As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
This is a story of something I will never understand. I was watching an old Gunsmoke episode with Sam Elliot, and I saw this woman and I knew I knew her from someplace, and looking her up, I immediately recognized her as a young actress in The Undefeated who held her own against John Wayne, Rock Hudson and Jan Michael Vincent.
The thing is, is her name is Melissa Newman.
| 563 | 24 | "The Wedding" | Bernard McEveety | Harry Kronman | March 13, 1972 | |
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Donna Clayton (Melissa Newman) and Cory Soames (Sam Elliott) are determined to get married despite the objections of her father, Walt Clayton (Morgan Woodward). Guest Cast: Lane Bradford (as Joe Eggers), Fran Ryan (as Mrs. Keller), James Chandler (as Reverend Keller), Larry Barton (as Townsman), George Wallace (as Sheriff Henning), Ted Jordan (as Burke), Byron Mabe (as Sandy Car), Troy Melton (as Pete Calder) and Jason Wingreen (as Dr. Cleery) | ||||||
If you search for information for her, you get a mix of her being mixed up with another Melissa Newman in Paul Newman's daughter.
This is regrettable as this actress was accomplished and is just one of those things that makes me sad. She was more talented than a dozen other actresses who somehow got cast into a roll while this woman never got the part. It is one of the greatest dichotomies on the is matrix time line, in how this beautiful, talented and real star , who actually makes Sam Elliot look like he can't act at all, never got that break, when she was introduced on the John Wayne stage.
It all seems and is so unfair. When you think of something like Victoria Principal who could not act at all, fucked up Dallas to do her own thing, and got it all in stardom, and these other actresses never got the chance they should have.
Nothing against Susan Dey, Katherine Ross, Jaclyn Smith or Joan Van Ark, but Melissa Newman could have done all those roles better.
The Lame Cherry can not do a thing about what the sands of time have painted as I got the short end of the stick in this life too, but at least on this page, it is recorded like it is not said for most of us, that Melissa Newman made an impression men, I never forgot her, I appreciated her and I knew she should have been the star when others should have been the ones forgotten.
Life just ain't fair. It is just life. Sorry about that.
Nuff Said.
agtG
