Bette Davis--"The Starmaker," Gary Merrill, Joi Lansing, Jack Albertson, Ian Keith, 1957 TV

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Bette Davis stars as a theatrical agent in "The Starmaker," a half-hour TV drama from 1957, co-starring Gary Merrill, Joi Lansing, Jack Albertson, and Ian Keith.

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@lindavictor81 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for letting people see treasures from tv Bette Davis She is amazing!

@claudivannonato5958 2 ай бұрын

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!

@hudsony777 3 жыл бұрын

Until YT, I had no idea she did so much TV in the 50s.

@bootsnsaddle8289 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@carolannpacificadam1944 Жыл бұрын

Indeed. She gave fabulous "face"!

@maymalone1505 9 ай бұрын

Great Actress,Terrible parent😮

@roreyb7 9 ай бұрын

I totally agree she was the best one of a kind !l

@lindaanthony7890 8 ай бұрын

I felt the same, and wished they stayed married.

@rafaellewis4528 3 ай бұрын

Amen!

@johnmorris6800 3 жыл бұрын

A no nonsense actress we shall never see her like again. Molded by the 20th century!!

@belindag8116 9 ай бұрын

BETTE WHAT A STAR SHE WAS ! ❤❤❤❤❤

@3506Dodge 9 ай бұрын

Her presence and depth is truly impressive. This was a woman who knew herself and the world.

@nancycurtis488 9 ай бұрын

I wish I owned one of those gorgeous 1957 automobiles!!

@windstorm1000 2 ай бұрын

Bette gives off sparks, as always....shes like a really friendly thunderstorm....kinetic!

@beverlyledbetter4906 Жыл бұрын

The one and only... Bette Davis! Will never be another like her.🙄

@nancy2214 11 ай бұрын

What a lady❤. That kiss she blowed shows what an amazing actress she truly was.

@denisespurlock 3 жыл бұрын

Just discovered these Bette Davis t.v. shows. Love them. Thanks for sharing,

@midwestslotdiva 3 жыл бұрын

Simply put......Bette Davis is the GREATEST!!

@caitianlong 3 жыл бұрын

This would've made for a fine series. Glad to see Davis and Merrill's onscreen chemistry still there 7 years on from All About Eve.

@aeichler 3 жыл бұрын

It have been meant as a pilot for the two of them.

@kallen868 3 жыл бұрын

Also Another Man' s Poison.

@caitianlong 3 жыл бұрын

@@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).

@sheiladavis6523 3 жыл бұрын

Hello 👋 I just watch that on KZfaq about 2 hours ago amazing plot a WOW !! ending July 22,2021

@deb7518 Жыл бұрын

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.

@vistaestrada 3 жыл бұрын

Bette looks quite lovely and very glamorous!

@lindavictor81 2 жыл бұрын

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!

@francinebarr1204 3 жыл бұрын

Bette & Gary 🌟🌟

@alicemartin3819 2 жыл бұрын

The great Madame ,There's no one like her!!!!

@westcoastgirl Жыл бұрын

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 .

@DayByeDayChristine 2 жыл бұрын

So good. I thoroughly enjoy and appreciate the acting and talent in these old Hollywood pictures.

@FreedomSpirit7 Ай бұрын

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.

@dianagette4796 Жыл бұрын

You know how they say " one picture is worth a thousand words"? With Bette Davis, its just one look.

@louisescanlon7478 2 жыл бұрын

Bett Davis is such a great actress. Thank you so much for sharing. 🤗⚘🤗⚘🤗⚘

@catdog2706 2 жыл бұрын

Best actress ever love all her movies very very talented love her one of a kind thank u miss davis

@juliepeterson6639 Жыл бұрын

Wow! Joi Lansing! I am sooo happy to see her with my Bette Davis!

@dennislyon8030 2 ай бұрын

Now Voyager was her Best movie ever.❤❤❤

@scronx Жыл бұрын

An especially enjoyable, upbeat installment of these old shows. Wish more of 'em were gentle comedies like this and less soap operas for the ladies.

