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ripley123
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11/8/2011 | posted: 1/8/2012 at 3:48:34 PM ET
I really admore Patti's work too and think her personality is great. i think that for her, one of the issues might be that she was considered to be the next Ethel. I think that where Bernadette has been cast, there has been a desire to have a different take on it. And Patti did end up getting to do Gypsy. It's a dangerous thing to have a sense of entitlement.
Also, I did read an interview where Bernadette Peters mentioned that it devastated her when they picked Ann-Margret for the TV version of Dames At Sea, in the role that Bernadette originated. I think she even said that she was not even given an opportunity to audition for it. But then she went on to say that she realized that Ann-Margret had the opportunity because people in film and TV knew who she was, and nobody knew who Bernadette was. So, she packed up and moved out to California, away from her family, and started getting some film and TV work. I like that about her, she didn't complain about how the industry was, she didn't make any unflattering judgments about Ann-Margret or suggest in any way that she didn't deserve it. She just acknowledged that part of her work, if she wanted a high profile career, was to become known more widely, and so that's what she did. For someone whose image --especially then!-- was so ditzy and dippy, she was really incredibly matter-of-fact and practical about her career, or at least that's what it looks like.
|  Jennifer
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Here is the quote from the article:
"I was doing Broadway and it was great, but it was a time when New York was in a slump. I remember I did 'Dames at Sea,' and then when it was done for television, the part went to Ann-Margret, who I love. And I went, 'Of course, it went to her. No one knows who I am. I need to go out to L.A. and get more exposure.' "
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jul/20/entertainment/ca-bernadette-peters20/2
| ripley123
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11/8/2011 | posted: 1/8/2012 at 5:25:33 PM ET
Thanks for posting! I was wrong about the devastated part but had the attitude right.
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