Dick Cavett welcomed the legendary Bette Davis and Peggy Wood to his show in 1972. After Dick welcomes them to come out, they sit elegantly on the stage together.
Dick says to the two of them, "How nice to meet you." Peggy starts talking about how she has seen Dick before, but she was in his show's audience. "There was this great barrier between us," she says.
Dick says that he assumes the two ladies have known each other for a long time. Bette says, "Well, yes. We met when Miss Wood was a superstar, as we call them today, at the Cape Playhouse, and I was trotting up and down the aisles seating the theatergoers."
Bette notes that Peggy was marvelous to all apprentices there, and that is when she first met her. Peggy talks about how her husband went to see a show of the apprentices in the theater, and Bette was in the production.
He came home "Pop-eyed," as Peggy said, and her husband said, "I have seen actress boys and girls, and I think she is absolutely marvelous." Then, he went to New York the next day and told a higher-up that he needed to see this actress.
Bette credits Peggy's husband for her chance on the screen, and she said she wasn't ready for California, but she went and gave it a shot, and it turned out successful.
Then, Dick says, "Hey, could I ask you both a question? Do I have Roquefort Cheese on my face?" The ladies laugh, and Dick says he feels he has some left over from the live commercial he did before the show.
