Dad was a card-carrying member of Actors' Equity, he said. He performed in Saratoga. He was the reporter [the Gene Kelly part, as I knew it] in "Inherit the Wind," and I was completely dazzled with the production photos as a kid because the play had two actors who appeared in 1960s TV shows, and therefore were significant to me when small...Nancy Culp, who played "Miss Jane" on the Beverly Hillbillies and Victor Buono, who played "King Tut" on Batman.
This was the era of Polly Platt as girlfriend. Great stories about her...wearing a racoon coat from the 1920s on campus at Skidmore - with nothing on under.
Dad did this amusing, slightly insecure, but ultimately unconvincing thing - to canonize all of his former girlfriends - all were too beautiful and too smart and too fun. He never managed to convince me he had ever found anyone who could compare with my mom. I always knew she was the ultimate.
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