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American actress

Linda Harrison
Linda Harrison - early studio publicity headshot ca 1966.jpg

Harrison ca. 1966
Born

Linda Melson Harrison


(1945-07-26) July 26, 1945 (historic period 76)

Berlin, Maryland, U.S.
Other names Augusta Summerland
Occupation Actress
Years agile 1966–present

Notable work

 Nova (Planet of the Apes)
Spouse(southward)

Richard D. Zanuck

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(one thousand. 1969; div. 1978)​
Children 2; including Dean Zanuck

Linda Melson Harrison (born July 26, 1945) is an American television and motion-picture show extra, and director and producer, who is internationally known for her part as Nova, Charlton Heston's mute mate in the science fiction movie classic Planet of the Apes (1968) and the first sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes; she besides had a cameo in Tim Burton'southward 2001 remake of the original. She was a regular cast member of the 1969–70 NBC tv series Bracken's Globe. She was the second wife of pic producer Richard D. Zanuck (Jaws, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy, Charlie and the Chocolate Manufactory); her youngest son is producer Dean Zanuck (Route to Perdition, Charlie and the Chocolate Mill).

Early life and family [edit]

Linda Melson Harrison was built-in in Berlin, Maryland. She was the third of five daughters of Isaac Burbage Harrison, a nurseryman, and his wife, Ida Virginia Melson, a beautician. She was the middle child, with two older sisters, Kay and Gloria, and two younger sisters, Jane and Joan.[1] [2] The Harrisons, like Linda'southward maternal Melson ancestors, had a long history in the Delmarva region. Co-ordinate to Ancestry.com, the Melson family were mid-17th century immigrants to Maryland from Melsonby St James in Northward Yorkshire. The Anglo-Welsh Harrisons had been resident for generations in W Kirby, Cheshire, when ane Richard Harrison, son of some other Richard Harrison, emigrated in the early on 17th century from West Kirby to the New Haven Colony in what is now Connecticut, thence to Maryland. Richard'due south direct descendant, Harrison'south paternal grandfather, Joseph M. Harrison, and Joseph'south older blood brother, Orlando Harrison (Mayor of Berlin 1900–1910 and 1916–1918 and senator state Maryland for Worcester County, 1916-1928), established J.Chiliad. Harrison & Sons Nurseries, which were, at one time, the largest fruit tree nursery business in America, employing some 5 hundred workers.[3] The former Harrison Laboratory at the University of Maryland, Higher Park campus, which Harrison attended briefly, was named for her paternal cracking-uncle, Senator Orlando Harrison.[4]

"I knew she'd be a star when she was only 5," Ida Harrison told an interviewer in 1969.[v] Mrs Harrison, who described her centre daughter as "a little ham", enrolled her in ballet and acrobatics classes at age five.[ane] [two] Past age six, Harrison was performing on phase, and liking it. She attended Berlin'southward Buckingham Elementary Schoolhouse, which her mother and all her sisters attended.[ane] In 1956, when she was eleven, Harrison'south acrobatic functioning earned her showtime prize in the Delmarva Chicken Festival Talent Contest.[1] [ii] Six years later, at the same festival, Harrison won the "Miss Delmarva" beauty contest.[ane] [2] [6] By the time she entered Berlin'south Stephen Decatur Loftier School, Harrison had go a skilled acrobatic dancer. Harrison as well dreamed of becoming an extra and a star.

It was Harrison's programme to become an actress by entering and winning dazzler contests, then travel to California to be seen and noticed.[seven] When she was in her teens, Harrison worked summers every bit a waitress at Phillips Crab House in Ocean City, Maryland; she was dating the son of the eating place'due south owners when she flew to California for the Miss America dazzler competition.[vii] From time to time, she appeared as a narrator on local TV programs carried on Baltimore Television receiver station WMAR.[ane] Harrison essayed her showtime dramatic office while attending Stephen Decatur High School, that of "Connie Fuller" in the senior form production of the 1940 Kaufman/Hart play George Washington Slept Here.[ane] On Sat, May 19, 1962, William Hockersmith crowned her Miss Berlin at the Miss Berlin Beauty Pageant, which was held at the loftier schoolhouse.[8] A month afterwards, Harrison represented her habitation town at the Delmarva Chicken Festival dazzler contest.[6]

Later on graduating from high school, Harrison enrolled for a summer term at the Academy of Maryland, College Park, and a secretarial school in Baltimore, merely found it uninspiring.[1] When her oldest sister, Kay, graduated from college and headed for New York, Harrison went with her, with $250 and their mother'southward credit carte.[two] Several years later on, Harrison would lament her "admittedly deficient formal education" to an interviewer, maxim that she "missed a great deal considering I didn't end school."[ix]

