![]() ![]() “When I was playing Gladys, people would say, ‘That’s not a character part for her, that’s her ,'” she said. Williams’ new show aired on Monday nights too, and many of Pete and Gladys‘ writers and producers had collaborated with Ball. The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour had aired its final episode five months earlier. A scatterbrained woman who often found herself in hot water, her character resembled that of another famous redhead, Lucille Ball. ![]() Williams starred as the TV wife of future M*A*S*H great Harry Morgan on Pete and Gladys, which debuted in September 1960. I’ll tell you what she’s like: She’s like having a best friend you’d like to kiss.” She’s a very sexy girl, but she’s also like a man. I never really studied my lines, I practically studied them on the set.”Ĭurtis once told TV Guide that Williams “is a complete original. “I was shocked when I was nominated for an Academy Award because I really walked through that movie. Williams worked on the film for just two weeks “for very little money,” she said in an interview for The Midnight Palace. In the memorable Stanley Kramer drama The Defiant Ones (1958), starring Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier as escaped convicts who spend much of the movie being chained together, Williams portrayed the lonely mother of a young son who falls for Curtis’ character. She was married to actor John Drew Barrymore, the son of movie legend John Barrymore and the father of actress Drew Barrymore, from 1953-59. Jacky Oh, Former 'Wild 'N Out' Castmember, Dies at 32 ![]()
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