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Ann Sothern: “Kathleen Turner's okay in stills. When she talks and moves about she reminds me of someone who works in a supermarket.”
IIRC Don Porter was eventually brought onto Ann Sothern's second sitcom simply called The Ann Sothern Show, in which he played a NY hotelier to Ann's assistant hotel manager Katy O'Connor. The series wasn't the follow-up success to Private Secretary that was expected and there was hope that the reunion of Porter with Sothern could boost ratings.
Deborah Van Valkenberg in a lilac sweater, leaning against a door, posed as if she were about to be shot, giggling mechanically as if the assistant director had threatened her, is a prime sitcom opening credits memory...along with castmate Nancy Dussault doing takes after she messes with the plant or moves the copy of Photo Time when she's wearing the argyle sweater.
Ann Sothern was truly the first independent career woman on a TV sitcom. First in the 50s and later in the early 60s on Private Secretary (aka Susie) and the Ann Sothern Show she lived on her own and held down a responsible job. No boyfriend and no father to guide her.
Ann Sothern Jack Carson (Hollywoods most versatile actor - he could play in any genre) Ann Sheridan Joan Blondell James Cagney Allen Jenkins (forgotten character actor, one of the very first in Hollywood to go public about his alcoholism and join AA)
R56 She has a lot of stories. A lot of addiction and lost opportunities…but the early years when she was a kid and Ann was a star were a lot of fun to read. But she tells a very disturbing story about how Ann, at the height of her “Maisie” fame and before she was married to Robert Sterling, felt she needed to adopt.
R35 He was under contract from 1945-1949. He only made a few films for them. He was never a sidekick for Durante.
I know Ann Miller auditioned for the Kitty Winn role in The Panic in Needle Park and the Margot Kidder role in Sisters, so even though she wasn't cast in the latter and had to drop out of the former, she was a part of the New Hollywood scene...
Lucy would have been horrible--a little too broad, a little too schticky. The right age, perhaps, but not the right actress. Her pals Eve Arden and Ann Sothern would have been better. Sothern could even sing.
Gigi Perreau was a prolific child star who returned in 2007 after a 30-year hiatus to do mostly voice work. In addition to Lana Turner, she worked with Bette Davis, Katharine Hepburn, Claudette Colbert, Ann Sothern and DL fave Chuck Connors. She even was in a first season episode of 'The Brady Bunch' at age 29.