In New York, Kay and Linda shared an apartment and their mother Ida'southward credit carte du jour. Harrison scored some success as a model, merely she disliked New York and was homesick for Maryland.[2] Less than a year later, she returned home; post-obit her plan to go an actress by winning beauty contests, she entered the 1964 Miss Delmarva beauty pageant equally Miss Berlin, and won.[half-dozen] Harrison followed her 1964 victory by entering the Miss Maryland beauty pageant, a preliminary outcome to the Miss America pageant, itself the final preliminary event to the Miss International competition, which would be held in Long Beach, California, in mid-June 1965. Harrison won the competition over nineteen other girls; that June, as Miss Maryland, she flew to California for the Miss America competition.[two] She thought the trip would final for two weeks; bidding farewell to her fellow, she scheduled her return domicile in two weeks, after she was crowned Miss America. Only she was first-runner upwards, not the winner. Harrison was "devastated", and then deeply disappointed over losing that she wept backstage.[2]

Her hitting good looks and hourglass figure, however, had gained the observe of Mike Medavoy, then an agent at the General Creative person Corporation. "You ought to be in pictures," Medavoy told her.[10] [11] In Baronial 1965, Medavoy obtained a "personality test" for her at 20th Century Flim-flam. No interim was involved; Harrison answered questions directed to her from off-camera, while speaking into the camera on various subjects. The exam earned her Fox's standard 60-day option agreement, scheduled to expire in November 1965.[2] [x] During her 60-day option period, Harrison studied with Fox acting coach, Pamela Danova.[1]

In October 1965, prior to the expiration of her option, Flim-flam assigned Harrison as the appointment of studio attorney Harry Due east. Sokolov for the premiere of The Agony and the Ecstasy. She was selected as Sokolov'southward date because "Harry was from Baltimore."[seven] Harrison was excited, because it was her showtime premiere, and because the moving-picture show co-starred Charlton Heston, who had been her idol since she had seen Ben-Hur.[11] [12] At the mail service-premiere political party, which she attended with her studio-assigned engagement, Harrison was thrilled to meet her longtime idol, Heston, with whom she would shortly co-star in Planet of the Apes. At the premiere, Harrison met Sokolov'south boss, Fox'south Vice President in Charge of Production Richard D. Zanuck. Zanuck, Harrison said afterward, was immediately "smitten" and savage "madly in love" with her, and she with him.[7] Both started dating, Harrison'south interim career, likewise as her life, became inextricably intertwined with their subsequent relationship.[xiii] [xi]

Career [edit]

Early on roles [edit]

Right subsequently meeting Zanuck, Harrison signed Fox's standard seven-twelvemonth contract in November and was placed in the studio's Talent Preparation School. Although Harrison told interviewers that Zanuck had created the school so "he could go along an eye on me",[7] the school was actually a erstwhile Fox establishment which Zanuck had revived to train aspiring, talented young actors and actresses under contract to Flim-flam; too Harrison, the student roster included Jacqueline Bisset, James Brolin, Tom Selleck and Edy Williams. Under coaches Pamela Danova and Curt Conway, Harrison attended drama classes, speech communication classes, fencing classes, trip the light fantastic toe and body movement classes, and lectures past veteran actors, actresses, directors, writers, publicity agents, and teachers. In add-on to her strenuous circular of classes, Harrison worked with a spoken language coach to eradicate her Eastern Maryland accent.[9]

Harrison's first consignment under her new Trick contract was as a "Biker Chick" in Men Confronting Evil, a Television set pilot which became the TV serial Felony Squad.[9] "I had iii words, "Become, man, go!" I was all of 20, and dressed in this really racy motorcycle outfit. Those were my get-go words! This was still the era of stardom and premieres. When you were put under a studio contract, every minute of your life was so exciting, because yous were doing something so unique and special."[x] [12] (3 years after, Harrison co-starred as Felony Squad star Dennis Cole's dear involvement in the NBC TV serial Bracken's World.) Harrison's next assignment was in the Batman Tv set series, where she appeared briefly as one of iii high school cheerleaders in the episodes "The Joker Goes to School" and "He Meets His Match, The Grisly Ghoul", aired in early March 1966. To ready Harrison for her few seconds onscreen, her Fox trip the light fantastic toe coach worked Harrison and her fellow cheerleaders early in the morning and on through the solar day.[ten] [xi] Linda, a former high school cheerleader, complained, "You're going to use up all my energy, then when the shot comes, I won't accept whatever." Her coach complained that "Linda Harrison gave me a hard time."[10] [eleven] [xiii] After the brief tardily afternoon shot, Harrison's overworked leg muscles failed on her style home, and Zanuck had to behave her upstairs to their Wilshire-Westwood flat.[10] [eleven] [fourteen]

