Episode Transcript
[00:00:04] 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.
[00:00:17] As you can hear, the party's 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.
[00:00:48] Hello everyone, this is Moya and I am so happy to be with you right now. I can just pull myself up right now, another episode of Late to the Party.
[00:01:02] And of course, excuse me, I'm in a kind of different setting so I kind of sound a little different, but I had to leave the party and always do that. Well, sometimes I do it and go off to a more quiet area. That's why I don't hear the background music and, or the people. And this is a recording. We're not live this Saturday, but we still had to get this information about what I've been looking at because as you know, most of you are wonderful listeners. And shout out to all of you, thank you for subscribing and commenting and liking and welcome to our new listeners and our new viewers.
[00:01:41] Excuse me. And I hope you comment like and subscribe and share as well. But Georgia, my partner in in cinema and I say in Crime, is still on a hiatus. She's dealing with some personal issues but the show must go on and she sends all her love. And of course when she's not here, I'll do Late to the Party by myself. And I already explained in our opening segment what Late to the Party means.
[00:02:13] But this week, so it's called Mixed Bag and I may change the title of that because I was gonna do. It's kind of, kind of got a lot that I want to talk about. But you know, I've been practicing or trying to practice keeping it short, having shorter content.
[00:02:30] So I'm just gonna get right into it about what I've looked at in this recent, this recent weeks. And so I'm gonna share my screen, what I've been looking at and first want to start off with this wonderful new to me YouTube channel called Couch Queens. And let me just get that up for you. So like I said, it's new to me. New to me, new to me. And they are, or whoever does this channel, they have my number because, you know, I am like A secret or not so secret Anglophile. And they have this channel and it just. All the period dramas and English movies that we love. So I first stumbled upon this offering from them. 12 underrated period period dramas from the 80s. You should be watching. And I'll go back a little bit. Let's see. Okay. So you kind of can see it. I love how they have it segmented like this. The Barchester Chronicles from 1982 stars. You know, I have a huge crush. Even though he's no longer with us. Alan Rickman, like most women probably do.
[00:03:45] And it's so funny. Just I. I don't. I revealed. I have to, you know, expose that. I don't watch Harry Potter. I'm not into Harry Potter. So I. I did not know that he was. Oh, there's a big controversy because, you know, he's. Alan Rickman is deceased. And so they had to recast. They're doing Harry Potter over something like that. I don't know. But recast Snape, his character in there using an. A black dude. And I'm, you know, Snape is apparently white, so I had to be white. But anyway, so it's a huge controversy. I'm getting. Not getting into all that because like I said, I don't follow Harry Potter. You know, that's not my buying. But anyway, he's in Barchester Chronicles. I said all to say because I first learned about him. Y'all know who. Look at this show faithfully or listen. Thank you to our audio listeners as well.
[00:04:37] Galaxy Quest. I love that movie with Tim. You know, I can't remember his name, my boy. But I, you know, comedian famous. Anyway. Played Buzz Lightyear. I can't remember his last name. But anyway, I love that movie. It's so fun. It's a. Going to Weaver and then I didn't know that he. So going back to my. These period, you know, these period dramas. He was in Pride and Prejudice and I. I don't think I had seen that yet. So anyway. But I love him. He wasn't even on screen. King of the Hill. He did the voice for they. They were at this Renaissance festival. And he was like a rogue king, if you will. And he just really was taken apart too far. So anyway, I'm a huge Alan Rickman fan. I just think he's just love him was just so good looking to me. And I love this voice. Anyway, so he's in The Barchester Chronicles, 1982, playing Reverend Slope. I'm probably not saying that right. I can't remember. But this is another Anthony Trollope liter literary piece. And you know, like one of our first videos on the how better David saved my life was the Pallisters, also written by Anthony Trial. But I had never heard of Anthony Trollop because Dickens would. Of course, everybody knows Charles Dickens, right? But they were, they were contemporaries. And Trollop, he did more of adult themes and not a lot of, you know, I don't say kids stuff because Dickens was not. Dickens was deep, but it was more of adult and more mature. That's the. What I want to say. But anyway, I saw the Barchester Chronicles. All of this is on YouTube for free.
