Word: samantha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rough Going. No exceptions are English Actor Terence Stamp, 25, and Actress Samantha Eggar, 25, the two-man cast of Wyler's latest Columbia film, The Collector. Wyler picked them after reading John Fowles's bestselling psychodrama, the story of a repressed lower-class bank clerk (and butterfly collector) who wins the football pool, buys a mansion, then kidnaps a pretty art student and keeps her in the basement for two months while he vainly tries to win her over and she as vainly tries to escape. "I found I couldn't put the book down," Wyler...
...plaudits for his role in Billy Budd, put Wyler to the test the first few days by walking through a retake. Wyler fixed him with an icy eye, said, "Of course, we will have to shoot that again," and Stamp settled down to deliver his best. Samantha was another story. Wyler had been smitten by her lustrous auburn hair and green eyes, even insisted on color to capture her English glow. But her experience went no further than dramatic school, some repertory Shakespeare, and small parts in a few films. The first weeks were rough going, and it looked...
Trapped & Losing. "I wasn't allowed to leave the set during the day, not even for lunch," Samantha recalls. "On both Saturdays and Sundays I was obliged to rehearse from 11 in the morning to 7 at night, every weekend. It was murder. It was fantastic. I lived on my nerves." To coach Samantha, Wyler called in Character Actress Kathleen Freeman, who not only forced Samantha to struggle with the role, but hyped it up further with horror stories about a paranoid schizophrenic relative until Samantha was thoroughly psyched and having nightmares. The turning point came when Samantha...
Once in the role, Wyler never left her free; in 42 days of shooting in Hollywood, Samantha's only outing was a Dodgers-Giants baseball game. Wyler followed the unusual practice of shooting all the interiors first, and in sequence. "The intense growth she achieved was, jeepers, a tremendous leap," says Kathleen Freeman. "It was one of the most thrilling experiences of my life to watch a character being made at the same time an actress is reaching her own stature." Samantha remembers it otherwise: "I guess I was supposed to feel trapped, and I did. I lost about...
...fact, on the top 15 shows there are only two continuing marriages between central characters: Bewitched's Darrin and about-to-be-pregnant Samantha Stephens, and The Dick Van Dyke Show's Rob and Laura Petrie. Since Bewitched's Samantha cheats, by cleaning the house, keeping her husband and generally managing the drudgery of life through her powers of witchcraft, that leaves the title of TV's favorite average housewife to Laura Petrie by default, and it's a shame. As played by Actress Mary Tyler Moore, she could beat the pants off any dozen...