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Post by Deleted on Mar 18, 2013 23:10:35 GMT -5
Hmm, sorry, but I think this is where the idea for the Baldwins sisters came from cause there are too many similarities.
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Post by Brenda on Mar 19, 2013 10:28:50 GMT -5
Possibly, although Earl Hamner has stated that the Baldwin sisters were based on a bootlegging mother and daughter team who lived nearby in the mountains.
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 19, 2013 14:28:27 GMT -5
The Andy Griffith Show and The Waltons were both on for about eight years, right? While Andy utilized 65 writers, Waltons used 35.... Only one writer worked on both -- Joseph Bonaduce (yes, Danny's father).... Just had to look this up.... because writers tend to hang out together, and I wondered....
So, here's a scenario -- one of the Walton writers may have been hanging out with Bonaduce who mentioned the little old ladies brewing moonshine on "Andy", and that Walton writer, or Bonaduce, mentioned it to Earl.... and Earl thought, "that sounds like that old lady and daughter I knew".... and so the Baldwin sisters were born. First episode with the Baldwins must have been written by McGreevey or McKeand because Earl's first self-written episode was No. 13..... (Bonaduce's two episodes were in season 3).
Almost everything that's written has at least some of its roots among many, many sources. The main difference here is that one show was about the 1930's soon after the end of Prohibition, and the other show took place in the 1950's and depicted moonshiners who had held onto their craft far longer than necessary!! I have often wondered if most home-hooch is made by the womenfolk -- after all, they are the ones in the kitchen ... and picking the berries, etc. Nowadays, of course, we have beer-making kits and wine-making kits available at your local Wal-Mart, Home Depot, etc. Still, I bet there's more pride in the old, original do-it-yourself methods !!
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Post by Brenda on Mar 19, 2013 15:24:35 GMT -5
one show was about the 1930's soon after the end of Prohibition, and the other show took place in the 1950's and depicted moonshiners who had held onto their craft far longer than necessary!! Men (and women!) in Appalachia continued to make moonshine even after prohibition ended because it was a good source of income for them at a time and in a place where jobs were scarce. They also wanted to avoid paying the high government taxes on alcohol. And I guess we can assume that for at least one family, it was a tradition: Papa's recipe, doncha know.  |
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Post by bucky on Mar 19, 2013 20:03:30 GMT -5
Maybe we should have a thread about slightly batty spinster sisters. I was always especially fond of the two in Arsenic and Old Lace.
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 19, 2013 21:31:24 GMT -5
Maybe we should have a thread about slightly batty spinster sisters. I was always especially fond of the two in Arsenic and Old Lace. Me, too.... and I always thought a Murder She Wrote episode was "borrowed" from that.... the basic idea was quite similar.... two little old ladies murdering visiting gents..... Thinking back to Arsenic and Old Lace, I think the show was "stolen" from Cary Grant by the wonderful character actors -- Raymond Massey, Peter Lorre, and whoever that was who played TR.... "Slightly" batty is being kind !! |
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Post by bucky on Mar 21, 2013 16:00:16 GMT -5
The Brewster sisters were played by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair.
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Post by JeriJet on Mar 21, 2013 20:38:21 GMT -5
The Brewster sisters were played by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair. Yeah, but I wouldn't include them among the character actors who stole the show from Cary Grant.... the roles were adequate but nothing very special.... |
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Post by bucky on Mar 23, 2013 7:19:20 GMT -5
Not in my opinion.
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Post by marylou01 on Mar 24, 2013 0:06:48 GMT -5
one show was about the 1930's soon after the end of Prohibition, and the other show took place in the 1950's and depicted moonshiners who had held onto their craft far longer than necessary!! Men (and women!) in Appalachia continued to make moonshine even after prohibition ended because it was a good source of income for them at a time and in a place where jobs were scarce. They also wanted to avoid paying the high government taxes on alcohol. And I guess we can assume that for at least one family, it was a tradition: Papa's recipe, doncha know. In the early 70's I had 2 great uncles who made the recipe! I was young but rem seeing it in mason jars at my grandma's. Never knew of them selling it, just for their own consumption  I'm sure it was their papa's recipe.....doncha know! |
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I'm sure it was their papa's recipe.....doncha know!