Found some nice photos from THE PRINCESS AND ME, an unsold Screen Gems TV pilot that ALLLLLmost made ABC's slate for fall of 1968. Based on, or at least inspired by, the hit Audrey Hepburn movie ROMAN HOLIDAY, this small screen version starred 19 year old Barbara Hershey (just after the cancellation of THE MONROES and a few years before she changed her name to Seagull). Shot in late 1967, her co-stars included Anna Lee, an actress with very few online credits, British actor Ivor Barry, and hunky Jeremy Slate--perhaps best known for his roles in violent motorcycle gang flicks (including THE BORN LOSERS, the first Billy Jack movie). During the shooting of the pilot, Slate was bitten on his face by a black widow spider while asleep at his home and didn't realize it until the next day when his cheek swelled up on the set!
THE PRINCESS AND ME was written by Bernard Slade, who would soon create THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY, and directed by E.W. Swackhammer, a veteran TV director later married to actress Bridget Hanley, whose HERE COME THE BRIDES series DID make the ABC Fall schedule that year!
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