Maybe it is the eyes twinkling in the porcine face-sly, intelligent, scrutinizing eyes.”Īmong the plays in which Mr. Maybe it is the good talk which he practices with the ease and fluency of a man who is accustomed to good talk. One reporter wrote: “There is something likeable about Oscar Homolka. Homolka not only got along well with producers and directors but also charmed interviewers. “He once told us that in Vienna, where he was born, he had considered becoming a painter before he became an actor. “He never talked much about the different styles of acting,” said his son yesterday. Homolka had been in at last 100 movies and as many television shows. He once estimated that by the time he was 30 he had appeared in more than 400 plays. Whether he was the sinister theater owner terrorizing London in the Hitchcock film “The Woman Alone,” or the blustering uncle in the warm play “I Remember Mama,” he apnroached his job as a professional. Homolka did not worry about styles of acting. And yet Lorimar extended her contract for three more years.Mr. Katzman, Paulsen and Lewis saw the problem right away and started cutting back on Mis-Ellie's scenes pretty quickly. I wonder which executive at Lorimar made the decision to bring in Reed. The recasting of Miss Ellie cast a pall over an otherwise competent season, and it marked the beginning of the loooong end for DALLAS. The producers quietly called her and asked her to return. A gaffe made more obvious by the fact that DALLAS went into syndicated reruns in the fall of 1984 (the first show ever to do so while still #1 in prime time) simultaneous to Donna Reed's joining the show.Įveryone on Earth knew it couldn't work, except the executive who signed off on it, and poor hapless Miss Reed was just an actress taking a role.Īpparently, BBG didn't watch the show that season, reports of her "jealousy" notwithstanding. I also thought Victoria did a good job of acting with Donna Reed as if there was no change.Įven at the time, when it was announced in the press that Miss Ellie was being re-cast, we could not believe it.
I know i'll struggle to get through the rest of this season, but at least get some comfort knowing the real Miss Ellie will return the following year. A shame Larry Hagman couldn't have stepped in earlier and forced the producers to compromise with Barbara's request.
This misstep was as bad as the dream season and Pam's mummy. Seriously though, this was terribly damaging to the show, and I can imagine our wonderful Barbara feeling absolutely mortified watching this debacle from home, seeing the character she had made her own being woefully imitated by another actor - though nothing personal towards Miss Reed. He dropped his new wife off at the hair salon before they went to the airport, and now she seems to have had a radical face lift at the same time. Susan Howard and Larry Hagman do their best not to notice as they welcome her home from the honeymoon, but poor Howard Keel looks very confused all episode. How on earth they couldn't have worked out a way of reducing her screen time but paying her enough to stay on the show I don't know. I can't believe this was ever allowed to happen, given what we now know was going on beind the scenes and that Barbara Bel Geddes did want to stay on. Miss Ellie's head has just changed from Barbara to Donna Reed. I am just watching the 'Homecoming' episode form season 8.
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I have been rewatching the entire series and got to season 8 a couple of days ago.
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