Every Guest Star on "Hotel"

I'm sure we've done this before.

Season 1 at least.

Heidi Bohay!

Lots of cute guys I've never heard of before.

And just about everyone who was....almost someone!

the music by Henry Mancini reminds me of Mommie Dearest.

Mr. Spelling and Miss Baxter screwed me over!

Heidi Bohay and her husband co-star annoyed me. They seemed to be on every talk show in the 80s-“we’re married with kids AND co-stars! How wacky!”

She would be a Mommie influencer on Tik Tok and Instagram these days.

Alec Baldwin and George Clooney when they were young and hot!

That's Arthur Hailey's Hotel, bitch.

Bette's eyebrows don't match.

Mel Ferrer was a very handsome man, but JFC he had THE worst toupees.

A bunch of the older male guest stars are wearing obvious-looking toupees

Ooh Scott Grimes as a kid actor before Party of Five.

Heather Langenkamp!

I'll do Murder, She Wrote and Twin Peaks, and even The Jane Wyman Show but I aint doing this shit.

God that was a treat. Every supporting character from every late 70s or early 80s TV show, plus every minor leading man or leading from the 1950s. And Sarah Jessica Parker, Tori Spelling, and Johnny Depp as teenagers!

I thought this was only on for like two seasons. It’s no Love Boat.

Biance Jagger was a real jump scare!

I read that too fast and thought all those people somehow appeared on "Hazel."

What was "Hotel" about?

Julie the Cruise Director!

R20, it was like the Love Boat with a luxury hotel substituted for the cruise ship

I remember the pilot episode with Morgan Fairchild being gang-banged by a group of high school boys.

That Spelling child is horrific.

There really was a circuit for soap actors and has beens back then-if they weren’t guesting on Hotel or Love Boat, they were doing a prime time soap, Charlie’s Angels, or Murder She Wrote instead.

Before he was a murderer!!!

Heidi Bohay = titless wonder

What was "Hotel" about?

They should have called it Brothel!

Tippi Hedren still looked the same.

I made it through the 'M' last names.

George Clooney looked downright goofy, and Alec Baldwin didn't really look as hot as I remembered him. Diana Canova was quite homely and practically unrecognizable (to me, anyway). Some people I thought "oh THAT'S what his/her name is/was!" Others I was truly flummoxed and had never seen them on anything before.

I was reminded how normal and natural everyone's faces used to look before the proliferation of bad/extreme plastic surgery. Yes, yes - I KNOW many of those actors/actresses may have had work done, but for the most part it was MINOR by today's standards and pretty well-done.

Also, another thing occurred to me - a good portion of the guest stars are dead and gone, primarily because shows like Hotel and Love Boat were where many old and/or washed up stars would go. Also, what the heck was Bert Convey doing on Hotel?! I realized I'd only ever thought of him as a game show host, but I suppose he was an actor before then; I just can't recall anything else I'd ever seen him act in.

Your gay card should be revoked , r30.

Bert Convy played the villain in the Charlies Angels/ Love Boat 2-parter that introduced DL fave SHELLEY HACK!

Bert Convy was also in the campfest Susan Slade

I think Aaron Spelling had the reputation for making people look good, with good clothes and makeup. If someone still looked bad that was more genetics or hard living that could not be made better.

Example - look how fantastic Marion Ross looks. She is not an actress known for being a beauty but that outfit is very flattering.

Scott Baio looks upset

SJP!

Robert Sterling used to be so handsome as a young man but now he turned into Paul Sorvino.

Barbara Bosson looks like Jessica Lange.

R37, he did NOT age well, I wouldn't have recognized him

[quote] There really was a circuit for soap actors and has beens back then-if they weren’t guesting on Hotel or Love Boat, they were doing a prime time soap, Charlie’s Angels, or Murder She Wrote instead.

I noticed a whole chunk of General Hospital actors were on there.

