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Hello, I'm Robert Wagner, and I'm here to talk about a wonderful television

that I was involved in called It Takes a Thief.

There were so many.

You know, Susan St. James started on the show.

I mean, that was kind of her first big gig was with us, and she was so

wonderful. I mean, I just adored her.

She was fabulous. And I told you, we had Ricardo Montalban, who was a great

friend, and he had a running character going on the show, and he brought so

to it.

Betty Davis.

said some very nice things about my character and about how it was evolving.

And she said, you know, that I was a leading man that was bringing this kind

quality that used to exist in the movies and I was very complimented about that.

And I called her and I knew her.

And she said, oh, I love this show. I said, well, would you be on one?

And she said, I'd love to be.

And I said, okay, let me talk to the writers.

and we'll try to come up with something for you. And so I talked to the writers,

and they wrote this character called Bessie Grindle.

Bessie Grindle, I think that was her name. Anyway, and she was a thief, and

loved the idea.

And she came out to Los Angeles and did a couple of shows with me, which was

spectacular to have Betty Davis, my God, on the show. It was super. I mean, she

was... So terrific. And she was there every day and on time.

And she had a joyous time doing it. I mean, she was kicked in.

She loved it. She had on a very kind of sexy kind of outfit, great legs.

I said, Jesus, Betty, those legs. She said, well, you know, I know. What can I

do?

Fantastic person, lovely lady.

I mentioned Joseph Cotton.

There's so many different people. Tina Louise was on it.

Senta Berger, who I just adored, was in the pilot, and she came back and

did more with us. When I was in Germany recently, I saw her, and she's

still as beautiful today as she was then. And, boy, she really stopped

She stopped Alexandra Monday right in his tracks.