Showing posts with label David Ogden Stiers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label David Ogden Stiers. Show all posts

Sunday, April 11, 2010

Love & Money (1999) TV series

Swoosie Kurtz, David Ogden Stiers, Paget Brewster, Brian Doyle Murray, Brian Van Holt, Judy Greer, and John Livingston star in this ensemble comedy about romance in a swanky New York City apartment tower. We love Paget!

 


AVAILABLE EPISODES 
Season 1, Episode 3
The Music Box
22 October 1999

Season 1, Episode 6

A Night at the Opera
18 July 2000

Love & Money (1999) TV series

Cast: Brian Doyle-Murray, Brian Van Holt, David Ogden Stiers, Harriet Sansom Harris, John Livingston, Judy Greer, Paget Brewster, Swoosie Kurtz

Friday, May 1, 2009

Murder of the Century - Evelyn Nesbit (TV) (1995)

Originally aired as an installment of the highly acclaimed PBS series "The American Experience", this is the story of the murder that scandalized New York society at the turn of the century.

The documentary tells the story of the beautiful Evelyn Nesbit, famous stage actress and "Gibson Girl", and her role in the murder of New York's leading architect, Stanford White.

First White's lover, the social climbing Nesbit eventually married the eccentric heir to a railroad fortune, Harry K. Thaw. Thaw was obsessed by White, hated him, and hated the fact that his wife had one been White's lover. Nesbit played off Thaw's jealousy until it led to murder.

The documentary is wonderful, and shows the feeding frenzy of the turn-of-the-century press, on which CNN has nothing.

Murder of the Century - Evelyn Nesbit (TV) (1995)
Host: David Ogden Stiers

Sunday, March 15, 2009

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986) TV Movie

"Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry" was especially written by playwright James Prideaux for Katharine Hepburn. It would have been impractical to attempt a live staging, so the script was committed to a TV movie, under the direction of Hallmark Hall of Fame veteran George Schafer. Hepburn plays another variation on the indomitable elderly lady that has become her forte in the past decade. Here she is Margaret Delafield, a wealthy WASP widow who falls in love with the divorced Jewish doctor (Harold J. Stone) who has saved her life. The clucking tongues of both her family and the doctor's will not dissuade her: Mrs. Delafield stands her ground in a climactic scene reminiscent of the actress' earlier "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". "Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry" is formula all down the line, but every latter-day Katharine Hepburn performance deserves to be treasured (though the film itself hardly warranted the three-page TV Guide article written by Ms. Hepburn herself). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry (1986) TV Movie
Cast: Bibi Besch, David Ogden Stiers, Denholm Elliott, Harold Gould, Katharine Hepburn

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Day the Bubble Burst, The (1982) TV Movie

A fictionalized account of how the 1929 stock market crash hurt the elite and the struggling, and the forces that may have caused the crash.






The Day the Bubble Burst (1982) TV Movie
Cast: Audra Lindley, Bill Macy, Dana Elcar, David Ogden Stiers, Donna Pescow, Franklin Cover, Laurette Spang, Richard Crenna, Robert Hays, Robert Vaughn, Rue McClanahan