![]() Productions around the globe with SAG-affiliated actors will be immediately affected. Vance lost her battle with breast cancer in August 1979 at age 70.When SAG-AFTRA’s national board of directors voted on Thursday to approve a strike action that would put actors on the picket lines for the first time since 1980, and striking alongside members of the Writers Guild of America for the first time in over 60 years, Hollywood went into freefall. “He’d blow a line and say, ‘Who writes this crap?'” Considine says with a chuckle.įrawley died in March 1966 at the age of 79 after suffering a heart attack. Frawley was an avid supporter of the Yankees. “Sometimes he’d fall asleep in the middle of a scene,” Considine remembers, saying the writers would make sure Frawley’s character, “Bub” O’Casey, was standing and doing something like sweeping a floor. ![]() Thank you and goodnight.” Frawley played landlord Fred Mertz on “I Love Lucy.” Bettmann ArchiveĬonsidine calls him a “terrific guy” and says his job was to bring him back to set from Nickodell. I don’t know who the f–k you are, but you are really full of s-t. I’ve been introduced in a lot of places by a lot of people, but never ever have I heard so much s–t piled up so high as this last guy who introduced me. But unfortunately, it was too late.Īfter staggering to the microphone, he said to a crowd of conservative Midwestern businessmen, “I gotta tell you this. The author describes Frawley as “a mean, rough man,” adding, “He was a woman-hater, known throughout Hollywood for very bad language and just antisocial behavior.”Ĭase in point: Kupferberg says that when Frawley was invited to the 1960 Quaker Oats convention as the keynote speaker, there were strict instructions to introduce him early before he got too drunk. Simmons scored an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of Frawley in “Being the Ricardos.” Glen Wilson/ © 2021 Amazon Cont He was also really cheap, and when Nickodell raised the price of their beer by 10 cents a glass, he stopped going there and went to Musso and Frank.” J.K. “He would drink there, and then after work, he would drink more. He would go to a place called Nickodell,” she continues. The idea that he took a drink or two … he was really a very, very bad alcoholic. ![]() Simmons, who’s a really good actor, his character was just not like Frawley was. “I was very upset over the movie,” Kupferberg tells Page Six. Simmons is nominated in the Best Supporting Actor category of this year’s Oscars for his portrayal of Frawley.) It was no secret that Frawley disliked Vance, but Audrey Kupferberg - who co-wrote “ Meet the Mertzes: The Life Stories of I Love Lucy’s Other Couple” with her late husband, Rob Edelman - says he was much worse than people know and that his character was sanitized in “ Being the Ricardos.” (J.K. Unfortunately, not even 30 yards from the entrance, the lieutenant general asked Frawley what Vance was really like - and that’s when Considine’s stomach dropped.Īccording to Considine, Frawley succinctly responded, “That miserable c–t.” Frawley was on the first five seasons of “My Three Sons.” Getty Images hasn’t said anything to put anyone off,'” Considine remembers. “I was thinking, ‘Hey, this is a great success. Tim Considine exclusively tells Page Six that Frawley uttered the vulgar insult when a lieutenant general and his adjutant visited the set of the actors’ 1960s sitcom “My Three Sons” while Considine was in the Air Force Reserve.Īfter a pleasant lunch, the quartet walked back to work. “I Love Lucy” star William Frawley was such a crass curmudgeon that he once allegedly called his on-screen wife, Vivian Vance, a “miserable c–t.” ‘Alice’ star Linda Lavin: I was sexually harassed on the set of a TV movie Lucille Ball hated running a studio and was not a feminist, daughter says ‘Sixteen Candles’ star Carole Cook dead at 98 Why Lucille Ball’s daughter, Lucie Arnaz, made a deal to be fired from ‘Here’s Lucy’
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