HoldenIsHere wrote: ↑November 27th, 2023, 3:04 pm
jamesjazzguitar wrote: ↑November 27th, 2023, 1:23 pm
Note that many fine actors lived out their final days at this place:
Bud Abbott, Mary Astor, Virgina Bruce, Mae Clarke, Wendell Corey, Yvonne De Carlo (and that is just a few from A to D!).
I didn't know that about Yvonne De Carlo.
But she wouldn't have received any residuals from the syndicated airings of THE MUNSTERS based on the compensation terms in the typical contract in the 1960s for an actor in a television series.
Uh-huh, that's true alright, Holden. The days of sitcom stars gettin' a million bucks per episode AND these sweet residual deals they get today would be far off in the future, alright.
And so NOW, do ya wanna hear how Yvonne died there? Well, I'm gonna tell ya anyway here.
Yvonne, who once proudly stated the following during a 1976 interview...
"I'm all for men and I think they ought to stay up there and be the bosses, and have women wait on them hand and foot and put their slippers on and hand them the pipe and serve seven-course meals."
...ironically enough AGAIN, died the ONE day at the Motion Picture & Television Country House & Hospital when there were only male attendants scheduled to work that day. And, when it was apparent she was near the end, she refused to have any of them call for or assist her in the medical aid she needed!
(...told ya it was "ironic" here, now didn't I?!...okay sure, maybe not TRUE, except for her quote that is, but "ironic" anyway, RIGHT?!)