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Linda Gray was JR's wife
Sue Ellen
What she's been up to?:
Linda appeared in several TV shows such as Melrose Place and
Models Inc after Dallas and she now runs her own production
company LG Productions making films for TV. She is 59, lives
in Los Angeles and has two children and grandchildren.
One of her strongest memories of her
time on Dallas was the great friendship she struck up with
Larry Hagman.
Of
the first time they met, she says: 'In walked the very eccentric,
the very over-the-top Mr Hagman. I remember looking at him
thinking, oh my god, this is going to be my 'husband' ha!
It was great.
'I instantly thought this eccentric
wacko is going to belong to me, lucky me! And I think the
magic started in that room. I remember thinking 'Who in their
right mind would marry this guy? Who would want to say 'I
do' to this crazy guy?'
Larry and Linda's sense of fun on set
was legendary.
'We were children, all of us,' she
says. 'Larry and I sometimes had these kissing scenes, they
got rarer and rarer as Sue Ellen got smarter and smarter,
but I remember one time Larry was in the hospital and he was
very, very naughty to me.
'Somebody on the set said to me you
should probably eat an onion before you kiss. And I went ah!
Fabulous idea. So Larry and I had a great onion kissing scene
and he couldn't flinch, the camera was this close.
'I loved seeing him squirm as I had
great onion breath! And then of course on my close up he had
peanut butter. So we were these very sophisticated, very dysfunctional
people, but we were children.'
Now divorced from her former photographer
husband Ed Thrasher, Linda says one of the highlights of her
career apart from Sue Ellen was playing Mrs Robinson in The
Graduate on the London stage last year - where she was visited
by Hagman and wife Maj.
'I was very excited when Larry told
me that he was coming to London to see The Graduate, I was
thrilled. And then there was the moment of, oh my god, Larry
Hagman and his wife are going to be in the theatre, in my
house seats which were a direct line to the stage, when I
would drop the towel.
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Hagman|Victoria Principal|Linda
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