Given the final episode of this backstage Hollywood series flung out by its network on Christmas Day in 1970, I can't imagine they were expecting anyone to care - especially since by this point Eleanor Parker's decision to quit over the quality of the scripts was getting more understandable with each season 2 episode. Although this episode does have some moments that resonate to film fans and celeb watchers 53 years later. Famous socially conscious actress with a lot of adopted children.... Angelina Jolie (or Mia Farrow...) or Isabel Blue from this episode? On a deeper level, Blue demanding the Susan B. Anthony biopic she's been cast in as Susan B. Anthony acknowledge her racial activism, with the nervous studio executives having downplayed it in the script. The episode's a lot better around the edges that at its core... And some of the dramatic moments between Leslie Nielsen and Sally Ann Howes are cringeworthy, and the excerpts of the Anthony biopic we see being shot look very hard to take. I wouldn't say unrealistic because if you said that the makers of "The Aristocats" (that Disney released in the US the day before this aired!) would own 20th Century Fox 50 years later, no one would believe that!
Review of Miss Isabel Blue