[00:06:18] Hilarious piece of literature. Well, I saw the movie, the, the TV offering of it, but. But still Trial, it was a master of character study and getting deep into the mental piece behind these characters. And so go look at that. And then what I did watch and I don't know how this escaped me, Love in a Cold Climate. And so it's, it's on. It's on YouTube for free. Let me go to this one. This channel real quick. Let me share this. This instead. I watched it on. I believe several people have it uploaded or several channels. Sergey Smirnoff, but I think I watched it on. No, and it. Apparently there was a re. They redid this.
[00:07:17] I think I watched it on this channel. This, this person had them all.
[00:07:24] All. All together. They had them. Yeah. So I don't, I don't want to mess up this person's name, but for those of you who are listening, it's Chris. And last name? V O U G I O U Voju. Sorry if I messed that up. But anyway, Love in a Cold Climate is based on. Let's share this tab instead from Nancy Mitford from her novels the Pursuit of Love and Love in a Cold Climb. And it just smushed them together. And for the TV offering Love in a Cold Climate. Okay, and so the, so the, the version that I watch had Dame Judi Dench in it, right? So this is from the 80s. So it's the 80s. And, you know, everything was different. Everything was for the most part better produced in the past. So I did not see the recent offering what it looked like when it's early 2000s, so I can't vouch for it. I don't know if it's good or bad. But, you know, if you got Dame Judy Dench in there and these other wonderful actors, you. I'm showing a list right here and I. And guys, I'm on IMDb for those of you who are Listening. And so, James, it was this, it was like a, it was satire. I'll just go to what, what, let's see what IMDb calls it. But it was satirical. It was. So this is the premise of it. According to IMDb, two cousins come of age in the early 20th century, but fate leads them down very different paths. And you can certainly say that again because.
[00:09:05] Go look at it because there's a lot. And I, I, at first it's a slow burn. You have to pay attention and, and follow it because it does not to me really get interesting until the girl, the young girls, the sisters and the cousins that they become adults and get married and what have you. But, and like I said, it's funny. It is. And so I did not look at this yet, but I'm going to go back and look at it. I have heard of the Mitford that, like why that name ring a bell. Nancy Mitford. And so I'm gonna go back because it was like called the wow, Mitford Sister. So apparently maybe a lot of this was based on her life and, and her family. But I digress anyway.
[00:09:52] Hilarious. So Dame Judy Dench, or Sadie, she plays Stady and Uncle Matt Bay are the, the, the, the lead adults, if you will. They're the family that most of these stories center around. Their interactions are her. Are hilarious.
[00:10:08] Sadie is so deadpan and her deliveries. But this is a who's who of acting and you can go and look through all this and see who's there.
[00:10:20] But one character that just stood out to me was Linda, played by Lucy Gutteridge. And let's see if they can have a good picture of her. They don't. Let's.
[00:10:32] This is, this is Lucy Gutteridge, but this is in her, in the, in the movie.
[00:10:38] I'm sorry, the series. Love in a Cold Climate, for those of you can. I'll make it. There we go. You've seen this face before. Very lovely lady, very nice looking. But anyway, she plays Linda and her character just stood out to me for just absolutely how ridiculous she was.
[00:11:02] She got married and like they said it's on is after World War I. So it's between World War I and World War II. Okay. And she was a. I, I'm not, I wouldn't put it in, in the terms of, of good, great guys, bad women, because you don't really see her husband, but he's like a dullard, I guess. And let me stop sharing this because I'm going back and forth, but they just, you know, people got married for status and class reasons. You know, the elite stood with the elite and you know all that stuff. Y'all know that. For those of you who don't know that, go back and. And take a. Just a brief history of class in old time British society and the elite and it's still there. I did not know this. I just saw a channel talking about this. I had no idea that they still had this kind of stuff going on in. In today's society. But there apparently is still a class system. And I guess you say oh duh, dummy, there's a class system. I didn't still think like the British class is not as stringent as it is now obviously. But why have one at all anyway? Like nobody cares. Who cares? Nobody cares anymore. But anyway, so Linda gets married, hates her husband because he's elite. He's a. Is. Is he in the school system? I think he's something like that. Anyway he's. No, he's in politics. I think he's in politics. Anyway he's an at least system right. And so marries him. Of course she hates him, has a. A baby, a little girl and hates the child.
