Della (film)
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Della is a 1964 American made-for-television drama film starring Joan Crawford, Paul Burke, Charles Bickford and Diane Baker. Directed by Robert Gist, the film was originally produced by Four Star Television as a television pilot for a proposed NBC series named Royal Bay which was to star Burke as a lawyer and Bickford as his cantankerous, righteous father.
Della | |
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Directed by | Robert Gist |
Written by | Richard Alan Simmons |
Produced by | Stanley M. Kallis Joan Crawford (uncredited) |
Starring | Joan Crawford Paul Burke Charles Bickford Diane Baker |
Cinematography | Wilfrid M. Cline |
Edited by | Bernard Burton |
Music by | Fred Steiner |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Four Star Distribution |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Following the successful film-to-television progressions of movie stars such as Lucille Ball and Barbara Stanwyck, Crawford attempted the same maneuver with Royal Bay, a soap opera in a fictional seaside town where she was the wealthy matriarch and daughter of the town's founder. However, the pilot centered on the two characters that would most likely not reprise their role for the series, mother and daughter Della and Jenny Chappell. This may have been one of the reasons the pilot was released as a standalone film instead of the start of a series.[1]