Post by Sara Monster on Jan 13, 2012 9:50:57 GMT -5
Now I'm not one to gossip 
but I'll admit I rather enjoy reading dishes about celebs & have come across some interesting items dealing with DS stars. Not claiming everything written is true (but based on what people, including the actors, have said, it seems a lot of it is), but is still interesting to read. And probably close as we're gonna get to a tell-all, if you don't count KLS's work of 'fiction' that is Dark Passages.
source: forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/lofiversion/index.php/t3173853-1200.html
1) Jonathan (Barnabas Collins) Frid and Grayson (Julia Hoffman) Hall did not always get along with each other. Frid thought Hall overacted and Hall would get annoyed with Frid because he forgot his lines so often.
2) One prominent DS actress had an affair with one of her male co-stars. It resulted in said co-star's marriage breaking up. Years later, this actress attempted to get a role on a hit ABC series in the mid-70's. She was deep-sixed, however, because the show had already cast the scorned ex-wife of that cheating actor. She refused to work with the other woman.
3) Also, that prominent actress often slept with one of DARK SHADOWS' writers so she would be assured of always appearing on the series no matter how many times her character was killed off.
4) One of the show's child actresses now attending the cons as an adult tries to hook up with male attendees and usually fails. This could be because most male DS fans seem to be gay. She also gets roaring drunk.
5) Joan Bennett would relax in her dressing room with something alcoholic yet was appalled when two male members of the cast smoked pot at the DS studio one day.
but I'll admit I rather enjoy reading dishes about celebs & have come across some interesting items dealing with DS stars. Not claiming everything written is true (but based on what people, including the actors, have said, it seems a lot of it is), but is still interesting to read. And probably close as we're gonna get to a tell-all, if you don't count KLS's work of 'fiction' that is Dark Passages.source: forums.televisionwithoutpity.com/lofiversion/index.php/t3173853-1200.html
1) Jonathan (Barnabas Collins) Frid and Grayson (Julia Hoffman) Hall did not always get along with each other. Frid thought Hall overacted and Hall would get annoyed with Frid because he forgot his lines so often.
2) One prominent DS actress had an affair with one of her male co-stars. It resulted in said co-star's marriage breaking up. Years later, this actress attempted to get a role on a hit ABC series in the mid-70's. She was deep-sixed, however, because the show had already cast the scorned ex-wife of that cheating actor. She refused to work with the other woman.
3) Also, that prominent actress often slept with one of DARK SHADOWS' writers so she would be assured of always appearing on the series no matter how many times her character was killed off.
4) One of the show's child actresses now attending the cons as an adult tries to hook up with male attendees and usually fails. This could be because most male DS fans seem to be gay. She also gets roaring drunk.
5) Joan Bennett would relax in her dressing room with something alcoholic yet was appalled when two male members of the cast smoked pot at the DS studio one day.
"You've had the misfortune of running into me, I'm a life wrecking idiot."
tsk tsk