THE BRADY BUNCH 🌟 THEN AND NOW 2020

you [Music] TV classic The Brady Bunch captured the hearts of fans everywhere even obsessed fans might not have noticed a few things and may be surprised at some behind-the-scenes secrets one of the original cast members disappeared somebody's hair fell out and there was a feud that still go not today as always you are watching how they changed and here are some facts fans may not know about the Brady Bunch TV show the concept originated with a newspaper statistic it's very rare that two writer knows exactly where his ideas come from producer Sherwood Schwartz once said however in the case of the Brady Bunch I know exactly what inspired that show it was just a four aligned filler piece in the Los Angeles Times just a statistic it said that here 1965 31 percent of all marriages involved people who had a child or children from a previous marriage it was just a statistic but to me it indicated a remarkable sociological change in our country thirty one percent is approximately one-third of all marriages that's a huge statistic it gave him an idea for a TV series called yours and mine he shopped his script to the three major networks but was turned down each time three years later United Artists released a film called yours mine and ours starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda which told the story of a widow with eight children who married a father of ten the film did well at the box office and suddenly ABC was interested in Schwartz script which was then called the bravely brude hair color played a factor in casting the Brady kids when casting the six Brady kids Schwartz wasn't yet sure while the parents would look like as those actors hadn t had been hired so his goal was to have a total of 12 child actors in reserve three blond girls three blond boys three brunette and three dark-haired boys it was presumed from the get-go that the parents would have contrasting hair colors and that their offsprings locs would correspond likewise as a consequence to this day there are three dark-haired girls and three blond boys about 45 to 50 years old somewhere in the world who might have been the Brady Bunch kids Schwartz said in Brady Brady Brady the complete story of the Brady Bunch as taught by the father-son team who really know and they are just finding that out if they're reading this book naturally strawberry blonde Mike Lookinland or Schwartz first choice for the role of youngest son Bobby but when brown haired Robert Reed was cast as the dad looking Ladd had to in do his hair being dyed a variety of colors so that it looked appropriately dark under the harsh studio lights Susan Olsen who played Cindy was naturally blond but not lied enough to see the producers Olsen's hair was regularly bleached to give her that adorable Tao had look on camera unfortunately the process eventually caused clumps of Susan's hair to fall out you're in season two he tearfully presented her case to head hunter Schwartz who immediately ordered the stuff to live Cindy's hair alone six kids shared one bathroom with no toilet eagle-eyed viewers may have noticed something odd about the Jack and Jill bathroom the breeder kids shared it was missing a toilet television network still had strict rules about showing a porcelain toilet ball on screen during the breed years in order to avoid costly tricky camera angles the producers opted to forego a commode altogether in the bathroom shared by the kids the tank portion of the toilet was acceptable as seen on the Captain Jack episode of Liberty beaver in 1957 Gene Hackman was in contention to play Mike Brady for the role of Mike Brady the family's surname had changed by this time there were a number of men I wanted to interview including gene hackman record Schwartz ingredients paramount wouldn't even okay gene Hackman for an interview because he had a very low T V Q T V Q is a survey that executives used to determine the audience's familiarity with performances TV executives don't admit the existence of T V keys but it's commonly employed in casting the finally chose Reed because he was already under contract to Paramount and he had a certain amount of marque value because of his co-starring role on the popular legal drama series the defenders the year after the Brady Bunch debuted unknown Gene Hackman with no TV Q starred in the French Connection and won the Academy Award for Best Actor and has been a major star ever since edit warts Florence Henderson wasn't the first Mrs Brady comedic actress Joyce bulla font was so close to ink in a contract to play Mrs Brady that she was used in most of their screen tests with the various child actors for their auditions in fact one of the reasons if plum landed the rule of Jan was because of her physical resembles to bulla fund originally Schwartz envisioned mrs. prey D as a recce mom much like Lucille Ball in yours mine and ours but the cast in M exchanged when Emmy award-winning actress and B Davis signed on to play housekeeper Alice Dennis's Alice would more than fulfill the wackiness quotient and a more grounded down-to-earth mother was required to maintain a balanced texas-born musical theater star Florence Henderson got the job in Joyce Bullivant went on to a successful career of her own including plain Murray's wife on The Mary Tyler Moore Show Henderson wasn't around when filming began on the first six episodes Florence Henderson who wore a week during the first season of the show because her hair had been cropped short for her recent starring role in an off-broadway revival of South Pacific was wrapping up filming on Sun of Norway in Denmark once you received word that the Brady Bunch pilot had sold and so they started the show without me Anderson told in 2014 they did six episodes without me and then I filled in when I got back to the States Barry Williams went through a stage of experimentation like many teams in the 1970s Williams who played eldest brother Craig was known to occasionally partake in some illegal substances while hanging out with his friends after sparking up one afternoon on his day off Williams received a call from the studio that certain scenes of the law and disorder episode needed to be reshot Barry dutifully reported to the SAP but it became obvious to all present that something was not quite right with Greg Brady aside from his stumbling over nothing in the driveway there was a glazed look in his eyes and a stilted delivery of his few lines regarding debts purchase of a boat that tipped the producers off and caused furious rewrites to the reduce Greg's part in this episode I went through a stage of experimentation as a kid Williams wrote on his blog I certainly never went to the set high again but I don't like weed it makes me feel dumb paranoid and hungry they are what some romance on the set in his book growing up Brady Barry Williams wrote that he and maureen McCormick shared their first case while in Hawaii filming a three Episode story arc during the show's fourth season their relationship was at its hottest and heaviest around the time they filmed the final episode of that season a room at the top the scene where Marci and Greg were sitting on her bed together arguing over who should get the attic room took hours to film as the director kept having to yell cut due to the actors getting too cozy on camera Blewett watts finally had each act to make a fist and place it between them as they sat on the bed and instructed them to maintain that amount of distance from each other at all times during the scene in Brady Brady launched watts mentions that he tried to cool things down between Bahrain Marine mainly because on-the-job romance has rarely walked especially between teenagers if they had a dramatic breakup how would they be able to continue to walk together part of his tragedy was to appeal to Barry's vanity and flattered him telling him that he was too young and too good-looking to limit himself to one girl Christopher Knight wasn't blessed with musical ability Barry Williams my glucan land and maureen McCormick were all excellent vocalists while Eve plum and Susan Olsen could both carry a reasonable teen Christopher Knight on the other hand is the first to admit that his pipes were a bit on the rusty side asked to cite the most embarrassing thing he ever did in the show by the improper burst on Ian's ninth didn't hesitate in responding singing by far it was traumatic and thats all for now don't forget to leave a like subscribe and share this video with fans take care

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Length: 10min 15sec (615 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 05 2020