It's the most elegant Housewife to ever live, folks. We are joined by Eileen Davidson this week. You Might Know Her From Days of Our Lives, The Young & the Restless, The House on Sorority Row, Easy Wheels, 7 Days to Vegas, and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills. Eileen gave us the real talk about grounding the work on daytime TV even when it was cuckoo-bananas (and fending off soap stalkers), jumping in a grave and acting opposite a wolf in some amazing genre films, and, of course, signing up for reality TV and how she wasn’t interested in creating drama in exchange for camera time. All that plus, Damian and Anne continue to build out their Van Patten family tree as Eileen is married to Vincent Van Patten, cousin and nephew, respectively, to former guests Talia Balsam and Joyce Van Patten. 

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Anne is currently binging The Morning Show which is a wild ride 

Billy Crudup playing his role like The Joker

Musical number with Billy Crudup and Jennifer Aniston (she is 50+ so we like her now)

Talia Balsam episode (cousin-in-law) and Joyce van Patten episode (aunt-in-law)

Nancy Valen is Eileen’s sister-in-law

7 Days to Vegas

Willie Garson and Don Stark both in new Eileen project

Caitlyn Jenner  friends with the van Pattens

Soap opera royalty Santa Barbara, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives 

Kristen Dimera 1993-2017 played her doppelgänger(s) Susan, Sister Mary Moira, Penelope, and Thomas (aka played 5 roles on Days)

Days writer who also wrote Passions (James Reilly)

The House on Sorority Row (filmed at very first Tarantino Film Festival) also mentioned in Scream

Easy Wheels (written by Sam and Ivan Raimi) co-starring Paul Lamat 

A wolf played her mother

Broken Badges also had her in leather on a motorcycle 

Joined RHOBH in 2014

She was friends with Lisa Rinna from way back

Didn’t get involved in poker night pizza party

Her mother in law, Pat van Patten is a numerologist  {Eileen is a 9 (“highly evolved”)}

Eileen thanked Pat in her Emmy speech

Called “a beast” by Kim Richards; Lisa Van der Pump interrogated her about her marriage; drink thrown in face by Brandi Glanville 

Starred opposite Armand Assante and Jon Voight in Eternity

Dated Jon Voight (steps away from being Angelina Jolie’s stepmother)

Why does Jon Voight always wear a white scarf to award shows?

Appears as Marie Antoinette in The Last Sharknado: It’s About Time (Latoya Jackson was Cleopatra; Tara Reid and Ian Ziering also star)

Scotty Mullen is creator of Sharknado

FUCK MARRY KILL: Victor from Victor/Victoria, Yentl, Terry from Just One of the Guys / Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love

Writes soap opera mystery series: Death in Daytime, Dial Emmy for Murder, Diva Las Vegas, Swingin in the Rain 

Angelina Jolie was a sexual awakening for many budding lesbians in late ‘90s

Not Tomb Raider, but Playing by Heart 

Eileen to next week’s guest: Eileen was on RHOBH with Lisa Rinna who starred as Roxie Chicago; Jerry Orbach was in the OBC of Chicago; who was in Dirty Dancing with Kelly Bishop, who was in the OBC of A Chorus Line with next week’s guest

Bonnie Raitt’s “Lover’s Will” underscored Gillian Anderson and Jon Stewart’s sex scene in Playing by Heart