Dean Jones On 'The Love Bug' and Getting Amnesia | The Dick Cavett Show

Dean Jones discusses his experience filming The Love Bug on location and the motorcycle accent that led to his amnesia.
Date aired - 5/25/70 - Dean Jones
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.

His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.

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[@johnflynn9619]

Dean was Great. Very Underrated Actor. RIP

[@elbecko7969]

My dad taped The Love Bug off the tv for me when I was very young and I nearly wore the tape out. It was such a good film, and series, and didn't patronise the viewers, many of whom were young. The original film dealt with love, friendship, jealousy, envy, greed, suicide, depression, forgiveness, determination, success, failure. Sorry to get a little heavy and biblical, but it was a pretty unique concept.

[@SeansModelBuilds]

That's great that your parents taped it for you. My mom taped a couple episodes of the 1982 Herbie Mini-Series for me. I didn't know there were movies until I went to college at the Turn of the Millenium.

[@elbecko7969]

@@SeansModelBuilds That's great that your mum taped the series for you! I wasn't aware until a few years ago that there was a series. I haven't seen any episodes but definitely would have watched them had they been on tv when I was younger.

[@SeansModelBuilds]

@@elbecko7969 All five episodes are on KZbin. Look for Herbie The Matchmaker.

[@willminkorea2010]

Buddy Hackett was at peak form and had chemistry with Dean Jones in "The Love Bug."

[@willminkorea2010]

"The Love Bug" was a massive hit for Disney with families and overseas audiences, as they were in 1969 (primarily Pacific Rim and Europe). The car being a hero worked very well, visually. The movie was set in San Francisco, which was a "happening place." Herbie was a Volkswagen Beetle, which was a popular car among younger people because of its low cost and excellent gas mileage.

[@TheAmericanOriginal]

Yeah but I can't tell that to da udder people cos the udder people be like "uh HUH uh HUH uh HUH" Cause Tennessee was a nut in bolts. The crew had to tighten them, but he was kind about it and told them "dis will ensure that I don't talk out my aiss!"

[@krissmgvlogs]

Love Bug was one of my favourite movies as a kid. I also love Dean Jones!

[@chrisgreulich]

I treasure all 10 of Dean Jones Disney films. He is one of my favorite Disney actors. He was a good, kind person, who found God later in his life.

[@kamuelalee]

As a little kid of the early 1970s always enjoyed watching Dean Jones movies. Great interview!

[@acchaladka]

If you haven't seen the YT video of his work on the cast recording of Company, of the song 'Being Alive', do yourself a favour and watch that next. The man had serious pipes.

[@gabinadina]

Loved Dean Jones in the Love Bug and he is great on the cast album of Company,.

[@somethingyousaid5059]

Yeah, when I was a kid in the early 1970s I watched that movie at the local movie theater in our small town. I loved it. And I thought Dean was just as much cool as Herbie was in that. I also liked Dean in a little known movie called Two On A Guillotine. It had Connie Stevens in it and I think Cesar Romero was in it too. I saw that one for the first time in junior high school. For some reason they showed it in the school auditorium one day. It must have been on 16mm film using one of those reel to reel movie projectors. Oh God, I'm old.

[@willminkorea2010]

"That Darn Cat" is a seriously underrated movie. Just look at that supporting cast.

[@somethingyousaid5059]

That's another one that I liked when I saw it for sure. I haven't seen it in decades. I can't remember it as vividly as I can The Love Bug. I remember Haley Mills was in it, and also an actress who played her older sister maybe? I don't remember who that actress was though. Seems like it was the actress who played Amanda Bellows in I Dream Of Jeannie. Allow that I'm wrong about that. I'm going to have egg on my face probably.

[@ronmackinnon9374]

​@@willminkorea2010 Good enough for them to do a re-make of it in the '90s.

[@r.blakehole932]

One of the few Hollyweird actors I might still retain some respect for as human beings.

[@cessnaace]

I have a DVD of the Italian comedy that Dean Jones was talking about. "Mr. Superinvisible" (1970). Comedy/Fantasy/Sci-Fi. The first film released by K-Tel Records.

[@KittyPurrfect100]

He played Chuck Colson in Born Again. And was that evil guy in Beethoven later on. That Darn Cat, Monkeys Go Home, Blackbeard’s Ghost, hosted Shindig or Hullabaloo. Was the host of Operation Entertainment in 1968 several times.

[@nb7466]

When i was a kid herbie came out on vhs and i loved it. I had all of them at one point.

[@user-en3qo5mj5x]

❤❤❤❤ great guy and interview ❤❤❤❤

[@JSB1882]

Boy! he was one of those guys that was such a big star and then faded so fast though he continued on. He was such a likable guy.

