Hotel Summary
Director: Jerry London
Genres: Drama
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Arthur Hailey's novel Hotel had already served as the inspiration for a 1967 theatrical film when this TV pilot came along on September 21, 1983. Bette_Davis stars as Laura Trent, the entrenched owner of the Hotel St. Gregory (moved from the novel's New Orleans to San Francisco, to allow for location filming at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel). In true Love_Boat fashion, Ms. Trent and hotel manager Peter McDermott (James_Brolin) oversee four separate plot strands. A hooker (Morgan_Fairchild) is raped in the hotel by a bunch of preppies who'd hired her for "just talk". A neurotic aspiring singer (Erin_Moran) tries to interrupt the act of the hotel's lounge entertainer Mel_Torme (himself). A very-married lady (Shirley_Jones) checks in to conduct an illicit affair. And a feisty young woman (Connie_Sellecca, a regular on the subsequent series) shows up unhired as McDermott's assistant manager. The Hotel series ran from 1983 to 1988, during which time an ailing Bette Davis was replaced by Anne_Baxter; in the early 1990s, reruns of the series popped up rather incongruously on cable's E! Entertainment Network. Hal Erickson, Rovi
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