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« on: August 02, 2014, 10:50:07 PM »
I don't know just how the legalities played out but as we've discussed in the past, it would seem that MOST of the DS cast were not actually under contract. Which is why people such as John Karlen, Clarice, Thayer, et al. came and went. Both Nancy and Louis took occasional breaks to do theatre, as did Humbert. All of this helps explain why Frid felt he was getting shafted after a certain point because everyone else had been allowed to come and go and by the Summer of 1969, he hadn't had a break of any kind in two years. Not only that, he was often made to do those dog and pony show weekend appearances in places like Peoria, Teaneck, Baton Rouge etc. They worked him really hard.
I always thought that when KLS came back to NYC from her time away, she dropped by the studio just to say hi to whoever happened to be working then. It's possible Dan did set up a formal meeting via her agent, of course.
When she left again in '70 to move to Paris, according to her original memoirs, he actually told her that if she did leave, she would never work again. lol.
Of course as we've seen many times before, KLS's memories, even from the 1980s, need to be weighed against other recorded facts... but I can really imagine DC having said this to her. No doubt while putting the golf ball around the office in true Sixties exec style.
G.