“Every year, Barney Rosenzweig would come into my trailer and say, ‘I worry about you, you’re never going to win. An enviable record to be sure, but was co-star Gless privately concerned about being overlooked? Those efforts were rewarded with Daly scooping Emmys in three consecutive years for outstanding lead actress in a drama series. So it takes a lot of energy, but we were young and healthy and we were inspired to make this rare opportunity count.” But hour-long drama is a life-eater, it really is. I was trying to be a mom and spend time with my children and make dates with my husband. So in order to give the impression of weight, my purse always had two tomato juice cans in it.”įor Tyne Daly, who had two daughters at the time and a third born in 1985, the pressures of starring in a prime-time drama were of a different nature: “I was stopping at the midnight market on the way home and picking up the laundry on the way to work. On the series, Tyne would carry her gun in her purse, but I refused. And I’m supposed to be the one playing the ballbuster. They wanted me to feel the kick that you get from having live ammunition in the chamber, but I started crying. To begin with I was shooting blanks and then they loaded it up with real bullets. After signing to portray the vivacious Christine Cagney, the actress had to undergo firearms training at the police academy, an experience that she found terrifying. Ten years later, I married him.”īack in 1982, however, marriage to Rosenzweig was the last thing on Gless’s mind. “I told Monique that I didn’t like the guy with the beard. Hey – I’m easy”), Gless came on board, although she did have reservations about the tactics employed by Rosenzweig: And she said, ‘I told you, Barney, dear, Sharon’s in a series.’ And he said, ‘You wanna bet she’s in a series? She just got cancelled!”Īfter some cajolement from Daly (“She bought me balloons and champagne to woo me into playing the part. “He rang up my agent, Monique James, and said, ‘I’m calling for the third time to ask you to let Sharon Gless play Cagney’. When it came around for the third time, Barney found out that the sitcom I was in – House Calls – had been axed. “But actors aren’t always the best judges of material and I’d turned it down. “He’d offered it to me two times before,” reveals Gless. It was painful to go through that casting process again as it had been hard enough to find Meg.”Īs it turns out, producer Barney Rosenzweig had had a certain actress by the name of Sharon Gless in mind from the beginning and was determined to make her his Christine Cagney. “I liked Meg and I thought we worked well together, but there were demurs from the top. “I felt that we were beginning to hit our rhythm,” says Daly. Foster was ousted after just three broadcast episodes.
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It was a casting choice that was to prove unpopular with executives: “Not feminine enough,” an unnamed CBS suit told listings magazine TV Guide. When the production was picked up for a series, Swit proved unable to reprise the role of Cagney due to commitments to the Korean War-set comedy and Meg Foster was drafted in to replace her.
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In October 1981, a one-off TV movie aired on CBS starring Daly and M*A*S*H actress Loretta Swit. I think we eventually managed to prove them ill-advised on that idea.” But for an hour of dramatic television, they didn’t quite trust that we could be interesting enough. In the half-hour form, you’d get I Love Lucy or The Mary Tyler Moore Show, where a little situation would get set up and be resolved in 30 minutes. Says Daly: “It was always OK to have women in comedies.
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