@Jasper7182009 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@MrAlcataldo 2 жыл бұрын

Merrill stood by Bette when her daughter BD wrote that book ...

@DayByeDayChristine 2 жыл бұрын

@MrAlcataldo yes he did!! Just as a lot of people spoke out against Christina Crawford and her portrayal of Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest!!

@windstorm1000 2 ай бұрын

@@DayByeDayChristine...but just as many supported Christina!!

@roychefets6961 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent post, Alan. Really delicious!

@donnyetta Ай бұрын

Amazing actress. The whole package for guys, admiration from the gels.

@KarmicSalt Жыл бұрын

I loved this

@claudivannonato5958 2 ай бұрын

I just have to thank you for the opportunity! It cost! 🇧🇷

@kallen868 3 жыл бұрын

Loved this! Thank you Alan!😊

@Spiderman7Bob7 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@paulvoorhies8821 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@paulvoorhies8821 2 жыл бұрын

I saw her last feature film in the theater: My Wicked Stepmother. It was god awful. She died halfway through the shoot.

@zyxw2024 2 жыл бұрын

Hotel. But then Bette Davis had her stoke & Anne Baxter took over. My friend co-starred in one Hotel episode.

@windstorm1000 9 ай бұрын

@tz3218it was hilarious. The execs were dumb bells not to know they had platinum silver in that one

@englishincontext4025 9 ай бұрын

Trouble is that Davis is so good, so commanding, that everyone else seems hammy. Though the young actor is very very good.

@Itstonytime77 Жыл бұрын

I think every actor has had that feeling of stage fright when they think they’ve forgotten their lines…the actor’s nightmare lol

@rexlex1736 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, yes! Those old movies where everyone smoked cigarettes!

@terry4137 Жыл бұрын

Perhaps they smoked, but they were much better than what we (shit) have today. Not even close.

@nancycurtis488 9 ай бұрын

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.

@windstorm1000 2 ай бұрын

It's America's " gift" to the world. Lol

@giorgiobaroni4903 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@falcon664 3 жыл бұрын

I was just looking him up when I saw your post. Very sad.

@windstorm1000 2 ай бұрын

Oh gosh ...

@buffedtrainer1 3 жыл бұрын

"All About Eve" stars revisted, 7 years later

@alexfernandohuenten1374 2 жыл бұрын

Idole

@michelleayres5608 11 ай бұрын

I'm going to read another one of her books. She's such a gem.❤

@Ninastarr 8 ай бұрын

God she is so full of grace

@davidmayhew8083 8 ай бұрын

Id hire him as my secretary!

@marlasotherchannel9847 9 ай бұрын

Wow, Tom Pittman, "Clay", starred in "High School Big Shot" 1959, and died in a car accident that year.

@bannedheretic2971 3 жыл бұрын

The blonde is a real dish!

@IrvONeil-fn6cp 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@kallen868 3 жыл бұрын

@@IrvONeil-fn6cp Ahhh Thank you I keep thinking she looks like Joi ( I remember that spelling) what's her name!? Lansing!

@christinedawnbrown8248 3 жыл бұрын

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...

@virginiaschaefer9693 Жыл бұрын

She was on I Love Lucy too.

@brkitdwn 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@TheCalico72 2 жыл бұрын

That would have been brilliant all the way around!!

@deb7518 Жыл бұрын

I think at this particular moment in time, all 'working women' HAD to be shown to be also 'wonderful wives'.

@kerrismith9733 Жыл бұрын

Bette Was Always Pretty And A Good Actress But Shes A Diva

@JudgeJulieLit 3 жыл бұрын

Megalomanic "ham" actor father gratuitously gives his son incapacitating performance anxiety.

@IrvONeil-fn6cp 3 жыл бұрын

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.

@JudgeJulieLit 3 жыл бұрын

@@IrvONeil-fn6cp Yw. The Dracula and carnival roles do call for "ham" acting.

@sohara.... 3 жыл бұрын

22:00

@ScribblebytesWorldwide 3 жыл бұрын

Everything (except for the racism) about this video makes me feel a warm feeling in my heart.

@kaydee4296 2 жыл бұрын

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.