4. Cruel STEPMOTHERS doing all those bad things were occurring in stories and plays long before the Brothers Grimm. This was a common plot in Greek and Roman plays. So much so that the Latin word for stepmother, noverca, also referred to a site in military jargon that was too dangerous to use as a camp.
5. ANGELA LANSBURGER played the evil mother in the 1962 film "The Manchurian Candidate," even though she was only three years older than Laurence Harvey, who played her son. In TV's "The Golden Girls," ESTELLE GETTY played Dorothy's mother even though she was actually younger.
6. "Brady Bunch" mom FLORENCE HENDERSON did not really "date" Barry Williams who played her oldest stepson on the show, but did go out to dinner with him once.
7. One really strange MOTHER was the mid-1960s show"My Mother the Car," the story about a man whose car is the reincarnation of his dead mother who spoke to him through the car radio. It is sometimes listed among the worst TV shows ever, even though some of its writers, Allan Burns and James L. Brooks, went on to create one of the best shows ever, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
No Taking a Date Out In That Car. --DaCoot
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