I thought I knew everything about Lucy and Desi, but I didn't know they built a hotel. My Three Sons was daily after school viewing for me in junior high. I wish my sister-in-law was as nice as Katie.
The interviewer never did get to ask Mr. Considine what he'd been doing since his series departure. - Dave Lounder (Actor, Animal Rescuer, Drive-In Revivalist, and MY THREE SONS & LEAVE IT TO BEAVER Authority)
Of course, in addition to her playing Lucy's rival Caroline Appleby, Doris Singleton on M3S ALSO played Margaret Williams- Chip's wife Polly's mother who witnessed the biggest burst of anger Chip would display on the show when her husband Tom revealed that he'd had hired a detective to spy on Chip and Polly's premarital activities!
The early black and white seasons with William Frawley were the best. I have always thought you could see the chemistry between Frawley and Stanley. It seemed to show in Frawley's eyes.
Mr. Considine married twice had a son and grandchild by his 2nd wife (who stayed married to him 44 years until his 2022 death) . As for his professional life, he became car racing aficionado to such an extent that he wrote gigantic scholarly books about the history of auto racing. Yet despite his proven writing ability (unlike his onetime colleagues Barry Livingston and Tina Cole- as well as his own 1st wife Charlotte Stewart), he never seemed to consider writing his autobio or anything about his earlier performing career!
3:55...Yeah...talk bout him...a well recognized Hollywood tightwad...PARSiMONIUS...sadly this is a characteristic among many Scots...(P.S. He was the FOURTH highest paid American in 1976!!!)
You are on every morn on ME TV albuquerque. You all were good role models for us baby boomers and many of the same thoughts and decisions you portrayed helped us then and later on.....including being kinder and more helperful and patient with/ to our younger sibs. LOL NM😍 With TC gone now, we are realizing/dealing with our age and its vulnerabilities.
4:50 Fwiw, Don Grady (Robbie) died about a month after this interview. The other three fell all over themselves to explain why he wasn't present, and I could hardly make out what they were saying. I believe they indicated he'd broken his leg, but it sure sounds like they were covering for something else (e.g., his terminal cancer condition).
I think I was born in the wrong era because back in the 60's life seemed to be calmer and men were polite and well mannered. God you can't really find that now at days. Even though I am only 40 I grew up watching My Three Son's and had a major crush on Tim Considine.
In truth, Fred MacMurray wasn't the first movie star to become a TV star, there was Lucille Ball, Donna Reed, Ann Southern, Robert Young, Eve Arden, Red Skelton, Doris Day, Jack Benny who did vaudevile, radio and movies and many more stars before and after Fred MacMurray.
To be fair, while Lucy and the others had all worked lengthy careers in motion pictures, they were NOT as big 'stars' as Mr. MacMurray when they started their shows as when he started his. And while Doris Day WAS as big a star as Mr. MacMurray, she didn't start doing her sitcom until 1968- eight years after he'd gotten his start! Of course in Miss Day's case, she wouldn't have done it but for the dual reasons that her late 3rd husband had signed her up for it without her knowledge AND had blown her entire fortune so she needed the money FAST!
Well Stanley... if I were wanting to "break into the industry" I would share this with everybody I know! But I'm just a country girl, an Irish Country Girl, Who Loved My Three Sons! But thank you for posting this... I'm sure it helped many wanting to get into the business. 😉🍀
It's June 11th 2021 and thank God for MeTV!! MTS it's on every morning here in the North Bay, California... And I don't ever miss this show. I even go as far as to taping each episode and I'm now into when Chip eloped with Polly! This is the only show that brings me such comfort & joy in a crazy world we're all living in now... I'm ten years younger or so then Chip (Stanley Livingston...) So when I see him at age 12 or so I was just a baby LOL, but when I was five, six years old... I had the biggest CRUSH on Chip! I've NEVER told ANYBODY that (blushing) but anyway, thank you guys for posting THIS and all of you fellas making thousands of us happy viewers and STILL to this day! Also sadly Don Grady who was awesome as Robbie... Rest in peace and thank you. 🙏💜🌹🍀
Since he was very sick with cancer he was probably too sick to go. Sadly he passed away a month later. It was sad since we couldn’t see all 4 sons together one last time.
@@veryfungamesawesome Ditto! Love the early seasons. Cannot believe I was just seeing them for the first time about 2 years ago. They are superior to the later seasons all around. The writing!! The acting of all the boys was on point. So good. I especially thought for a really young actor Chip had real talent.
@@m.e.d.7997 Yeah they must be good actors if they could remember all those lines in only a couple of days rehearsing. Since they shot the show the way they did, shooting scenes from 10-15 episodes per day that’s a lot of lines to remember. And how 9 year old Stanley Livingston AKA Chip remembered all those lines the first season I have no clue. I don’t think I could do it and I’m an adult, I guess starting young is how you do it. It was so sad when William Frawley had to leave the show and sad that he died a year later.
@@veryfungamesawesome Stan mentioned once that the producer on the show the first year or maybe it was the director strived for perfection in the scenes to get things just the way he felt they should be. Often there would be take after take after take, but it does show in that first year because the episodes were flawless all around. I got the impression it was not their acting solely, but the setting, timing, lighting, expressions etc he wanted to be just right and authentic. This person left though after the first year. Peter Tewksbury left after the first year so maybe it was him. I noticed the boys fought more in the first year too but that certainly was an authentic picture of a bunch of young brothers or sisters for that matter.
