Archive of American Television Interview with Betty Garrett!

Posted: 3/3/08 at 9:10am

Archive of American Television Interview with Betty Garrett

PT 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORVj3qwUjSM

PT 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZoNoKPcY90

PT 3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9zbpGkPo2U

what a thrill to hear her stories!!!!

[Chevstriss]

Posted: 3/3/08 at 11:31am

thanx for these

Updated On: 3/3/08 at 11:31 AM

Posted: 3/3/08 at 11:59am

ooh, theres a PT 4, too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRfT9jee8OE

[Mamie]

Posted: 3/3/08 at 1:39pm

I'm enjoying her stories but that interviewer's ignorance is really irritating. She's obviously too young to have seen those old movies and tv shows but it would have been an act of respect if she had at least tried to view the videos of some of them. She doesn't know any of Betty's old films and only knows the titles and names of the stars of the TV shows. It's embarrassing to listen to her.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 3/3/08 at 3:23pm

I could be wrong, but I think the interviewer says things like "And could you explain who that person is..." for the benefit of the audience. It seems like that's basically how these interviews are set up, so the person being interviewed has ample opportunity to talk about various different subjects and the interviewer just says something now and then to put things on track.

[Mamie]

Posted: 3/3/08 at 4:07pm

This seemed to go beyond that. Betty mentioned her films with Frank Sinatra and Gene Kelly, then she said something about 'none of my other films did'. The girl asked 'what films were they?'. Now that's bad! Then she talked a little about her TV shows and specifically All in the Family. She talked about the character of Archie being such a bigot and then she said her character was Irish and her husband was Italian, so Archie hated both of them. So the girl replies 'why was that?'. Why did he hate them?'.

I don't know - it just sounded like a high school interviewer, only not quite that good.

[MrMidwest]

Posted: 3/3/08 at 4:08pm

Fair enough, I've only see the ones with Florence Henderson.

Posted: 3/3/08 at 4:28pm

today i have listened to the Bea Arthur & Phyllis Diller ones while ive been working!!

they are fantastic!!!