All during this period, Dick was telling me about this fabulous book called Planet of the Apes and that information technology was going to make a great movie. He said, "I want you to play the ape, Dr. Zira."[13]

On March eight, 1966, immediately after her brief appearance on Batman, Harrison was filmed in ape makeup for a proposed film version of Pierre Boulle's satirical novel, Monkey Planet, later released as Planet of the Apes.[15] Zanuck had financed the test in order to prove Play a joke on's money men that, despite all doubts to the contrary, the Planet of the Apes project was feasible. The exam, written by Rod Serling and directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, starred Harrison'southward idol, Charlton Heston, and Edward G. Robinson equally Heston'southward nemesis, Dr. Zaius. Harrison appeared as Zira, the part ultimately played by Kim Hunter, while Harrison'south Talent School classmate fellow contract player, James Brolin, took on Roddy McDowall's role of Cornelius.[fifteen] [xvi]

I think they always had me in mind for Nova. But they needed someone to do the screen exam, and you proceed trying to use your actors. So. I did the screen test. The part that was difficult for me was really doing the mask, where they put all that plaster on your face and you have to lie in that location nonetheless for a long time. Fortunately, I was an acrobat growing up, and a very very adept one — I won a lot of contests — so I knew how to control my body and be 'tranquility'. Yous had to do that, you had to exist very still and lay there and exist a 'good patient'. A young actor volition practice annihilation to become their mug on the screen![7] [thirteen] I remember that the makeup process took nigh three hours. I had to lay back and be perfectly still as they put this plaster mold on my face. Afterward seeing the test, everyone was very enthusiastic about going alee with making Planet of the Apes. But they felt the makeup needed a little more piece of work and perfecting earlier it would wait good on screen.[12]

Though the ape make-up test was considered successful, the studio rejected the projection again.[15] Meanwhile, in May 1966, Harrison made her big screen debut as one of several "Treasure Hunters" in The Fat Spy. The depression-upkeep comedy might accept been forgotten had information technology not been mentioned in a 2004 documentary as one of The 50 Worst Movies E'er Made.[ citation needed ] Harrison's next large screen outing was in the Jerry Lewis comedy Way...Way Out; she played half of a husband-wife astronaut squad on the verge of divorce.[one] She appeared early in the film, arguing furiously, in her still-uneradicated Down Eastern accent, with her onscreen husband and off-screen Talent School classmate, James Brolin, with whom she had appeared in the Planet of the Apes makeup examination. Harrison then stormed out, and the film continued without her.

After Way...Way Out, Harrison appeared in a iv-minute examination segment entitled "Who's Agape of Diana Prince?", created by Batman producer William Dozier, which was supposed to engender interest in a Wonder Woman pilot and an eventual Tv series. Harrison played a glamorous mirror image of Wonder Woman, which existed only in the imagination of the homely Diana Prince grapheme, played by Ellie Forest Walker (Robert Walker Jr.'s wife). The "Who's Agape of Diana Prince?" segment failed to engender any involvement in a Wonder Woman pilot, although Lynda Carter had great success in the role eight years after. Harrison adjacent appeared equally Carl Reiner'due south blonde-wigged young inamorata "Miss Stardust" in A Guide for the Husband (1967),[1] [17] a chamber comedy about marital infidelity directed by Factor Kelly and starring Walter Matthau, Robert Morse and Inger Stevens. Harrison described her vignette with Carl Reiner equally "fun" considering it took her "all over the world. I was in limousines and on a ass and on a camel." In addition to speaking 1 line of dialogue, she wore several costumes for her five-infinitesimal globe-trotting adventure, including an elaborate sequinned bikini, a diaphanous negligee, and a fiery red sarong.

Planet of the Apes [edit]

Producer Arthur P. Jacobs had first idea of erstwhile Bail girl Ursula Andress for Nova, and all-encompassing auditions were held for the office, with one of the women tested being Angelique Pettyjohn, who had played a warrior in the Star Expedition episode "The Gamesters of Triskelion".[18] Filming was to commence in May 1967, but as tardily as April 17 Charlton Heston noted in his diary, "The casting trouble'south really Nova: who will do it, and how naked can she be. The tests I saw were not adept."[xix] Zanuck somewhen asked Jacobs and Mort Abrahams if they would test Harrison. "[Dick] did information technology very nicely," Abrahams said.

