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'''The Actor''' was the 14th episode of Season 2 of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'', also the
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'''''The Actor''''' is the fourteenth episode of the second season of ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' and the thirty-ninth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Barry Fanaro and Mort Nathan, it premiered on NBC-TV on January 17th, 1987.
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49th overall series episode. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Barry Fanaro and Mort Nathan, the episode premiered on NBC-TV on January 17, 1987.
  
   
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==Synopsis==
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When a handsome actor comes to Miami to star in a play at the local community theater, he dates Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy simultaneously, leading each of them to believe he will marry them.
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Blanche, Dorothy and Rose decide to audition for a their local theatre production (a spoof of) ''"Picnic" ''after learning that an attractive and much desired television actor, [[Patrick Vaughn]], will be the lead. Patrick starts three seperate affairs with the girls and the rest of the female cast (and one confused man). This all comes to a head on stage at opening night. Meanwhile Sophia gets a job at a fast food restaurant in an effort to make extra money. 
  
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*'''Rose:''' I feel so common, so cheap... so used. How do you usually deal with that Blanche?
  
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The girls decide to audition for their local theater production, a spoof of ''"Picnic" ''after learning that an attractive and famous actor, [[Patrick Vaughn]], will be the lead. All three girls audition to play the lead Josie just so they can catch the man's eye, Blanche ever tries to use inflatables in her blouse only for them to pop. Unfortunately, Patrick chose [[Phyllis Hammerow]] to play Josie but he starts having affairs with all three women, not realising that they shared a house and each try to hide it from the other. [[Sophia Petrillo|Sophia]] meanwhile has a part time job in at Captain Jack's Seafood Shanty despite Dorothy's forbidding it.
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*'''Blanche:''' ...Rose, just for that I'm going to flush the toilet tonight while your taking a shower.
  
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*'''Dorothy:''' Rose, why don't we just show Mr. Vaughn around the theatre.
  
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*'''Blanche:''' Well, why don't I just do that myself, since I've had the most much experience performing here.<br />
  
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*'''Dorothy:''' Blanche, the parking lot doesn't count, I'll do it.
  
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''[Sophia has been employed at Captain Jack's Seafood Shanty resturant and is wearing her pirate uniform]''
  
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*'''Rose:''' Sophia, is that a Captain Jack's Seafood Shanty uniform?
  
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*'''Sophia:''' No, Rose. I'm off to discover the Straits of Magellan. Yo ho!
  
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Opening Night arrives and [[Dorothy Zbornak|Dorothy]] is forced to play the Sheriff after the actor falls sick, [[Rose Nylund|Rose]] was to gift Patrick a Red Rose only for Blanche to convince her it was bad luck, when she tries to do the same with Phyllis she reveals that she was dating Patrick. The show starts and Blanche, Dorothy and Rose discover the truth, they confront Patrick along with the rest of the female cast members of his cheating, Patrick apologises then leaves and the audience thinking that it was part of the show give it a standing ovation.<ref>''[[The Golden Girls]]'', Season 2, Episode 14, “[[The Actor]]”. Fanaro, Barry and Nathan, Mort (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (January 17th, 1987)</ref>
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==Cast==
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===Main Cast===
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*[[Beatrice Arthur|Bea Arthur]] as Dorothy Zbornak
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*[[Rue McClanahan]] as Blanche Devereaux
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*[[Betty White]] as Rose Nylund
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*[[Estelle Getty]] as Sophia Petrillo
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===Guest Stars===
 
*[[Lloyd Bochner]] as [[Patrick Vaughn]]
  
