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Classic US TV
Mary Tyler Moore Show and Its Spin-Offs
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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 402246" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>Mary Frann was a pretty good dramatic actress -- and her role as the antisemite on MTM was basically a dramatic part. But comedy wasn't her forte, as NEWHART in the '80s proved; people often defend her boring casting in NEWHART by pointing out she was given thankless material, but so was Suzanne Pleshette in Bob's '70s show, but she still found a way to make it work.</p><p></p><p>Had she been cast in DALLAS, Mary Frann would have brought intelligence and the requisite bitchiness to the role of Sue Ellen. But she lacked the Joan-Crawford's-daughter narcissistic divadom that Linda Gray effortlessly brought to Southfork. And, without that, DALLAS would never have worked.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 402246, member: 57984"] Mary Frann was a pretty good dramatic actress -- and her role as the antisemite on MTM was basically a dramatic part. But comedy wasn't her forte, as NEWHART in the '80s proved; people often defend her boring casting in NEWHART by pointing out she was given thankless material, but so was Suzanne Pleshette in Bob's '70s show, but she still found a way to make it work. Had she been cast in DALLAS, Mary Frann would have brought intelligence and the requisite bitchiness to the role of Sue Ellen. But she lacked the Joan-Crawford's-daughter narcissistic divadom that Linda Gray effortlessly brought to Southfork. And, without that, DALLAS would never have worked. [/QUOTE]
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