ACTORS WHO COULDN'T STAND EACH OTHER BUT YOU NEVER WOULDVE KNOWN IT.

[Don62]

It's not TV related, but I have heard for years Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn don't partically care for each other. They tolerate each other for business purposes but have verry little to do with each other when Brooks and Dunn are not performing. I've heard that it goes back to when their record label, Arista Records, put them together as a duet back in the early '90's.

This one about a musical duo - the No. 1 rock and roll duo of all time - is TV-related as they had their own show.

The Everly Bros. Apparently, Don and Phil had a big falling out where one of them in the middle of a concert during the late 60s or early 70s smashed his guitar in anger and stormed off stage - in front of all the audience!
The other one continued on performing that show.

One, I read, was also jealous that he always did harmony whilst the other always did lead.

The son of that Everly that stormed off the stage said his dad told him he'd never perform with his brother again. They did reunite, of course, at Prince Albert Hall in London during the early-mid 80s for a fantastic reunion concert.

 

[Don62]

I read the Beach Boys - America's No. 1 rock group of all time (according to Billboard) - split into factions and were constantly fighting - like CCR's members did and the Beatles did in their later years.

Before he died, Dennis Wilson hated Mike Love (lead singer on most of the car and surf songs plus "California Girls.") . Dennis even physically attacked Mike during a concert, I read.

Carl Wilson (lead on God Only Knows and Good Vibrations) and friend Al Jardine (whose big lead was Help Me Rhonda) were in one camp while Love and Bruce Johnston were in another. Carl, I read, was the peacemaker.

When Carl died at a much too young age of cancer during the late 1990s, that's when the fighting really began and the band further split.

Now the only original members left in the BB touring act are Love and Johnston, as Jardine started a similar-named group that included women! (Brian Wilson's daughters and McKenzie Phillips - daughter of John Phillips of Mamas and Papas). That group should have been called The Beach Boys (and Girls). Brian Wilson actually sided with Mike Love in the ensuing lawsuit, saying that the BB were a male-based rock and roll group.

I saw one of the last concerts the core group performed in - before Carl's death. Carl's voice on God Only Knows, Wouldn't It Be Nice, and Good Vibrations was almost heavenly.

 

[Don62]

Re: TMZ/ William Frawley

What is this thread ? TMZ in a can. Half of the posts are pure crap. (1) True. Bill Frawley wasn't liked -- because he drank and held up production of the "I love Lucy" show. But Vivian Vance had no such need of an "anti-Frawley" clause. Bill Frawley died a year before "The Lucy show" went into production.

I second what others have said. Many of these reports have been widely distributed.

Frawley was well-known as a two-fisted drinker. His excessive drinking, it is reported, was one of the reasons he was fired from My Three Sons. Though he was allowed to watch filming of the show, when it included successor Uncle Charlie, Frawley's cantakerousness got to be too much to where the producers had to throw him out of that as well.

 

[Don62]

Trivia about My Three Son and Eight is Enough.

The sister of Don Grady (Robbie on My Three Sons) - Lanni O'Grady - who played on Eight Is Enough - got heavily into drugs during the 80s/90s and ended up comiting suicide.
http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/o/laniogrady/lani.htm

Was a sad story indeed.

 

[mleach]

It's not TV related, but I have heard for years Ronnie Dunn and Kix Brooks of Brooks and Dunn don't partically care for each other. They tolerate each other for business purposes but have verry little to do with each other when Brooks and Dunn are not performing. I've heard that it goes back to when their record label, Arista Records, put them together as a duet back in the early '90's.

This one about a musical duo - the No. 1 rock and roll duo of all time - is TV-related as they had their own show.

The Everly Bros. Apparently, Don and Phil had a big falling out where one of them in the middle of a concert during the late 60s or early 70s smashed his guitar in anger and stormed off stage - in front of all the audience!
The other one continued on performing that show.

One, I read, was also jealous that he always did harmony whilst the other always did lead.

The son of that Everly that stormed off the stage said his dad told him he'd never perform with his brother again. They did reunite, of course, at Prince Albert Hall in London during the early-mid 80s for a fantastic reunion concert.

