General Electric Theater (TV Series) With Malice Toward One (1957) User Reviews

An excellent and well acted story.

[planktonrules · 10/10 · 24 May 2017]

I love 1950s anthology shows and this installment of "GE Theater" is no exception. It's very well written and acted and I am sure a lot of writers would LOVE to see this one.

Bette Davis stars as Miss Burrows...an aspiring writer who is going to a workshop put on by a well respected editor of a literary magazine. However, she is completely shocked when instead of providing kindly guidance, he chooses to spend his time savagely destroying the work of an aspiring writer. He was very smug and began citing many examples in a manuscript that show how stupid some stories can be and he simply delighted in destroying the book...who cares if the author might just happen to be there. Well, it happens that Miss Burrows was the writer and she is heartbroken. What's next? See this excellent show.

I found this on YouTube and quite a few other anthology shows are there as well as at archive.org. I loved Davis' acting, the writing...pretty much everything about this one. You really have to see it to appreciate it.

With malice towards none for all the great anthology TV there is available.

[mark.waltz · 10/10 · 20 January 2022]

"You may think I'm not a good writer, but I'm not a moron." So says ambitious writer Bette Davis to magazine editor John Baragrey who without knowing who she is has ridiculed her work in public, causing her to confront him with a gun and force him to write a letter to his editors, praising her work and suggesting they make her an offer. Of course, she has other plans, and they are delicious. It's Davis at her finest, with the twist that gives her the last word and a fabulous opportunity to laugh at the pompous man. Frances Bavier as her secretary and Maudie Prickett as her housekeeper have nice supporting roles. Of course, when you're working with Ms. Davis, Mis. Davis is the one who comes out with the attention, and she deserves it. This is the type of script where I can just envision her reading it, getting to the end, and shouting out, "This is delightful!", and sure enough with her in it, it is.