Alternate Cast & Crew and other trivia

hm, I wonder who it was. Nora came to the set a few times, wish I had tried harder to get to know her alittle. She stared at me, I was disconcerted, it was tough enough to be playing Val, I didn't know how to be so confident as to want to ask about the real Val. I never heard whether she liked the film or not.

Liza continued to glare for some years, might still want to, not sure of it was because of the rumors of Mr. Hill and I and the implications Hollywood style of the thought that perhaps I used those famous means of persuasion, but of course that was not the case which only those who spoke to me would know. The other reason might have been my all together over the top imitation of Katherine Hepburn in my first Peyton Place episode. I had forgoten I did that, when I saw it last year I nearly fainted, Jees, what crazy girl, but it was so ingenuous and strange it was almost a protest against all the terrible stresses and strains of the "business". I was sooo insecure, Aggh, and just so ungrounded, at sea, out of my depth...I think it created quite a stir, but I was completely unaware of what I was doing, closed my eyes and did what they asked as best I could, hhhhh. Really out there. I would forget people were going to watch this stuff I was doing. I operate in a huge vacuum of denial alot enabling a kind of freakish emotional honesty. I'll get it together tomorrow thing, as I've let out the elephant today.....woops, now what am I going to do about this? Praying for understanding, praying for forgiveness. How will we behave after the revolution?

Unfortunately I lost everything some years ago, but maybe there are some pix available on the net..but not the gels they took just for me to take around on my modeling rounds and no more the letters from George Hill, never anything raunchy, only caring thoughtful encouraging informative letters. We were
great friends.
Dr. Kildare was very tough for me as I had to play someone he spurned. I loved that show. watched it alot, so to have to play that role was really difficult and I cried alot the day of the critical scene. My agents were older men who didn't understand what it would mean for a young impressionable girl like me to have to go through that in front of the whole world. The director called them to the set and they tried to comfort me, it as a mess. The director didn't want me for the role, Michael Ritchie, a young brash Harvard grad, very ambitious. Richard Chamberlain was very nice and illusive, did alot of classes after the show. singing and dancing. Raymond Massey was virtually unapproachable, but I saw him years later at Gristdedes I think or Gelsons in Beverly Hills where I had gone to buy a bottle of wine as a gift for someone who had put me up for a week. He was there visiting with the "wine guy", obviously someone very special to him, I'd seen him there before. Anyway he was equally unapproachable so I left him alone and went about searching through the bottles for the one that was just right. It didn't have to be the most expensive just had to have the right feel, and I found it. Pulled it out and they were dumdfounded and very impressed, gave me quite the stare of approval, which I trot out when the going gets tough sometimes, quite the beautiful moment. I can't remember the name, maybe St Madeliene?? forget the year. And so I liked him, understand well that kind of reticence.

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