On the subject of singers...Michael Jackson and Pepsi-Cola weren't the best of friends. In 1984 when Pepsi sponsored The Jacksons concert tour and filmed those commercials ( the one where Michael's hair caught fire ), despite all the money Pepsi spent on promotions, the concert, the ads and so forth...Michael Jackson made it clear..HE HATED PEPSI ! ! ! Of course over the years many of actors/singers have done commericals and some of them even dis-associated themselves from the products they sold but it was always long after the ads had stopped running. This was the first time ( I am almost sure ) where a major star slammed the product he was helping to advertise while the ads were still airing. Either way Pepsi wasn't happy with Michael but the Jackson's tour and those ads were a success so all of it was good for Pepsi.

 

[KyDXIn]

Enough that, IIRC, Ron Howard was the only
cast member who ever came to visit Ms. Bavier
in North Carolina, and I think she refused to see him.
(I know the woman who gave him directions to Ms.
Bavier's house.) When she died, neither Andy nor
Don Knotts attended her funeral (I keep thinking
Jim Nabors sent condolences).

And can you blame them? Typical of Frances Bavier
was a remark she once made within earshot of show
writer Everett Greenbaum that the show would be better
if they had some decent scripts.

I always heard she died alone, and with many cats, and only stayed in contact with Lee Greenway, the makeup person.

 

[KyDXIn]

Here's an obveous one I forgot...Tina Louise toward the rest of the cast of Gilligan's Island. She always thought she was too good for the show, but I don't know any real stories of anything she did other than show up late or not at all. I heard her & Bob Denver didn't like each other because (similar to Ginger Grant) she wanted the spotlight.

From what I understood (these could false,) Ginger was a real b!tch on the set. She only wanted certain camera angles, and her agent told her, that the show was about her. That is why the show was called "Gilligan's Island" That should of been a clue there to her. At the beginning, Natalie Schafer (Lovey Howell) hated the show. She thought it was the worst piece of crap ever made, but soon started to really love working on the show with the cast (esp. Dawn Wells) and just started to have fun with the show itself.

Those are the rumors that I heard about Gilligan's Island. Take it with a grain of salt unless you can prove it.

I heard Tina Louise was told the show was about her, then she found out the truth after she had signed her contract. Natalie Schafer signed onto the part of Lovey cause the pilot was filmed in Hawaii, and she wanted a free trip, and never thought the show would be picked up past the pilot!

 

[Stanislav]

Alan Alda (Hawkeye) and Larry Linville (Frank Burns) never did get along on the MASH set. Alda reportedly pushed for Linville's firing, which was never officially announced as a firing.

Never heard that, but I have read that Gary Burghoff was not especially well-liked by the cast. Not so much a "can't stand him" thing, but reportedly he didn't exactly endear himself to the rest. Nevertheless, they recognized his talent and that Radar was a great character for the show, so they put up with him.

I also remember reading that Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson butted heads quite a bit in the early seasons of Home Improvement, but that they eventually patched up their differences.

 

[WMC2006]

I also remember reading that Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson butted heads quite a bit in the early seasons of Home Improvement, but that they eventually patched up their differences.

I recall seeing her on tv maybe last year (I think it was an E True Hollywood Story or a show like it) where she said she wanted to leave the series early on because, and I'm paraphrasing here, that her character was undeveloped and she was bored with it. Eventually, the writers started developing her character more and she stayed on.

 

[nightfly61]

Trivia about My Three Son and Eight is Enough.

The sister of Don Grady (Robbie on My Three Sons) - Lanni O'Grady - who played on Eight Is Enough - got heavily into drugs during the 80s/90s and ended up comiting suicide.
http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/o/laniogrady/lani.htm

Was a sad story indeed.

Wow,this one slipped past me...makes you wonder if child actor Adam Rich witnessed much pill popping, liquor chugging or line snorting by Willy, Lani & others during taping. I remember the episode where Tommy got all hammered & ended up at eldest brother David's apartment-wonder if some true to life activity was going on.
Plus the original mom, Diana Hyland died after only 4 episodes of season 1 of 8IE.

I remember when the girl who played Sissy from Family Affair overdosed & tried commiting suicide back in the 70's.

 

[landtuna]

I recall seeing her on tv maybe last year (I think it was an E True Hollywood Story or a show like it) where she said she wanted to leave the series early on because, and I'm paraphrasing here, that her character was undeveloped and she was bored with it. Eventually, the writers started developing her character more and she stayed on.

I just watched a rerun of that episode two weeks ago. Pat says in that interview that she became bored with the show later on but was fine with her role initially. This same issue is also attributed to other cast members as well, including the kids (except for Earl Hindman). The only cast member who was actually 'underutilized' and did leave the show was the original "tool girl" Pamela Anderson.

