Members Chris B Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 It's a shame none of those other primetime soaps seems to make it past the pilot stage. I really wish the one starring Joan Crawford had been picked up. I believe it was called Della and the pilot is available. Here's the unaired pilot for Della also known as Royal Bay, the 1964 primetime soap starring Joan Crawford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 Too bad that didn't happen -Joan would have been perfect in a primetime soap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 I wonder why they didn't pick it up. She's a huge name and it really doesn't seem like a bad show. Very Dynasty. The 80s would never have passed up on a soap daytime or primetime starring someone as big as Crawford. It's a shame Bette Davis got stuck with Hotel when she got into the game and of course the show was so bad she refused to return after the pilot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 I thought she couldn't return because of her stroke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted January 1, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 That is correct and her friend Anne Baxter took over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 In Bette's memoir This and That she said that she was able to return, but the scripts she received were so poor that she kept telling them she was too sick to return until they stopped asking her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 I could see that, but she was very noticeably impaired after her stroke, for the rest of her life. I wonder if she was just saving face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted January 1, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 In 1965 From Here To Eternity,first a book,then a movie was piloted for ABC.It was filmed in Hawaii and starred Darren McGavin,Roger Davis and Sally Kellerman. In 1980 another version made it to air on NBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 That is true, but she went back to work on several projects after her stroke. I'm sure they did try to get her back, but she wasn't interested. I would've loved her in a Angela Channing role or something on Knots Landing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted January 1, 2012 Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 Bette Davis' In aaron Spelling's 1965 Unaired Pilot, "The Decorator" <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/whKTEGyNh1M" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted January 1, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 1, 2012 God,that was bad! Bette tried a few times to land a series but the 50's and 60's weren't ready for female leads in dramas..Stanwyck was an exception. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted January 2, 2012 Members Share Posted January 2, 2012 Speaking of Joan and eighties primetime soaps, Mommie Dearest has always looked and felt very much like an eighties primetime soap, or at least TV movie, to me. The acting, and the glamour of the sets and costumes are right on point. The scene where she's in the white robe and turban on the huge chaise lounge after she's just vaporized Christina's "babies" is just what I imagine Faye's Sable Colby would have been like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Paul Raven Posted January 2, 2012 Author Members Share Posted January 2, 2012 SOW reported in a profile of James E Reilly in 1995 that had developed a nightime soap for P&G titled Turn Left at the Light Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted January 14, 2012 Members Share Posted January 14, 2012 A May 1985 Digest mentions that the Dan O'Herlihy role on Dark Mansions was originally offered to Cary Grant and Gregory Peck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted January 14, 2012 Members Share Posted January 14, 2012 Wow, that's like The Colby's style casting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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