"He said, 'I'd like yous to consider Linda.' Linda was in the acting school that was on the lot at that point and about four or five times a year the students did piffling scenes live on a soundstage and the producers and directors on the lot were invited to attend. And then I'd seen her act and I said to Dick, 'We will be glad to come across with Linda,' and [director] Frank[lin Schaffner] and I would chat with her and talk virtually the function but that she would exist treated like an actress, non equally an amalgamation with everyone else. And he said, 'That's the way it has to exist.' And we did and we thought she was fine."[15]

In the 1998 AMC documentary Behind the Planet of the Apes,[20] Harrison said of her role every bit Nova, "I idea about animal instincts, the way [Nova] would motion and the way she would react would exist more than the style an beast would react, more from fear. It seemed to be what the director wanted." Afterward her examination, Harrison was hired to play the part for which she would later exist known. Harrison, Mort Abrahams said, was

"delighted to become it, because she'd merely done little tiny bit parts in a couple of pictures before that. I was pleasantly surprised by her. She called me ane twenty-four hours and asked if she could bring her sister along with her onto location. I said, 'Sure, of course, no trouble.' And I was delighted because she was going out with the head of the studio. She could have been the biggest pain in the ass live. And I would exist in a terribly awkward position if she started with the limousines and the special means and whatsoever the hell it is—or complaining about whatever. Just never a peep out of her. Most pleasant, most mannerly, very cooperative, very hard-working. She was always at that place half an hour earlier her telephone call and she always stayed on for a half hour simply in case. Interested in everything that went on, and was a full joy. I couldn't ask for a more than cooperative actor."[15]

Planet of the Apes commenced filming on May 21, 1967 and ended August 10, 1967. The first scenes were shot on locations near Page, Arizona. Horseshoe Bend on the Colorado River stood in for the Forbidden Zone, through which Taylor, Zira, Cornelius, and Harrison's Nova fled after escaping from Ape Metropolis. Harrison, who had the visitor of her oldest sister Kay on location with her,[15] found working in the desert "beautiful", and marveled "how they move an entire product, like a little mini-town, and set upwardly."[7]

"I don't know if people viewed me differently considering I was Richard Zanuck'due south girlfriend.[15] I was so delighted and grateful to exist in this moving picture that I probably never saw the negative side as much. I just didn't. I remember ane slice of advice Dick gave me: He said, 'Y'all become to work on time and listen to your director and do your job. And I don't desire to hear any complaints about you!' I had to be even more than careful and nice because I was his girlfriend."[21]

Heston noted in his diary on June 16, 1967 that "Linda H. has problems, but Frank's keeping her almost immobile in her scenes, which works."[22] Harrison noted that every bit Heston knew it was her "first big picture", he took it upon himself to coach her. Harrison was absolutely nonetheless "camera-shy",[13] so Heston "taught me to favour the camera. Don't expect correct into it. Await off to the side, don't look besides far, yous know, not to turn my head this way. And he would say turn it just here. Don't go all the way back. And he held my hand for a lot of things."[23] Their off-screen relationship, Harrison said, tended to reflect their on-screen relationship.

"Heston had a placidity quality nigh him and was very courteous with me. He encouraged me to favor the camera. I was a newcomer in many ways – which may accept helped my character. I'm sure Heston had his doubts about me; however, he never showed them. He treated me more like a child than an adult and non much was discussed between us, in character or out. When y'all idolize someone similar I did, you tend to submit rather than assert yourself. Again, this worked in our roles and the relationship between us, as Taylor and Nova.[24] Heston was terrific to piece of work with then helpful and such a gentleman."[15]

Every bit the "rookie" on the set, Harrison credited the help she received from the veteran actors: "Everybody that was involved in it, they all realized I was a neophyte, I was like 21 years one-time and so they kind of took me under their fly, since I hadn't done acting that much."[20]

Kim Hunter recalled working with Harrison on the Planet of the Apes set:

"She was a lovely daughter and so pretty, such a lovely figure and consumed with the work. I also remember her in relation to the Valium I used to accept to relax because of the makeup. She asked what my strength was. It was five milligrams, or whatever, and she said, 'Oh, my God, that little? I never go to sleep without 10 at least.' I practise remember that chat."[15]

At i point, it was decided that Nova was meaning, and scenes were filmed around the Page locations revealing Nova'south pregnancy. In the penultimate drafts of Planet of the Apes, Taylor was killed past the bullet of an ape sniper while Nova, pregnant with Taylor'south child, escaped and vanished into the Forbidden Zone. Although Harrison believed it was Heston who rejected the idea of Nova's pregnancy, those scenes were deleted, according to screenwriter Michael Wilson, "at the insistence of a loftier-echelon Fox executive who institute it distasteful. Why? I suppose that, if one defines the mute Nova as merely "humanoid" and not actually human, it would mean that Taylor had committed sodomy."[25] It was too decided that Nova's pregnancy would detract from the moving-picture show's ending. In whatsoever case, all Harrison's scenes with Heston and Hunter in the sequence of Nova's pregnancy were cut. "At that place's probably a great deal of footage of information technology somewhere."[15]