 

[Don62]

Trivia about My Three Son and Eight is Enough.

The sister of Don Grady (Robbie on My Three Sons) - Lanni O'Grady - who played on Eight Is Enough - got heavily into drugs during the 80s/90s and ended up comiting suicide.
http://www.findadeath.com/Deceased/o/laniogrady/lani.htm

Was a sad story indeed.

Wow,this one slipped past me...makes you wonder if child actor Adam Rich witnessed much pill popping, liquor chugging or line snorting by Willy, Lani & others during taping. I remember the episode where Tommy got all hammered & ended up at eldest brother David's apartment-wonder if some true to life activity was going on.
Plus the original mom, Diana Hyland died after only 4 episodes of season 1 of 8IE.

I remember when the girl who played Sissy from Family Affair overdosed & tried commiting suicide back in the 70's.

I remember that ep. well. Big brother made Tommy repaint his apartment.

The Family Affair story is also sad. Her death was a tragic ending to a tragic life.

Willy Ames, btw, has cleaned up his life considerably and now is into producing Christian movies.

 

[biggguy]

For the record......"Cissy" (Kathy Garver) from "Family Affair" didn't commit suicide....it was Anissa Jones who played "Buffy"...

Musta been a heck of a show.....Johnny Whitaker who played her twin brother "Jody" went on to become a Mormon missionary.....

 

[mleach]

For the record......"Cissy" (Kathy Garver) from "Family Affair" didn't commit suicide....it was Anissa Jones who played "Buffy"...

Musta been a heck of a show.....Johnny Whitaker who played her twin brother "Jody" went on to become a Mormon missionary.....

I actually met Kathy Garver a few years back. She is just as religious today ( if not more ) than Whitaker is.

 

[Smittian]

Alan Alda (Hawkeye) and Larry Linville (Frank Burns) never did get along on the MASH set. Alda reportedly pushed for Linville's firing, which was never officially announced as a firing.

From what I've read, nothing could be further from the truth. Linville was nothing like the character he played and was very popular with the cast, including Alda, who spoke very highly of him after his death

 

[nightfly61]

Here I am again not sticking to the topic of a thread I started, but bands that played together that could all but tolerate each other for the crowd/camera:
Eagles
Simon & Garfunkel
Van Halen(I guess Alex VH was the"George Harrison" of the group trying to keep the egos of David Lee & Eddie together).

 

[bpatrick]

Note that the thread said that Kathy Garver "tried"
to commit suicide; I can't vouch for that, but perhaps
that's when she got religion. Anissa Jones did die of
a drug overdose in 1976, age 18.

 

[KeithE4]

Here I am again not sticking to the topic of a thread I started, but bands that played together that could all but tolerate each other for the crowd/camera:
Eagles
Simon & Garfunkel
Van Halen(I guess Alex VH was the"George Harrison" of the group trying to keep the egos of David Lee & Eddie together).

Add Cream to that list. Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker (to put mildly) absolutely couldn't stand each other, with Eric Clapton in the middle attempting to keep the peace.

 

[RicoGregg]

Alan Alda (Hawkeye) and Larry Linville (Frank Burns) never did get along on the MASH set. Alda reportedly pushed for Linville's firing, which was never officially announced as a firing.

From what I've read, nothing could be further from the truth. Linville was nothing like the character he played and was very popular with the cast, including Alda, who spoke very highly of him after his death

I said nothing about actors being like their characters. Most people can differentiate actors away from their roles. As I mentioned in both an earlier post and an earlier thread, Larry Linville was a friend of a friend of mine, and mentioned this to my friend. My friend mentioned this to me after Mr. Linville passed away.

Neither was anything mentioned about popularity on the set. In fact, totally unmentioned was that in 1980, I interviewed Kellye Nakahara (Nurse Kellye), who told me that Larry Linville was very much liked and respected on the set.

What was mentioned in the earlier thread was that there was an agreement made when Mr. Linville left the show: They would not announce it as a firing, and they would continue to speak well of him, as long as he would never say he was fired.

 

[radiofreqk1]

More "hogwash" from TMZ. Linnville left becuase of money -- not sour grapes. And NOW you back peddle. Linnville was nothing like "Major Frank Burns" and everyone liked him. But that's not the tone of your other posts.