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Cindy
Feb 20, 2021 10:14:17 GMT -5
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Post by saccente on Feb 20, 2021 10:14:17 GMT -5
So Ben went with two girls named Cindy and both had red convertibles? The one he married and the one in the Pearl Harbor episode??
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Post by Brenda on Feb 20, 2021 11:28:36 GMT -5
No, Cindy was one character played by two different actors. In “Day of Infamy” Cindy Brunson was played by Robin Eisenman. In the other episodes, Cindy Brunson Walton was played by Leslie Winston. Judy Norton explains this in her recent Behind the scenes video: The Outsider.
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Cindy
Feb 20, 2021 11:46:33 GMT -5
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Post by saccente on Feb 20, 2021 11:46:33 GMT -5
Thanks. I've bee watching the reruns out of order.
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Cindy
Feb 20, 2021 16:41:41 GMT -5
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Post by pinkbaker07 on Feb 20, 2021 16:41:41 GMT -5
I liked the second Cindy.
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Post by Brenda on Feb 20, 2021 16:44:14 GMT -5
I think most of us prefer the second Cindy.
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Post by JessicaGirlSpy on Feb 20, 2021 17:06:28 GMT -5
I think most of us prefer the second Cindy. I know I do.
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Post by Easton on Feb 20, 2021 18:27:30 GMT -5
I don't know if it was in the plans to have Cindy be a future wife for Ben in her first appearance, but Leslie Winston was a completely different character. Robin Eisenman character had a well-deserved reputation which was completely absent in Ben's bride.
I think Cindy was supposed to be a one-off and, when it was decided to marry her off to Ben, they threw away the old version and created a new one.
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Post by wacokyd on Feb 20, 2021 21:33:23 GMT -5
This was written for a different thread months ago but seems to apply more to this thread
Ben had a knack for picking winning girlfriends. In "Day of Infamy", Ben has a new girlfriend, the first Cindy (Robin Eisenman), no apparent relation to the eventual fulltime Cindy except that she owned a fancy red 1941 Ford convertable with a radio, no less. As Ben and Cindy are necking and the radio is playing music, an interuption annouces that the Japanese have bombed Pearl Harbor. Ben, like any human being would, jumps out of the smooching and says he's gotta go home. Cindy can't believe that he is interrupting their smooching for such a minor thing as we are about to go to war. This beats some of Corerbeth's ugly scenes like her disbelieve that Jim Bob would actually date such a horrible person as a Catholic. Fortunately, the eventual fulltime Cindy turned out to be a bit more mature person then the smooching obsessed first one.
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Cindy
Feb 20, 2021 22:08:17 GMT -5
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Post by Brenda on Feb 21, 2021 5:48:07 GMT -5
I don't know if it was in the plans to have Cindy be a future wife for Ben in her first appearance, but Leslie Winston was a completely different character. Robin Eisenman character had a well-deserved reputation which was completely absent in Ben's bride. I think Cindy was supposed to be a one-off and, when it was decided to marry her off to Ben, they threw away the old version and created a new one. I agree with this. I’ve always thought the “Day of Infamy” Cindy was written into that episode to go along with Ben’s personality. He liked going out on a date with a girl whose reputation his Mama and Grandma definitely wouldn’t approve of, and the cool red convertible was an added bonus. But it was also in Ben’s character to be loyal to family and country, and he knew he had to get home when the news of the attack came over the radio. I think of the Leslie Winston Cindy as the “kinder, gentler” Cindy. Why did they decide to go with the same character as the Robin Eisenman Cindy instead of writing in a whole new character for Ben to marry? I’m not sure, but I wonder if it had to do with the red convertible. Maybe they wanted to keep that cool car as part of the series, but they knew they had to have a more wholesome version of Cindy, one who would fit in with the Walton family and would be approved of by Mama and Grandma. Remember Grandma’s expression and her “Oh boy” when Ben brought Cindy home that first night? Grandma knew she had a reputation. But by the next day, she had fully accepted Cindy into the family. Even Cindy knew she had a reputation and mentioned it to Ben when she explained that her father had given her that car and the rumors about her were not true.
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Post by goodnight on Feb 21, 2021 9:35:14 GMT -5
Plus, with them writing Cindy to be an Army brat, you would think she would understand the severity of the announcement over the radio.
So, the only thing the 2 Cindys had in common was the red convertible.
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Cindy
Feb 21, 2021 11:09:00 GMT -5
Post by Easton on Feb 21, 2021 11:09:00 GMT -5
^ Pretty much, yes. I doubt that 'army brat' was even in the mind of the writer at the time of Cindy's first appearance. That came along when they redesigned her for her marriage to Ben.
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