After filming in the desert concluded, production moved to Malibu Creek Country Park, northwest of Los Angeles, on Las Virgenes Route off Mulholland Highway, where the 20th Century Play a trick on's Malibu Ranch was located.[fifteen] Ape City was built on the ranch, and a field of corn grown, past which Heston beginning encounters Harrison. "It was stinking hot," Harrison recalled. "The scenes of united states of america in cages were besides shot at Ape City."[7] From the Malibu Ranch, production moved to the coast, where the penultimate scenes were shot between Malibu and Oxnard. The terminal scenes were filmed in a secluded cove between Zuma Embankment and Signal Dume on the far eastern cease of Westward Beach. Harrison's Nova was the sole man witness to Taylor'southward outburst on the embankment, afterward which she looks up and, in the picture show'south iconic ending, sees the ruined Statue of Freedom, without comprehending why it has caused her mate's grief.

Harrison'southward favourite scenes were shot at the coast. She "thought that was kind of neat. And and so jumping on his horse and riding with him and he turned around and I smiled. And we were going off to wherever – was out at that place. And that would take been a nifty way to starting time – well, they sort of started the next i that manner."[26]

In later years, Harrison said she was witting of the film's socio-political undertones:

"We were the bloom children. Nosotros were the infant boomers. We were at state of war. Nosotros were changing and making transitions.[11] What was seeping through people'southward consciousness in that era was a fear of Russia and a fear of the flop... It revealed what a lot of us were feeling but couldn't talk nigh, and that was the race outcome."[27]

Planet of the Apes premiered in February 1968. The pic was a striking upon its release, as well as a critical and commercial success. In the opening credits, Harrison was billed under the tag "introducing Linda Harrison"; although she had appeared in three previous films. Zanuck wanted to draw attention to Harrison because he felt the role would catapult her to stardom.[24] Harrison impressed audiences with her hourglass figure, long dark pilus, and large brown eyes, which, in the absenteeism of spoken dialogue, did nearly of her interim, though some critics were unimpressed. Renata Adler of the New York Times dismissed Harrison equally "Heston's Neanderthal flower girl. She wiggles her hips when she wants to say something."[28] The success of Planet of the Apes spawned four sequels, an animated drawing series, a live-action TV series, a remake by Tim Burton, and a reboot that spawned iii films. Heston and Harrison appeared in the first sequel, Beneath the Planet of the Apes. 3 decades later, Harrison had a cursory cameo in the 2001 reboot, which also featured Heston.

On August 27, 1998, the Academy of Movement Pic Arts and Sciences presented a 30th anniversary screening of Planet of the Apes. Harrison attended, along with Heston, Kim Hunter, Roddy McDowell and John Chambers.[16] The flick was as well an inductee of the 2001 National Motion picture Registry list.[29]

Beneath the Planet of the Apes [edit]

Linda Harrison's 2nd outing in her most famous office was in the start sequel to Planet of the Apes. She admitted "it wasn't as good as the first",[7] saying that the original "had a superlative manager and cinematographer. You couldn't beat Franklin J. Schaffner. In the 2d moving picture we made it for less."[xi]

Harrison'southward "Nova" costume in the beginning two "Apes" films – Debbie Reynolds Auction, June 2011

No sequels had been contemplated at the time of the production of Planet of the Apes; information technology was simply during that film's success that a sequel was discussed.[25] Neither Charlton Heston nor Kim Hunter wanted to exercise some other Apes picture show;[fifteen] Roddy McDowall pleaded some other commitment; and Harrison herself was ambivalent. She was engaged to her mentor, Richard Zanuck and "no longer totally concerned with existence an actress. I don't fifty-fifty want to do another pic. But since this is a sequel to the ane I did last twelvemonth, I felt obligated.[xxx] "Ted Mail service was a wonderful boob tube director,"[7] Harrison said, "fabled to work with, an actor's dream. I could get away with murder with him. [11]

Although her part every bit Nova was expanded,[7] the sequel was a disappointing rush to production to capitalize on the original. Harrison's graphic symbol eked out 1 give-and-take earlier she was shot to death, but nothing fresh was added.The upkeep was half that of Planet of the Apes.[31] Director Ted Mail said, "It moved basically every bit an entertainment piece, goose egg more." Post wanted the script rewritten. "I was very unhappy with the script, and I thought the script was far from what information technology should take been.[fifteen] The story was unclear, and didn't measure out upward." On his starting time reading of the script for Beneath the Planet of the Apes, star James Franciscus phoned Charlton Heston. "Jesus Christ, Chuck," he said, "have you read this slice of crap?"[fifteen] [25]

Mail knew Harrison's role was difficult to exercise annihilation with.

