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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 268739" data-attributes="member: 57984"><img src="http://www.tellytalk.net/attachments/1605756271989-png.26884/?hash=8505bc10a356fd14ac4be042c902794c" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 819px" />Hepburn was so committed to good taste that she ostentatiously kept a TV pulled-out and facing the wall, unplugged wire draped over it, in her Manhattan living room,&nbsp; and called it &quot;the idiot box&quot; (the TV,&nbsp; not the living room);&nbsp; Davis and Crawford both shot pilots for prospective weekly series that didn&#039;t sell, with Joan pining, &quot;Oh, why don&#039;t they give me a series...?&quot; but refusing the Joan Bennet role in DARK SHADOWS, Crawford unwilling to star in a cheapy daytime soap; while Stanwyck went on to play the lead in the hit-and-miss television western THE BIG VALLEY where she played the wealthy 1870s matriarch of a Stockton dynasty in the San Joaquin Valley of north-central California (a program that was in production for four years but has run ad nauseum for the last half-century in eternal repeats).Hepburn wouldn&#039;t even allow herself the indignity of doing a television interview until charming, erudite Dick Cavett finally snagged her in 1973.[MEDIA=youtube]rqFzFyWnnhs[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]rOJ2OvZFrY8[/MEDIA]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 268739, member: 57984"] [IMG width="819px"]http://www.tellytalk.net/attachments/1605756271989-png.26884/?hash=8505bc10a356fd14ac4be042c902794c[/IMG] Hepburn was so committed to good taste that she ostentatiously kept a TV pulled-out and facing the wall, unplugged wire draped over it, in her Manhattan living room, and called it "the idiot box" (the TV, not the living room); Davis and Crawford both shot pilots for prospective weekly series that didn't sell, with Joan pining, "[I]Oh, why don't they give me a series...?"[/I] but refusing the Joan Bennet role in DARK SHADOWS, Crawford unwilling to star in a cheapy daytime soap; while Stanwyck went on to play the lead in the hit-and-miss television western THE BIG VALLEY where she played the wealthy 1870s matriarch of a Stockton dynasty in the San Joaquin Valley of north-central California (a program that was in production for four years but has run ad nauseum for the last half-century in eternal repeats). Hepburn wouldn't even allow herself the indignity of doing a television[I] interview[/I] until charming, erudite Dick Cavett finally snagged her in 1973. [MEDIA=youtube]rqFzFyWnnhs[/MEDIA][MEDIA=youtube]rOJ2OvZFrY8[/MEDIA] [/QUOTE]

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