[@petclark1]

He bacame a 'Born Again Christian' and that either limited the roles he was offered or perhaps he limited the roles he would accept.

[@zanizone3617]

I liked his one man show as Saint John the apostle. Didn't think he had it in him.

[@jubalcalif9100]

Fascinating interview ! A shame there was no follow up interview so Dick could ask Dean why he left the Broadway run of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" after only one month. The official reason put out by the producers at the time was that Jones was fighting "hepatitis" but years later in interviews Jones admitted that he couldn't go on with a show he considered too "nihilistic".

[@ronmackinnon9374]

Jones was going through marital problems at the time (which were not made any easier by the subject matter of the musical), and he didn't want to be booked for a long engagement in New York. The show's producers understood and once he'd help get it off the ground through the initial month of its run with his star power, they were ready to replace him with his understudy (a change which was made within about a week of the time this episode aired).

[@justinakavanagh3058]

Always liked him.

[@penguinmaster7]

imagine if herbie was in Cars, voiced by dean jones

[@privateprivate1865]

That would have been really cool I think Herbie would have stole the spotlight from lightning McQueen though but I wouldn't care

[@calvinmckoy91]

That would be so cool As I too grew up with the love bug 1969 starring Dean Jones on video in 1990 when he was still alive 😊

[@pgh45rpms]

I remember Dean Jones from his days on "Ensign O'Toole."

[@maryallison0509]

I remember seeing Mr Dean in The LoveBug as a little girl.

[@maryallison0509]

@Mark Winberry Ok smartypants. I was a little girl. When I saw Mr Jones in love bug. Is that better??

[@captainnemo9773]

Haha

[@EdKazO-Vision]

“The bag I’m in.”

[@QuadMochaMatti]

Like, I can dig it, man. Outta sight!

[@Marcel_Audubon]

He was replaced by Larry Kert in the original b'way production of Company he references here after only a few performances. Sounds as if he were having a breakdown of sorts due to other pressures in his life.

[@jubalcalif9100]

I read online that while appearing in "Company" Mr Jones was undergoing marital troubles. The marriage ended in divorce. Plus years later he said he found "Company" to be too "nihilistic" for his tastes. But he went on to have a very happy second marriage and as is well known, he became a very devout Christian.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

@@jubalcalif9100 and he conquered his distaste of Company long enough to appear in a brief concert staging of it at Lincoln Center in 1993 with other original cast recording participants!

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@Marcel_Audubon Yes, I read that online ! Good for him ! A truly versatile entertainer ! Thanks for your follow up comment !!

[@TheAmericanOriginal]

"Sorry Mr. Newton, but a dog ain't worth dyin' for" *CRUNCH* "Ahhh"

[@mattmitchell8954]

I wonder if that dog story is how he ended up being the villain in the Beethoven movie lol

[@TrevorHoneyball]

I loved 'Herbie' the VW......he was my secret friend for a while when I was a little squib🤔

[@TheAmericanOriginal]

"Volks woggin"? See my Volks a woggin'? I left my folks-a-walkin'.

[@ronmackinnon9374]

Description of the clip is off a little. Rather than discuss the filming of 'The Love Bug,' he talked about how subsequent productions he was on would try to take advantage of the popularity of 'The Love Bug' for publicity during filming. (Also off in its reference to a motorcycle 'accent'. 😁)

[@johnaspinall5457]

John Aspinall The Dick Cavett show- can you please upload interview clips of the late, great Robert Shaw. He was such an interesting and engaging guest appearing on the show at least 5 times. Thanks in advance.

[@ronmackinnon9374]

A number of clips with Shaw have been uploaded since you posted this comment, FYI.

[@Gannooch]

do have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rare much like all the other Dick Cavett interviews

[@susanhorton9492]

is the whole interview on disc somewhere?

[@JakobSeidl]

He’s kind of Ted Bundy-ish, but not in a bad way

[@jubalcalif9100]

I don't think Dick Cavett gives out those kind of vibes....not to me, anyway. But we all have our own personal perceptions.

[@camrsr5463]

Nice hair piece.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

that's his own hair

[@christopherjohannessohn501]

His motorcycle accent is very strong indeed. Could hardly understand him

[@Marcel_Audubon]

huh??

[@christopherjohannessohn501]

@@Marcel_Audubon See description ;)

[@thedownfallparodist1145]

First!

[@pauleagle3934]

He reminds me of George W Bush

[@FXPERIENCE]

Accent damn autorectal

[@Marcel_Audubon]

accent?

[@nataliedelagrandiere4022]

They are both badly dressed.

[@SM-gl8yo]

50 years ago they were COOL.

[@jubalcalif9100]

That's late 60s, early 70's fashions for you !

[@cryptosammy]

Not for the 70s