"Linda was a wonderfully cooperative immature lady that needed direction. Had no technique and no real interim experience. She was engaged to marry Dick Zanuck. So in Planet of the Apes they put her in with Frank Schaffner, so in mine, they underwrote her. They had nil for her to practice in this one, except only be part of the sequel. In other words, she was so badly conceived in the writing that I had to conceive actions for her to make her belong to the slice. And the big action which I gave her – and I think she came off beautifully with it – was to try to sympathize what these people were trying to communicate to her. And struggling to understand and feeling sympathetic vibrations coming from these people. So I gave her something which was not in the script to play and she played that, I recollect, very simpatico, very beautifully."[7]

Harrison's co-star, James Franciscus, remembered her fondly:

"Linda was a joy to work with. I remember we were doing a tracking shot, a camera auto on tracks running about one hundred yards down this field. Linda and I were on this equus caballus with no saddle, no reins, just the mane. If anybody fell, that camera truck is there to roll under. It was a very dodgey scene. You're galloping through gopher holes, etc. And they got the mares down at the far end. The stallion getting ready to get is smelling the mares and he's running like a bat out of hell and Linda's behind me saying, 'I'm very nervous about this equus caballus.' And I said, 'Join the club. Simply hang on and if y'all feel you lot can't do it, just don't do information technology. It's risky. At that place's no question nearly it, it'south not a prophylactic shot. What a horse is going to do, no one tin tell.' Simply she was mettlesome, foolhardy or not, maybe me, too. She went ahead and we did it. I recall afterwards Loren Janes, my stunt man, came upward and said,'You're crazy. I wouldn't accept done that. It'due south as well dangerous.' And he's probably right. I idea it was very foolish to have done it. Anyway, Linda was a gutsy little gal and she did it. So she was very pleasant to work with and very overnice."[15]

Harrison recalled "having a lot of fun on the 2nd Apes film":

"It was Ted Post and it was more relaxed. I remember running down this hill and getting up and then much speed that ane of these fabulous makeup men – large guy, burly breast – had to step in and stop me. Otherwise, I would have tumbled, God knows where. It was a very arduous picture, physically, with those horses and everything, just nosotros just got in there and did our jobs."[seven]

Bracken's Globe and wrongful termination suits [edit]

While filming Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Harrison was cast as 1 of a trio of starlets in the Pull a fast one on-produced NBC Boob tube series Bracken's World. It was, she said, "a serial Dick [Zanuck]) for a long fourth dimension had wanted to do. So I got that part and I had to end Beneath and get correct into the airplane pilot..."[13] She played Paulette Douglas, a naive young woman and aspiring extra, who tried to residual studio pressures with her romance with a studio stuntman (Harrison's Felony Team co-star Dennis Cole). The serial likewise starred Emmy Honour-winning actress Jeanne Cooper as Douglas'due south pushy mother. Harrison began filming the day after she finished her work on Beneath the Planet of the Apes. "And I had to start remembering lines! Silence may be golden," she told an interviewer in October 1969, "but no ane knows how happy I am to be off the gold standard."[five]

Harrison was noted as "i of the almost refreshing young faces to calorie-free up Idiot box screens this new season."[5] Play a joke on publicists issued press releases glossing over Harrison's deficient teaching and claiming for her a passion for Shakespeare, Voltaire, and Aristotle which she never possessed.[9] Midway through its second season, Bracken'southward World was cancelled. Harrison said later that the studio wanted recognizable stars every week, instead of allowing the regular cast to grow as an ensemble, equally was the case with shows such as Star Expedition. "Had they done it like a continuing drama and focused on the regular characters, information technology would have lasted longer," she said. "NBC, notwithstanding, wanted a one-hour contained show, so they would stock each episode with a big guest star. After a while, you run out of story."[12]

After Bracken's Globe was cancelled, Harrison was caught in the 20th Century Play a joke on proxy shareholder war that began in December 1970. Harrison'southward hubby, Richard Zanuck, was one of the majority shareholders of the visitor with his father, studio caput Darryl Zanuck, and his mother, actress Virginia Play a joke on, then the estranged wife of Darryl. The proxy battle pitched Harrison'southward husband and mother-in-law against her father-in-police force, later the studio had posted losses in consecutive years. In the course of the struggle, and so-studio chief Darryl fired his son. Harrison's contract was abruptly terminated in Jan 1971. The reason given was that her presence might show "embarrassing" to the studio.[32] Harrison, who was by so pregnant with her start son, later sued for wrongful termination, alienation of contract, alleged defamation, and infliction of emotional distress. Harrison was named in the $22 million lawsuit her husband filed November 1, 1971, confronting Darryl, Fox, the studio Chairman and CEO Dennis C. Stanfill, and Trick Executive Committee chairman William T. Gossett. In his suit Zanuck contended that he, Harrison, and old Fox executive David Dark-brown had been wrongly terminated and subjected to humiliation and embarrassment.[33] [xiv] [34] The adapt was settled out of courtroom. The terms and amounts of Harrison's settlements were never disclosed.

