The Eamonn Andrews Show[23/04/67] (1967)

Film details

Featuring

Eva Gabor Bernard Braden Barbara Kelly
Country

United Kingdom
Year

1967
Genre

Talk show
Type

Television
Category

Non Fiction

Synopsis

CHAT SHOW. Eamonn Andrews talks with guests Eva Gabor, Barbara Kelly, Bernard Braden and Joe Orton. Music from Vikki Carr; and The Bachelors.

Main title with guest credits (0:45). Television studio and audience. Eamonn Andrews welcomes audience and introduces first guest, Eva Gabor, sister of Zsa Zsa (1:43). Eva Gabor talks about her marriages, and mentions a play she did on Broadway, `The Little Glass Clock'. Cecil Beaton designed costumes and scenery for the play, and also advised her against one of her marriages, which subsequently lasted three weeks (7:30). Vikki Carr sings in the studio `It must be him' (10:48). Applause. Audience. End of part one (11:30). Part two (12:24). Andrews introduces Barbara Kelly and Bernard Braden who have just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary. Kelly enters (12:58). Brief chat (14:20), before Braden enters and sings `I'm glad there is you'(?) to piano accompaniment (16:55). Braden and Kelly talk about their rare joint appearances on television (18:30) and the reasons their marriage has lasted 25 years (21:25). Kelly regrets marrying at 17. End of Part two (23:42). Part three (24.46). Andrews introduces the three children of Braden and Kelly, who are in the audience: Chris, Kelly and Kim; and Barbara's mother (26:05). The Bachelors sing `Oh how I miss you' in the studio (29:05). Applause. Andrews introduces Joe Orton, who joins the other guests (29:43). He describes his misdemeanours with library books for which he was imprisoned for six months: how he pasted pictures over the picture of the author, and mentions a book of etiquette by Lady Lewisham on which he pasted a picture of a nude woman. Orton says he doesn't regret doing it, and had a marvellous time in prison (32:10). Eva Gabor mentions her enjoyment of `Loot' and Orton talks of the casting problems with both `Loot' and `Entertaining Mr Sloane' due to the reluctance of actors to be associated with the plays. Orton describes problems with the censor, the Lord Chamberlain, who wouldn't allow certain things in `Loot' (34:29). The guests discuss marriage. Orton was married at 20 but it was not a success, and he says it would be impossible to write a play like `Loot' while happily married. They all discuss the necessity of compromise. Orton compares marriage with "being a baby and having to play with the same rattle always" (38:48). Kelly talks about the conventional pressures to marry, while she would have preferred living together before marriage. Andrews asks Braden what's the best quality in a wife, and Kelly what she likes most about her husband (43:57). Andrews closes programme (44:04). Credits (44:33 mins).