![]() ![]() I don't really understand why the production company was so frugal, why there were so many examples of penny pinching, even after we were a top rated show. It isn't that we were suffering, but there is a desire to correct people's idea that we were pampered or spoiled. I don't want anyone to feel too sorry for us over the dressing room situation. If we were filming on the backlot, they put us in old trailers, often unplugged and unheated. Then they build dressing room on the soundstage for us. This lasted until the actors' union came on set and told them shared dressing rooms violated union contract. Since we also had Moms or guardians with us, it was pretty crowded. When we started they had one dressing room for the girls and one for the boys. Terri Marsh Felder asked about dressing rooms. I don't remember this episode, but I do remember breaking the "ice" in the bucket, which was really made of wax. ![]() I am about to be handed Chance's lead, by the livestock wrangler who was responsible for the cow. In this behind-the-scenes photo, you can see the top of his head. I was thinking about "The Ferris Wheel", which was directed by one of my favorite directors, Larry Dobkin. While I have no memory of this clip, I do remember meeting Mary Tyler Moore and Carol Burnett and watching Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance play cards.ĬBS on the Air - A Celebration of 50Years Featuring cast members of The Waltons My poor Mom searched everywhere trying to find something appropriate for a 13-year-old. When CBS did their 50 year anniversary special, they told my Mom that I need to have floor-length formal black dress. I can remember quite a few arguments over it in the makeup room at the start of an episode. And any young, male guest star was appalled to discover the hair stylist wanted to cut their hair, so it would be "period". It reminded me how the boys suffered with short, above the collar hair when the style of the 70's was long. My husband asked about our hair on the show. When Elizabeth was locked in the trunk, my mother says that my brother, who was seated next to me, looked up at her, wide-eyed, and whispered, "Does she ever get out?" They screened it for the cast and our families. The Foundling was the second show we filmed and the first show aired. However, whatever you ate in the printed master had to match what you did in other shots, to ease the work of the editors. Then as the set was re-lit and camera re-positioned for close-ups and other angles of the the same scene, the food would cool and age and then become less appealing. The food would be fresh at first, as we shot the "master" takes. In reality it opened to nothing, just the back of the kitchen walls, but further along was a kind of kitchen where the prop man would make the food for the eating scenes. It was used as the entry to a pantry or root cellar in an episode or two, I think. Someone asked about the door to the right of the stove. The wall behind grandma's ironing board was most often missing, and in its place a camera, cameraman, focus puller, lights, electricians, sound boom, sound man, sound mixer & his board, script supervisor, director, and so on. Each wall was temporary, and they would remove them as needed. The sets were spread out to make space for lights and the camera. Sound stages are soundproofed, so we never had to worry about jets while filming in stage 26. When we filmed outdoors, we often had to stop a scene and shoot it again because a jet flew overhead. ![]() We would get to work, dress, rehearse, go to school, film, go back to school while they set up camera/lights/sound, return to set to do closeups, and so on.Ī group photo from our tour of the Warner Ranch. We all went together, so the teacher had to teach different ages. The production company provided a teacher. "As the youngest member of the Waltons, how did you go about attending school while taping for the show?" By California law we had to attend school 3 hours a day. Someone posted questions! I like questions. If you want to read the comments click the date of each post to go to the original post on Facebook. Preserved here are those memories that she has shared for your easy reference and enjoyment. Recently, Kami has become quite active on her Facebook page, sharing her memories of working on The Waltons. Since her time acting on the show she has become a teacher, educator and school principal. Kami Cotler portrayed Elizabeth, the youngest member of the Walton family. ![]()
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