Films and television: 1974–1988 [edit]

In 1974, after a sabbatical of several years, Harrison attempted to return to her career. She badly wanted the office of Roy Scheider's wife in Jaws, and urged her married man to give it to her. Zanuck asked manager Steven Spielberg if he would consider Harrison, simply Spielberg preferred actress Lorraine Gary, whom he had seen in a TV movie, The Marcus Nelson Murders, and cast her instead of Harrison "because she was correct for the office."[35] [36] Harrison was upset over Spielberg'due south preference for Gary, feeling that her husband should have gotten her the function. "I really wanted Dick to go to bat for me this one time." As a consolation, Universal chief Sid Sheinberg, Lorraine Gary's husband, got Harrison a part in Airport 1975 equally Gloria Swanson'south personal assistant, Winnie.[37] Though the motion-picture show starred Harrison's long-time idol, Charlton Heston, Harrison had no scenes with him, and "would have much rather had Jaws on my resume."[38] Years later, in an April 2012 interview, Harrison offered a reason she had lost the part considering "They said Roy Scheider couldn't get a girl as cute as me."[11]

Despite her disappointment over losing the coveted Jaws part, Harrison was fascinated by Gloria Swanson, and spent hours with her on sets between takes. "She took a special liking to me. She really went on near the sex she had with Joe Kennedy. In that location wasn't annihilation she wouldn't say. He was going to marry her, but he couldn't go out Rose and the children, he was a wonderful lover, and she'd detail it."[39] Airport 1975 was the get-go time Harrison appeared under the name "Augusta Summerland", which her guru had chosen for her.

After Airport 1975, Harrison invitee-starred on several TV shows. As "Augusta Summerland", she appeared on Barnaby Jones in episode #67 "The Alpha-Bravo State of war" (air date: Oct 24, 1975); on Switch in episode #24 "Death Team" (air engagement: April vi, 1976); and again on Barnaby Jones in episode #114 "The Damocles Gun" (air appointment: October 20, 1977). In the 1980s, Harrison resumed studying acting and enrolled in an acting school. When the schoolhouse held a showcase presentation of its students' piece of work, Harrison invited her past-then ex-married man and his 3rd wife, Lili Fini Zanuck. The Zanucks needed a heart-anile actress to play Barrett Oliver's female parent in their upcoming production of Cocoon; after viewing Harrison's scenes, they told her there might be a part for her. "So I had an interview with Ron Howard and he said 'Yous got the role.'"[11] Harrison reprised her role equally Susan in the 1988 sequel, Cocoon: The Render, which failed to reach the commercial and critical success of its predecessor.

Later work: 1990 to 2015 [edit]

In 1990, Harrison moved back home to Berlin, where she opened a consignment shop which she named "Harrison's Peach Tree" half a mile from the house where she was born and raised. Several years later, wanting to exist closer to her sons, she returned to Los Angeles and obtained a real estate license, like her eldest sister, Kay. In 1995, she landed a small role as the "Madam" in Wild Bill. In 1998, she appeared as herself in the Kevin Burns TV documentary Backside the Planet of the Apes well-nigh the making of the showtime 5 Planet of the Apes films. In October 1998, Harrison attended her showtime scientific discipline fiction convention in New Jersey. As well in omnipresence were Jonathan Harris, Marta Kristen, Mark Goddard and Angela Cartwright, of the original Lost in Space Boob tube serial; Lou Ferrigno of The Incredible Blob TV series; and Bela Lugosi Jr. and Sara Karloff. Harrison found it "rewarding when you actually haven't done annihilation for a number of years and so, all of a sudden, people want your autograph. Information technology was very gratifying." Eventually, Harrison became an institution at Planet of the Apes cons. "I like it. It's very skillful. You're being appreciated for your work."[x] In 2001, she had a cameo every bit the "Woman in Cart" in Tim Burton'due south remake of Planet of the Apes. "They are much more cruel in the new movie," she said. "And strong. They literally hurl the humans l or sixty feet."[xl] About of the footage Harrison shot was omitted from the terminal, so "if yous blink you lot miss me. They showed my shots all over the place, just it got cut out."[eleven]

In 2013, Harrison began filming Midnight Massacre, on which she served every bit executive producer and co-star. The post-apocalyptic thriller, ready in the almost future, is loosely based on Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.[41]

Awards [edit]

