Wow! Cool! I didn't know about these short TV productions with Bette Davis! I've never even heard of it! Very rare pearls! If it weren't for the internet, material like this would remain in obscurity!
I always felt that Miss Davis & Mr. Merrill loved each other till the day they died, 5 months apart. They were married for 10 years & neither remarried after their divorce. Miss Davis will ALWAYS be the best actress in the Film Industry. No one can EVER compare to her.
Bette Davis and Gary Merrill the best. "Hold on to your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy night." In "All About Eve" they had a chemistry like the chemistry they have in this movie. I had no idea they died a day apart. When I watched "All About Eve" and looked up all of the cast members the storyline that's when I found out that Bette Davis and Gary Merrill were married in real life. They were great at their craft! More of my favorites.
EXCELLENT 30 MINUTES OF GREAT MRS. BETT DAVIS. THIS IS BETTER THEN 95% OF THE MOVIES TODAY IN MOVIE HOUSES. EXQUISITE TALENT OF THESE ACTORS' ACTRESSES IN THOSE YEARS. AMAZING. THIS IS ONE OF VERY FEW GOOD THINGS ABOUT RU-vid. THESE KIND OF MOVIES.
I love Bette Davis in everything . She can be a vase on a corner in a room and steal the scene . She has so much presence . She doesn’t try , she becomes . Naturally .
@@aeichler Sad to know that this promising material was one of those TV pilots Bette tried out but never did pan out. I feel this is way more suited to her style than, say, The Decorator (1965).
I really liked 'The Decorator'. It could have been the start of a great new genre for Bette Davis. Too bad the 'suits' just couldn't see it. This piece was good, but too similar to so many movie parts she'd played before.
When she gives that speech about "the show must go on" about 22 minutes in it feels like she is really expressing her own feelings about duty to an audience I think she is GREAT! Always good actor even in Parachute Jumper!
Even though they divorced, Bette Davis and Gary Merrill were great together. It’s too bad they just didn’t continue a professional relationship on film.
Anything with the great Bette Davis is welcomed wholeheartedly. Bring it on PLEASE. Too bad Bette Davis never found a TV series that went over. All of the pilots she made didn't go over by the 'power that be'. I'm sure that she had enough fans to keep a series going.
I love that she was the original Mrs. Cabot on Hotel, but she became ill and couldn’t fulfill the role; in a stroke of true genius, she was replaced by Ann Baxter.
Too bad Tom Pittman died just a year later, in 1958. Riding his Porsche through the Hollywood Hills. He was 26. The loss of another talented young actor of the 1950s.
Yes,a very,very good movie,and I think" Dark Victory" IS her Most admirable,well acted film. I love the line" prognosis negative," during the exchange between the nurse and Judith Traherne.
Movies, TV shows yes but not the smoking. Smoking the reason my mother died at 58, my daddy 12 years later…most of my aunts and uncles on both sides. I hate cigarettes. I have never smoked even one, none of my 7 children have smoked, and none of my 21 grandchildren who are old enough have smoked and I pray none ever do. I am so glad that smoking has gone way down hill since my youth. I am 76 and am a lot healthier than almost any one who reached my present age in my family. Just do a Google search and see how many extremely talented individuals in this country died because of lung cancer, COPD or heart disease who smoked…….God knows how many more movies they would have lived to be in…..just think….John Wayne, Yul Brenner, Gary Cooper…just to name 3…..a huge thumbs down on tobacco….nicotine is more addictive than heroin……true.
I think they should have cast with Gary Merrill as Barclay Senior (With a different famed stage name) and Barclay Jr as his son, played by Tim Pittman. He looks just like a young Gary Merrill. Paula didn't need a husband.
That ham actor was played by Ian Keith, who was one of the actors considered for the role of Dracula that Bela Lugosi played in the early '30s. Look for Ian Keith in a memorable role as an alcoholic carnival performer in the great 1947 Tyrone Power pic NIGHTMARE ALLEY... Fun show! Thanks for posting.
That's what was expected of stars then they didn't want boring "entertainers" they wanted drama and charisma she had it naturally she's not acting bold she was bold.
Anyone who has a role who happens to be anything other than white is playing a "racist" part, huh? You sure do treat those actors like dumb children who couldn't make their own minds up about ANYTHING. If I were them THAT would be a huge insult to me.
The great Joi Lansing, a specialist in ditsy blondes...i thought she even managed to make her scene here poignant, with the way she was trying to be welcoming and the guy was so patronizing.
Joi was gorgeous....I have also seen her on The Beverly Hillbillies...I just read that she had a lesbian relationship at the end of her short life...her lover has written about it...
