"Cissie" Molly Bee 1959 unsold TV pilot

Описание: "Cissie" aka "Sissy": This 1959 pilot stars Molly Bee (who was 19 at the time), Robert Easton, and Roscoe Ates in a hillbilly comedy - complete with laugh track - set in the Ozarks, akin to later rural comedy TV shows like the Beverly Hillbillies, Green Acres, and Petticoat Junction. Directed by Sidney Miller, written by Mac Hyman and Milt Rosen. Also starring Frank Gorshin, Gordon Jones, Alvy Moore, Jack Straw, Art Lewis.

Discovered by country singer Rex Allen, Molly Bee was only 13 in 1952 when her Capitol Records single “I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus” became a hit. She was a regular on The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show, The Pinky Lee Show, and the L.A. program Hometown Jamboree. Around when this TV pilot was filmed in the late ‘50s, she was dating singer Tommy Sands. Her other hit singles included “Young Romance,” “5 Points of a Star,” and “Don’t Look Back.” After moving to Oceanside CA in 1986, she ran Molly Bee’s nightclub and restaurant, where she performed regularly. Bee died February 7, 2009, from complications related to a stroke.

You can find other vintage TV pilots and anthologies in the BetaGems playlist "Anthology Television 1950s-1960s."

BetaGems are culled from an archive of over 1000 beta video tapes recorded from 1983 into the 1990s. Most feature live music performances broadcast on television in San Diego CA, though there are also rarely seen commercials, comedy clips, and other material that doesn't seem to be anywhere else on Youtube or online. Most of the tapes were recorded on a Sony SL-HFT7 Super Beta Theater Hi-Fi Stereo - the same model was refurbished and is being used for these digital transfers and uploads.

In rare occasions where a BetaGems clip does appear elsewhere, we're only uploading if our own beta master is better quality or contains material not seen previously. Much footage comes from public television and public access broadcasts that the taper, who worked for a local cable TV production company in the 1980s, monitored nightly for several years. Some of the programming is strictly regional, mostly from the San Diego area.