Did the St. Regis not have a pool from which Andrew Stevens, Lorenzo Lamas, Brian Stokes Mitchell or Marc Singer (or take your pick of 80s hunk) to emerge from in their credit clip?

Also, what's with the weird bangs on so many of the actresses (Juliet Mills and Lynn Redgrave in particular stood out)?

Mmm, Shea Farrell.

The Little House cast is pretty well represented

High hee hoe hay

I’d never heard of Phil Coccioletti, what a hottie! He was with Pam Dawber for a couple of years before she married Mark Harmon.

She sure pulled some primo dick.

[quote]Also, what the heck was Bert Convey doing on Hotel?! I realized I'd only ever thought of him as a game show host, but I suppose he was an actor before then; I just can't recall anything else I'd ever seen him act in.

He was the male lead in the original Broadway production of "Cabaret." He had a nice singing voice.

Hot/handsome guys I'd never heard of before watching this clip:

Philip Coccioletti, Martin Hewitt, Pete Kowanko, Fredric Lehne, Jared Martin, Tom Mason, Jonathan Prince, James Stephens, and Jeff Yaeger.

Also, Marc Singer looked hot as fuck in his clip.

You can tell some intern - or some old fart who was still able to run a camera - was put in charge of getting the little B-roll clips of the stars for the intro.

He must have given them a few set instructions.

- Look at the camera and smile!

- Look at the camera and be sexy!

- Look at the camera, and look like you're mad at someone!

- Look at the camera and pretend to nod at something you just heard.

- Look at the camera and shake ever so slightly as if you're about to have a seizure.

[quote] You can tell some intern - or some old fart who was still able to run a camera - was put in charge of getting the little B-roll clips of the stars for the intro.

And then there are the ones that - for whatever reason - they chose to use a clip from a scene instead of an actual B-roll intro clip. Can't recall who it was, but there was one where the male star was in a hotel room bed on the phone and doesn't look at the camera. There was more than one like that (although not may) where it looked like it was pulled from one of their scenes instead of a dedicated clip for that purpose. I only watched about half the intro clips, there could have been more.

Perhaps those people were being difficult and didn't want to do the intro clip. Or perhaps they died before they could do the intro clip (but had already filmed their scenes).

[quote]- Look at the camera and shake ever so slightly as if you're about to have a seizure.

Some of them probably weren't pretending.

[quote] Also, what's with the weird bangs on so many of the actresses (Juliet Mills and Lynn Redgrave in particular stood out)?

I don't know WHAT you're talking about.

Lots of people who would go on to or did Falcon Crest at the same time - Except Miss Wyman.,

Aaron Spelling refused to pay for that wig for Jane.

I heard Jane was pissed that the producers of Falcon Crest spent so much money on Kim Novak’s hair and clothes that she demanded a new wig in season 6, which is why her hair looks different that season.

Karen Carlson seems to be doing Faye Dunaway.

The dramatic musings of Joanie AND Chachi.

Laraine Day chubbed out so white was perhaps not a good color for her.

Who was Debi Richter? She looks pissed

Maybe that was her thing, r57. You want *pissed*? Hire Debi Richter. You know...something like that.

Pamela Hensley always seemed trashy. Her husband was Aaron Spelling producing partner E Duke Vincent, who left Dick Pig Dian Parkinson from the Price is Right for Pamela.

[quote]R47 Hot/handsome guys I'd never heard of before watching this clip: Philip Coccioletti, Martin Hewitt, Pete Kowanko, Fredric Lehne, Jared Martin, Tom Mason, [bold]Jonathan Prince[/bold]

Trivia: He went on to produce DL fave BLOSSOM.

Jane Badler seemed to ooze "villian" from her pores.

I remember Jared Martin as Dusty on Dallas. Back then I didn’t pay much attention to him since he was “old”…but now that I’m old too..he was hot!

