The Future Mrs. Reiner Almost Played Mrs. Stivic
Rob Reiner’s girlfriend and then eventual wife Penny Marshall was a finalist to play the role of Gloria, as was Sally Struthers. Now Reiner and Marshall were already living together at the time and Struthers felt that Reiner would most likely work better with Penny, therefore she went into that final audition without any nerves and just gave it her all. While Penny had a better reading, she looked too much like Jean Stapleton and Struthers well – as she was brutally told by the producer had “a fat face and blue eyes like Carroll O’Connor.”
The Future Mrs. Reiner Almost Played Mrs. Stivic
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Viewers did phone and write the producers a TON in the show’s first and second season because they all had ONE important question, “What is the second to last line of the opening theme song?” No one seemed to understand that the line was, “Gee, our old LaSalle ran great”. Therefore O’Connor and Stapleton had to re-record before season three and made sure to carefully enunciate the mysterious lyric.
Whose Line Is It Anyway
