker C: Tisn't.
I can't live without you.
[00:20:11] Speaker B: Please get up. You're making a fool of yourself and a fool of me.
[00:20:14] Speaker C: Elfil, please.
I can't go on like this.
[00:20:35] Speaker B: Nonsense. You haven't anywhere to go.
Stay here as long as you like. But with the definite understanding that you disgust me.
[00:20:57] Speaker C: Me?
I disgust you?
[00:21:00] Speaker A: You.
You.
[00:21:03] Speaker C: You.
You're too fine.
You won't have none of me, but you'll sit here all night looking at your naked females. Mildred, you cared. You dirty swine.
I never cared for you. Not once. I was always making a fool of you. You bored me stiff. I hated you. It made me sick when I had to let you kiss me. I only did it because you begged me. You hounded me. You drove me crazy.
And after you kissed me, I always used to wipe my mouth. Wipe my mouth. But I made up for it.
[00:21:34] Speaker A: For every kiss, I had a laugh.
[00:21:37] Speaker C: We laughed at you, Miller and me. And Griffiths and me, we laughed at you because you were such a mug. A mug. A mug.
You know what you are, you gippy lake monster? You're a cripple. A cripple. A cripple.
You love these things. You love what they were meant to be. Well, here's what they were meant to be.
You want to be a doctor?
This will take you through medical school.
[00:23:04] Speaker A: For those of you who are listening, she is tearing his apartment up. She has taken a knife, ripped through all his beloved paintings, tore up all his papers. I mean, she's just crashing out, guys. And now she is burning the funds he was going to use, like, some bonds. The funds he was going to use to get him through medical. Medical school. This woman is a disaster. And she has destroyed this man's life.
Or has she? She's done some damage. Let's finish looking at it.
And now she's taking the baby and she's gone.
And so that part, not the crashing out part, but the part where.
Where she says, I used to wipe my mouth. Wipe my mouth. That just does something to me because I've been in a relationship.
I wasn't as crazy as Mildred, but faking the funk, as they say. I've been in those relationships. And it just harkened back to those times. And I was younger. I probably was around Mildred's age or a little younger and just being disingenuous and being cruel and mean to a guy who really cared about me because I was out of my mind.
And wrong. Because if you don't dig somebody or you don't like them, just let them go. But Mildred was a user. And I gotta say, guys, Philip kind of brought this on himself because why was he slumming? Why did he think you can turn a South's ear to a silk purse?
What they say you want to take the. Out the streets, okay. But you can't take the streets out the.
Rhymes with po. Okay?
But to show you that this foolishness still goes on to this day, this recently happened in real life. So some of you who are sports fans or just, you know, you like, gossip or whatever, like that this really happened in real freaking life.
So Xavier Worthy of the Kansas City Chiefs NFL team after he lost the suitable. So this is fairly recent. This is like only like three months ago.
He was engaged to this chick, right?
A fellow athlete named Tia Jones.
She. I love track and field. So we know about Tia Jones. She's a track and field star.
They were engaged. Now she kind of fell on. I don't say hard Times like poor because she got injured. And so she wasn't able to make the money like she was making. But she hit the. The man lottery. This guy proposed. So they had been dating and he had proposed. So what I'm showing on screen, I probably should have set this up. This is the aftermath of the breakup.
So this is on tmz. This is everywhere. This woman totally trashed this dude's house. Look at this.
He broke up with her because he found out she was cheating.
Kind of same thing as Mildred and Philli.
Even though Philip knew that, you know, he had to know Mildred. He. Maybe he was that thick. I don't know. I can't give him a pass. Like, maybe some of you can let me know in the comments what you think. But he's like Mildred told, get out of here. You're not gonna keep making a clown out of me. So this is Tia Jones, the beautiful young lady track star, okay. Won the man lottery.
He caught a cheating, told her bounce. And look what this broad did. Tore up his room, tore up his tech.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage because she would not leave like Mildred. And she like, if I'm leaving, you gonna show? No, I was here. Okay, so broke his right here. Three thousand dollar Rolls Royce key fob that he said was worth three G's or whatever.
And you know, just them two going back and forth. And he. He called the police to put out. But before all he called the police and the police came. Look what she did to him.
He had. I don't have his before pictures, but he had dreadlocks, right? This brought. You know how much force it takes. She turned to a whole dude. And this guy is very nice because Tina Jones may have never been seen again. Or she may have looked differently.
You know how much force it takes to pull somebody hair out.
So she pulled his hair out, screwed up his.
His home.
Okay, I think. Do we have some more pictures? Got him arrested all and just horrible. This is a mug shot. The police, he. He did not press charges on her. Being nice like.
Like your boy Philip being weak, in my opinion. And anyway, she. He didn't want to press charges about the police with that. But honey, she did not have a problem because she pressed charges on him. And we see him with the mug shot. Dom. A cute little boy too, poor thing. Well, anyway, they. They put TR Roles on each other. They start suing each other. The D. A Dropped the charges on him because this. There was no evidence. And they probably said it's broad lying now.
And so they drop a charge on him and then they both dropped their respective cases on each other. But we laughed so hard. Like the next couple of weeks she was in a track meet. Like I said, she was pretty good before. But honey, while that he still had that, I guess civil lawsuit against her. That girl ran the fastest she said she has ever run and the fastest time because she's a hurdler.
She ran like that check she needed that check from, it was the grand slam. I can't remember whatever meet it was that, you know, you get paid.
But honey, she read. We laughed. So everybody in the comments was laughing like, man, she running for that check because she knows she did not have a. She knew she didn't have a leg, so to speak, to jump on. Because all the facts point to she was the abuser in that relationship and what she had destroyed that man's property and only by his kindness did he not bury her alive. And he's a better man than I would ever be, better person than I would ever be.
So this still goes on. And again, Tia Jones, she did not have this to do. This guy had treated her like a queen. So go look up that story. I'm not gonna get back into it, but it just goes to show you women wilding out, taking kindness for weakness transcends color, race, socioeconomic status, where you are in life. Because they. When you don't respect yourself, there is no way you can respect anybody else because you would want to treat people as you want to be treated. You can't have it both ways. The man didn't want you cheating on him, Tia Jones. He said get out of here and vice versa. You did it to him too, right? Why would he marry you? Why would he wife you up? And same thing with our movie.
Phillip, thank goodness had some friends that he listened to and found a very supportive group and Sally and her father and. And found the courage to bounce mild. So let me know what you think again.
That scene I used to wipe my mouth, I love that and it's sad but it's so well acted. It was juicy. So you guys let me know you think. Thank you so much for coming in and spending time with me and I will see you on. Let's see when is our next time together and I'm so glad. Thank you for all the encouragement for our live stream and doing what we do. So on the 5th after the 5th of July we will be back here either live or with an update. I know this is, this is going to be an upload rather I'M sorry an upload on our Facebook page and then you'll get the YouTube will get this free footage later and then that this Monday coming up and then all my podcast listeners, you already know the drill. You'll get it this Saturday coming up the 28th. So again thank you guys so much. I'll tell George you said hello. Please let us know. Please like comment, subscribe and share. Do all that good stuff and I really do appreciate you. You guys take care and I will see you next time.
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