[00:12:55] So Moira her name is. And you know of course I'm prejudice because that's too close to Moya. But sus the bait. Hates being pregnant, hates the baby maybe because it was a girl, I don't know. But because she hates that man. And let's take a look at this, this picture again.
[00:13:16] Hates that man and proceeds to just abandon this child to her. The child's grandfather, her. Her father in law. And when she sees a child like later on or. Or has a chance to meet the child. I mean so I have seen this and you've probably seen this before in other movies and I just didn't quite understand how people could be like that. But you know, now, now I get it and it's just strange to me. And so these same women. So she dumps her high value man and here we go with that. And then I don't want to give away too much goals and marries a communist. So you know, back then communism was like, you know, just such a dirty word, you know, rightfully so but just just really goes the extreme of what she was. And honeys, she pays dearly.
[00:14:19] Oh gosh. Anyway, go look at that. And so also I want to some other characters that cracked me up and was so true to life was.
[00:14:34] Let me find her Lady Montdor played by Vivian Pickles.
[00:14:40] Let's see if I can go to just go look at it. I don't want to give away too much.
[00:14:49] Here is. Here she is.
[00:14:52] You can't really see her, but this is lady my door with Fanny. So Fanny. And I can't remember the other man's name, but I believe it was her husband. I saw the whole thing, but I wasn't clear who's with who, because you got to really pay attention. I thought I was paying attention. So I'm sorry, but Fanny and I. I'm gonna get his name. They were the only people with sins. And Dame Judy Dench's Sadie's character and some of the girls, but they were flighty and everything. It was a lot of fun to watch. You know, you really have to pay attention. But lady, my door, she.
[00:15:26] Oh, gosh, guys, let's go. Look at. These women are silly. These are some ridiculous women. And if Nancy Mitford was writing about herself and her friends, she was brutally honest. And I give it to her. But let me. Let me just quickly go with this.
[00:15:45] Cedric Hampton, played by Michael Cochran. You have seen him before. We've seen him in a lot of stuff, and I'm not gonna keep clicking on his pictures. You could go look at him. See, you'll see it. He winds up becoming the next heir apparent to the. The.
[00:16:03] What do they call it? The estate.
[00:16:06] And because her daughter.
[00:16:09] Where's her name? Polly. I believe it's Polly. She goes and marries.
[00:16:17] This is a wild story. Poison church mouse. Now, he was in education, but come to find out he might be. Ugh. Y'all, I don't want to say it, but the worst of the worst type of human being. This show, this. This series, rather, was so brutally honest about women and men and their relationships. But Lady Matt's my dork who was just so in your face, so just so rude, but not. But because she's elite and at the top of the class. Not rude. You know, you can't say that. But everybody around her dreads her coming around because she just was so rude and even realize how rude she was.
[00:17:01] But she's hooks up with Cedric Hampton. Like I said, heir apparent. And y'all, it was a wild ride. Okay, it was a wild ride, but so true. Whether you want to admit it or not, these is. This is how these two types and classes of people, however you want to put it, yes, it goes on. I've. You know it. I know it. Can't talk about it, but. But it's true. So I was in stitches with that. So there's a lot of other.
[00:17:30] Oh, gosh, I wasn't sharing. I'm so sorry. There's a lot so Lady Matador and. And I'm right here. Cedric Hampton, played by Michael Cochran. Hilarious. And like I said, just go look at it. It's wonderful. But go to couch Queens. Check out Love in a cold Climate. So let me just quickly scrub and it. Like I said, it was so hilarious. This is the dad. He is funny as well. Play the typical stuffy.
[00:18:05] Is this. Is this. Yeah. Here's Linda. Laura. Linda. Linda. Linda. Look at Linda. Look at Linda.
[00:18:14] Linda. Listen, just. Oh, Lord. And then is this is. Oh, Lord. They have it right here.
