Chrissie777 schrieb:
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> Ich erinnere mich an Cloris Leachman als Timmy's
> Mutter in den spaeteren "Lassie" Folgen, ehe June
> Lockhart die Mutter Rolle uebernahm.
> Und sie hatte eine eindrueckliche Rolle in "Die
> letzte Vorstellung".
> Die Mary Tyler Moore Show habe ich zwar versucht,
> anzusehen, aber Sitcoms haben mir noch nie
> gefallen (ich mag auch das eingeblendete
> Gelaechter nicht, das anzeigt, wann man
> mitzulachen hat).
>
> Las vor 3 oder 4 Jahren ihre Autobiographie, aber
> "Lassie" wird darin mit keinem einzigen Satz
> erwaehnt.
>
> Gruss,
>
> Chrissie

So wirklich begeistert war sie auch wohl nicht von ihrem Job in Calverton ...

"Cloris Leachman got tired of playing second fiddle to a dog and a boy and was about to ask to be let out of her contract when Fate struck. The story (possibily apocryphal, but it fits her peppery personality) goes that Leachman had an interview in which the reporter asked her if she used the sponsor's product (Campbell's Soup, for the run of the series on the CBS network). Leachman quickly replied that she would never use "that stuff," and that she made her own soup! Needless to say, the sponsor was infuriated and she was let go quickly! Jon Shepodd was (IMHO) a pretty colorless Paul Martin, although Jon Provost remembers him as a great guy, but he was let go because the producers were afraid people who saw a new actress as Ruth Martin would think Paul got a divorce, a subject avoided on a family series in those days."

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