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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 433040" data-attributes="member: 57984">Mary Frann was a better dramatic actress than a comedic one. Suzanne Pleshette could do both, which is why her Emily Hartley performance worked despite also being given throwaway material.Frann couldn&#039;t do it. She gave a decent performance in MARY TYLER MOORE in 1971, but Frann was playing an antisemitic bitch -- so it was basically a dramatic performance. Yet in straight-up comedy, she was out of her league, and often looked like an amateur waiting to deliver her lines, surrounded by funny professionals.So it wasn&#039;t just about the writing for her.That said, as the NEWHART series wound on, the scripts became so broad -- especially as it pertained to Scolari and Duffy (good comic actors ordinarily) -- that it almost didn&#039;t matter anymore, the characters had become so overdrawn.<img src="https://img.youtube.com/vi/p_Xy1sBFnkk/0.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 715px" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 433040, member: 57984"] Mary Frann was a better dramatic actress than a comedic one. Suzanne Pleshette could do both, which is why her Emily Hartley performance worked despite also being given throwaway material. Frann couldn't do it. She gave a decent performance in MARY TYLER MOORE in 1971, but Frann was playing an antisemitic bitch -- so it was basically a dramatic performance. Yet in straight-up comedy, she was out of her league, and often looked like an amateur waiting to deliver her lines, surrounded by funny professionals. So it wasn't just about the writing for her. That said, as the NEWHART series wound on, the scripts became so broad -- especially as it pertained to Scolari and Duffy (good comic actors ordinarily) -- that it almost didn't matter anymore, the characters had become so overdrawn. [IMG width="715px"]https://img.youtube.com/vi/p_Xy1sBFnkk/0.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]

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