Lily Gladstone
Elle: Women in Hollywood 2023 issue
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Olivia Munn | Women in Hollywood Celebration (2020)
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Suzanne Somers and her Three's Company co-star Joyce DeWitt discuss an amusing incident that happened with John Ritter during rehearsals for the episode entitled A-Camping We Will Go, originally broadcast by ABC on November 6th, 1979. Suzanne and Joyce hadn't spoken to each other for thirty-two years, and these gifs are from their emotional reunion on Suzanne's CafeMom YouTube talk show in 2012. Suzanne was let go from Three's Company in 1980 after contract negotiations broke down when she asked for a comparable salary to John Ritter's (she was making a fraction of the $150,000 per episode Ritter was paid), and the situation created bad blood between the show's three stars when the producers pitted them against each other and the ensuing bad publicity unfairly painted Somers as "greedy", thrusting her career into a lengthy tailspin. Ritter and Suzanne patched things up shortly before John's passing in 2003, and Joyce stated during her appearance on Suzanne's talk show that she understood Suzanne "went up against ruthlessness" and that the male producers of Three's Company "could not respect the feminine contribution". DeWitt herself (who was also paid a fraction of what Ritter made) had staged a one episode walk-out prior to the situation with Suzanne during the episode entitled Stanley's Hotline in 1979, protesting against the loss of a raise she had been given that was taken away without explanation by the producers, so she well understood that salary issues were not without precedent on the show (Stanley's Hotline was the only episode of Three's Company Joyce didn't appear in and her wage increase was reinstated). Suzanne explained her perspective to Joyce by saying: "When I came to Three's Company, I had come from being a single mother. I was so happy to get this job because I was finally going to make some money. In a group of serious actors, I probably pissed you all off. And if I did, I'm really sorry." Somers also recalled that during her time on Three's Company, she felt inadequate as an actress. "During the first year and a half," she explained, "every time the producers would walk in, I was ready to get my coat and purse because 'I know I shouldn't be here', and that was kind of where my head was." Joyce reassured her by stating: "You were fabulous. And I never thought they would let you go. I never did. If others have brought up scuttlebutt, I would go: 'Listen, the only reason Three's Company is worth remembering is it gave us a chance for us to celebrate joy together, to open our hearts together. To share in such a healing, beautiful thing as laughter.'" Though the show went on with Jennilee Harrison and Priscilla Barnes cast as new roommates after Suzanne was dismissed, no one could come close to replicating the lovable ditzy blonde character of Chrissy Snow that Somers had created and ratings started to decline, leading to the cancellation of Three's Company in 1984 after eight seasons. The events surrounding Suzanne's abrupt dismissal had a lasting effect in Hollywood, influencing the cast of Friends a decade later to make a pact to renegotiate their contracts as a unified group, thus ensuring they were all paid the same and preventing the cast dynamic from potentially being ruined if one of the stars was fired due to a wage dispute.
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Audrey getting her make-up applied on the set of Sabrina, 1953.
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Danielle Brooks
Elle: Women in Hollywood 2023 issue
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Women in Hollywood x ELLE Magazine: Zoë Kravitz (2022)
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