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Post by Deleted on Mar 14, 2017 23:18:24 GMT
Interesting that Mary Tyler Moore was lower-billed at the start...she got fourth billing after Morey Amsterdam! Don't forget when the show was produced. Back then women in all aspects of life got a back seat. I'm sure most male actors and their agents wouldn't tolerate a woman getting close to top billing over a male actor.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Mar 15, 2017 0:27:14 GMT
The DVD Show had 30 episodes in season 1 and 32 episodes in each of the other seasons. Those really were the days.
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Post by jaystarstar on Mar 16, 2017 6:41:39 GMT
Yeah, I'd read that - think the original intention was that Rose Marie would be the main female star of the show. Perhaps the original intention was for the office setting to feature more prominently until they realised just how good (as well as stunning!) MTM was. The show was intended to be a workplace sitcom, with cutins to Rob's home life. But MTM proved so popular as well as surprisingly talented (DVD has called her the second greatest comic crier in history, after Stan Laurel) that the percentages were changed, to perhaps 60/40 home/office. In some episodes we don't see the office at all. Allegedly Rose Marie was none too pleased by this development, and clashed with MTM more than once, at least in the early days. Talk about "delusions of grandeur." Rose Marie was not exactly a nobody, but she was certainly nothing like a household name or somebody who millions of Americans were just busting at the chops to see on a weekly teevee series. She was kind of a familiar-faced character actress. People would say, "oh yeah I kinda remember seeing her in this show or that show." Hell, DICK VAN DYKE was not exactly a thundering household name. He was an up and coming guy and had started to make fairly frequent appearances, but they didn't sell "The Dick Van Dyke Show" on the basis that America's prayers were now being answered and Dick Van Dyke was now being given a weekly show!! In any case, it was true in 1961 just like it was true in 1941 and 1921 and 1991 and 2017 and will be in 2041, that kinda medium-decent looking actresses with zany personalities in their late 30s or 40s do not generate the same audience response as smokin-hot, super sexy babes in their 20s, and if Rose Marie thought she was gonna run Mary Tyler Moore off the DVD Show or probably any other show in the history of teevee, she was out of her mind. Lucille Ball, maybe yeah, but Rose Marie was not Lucille Ball.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2017 18:41:40 GMT
I've been binge-watching all the series back to back and I just keep them running. I'm doing it a few times because I'm doing other things while it's on, and given there are so many episodes, I'm learning that I've been missing a lot of episodes.
I still can't get over how incredibly sexy Mary Tyler Moore is! WOW! She wears these body-con dresses and tight pants and she can dance like nobody's business. She's just so beautiful. To me, she typifies the perfect wife.
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