The Decorator- Bette Davis (Un-aired 1965 Aaron Spelling TV Pilot) PART 1

Un-aired Bette Davis pilot produced by Aaron Spelling

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Bette
• Davis
• Aaron
• Spelling
• Mary
• Wickes
• Ed
• Begley

[HeyDeyFan]

I just put part 2 and 3 up!

[Soulard12rh]

Love how she just puts her cigarette out in the sand right next to the kid's house.

[PJCoan]

"Don't be absurd- everybody needs a decorator!" Too bad they didn't go on with this series- it looks like it would have been fun!

[DiscoVinyl]

"Likewise I'm sure!"

[sketchguy2006]

@PJCoan ...seriously? From Too Dumb For Television, The Best of the Bathroom Reader (1995): "Bette Davis stars as an interior decorator who insists on living with her clients, so that she can fit her design with their personalities. Each week she moves in with a different family and helps them solve their personal problems while helping them pick out drapes." At least Barbara Eden as "Jeannie" was seriously hot!

[rewardless]

thank you, ab fab!

[DreamsCumTrue469]

Bette's working with the ubiquitous Mary Wickes and Ed Begley . the little girl looks like that girl from the scary movie made around this same time period (the name of which escapes me) about the child with strange mind.

[unclealand]

Love how the audience laughs when someone picks up a coat.

[cfronck]

@ReasonedResponse I believe it didn't work due to it being a single-camera show without an audience. Bette was used to dramatic roles and didn't have the audience to react to her.

[tyjeffries]

I love at 3.10...its Bette doing Bette ..too fabulous! x

[beehmon]

This TV pilot was referenced with a brief clip in the wonderful new documentary film "Making the Boys" about playwright Mart Crowley who re-wrote this script before Ms. Davis would agree to do it. He says he originally wrote the assistant (played by Mary Wickes) to be a gay man played by Paul Lind.

[MrBadguitar]

Aaron Spelling pulled the plug before the pilot was even finished because Davis was taking too long and costing money. She demanded that the scenes be lit just like her old Warner Bros movies were, and she just couldn't adapt to the quick, down & dirty lighting of TV production. She spent hours arguing over such things, and Spelling realized it wold never work on a weekly basis and killed the show.

[markinpa1970]

I can't believe this never aired! This is great!