[quote]R47 Hot/handsome guys I'd never heard of before watching this clip: Philip Coccioletti, [bold]Martin Hewitt[/bold]

Poster for the 1967 movie Hotel based on a novel by Arthur Hailey who also penned Airport

I guess they moved the setting from New Orleans to San Francisco so no one would have to hear James Brolin do a bad 'nawlins accent

What's going on with Alec Baldwin's eye line?

Someone told Patrick Duffy he was on camera.

^ forgot to tell ....

Bette Davis hated the show and only did it for the money. She was still supporting her ungrateful bitch of a daughter and her useless son-in-law at the time and they were costing her a small fortune. Then she had the stroke and decided not to return to the show.

Anjanette Comer is like - Oh, you remember me?

But Jeff Conaway is in a coma.

Anjanette Comer was no Anjelique Pettyjohn.

Lots of men have the clone mo look.

Jenilee Harrison refuses to smile, dammit.

At least Jenilee looked recognizably human back then

I was surprised that Carol Channing never did an episode of Hotel. Then I realized I was thinking of her recurring role on The Love Boat.

Kevin McCarthy looks great. A hard man to photograph well.

Hot/handsome guys I'd never heard of before watching this clip: Tom Mason

Later on Party of Five.

I wonder how many of them also appeared on "Aloha, Paradise"?

Ginger Rogers really porked up, didn't she?

[quote]R69 Bette Davis hated the show and only did it for the money.

The show’s so innocuous, I can’t imagine what she objected to.

Lorna Patterson looks like Madonna.

Traci Scoggins looks like Jackie O.

Where's MISS Helen Lawson?

Wow, that's a blast from the past. I had totally forgotten that show.

Trivia: Traci Scoggins was a natural blonde.

Madeleine Sherwood's outfit made me do a double take.

Barbara Babcock sure perfected my fart-smelling technique!

That was unfortunate having James Stacy followed by John Standing.

I hate Connie Sellecca. She was such a wimpy, whiny pillowcase. Why would James Brolin want to fuck her character.

^^ Because she was hot and she had a pussy. Have you ever known any straight men?

It's sweet when the dress color matches the hair color like Karen Valentine, Tippi, and Kay Lenz.

Can we bestow the Fragrant Fag Face Award on Peter Scolari… or does the group feel there are other serious contenders?

Wow ! I had forgotten about so many of them. I will go to my grave loving John Beck though !

Your precious John Beck got Marie France Pisier pregnant in THE OTHER SIDE OF MIDNIGHT and we had to watch, horrified, as she shoved a wire hanger up her twat in the bathtub.

r93, there's Liberace, too!

^^ OMG - of course!

Burgeoning Cane Face Award to Melinda Culea, with her dikey Jean Seberg haircut?

Connie Stevens - could they have smeared any more butter over the lens??

Ugh -Melinda Culea. She showed up a few years later on Knots Landing, as the inexplicable object of desire for Mack, Michael and Greg, with that same haircut.

Don't forget her sporting the same haircut on Star Trek - Next Generation as well!

[quote]r99 Connie Stevens - could they have smeared any more butter over the lens?

I have to say - I’m surprised there aren’t more tacky guest stars like her in the lineup. No Mamie Van Doren, no Charo….

At least my boyfriend in this show does not wear red tights.

I always thought John Beck was gay.

Melinda Culea is a second-rate Linda Purl.

He just *didn't* have the charisma to enthrall Susan and Marie

my votes for Flagrant Fags are - Peter Marshall, Timothy Patrick Murphy, and Jonathan Prince.

A few names are men who we later learned were gay - Earl Holliman, Terry Lester, Liberace, Roddy McDowall, Dack Rambo, and Robert Reed.

How did people not know that Liberace way? That old queen’s could be seen from space-but people were shocked.

*was gay

Michael Goodwin has never married.

Craig Stevens married Alexis Smith but there were rumors it was a lavender marriage. They had no children.

Rock Hudson made the comment that the one thing he could do on the set of Darling Lili to get revenge on Blake Edwards was to mention Craig's name. Rock said that Julie Andrews and Edwards both treated him very badly during filming. Craig had made the TV series Peter Gunn with Edwards.

