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Speaking of mental cruelty, I didn't see this one on the list: the son in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
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the son in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?".
Not only mentioned but never on screen, but also not even existing.
Hope I didn't ruin the movie for anyone
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Or "The Women" a fabulous old black-and-white about women's relationnships to each other and to the men around them. But the men never appear on screen.
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The original movie of "The Women" based on the play by Clare Booth Luce was great. It starred Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell !
The TV re-make was dreck.
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Another disappearing sibling: Richie Cunningham's older brother, Chuck, on Happy Days. Although, on reflection, disappearing without a trace was the better fate.
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Huh, I hadn't been aware there was an older brother.
I wonder if it's a reaction the producers get in the 'pilot' of a show. If the audience really doesn't like a character - off he goes and never existed.
I know I've seen several shows where the characters stay but the actor playing that character changes.
Very well known are the two Darrens on Bewitched and the switch of Becky in The Roseane Show.
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I liked the Roseanne episode where they were talking about changing the actor on Bewitched (didn't they change the character's name, too?) laughing at them for thinking that nodoby would notice. This was just after they had gotten a new actress to play Becky. They also did something else that called attention to the change of actresses, either some comment about her (the character, Becky) not seeming like the same person or some comment when the original actress came back (or was that just sawdust in my JDM®?).
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I remember that episode Faldage. The new Becky said she like the new Darren better.
Did the original Becky come back? I don't remember that. It seems like the new Becky was the one at the table when Roseanne said all her life since Dan's heart attack had been fiction, and she described what really happened to all the characters (i.e. Dan hadn't really survived the heart attach, her mom wasn't really gay, it was her sister that was...)
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it was her sister that was
Well, we knew that.
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The Chuck Cunningham character was around for more than the pilot. He was not present often in the story line, but several times referred to (he was away at college, on a basketball scholarship, IIRC). Chuck appeared on screen occasionally in the first two years of the show. Some time after that, Chuck disappeared into the TV ether.
Chuck was played by two actors (tying into the replacement actors branch of this thread ...): Gavan O'Herlihy and Randolph Roberts.
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