Susan Dey talks Bed of Lies

Here's a great article about Susan Dey, written during the making of Bed of Lies. This piece was published about six months before the film debuted on television, before the title Bed of Lies was chosen. The previous title for the project was Deadly Blessing, also the title of the book on which the movie was based. This article also gives some great details about shooting Bed of Lies on-location in Texas, including how Susan Dey developed the accent she used in the movie with the help of a local woman who became her dialogue coach.

Another clip of Susan Dey in Bed of Lies

Here is a clip of the "towel scene" from the 1992 TV movie Bed of Lies. This is just one great scene of many from this very campy movie-of-the-week starring Susan Dey and Chris Cooper. In this scene, Susan Dey wears nothing but a towel and attempts to give her new husband a nice surprise. This would please most men (and many women) but her hubby reacts negatively!

Clip of Susan Dey in Bed of Lies

Here's a clip of Susan Dey in her 1992 TV movie Bed of Lies. The story involves the marriage of the son of a former governor of Texas (Chris Cooper) to a white trash woman (Susan Dey), who eventually is accused of murdering him. In this clip from early on in the movie, Susan Dey goes to see the sleazy Chris Cooper to get divorce advise. Later, she chats with her mother while she prepares to go out on a date with him.

Susan Dey in Bed of Lies (post #2)

In 1992, Susan Dey starred in Bed of Lies, the first of four of made-for-TV movies she would make in the early '90s that concerned "ripped from the headlines" social issues. Bed of Lies was Susan Dey's first project after departing L.A. Law (though the movie would be broadcast before her final episode of L.A. Law was aired) and her first TV movie since I Love You Perfect in 1989. Bernard Sofronski, Susan Dey's husband, was an executive producer of Bed of Lies and he would also produce Whose Child Is This? The War for Baby Jessica starring Susan Dey the following year. Bed of Lies is based on the book Deadly Blessing by Steve Salerno.

In Bed of Lies, Susan Dey portrays Vickie Daniel, a poor woman who catches the eye of the son of the governor of Texas, Price Daniel Jr (played by Chris Cooper). He romances her and convinces her to marry him. Though she has some reservations about the marriage, mostly due to the fact that she is white trash and he is high society, she goes ahead with it. Things quickly turn sour as Price becomes increasingly mean and distant towards Vickie. They have a few kids together and along the way Price's drinking escalates and he occasionally hits Vickie. Eventually, after he starts being mean to the kids, she kills him in "self-defense." Fortunately for her, a hotshot lawyer, Richard 'Racehorse' Haynes (played by Fred Dalton Thompson) decides to defend her in the ensuing court battle.

Bed of Lies is a showcase for Susan Dey, allowing for a myriad of costume changes, numerous opportunities to act sexy, plus chances to play the aggressor and even more chances to play the victim. It's a fun TV movie, if a little one-dimensional in its presentation of a true story. Bed of Lies originally aired on ABC though it is often characterized as a Lifetime movie (and it does fit right in with the Lifetime style).

Make sure to check out the first post on Bed of Lies to see promotional materials relating to the movie.


Here are some images from Bed of Lies: