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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ClassyCo" data-source="post: 418228" data-attributes="member: 7">I have pondered this often in my head. On one hand, I'd not recast Tina Louise for anything (seeing how the follow-up made-for-TV movies didn't work when different actresses replaced her) because she was very good as Ginger. She was sexy, and even funny -- which, as I see it, the one thing missing from the TV movie recasts. Regardless to how well she did or didn't like doing the show, Louise played her role well and worked good with the rest of ensemble. Jayne Mansfield has always had a soft spot in my heart. She had genuine talent, but it was squandered by her exploited physical attributes and her own hunger for attention. Jayne had a fine sense of humor, but I think (as it's been said before here in the discussions) that she was still too big a star in 1963 to take a supporting role on a new TV sitcom which many in the industry felt would die a quick death. Even so, I still imagine how Jayne would've played Ginger. I long to see Mansfield and Jim Backus go toe-to-toe in a banter of wits.</blockquote>

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