In 2008, the 40th anniversary of the release of Planet of the Apes, Harrison traveled to Catalonia, Kingdom of spain, where on October 11, she was awarded the Maria Honorifica at the Festival Internacional de Cinema Fantàstic de Catalunya in recognition of her career.[42] [43]

Filmography [edit]

Films [edit]

Year Film Director Role
1966 The Fat Spy Joseph Cates Treasure Hunter
1966 Way...Way Out Gordon Douglas Peggy
1967 A Guide for the Married man Factor Kelly Miss Stardust
1968 Planet of the Apes Franklin J. Schaffner Nova
1970 Beneath the Planet of the Apes Ted Post Nova
1974 Airport 1975 Jack Smight Winnie (credited as
"Augusta Summerland")
1985 Cocoon Ron Howard Susan
1988 Cocoon: The Return Daniel Petrie Susan
1995 Wild Bill Walter Hill Madam
2001 Planet of the Apes Tim Burton Woman in Cart
2022[44] Midnight Massacre Travis Bowen
(atomic number 82 director) 		Quinia Brutus

Television [edit]

Year Show Episode Role
1966 Men Against Evil Pilot Biker Chick
1966 Batman The Joker Goes to Schoolhouse Cheerleader II
1966 Batman He Meets His Match, The Grisly Ghoul Cheerleader II
1967 Wonder Woman: Who'southward Afraid of Diana Prince? Brusque Wonder Woman – Reflection (Uncredited)
1969 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson Midweek, Nov nineteen, 1969 Herself
1969–1970 Bracken's World 41 episodes Paulette Douglas
1975 Barnaby Jones "The Alpha Bravo War" Dori Calder
(credited as "Augusta Summerland")
1976 Switch Death Squad Jill Martin
(credited every bit "Augusta Summerland")
1977 Barnaby Jones The Damocles Gun Jan Redbow
(credited as "Augusta Summerland")
1998 Behind the Planet of the Apes Television receiver Documentary Herself
2014 Inside Edition Episode #25.221 Herself

Beginnings [edit]

References [edit]

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  3. ^ The National Nurseryman Vol. thirty, National Nurserymen Pub. Co. (1922), ISBN 9781286363812, pp 164, 339
  4. ^ "Harrison Laboratory, Facilities Management, University of Maryland". Retrieved September 27, 2021.
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  41. ^ "Photographic camera'due south Gyre on Linda Harrison for the first fourth dimension since Tim Burton'south Planet of the Apes". Nov 24, 2013.
  42. ^ Linda Harrison and Luis Miñarro receive the Honorary María Award
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  44. ^ "News".

External links [edit]

  • Interview with Linda Harrison (Part 1), (Part 2), (Part 3) (2014)
  • Nova Speaks: A Conversation with Linda Harrison (2012)
  • Linda Harrison Tribute (2009)
  • Festival de Sitges: premio a Linda Harrison (2008)
  • The Linda Harrison Interview (2003)
  • Run into Actress Linda Harrison (1999)
  • Linda Harrison Interview (1998)
  • Interview with Linda Harrison (1998)
  • Woman of the Apes (1994)
  • A Cinderella Homecoming: From Berlin to Hollywood to the Eastern Shore Again (1992)
  • Linda Harrison at IMDb
  • Cult Sirens: Linda Harrison
  • Glamour Girls of the Silver Screen: Linda Harrison

Further reading [edit]

  • Marlys J. Harris. The Zanucks of Hollywood: The Night Legacy of an American Dynasty (Crown 1989) ISBN 0517570203
  • Charlton Heston. The Actor'due south Life: Journals, 1956–1976 (New York, NY: E.P. Dutton 1978) ISBN 9780525050308
  • David Hofstede. Planet of the Apes: An Unofficial Companion (ECW Printing 2001) ISBN 1550224468
  • Tom Lisanti. Fantasy Femmes of Sixties Movie house: Interviews with twenty Actresses from Biker, Embankment, and Elvis Movies (McFarland & Visitor 2001) ISBN 0786408685
  • Joe Russo, Larry Landsman, Edward Gross. Planet of the Apes Revisited: The Behind-the-scenes Story of the Classic Scientific discipline Fiction Saga (St. Martin's Griffin 2001) ISBN 0312252390
  • Stephen M. Silverman. The Fox That Got Away: The Final Days of the Zanuck Dynasty at Twentieth Century-Play a joke on (Lyle Stuart 1988) ISBN 081840485X
  • Chris Strodder, Michelle Phillips. The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s (Santa Monica Press 2007) ISBN 1595800174
  • Tom Weaver. It Came from Horrorwood: Interviews with Moviemakers in the SF and Horror Tradition (McFarland 2004), ISBN 0786420693

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