Merry Anders, JK's leading lady in three Maverick episodes (including "Destination Devil's Flat", featured in yesterday's post), tells the story in the book Westerns Women: Interviews With 50 Leading Ladies of Movies and TV by Boyd Magers and Michael G. Fitzgerald. By the way, the episode Ms. Anders describes below sounds like "The People's Friend":
"'...I had an absolute ball working with [Jack] Kelly. He had such an outrageous sense of humor and he pulled little pranks. Tickle you from behind when he was standing behind you and you were supposedly watching your father on his deathbed, trying to look serious.'
'We were working on Christmas Eve and they brought two young boys down on the set that must have been nine or ten, dressed exactly like Mavericks, right down to the brocade vests and string ties. Their parents had brought them down as a treat to see Maverick filmed.'
'Jack and I had an 18-page scene. He'd come out of the bar, we went around the corner to the boardwalk, had this conversation, and it ended with a kiss. We started into the final take, looked down, and, under our elbows--that close--and I don't know how they weren't on camera, were these two little boys. They were just drawn into the scene--they were mesmerized!'
'Jack and I looked out of the corner of our eyes and we just went into hysterics! It took us seven takes to control ourselves. Every time we'd get to that point, we'd start giggling.'" :)
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Oh, and speaking of "The People's Friend", here's a link to a review of that episode, from a blog about cigar smoking!
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