Martin Hewitt was cast in Endless Love (1981) opposite Brooke Shields. There were an open casting calls in various cities for the role (I know, I went to it). He beat something like 5K actors for the role, but his career never really took off.

*there were open casting calls...

Despite beating 5k actors for the role, Martin Hewitt just didn't have that It©️ factor to sustain any kind of lasting career.

Frankly, I'm surprised he made it onto the cast of Hotel. His appearance must have been within a year or two of Endless Love, because he was pretty much forgotten after that (at least as far as I know...I don't recall him being in - or making any headlines for being in - any other movies of the time).

Martin IMDb.

Thaao Penghlis never married.

Pretty sure Thaao is A Gay.

Speaking of soap gays, I see Anthony Geary.

What the fuck kind of name is Bohay, anyway?

Generic, bland actress with a name that sounds more like a scrubbing bathroom cleaner......

Marc Price never married.

James Stacy was hot but he had a few problems.

Hiedi Bohay was married to Michael Spound, the guy who plays the valet or something, seen in the opening credits. They're still married.

He played "Dave Kendall," anyhow.

I always thought he should have changed his name to Michael S. Pound.

Martin Hewitt left acting in 2003, acc. to what I'm reading here. Started his own business. Was still getting offers but apparently wasn't interested. Too bad Endless Love wasn't as popular as the theme song from the movie was.

The Love Boat on land.

Wasn't Hotel more of a drama than The Love Boat?

I mean I can't imagine the Hotel theme sung by a chorus. "And love...won't hurt any more...it's an open smile on a friendly shore..." Hotel seemed more serious.

Dinah shore's fur is made from Burt's old toupees.

The Johnny Depp episode

[quote]R124 Too bad Endless Love wasn't as popular as the theme song from the movie was.

The novel is beautifully written. But the film soft pedals the obsessive torch Martin Hewitt’s character carries for the heroine. I mean, it’s still in the movie’s plot, but it’s not erotic or scary… it’s just kind of sweet.

The novel isn’t sweet. When the lovers are reunited years later they have sex for thirty pages, and they and the hotel bed end up coated in her menstrual blood.

The original actresses Zeffirelli was interested in were Jodie Foster and Sharon Stone. It would be easier to build a story about erotic obsession around them than Brooke Shields…. who was at the height of her beauty, and yet still a mild mannered performer who lacked life experience.

Now she looks like Demi Moore's sister.

Endless Love was a good book but I only needed (or wanted) to read it once.

Brooke was also 15 years old during the filming. Doubt that they were going to allow her to have sex covered in period blood on-camera, though I'm sure her mom Terry would have been game to let them...

For some reason I thought I remembered Hewitt's mother being played by Jessica Tandy in Endless Love, but it was Beatrice Straight.

James Spader, Tom Cruise, Jamie Gertz and Ian Zierling were also in it, probably also-rans for the lead roles.

Ziering

I was just looking at the Endless Love credits, and Robert Altman plays “Hotel Manager.” I wonder how THAT happened!

Cassie Yates looks like Stella Stevens' sister.

I never noticed before how bad Jean Simmons' teeth were.

Several of those guest stars also guest starred on Star Trek: the Next Generation.

I wonder if both shows were shot at the same lot or shared some other commonality.

Arthur Hailey's Hotel - September 21, 1983 – May 5, 1988.

Star Trek The Next Generation - September 28, 1987 – May 23, 1994.

Elizabeth Taylor doesn't get a special credit for her hair on the episode she did. Maybe that explains why she got the blond look which is not a good one for her.

Brooke would look better with different hair.

Well, if she wanted to play Charlotte Rampling’s sister, perhaps.

She has said she always treasured her long hair because it’s one thing she had that made her feel feminine. (She’s very tall and angular, without curves.)

[quote]Jamie Gertz

JAMI