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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spooky Owl!" data-source="post: 429486" data-attributes="member: 57984">Mel Ferrer was, technically, a movie star back in the day. But he wasn't a major-major star. So, by the '70s, although he was still trying to make "classy" projects, he was also doing episodic guest star appearances on the era's cop shows. So doing a small role as a mover-and-shaker on DALLAS, which was in the Top 10 even before 'WSJR?' happened, wouldn't have been outta line... People gotta work.I mean, it's not like Brando & Streisand making a series of cameos on LOVE BOAT as a quarreling -- yet deeply in love -- married couple (which I think they only did twice).Ferrer may be best remembered today as one of Audrey Hepburn's husbands.Yes, Victoria learned to hit that high-C after 1982, climaxing with her guttural-yet-tearless sob by Bobby's deathbed three years later.In contrast, Presley never got above the contralto range of dulcet gasps -- so how the hell was she going to pull off a tormented emotional breakdown in the middle of the Southfork living room on her knees?? (Even in Pam's dream, she was making merciless fun of Jenna, and Jenna's bottomless "pain").But, yeah, it didn't help the character of Jenna. With Jenna, less was more -- deliberately or otherwise."Oh, honey, You just try and look real purty and you'll do just fine...."<img src="https://c8.alamy.com/compde/k366ah/dallas-tv-larry-hagman-als-jr-ewing-priscilla-presley-als-jenna-wade-k366ah.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 828px" /></blockquote>

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