Hotel de Paree (1959–1960)

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Plot Summary
Sundance, a reformed gunslinger just released from prison,
drifts into the town of Georgetown, CO.
A tangle with the town villain ends up with Sundance being forced to shoot him,
resulting in his being made town marshal.
He takes a shine to two French sisters who own the town's most elegant hotel,
The Hotel du Paree--especially the young, pretty one.
Written by frankfob2

Series Cast
Earl Holliman ... Sundance / ... (32 episodes, 1959-1960)
Jeanette Nolan ... Annette Deveraux (29 episodes, 1959-1960)
Strother Martin ... Aaron Donager (29 episodes, 1959-1960)
Judi Meredith ... Monique Deveraux (24 episodes, 1959-1960)
Oliver McGowan ... Doc / ... (3 episodes, 1960)
Mason Curry ... First Townsman / ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Dick Myers ... Ben (2 episodes, 1960)
Robert Nash ... Lawman / ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Russ Bender ... Willie / ... (2 episodes, 1960)
King Donovan ... Jess / ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Kermit Maynard ... Man at Saloon / ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Buck Young ... Avery / ... (2 episodes, 1960)
Bob Steele ... Jepsen / ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Wayne Heffley ... Croupier / ... (2 episodes, 1960)
Harry Swoger ... Big Huston / ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
and many more, including...
Denver Pyle ... Fred Taylor (1 episode, 1960)
Leif Erickson ... O.K. Lassiter (1 episode, 1959)
Edward Faulkner ... Deputy Sheriff (1 episode, 1960)
Harry Carey Jr. ... Deputy Sheriff Will Masters (1 episode, 1960)
John Mitchum ... Man with Shovel (1 episode, 1959)
Jerry Gatlin ... Bartender (1 episode, 1960)
Brian Donlevy
Jack Elam ... Flute (1 episode, 1959)
Cesar Romero ... Charlie Pendleton (1 episode, 1959)
Karl Swenson ... Jed Holmes (1 episode, 1960)
Lee Van Cleef ... Thompson (1 episode, 1960)

Series Directed
Andrew V. McLaglen ... (3 episodes, 1960)
Ida Lupino ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Buzz Kulik ... (2 episodes, 1960)
Robert Aldrich ... (1 episode, 1959)
Gene Roddenberry ... (1 episode, 1960)
and many others...


Series Produced
Del Reisman ... associate producer / producer (11 episodes, 1959-1960)
Sam Rolfe ... producer (8 episodes, 1960)
and others....

Series Music
Lucien Moraweck ... (3 episodes, 1959-1960)
René Garriguenc ... (3 episodes, 1960)
Fred Steiner ... (2 episodes, 1960)
Dimitri Tiomkin ... (1 episode, 1959)
Wilbur Hatch ... (1 episode, 1960)
William Lava ... (1 episode, 1960)
and others...


Series Cinematography
Frank V. Phillips ... (11 episodes, 1959-1960)
Joseph F. Biroc ... (2 episodes, 1959-1960)
and others

Trivia
Sundance's dog was Useless.

Filming Locations
Iverson Ranch - 1 Iverson Lane, Chatsworth, Los Angeles, California, USA
Paramount Ranch - 2813 Cornell Road, Agoura, California, USA
(Western town set as Georgetown, Colorado)

Hotel de Paree is a Western television series starring Earl Holliman
that aired thirty-three episodes on the CBS Friday evening from
October 2, 1959, until June 3, 1960, under the alternate sponsorship
of the Liggett & Myers company (L&M cigarettes) and Kellogg's.

The show starred Holliman as Sundance, a gunfighter just released after seventeen years in prison.
In the first episode, he is in Georgetown, Colorado, where he kills the town villain
and is then urged by the citizens to become the marshal.
He accepts the job and also becomes a part owner of the Hotel de Paree,
owned by two French women, Annette Deveraux, played by Jeanette Nolan,
and her niece, Monique (Judi Meredith), relatives of the man whom he had earlier killed.
Sundance wore a string of polished silver dollars in the band of his black Stetson,
which often blinded his adversaries.

During the run of the series, Sundance dealt with assorted antagonists
and maintained flirtations with both of the Deveraux women.
Sundance also befriended a local shopkeeper, Aaron Donoger,
played by veteran Western performer Strother Martin.

The program was filmed at CBS Studio Center.#

On the evening of the series debut broadcast, October 2, 1959,
star Earl Holliman also appeared an hour later in the premiere episode
of The Twilight Zone, "Where Is Everybody?", which also aired on CBS.

Guest stars on Hotel de Paree included Philip Abbott, Theodore Bikel, Sebastian Cabot, Russ Conway, Dennis Cross, Walter Coy, Royal Dano, King Donovan, Brian Donlevy, Jack Elam, Leif Erickson, Ron Hayes, Allyn Joslyn, Don Keefer, Nora Marlowe, Martin Milner, Read Morgan, Gregg Palmer, John M. Pickard, Judson Pratt, Darryl Richard, Peter Mark Richman, Vic Tayback, and Peter Whitney.

Look out for a few of Duke's 'Pals'
Strother Martin ,Bob Steele ,Denver Pyle
Leif Erickson ,Edward Faulkner,Harry Carey Jr.
John Mitchum, Jerry Gatlin ,Brian Donlevy
Jack Elam,Cesar Romero ,Karl Swenson

User Review

Had Its Own Comic Book Dell FC1126
29 November 2006 | by aimless-46 (Kentucky)

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"Hotel de Paree" a/k/a "Sundance" ran for a full television season back in 1959-60, 33 thirty minute episodes. Needing something to distinguish it from the many 30 and 60 minute western series which flooded the airwaves at that time, the producers hit on the idea of having the main character (Sundance played by Earl Holliman-later to do "Police Woman") wear a black hat, with a hat band made out of shiny silver dollars.

He was called "Sundance", not the Sundance Kid and he did not wear mirrors on his hat. Apparently the mirror myth grew up because with their little black and white televisions and the show's cheap production values (mostly wide master shots) many viewers never got a close look at his hat's band. In at least one episode, reflections off the silver coins aid him in a gunfight. Not that he really needs any help as he is a faster gun, a better shot, and handier in a fist fight than anyone he ever comes up against.

The series begins with "Sundance" returning to Georgetown, Colorado after his release from prison for killing a man named Deveraux. He goes into the hotel business with the wife (Jeanette Nolan) and daughter of the man he killed; eventually becoming half owner of the Hotel de Paree, starts a stage line to Denver, and acquires a half share in a silver mine. The two women have outrageous French accents. The mother is secretly in love with Sundance and charms him with her cooking. The daughter is brazenly in love with Sundance and charms him with her more obvious assets.

Some comic relief is provided by the two parrots and by a shaggy dog named Useless. The English-speaking parrot is named Patsy and it tries to teach the French-speaking parrot English.

Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child

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