[00:18:24] Ciao.
[00:18:26] So Lord, the set. The heir apparent, Cedric Hampton. He throws this ball like a masquerade ball.
[00:18:37] It would put. What is that? The Met Gala put it to shame.
[00:18:43] I wasn't offended, but, you know, people could be offended by some of the. Some. Something that should offend me. I thought it was hilarious.
[00:18:51] Please go look at this.
[00:18:54] So loving a cold climate, 1980.
[00:18:57] See, I did not see Crystal Bell. I'm gonna look at that. I don't think I saw it. Diana have not seen that.
[00:19:04] None of this. No. So I am going. So they got me, child. I thought I was up Nancy Aster. I don't think I saw that. The last place. And yes, I'm scrubbing. I'm sorry.
[00:19:18] Going through all this flame. The flame Trees of Fika or Fica. Haven't seen that. Anna of Five Towns. So yes, I saw that.
[00:19:32] Oh, I will talk about that next time. That was so good. Let's go back to that. Anna Five Towns.
[00:19:44] This. This one. Anna Five Towns is on. Let me share my screen.
[00:19:50] Anna of Five Towns is on. It is streaming on. On Amazon. It was really good. Really tragic. Tragic, tragic, tragic, tragic.
[00:20:04] For different reasons, I would say, but really entertaining.
[00:20:13] And it's.
[00:20:16] I would say I could see how first wave feminism, even though it wasn't like the feminism what we know now, I could see. Not this rabid feminazi. No, not that.
[00:20:35] You know, two things could be true at the same time. Women needing more rights. Not now, but back then, certainly I would. My point is, I would never try to equate now with back then.
[00:20:50] You can't keep living off those fumes. It just doesn't work. It's not lining up reality. But back then, Gez, if those women would have had the opportunities that we have now, wow.
[00:21:04] They would have set the world on fire. And I don't mean in a bad way. I think. I think a lot of good could have come out of that because they, they were at, they were really living, being oppressed and so. Oppressed or oppressed.
[00:21:22] Yeah, you can make a case for it. Okay, but now, Nah, nah, nah, nah, player, nah. All right, so Anna Five Towns. And let's see what else we got. I saw that. It was good. So we'll, we'll maybe talk about that one day. I didn't see this one. All the rivers run.
[00:21:40] Man, I missed a lot of these. So go check out Couch Queens on YouTube. They have a great channel. They have a whole slew of things they missed. Like why is the BBC hiding this? Hitting BBC Gems, or why no one's talking about this. This is underrated. So yes, please. Couch Queens. Couch Queens.
[00:22:03] So I think that's all I have this week. And go look at Love in a cold climate. It's free on YouTube. I, I really, really, really.
[00:22:15] Let's see. There we go. I really enjoyed looking at that. And I'm at 22 minutes. I was saying 15, but I got it done in 22. Just about. You guys, thank you so much for joining me. I'm gonna go back to the party and we, I'll let Georgia know. We were together and we joined out. Enjoyed our time together. You guys take care. I can't wait to see you, be with you guys again. We will be together again and hopefully Georgia will be joining us next time. But I will see you again on, on the 10th. And I'm laughing because I'm looking at, I'm looking at the calendar and all the movies that George and I had lined up. I'm not even going to tell you what they are because. No, it's, I'm upset. I'm really upset because I miss Georgia. But May 10th and hopefully I'll know what we're doing, what I'm doing back then. But sometimes I just don't know and I just love surprising you guys. So you guys take care. Thank you so much for joining. How better. David saved my life. Slash, Late to the party. Can't see you guys. Can't wait to see you guys next time you have a great one. And hold on, girl, what you doing? Look what you doing.
[00:23:40] Bye. Bye.
[00:23:43] So, my fellow stars and starlets, superstars, don't forget to comment. Let us know what you think about these movies. Did you see these movies? Comment, share, subscribe, like, follow, do all that. We really appreciate it. Let's keep these great series and films alive.
[00:24:05] So this is Moya for another episode of Late to the Party. Thanks you guys. Looking forward to the next one you. You take care.