*[[Lloyd Bochner]] as [[Patrick Vaughn]]
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*[[Janet Carroll]] as [[Phyllis Hammerow]]
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*Janet Carroll as [[Phyllis Hammerow]]
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*[[Frank Birney]] as the Stage Manager
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*Frank Birney as Ed
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*Ruth Cohen as Woman at Tryouts
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* Rue McClanahan costarred in a 1986 production of ''Picnic,'' the play this episode spoofs, filmed for Showtime.
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* Lloyd Bochner, who plays Patrick in this episode, plays the hairdresser [[Eduardo]] in the Season 4 episode "[[Rites of Spring]]".<ref>''[[The Golden Girls]]'', Season 4, Episode 23, “[[Rites of Spring]]”. Cohen, Eric (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (April 29th, 1989)</ref>
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* This episode aired on Betty White's 65th birthday.
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* Sophia only appears in the first five minutes of the episode. This could have been due to illness, as Estelle Getty sounded like she had a cold in her two scenes onscreen.
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* When Phyllis Hammerow walks on stage with a hand fan, she gives a quick flick of her wrist to open it, but the fan quite splits in half. She goes on ignoring it (although a couple of studio audience members laughed), and in the next shot the fan is opened and unbroken, which probably means that the break wasn't supposed to be a joke.
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The Actor is the fourteenth episode of the second season of The Golden Girls and the thirty-ninth episode overall. Directed by Terry Hughes and written by Barry Fanaro and Mort Nathan, it premiered on NBC-TV on January 17th, 1987.

Summary

When a handsome actor comes to Miami to star in a play at the local community theater, he dates Blanche, Rose, and Dorothy simultaneously, leading each of them to believe he will marry them.

Plot

The girls decide to audition for their local theater production, a spoof of "Picnic" after learning that an attractive and famous actor, Patrick Vaughn, will be the lead. All three girls audition to play the lead Josie just so they can catch the man's eye, Blanche ever tries to use inflatables in her blouse only for them to pop. Unfortunately, Patrick chose Phyllis Hammerow to play Josie but he starts having affairs with all three women, not realising that they shared a house and each try to hide it from the other. Sophia meanwhile has a part time job in at Captain Jack's Seafood Shanty despite Dorothy's forbidding it.

Opening Night arrives and Dorothy is forced to play the Sheriff after the actor falls sick, Rose was to gift Patrick a Red Rose only for Blanche to convince her it was bad luck, when she tries to do the same with Phyllis she reveals that she was dating Patrick. The show starts and Blanche, Dorothy and Rose discover the truth, they confront Patrick along with the rest of the female cast members of his cheating, Patrick apologises then leaves and the audience thinking that it was part of the show give it a standing ovation.[1]

Tall Tales

To be added.

Cast

Main Cast

Guest Stars

Notes

  • Rue McClanahan costarred in a 1986 production of Picnic, the play this episode spoofs, filmed for Showtime.
  • Lloyd Bochner, who plays Patrick in this episode, plays the hairdresser Eduardo in the Season 4 episode "Rites of Spring".[2]
  • This episode aired on Betty White's 65th birthday.
  • Sophia only appears in the first five minutes of the episode. This could have been due to illness, as Estelle Getty sounded like she had a cold in her two scenes onscreen.

Goofs

  • When Phyllis Hammerow walks on stage with a hand fan, she gives a quick flick of her wrist to open it, but the fan quite splits in half. She goes on ignoring it (although a couple of studio audience members laughed), and in the next shot the fan is opened and unbroken, which probably means that the break wasn't supposed to be a joke.

Site Navigation

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List of The Golden Girls episodes

Season 1 The Engagement • Guess Who's Coming to the Wedding • Rose the Prude • Transplant • The Triangle • On Golden Girls • The Competition • Break-In • Blanche and the Younger Man • The Heart Attack • The Return of Dorothy's Ex • The Custody Battle • A Little Romance • That Was No Lady • In a Bed of Rose's • The Truth Will Out • Nice and Easy • The Operation • Second Motherhood • Adult Education • The Flu • Job Hunting • Blind Ambitions • Big Daddy • The Way We Met
Season 2 End of the Curse • Ladies of the Evening • Take Him, He's Mine • It's a Miserable Life • Isn't It Romantic • Big Daddy's Little Lady • Family Affair • Vacation • Joust Between Friends • Love, Rose • 'Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas • The Sisters • The Stan Who Came to Dinner • The Actor • Before and After • And Then There Was One • Bedtime Story • Forgive Me, Father • Long Day's Journey into Marinara • Whose Face is This, Anyway? • Dorothy's Prized Pupil • Diamond in the Rough • Son-in-Law Dearest • To Catch a Neighbor • A Piece of Cake • Empty Nests
Season 3 Old Friends • One for the Money • Bringing Up Baby • The Housekeeper • Nothing to Fear But Fear Itself • Letter to Gorbachev • Strange Bedfellows • Brotherly Love • A Visit from Little Sven • The Audit • Three on a Couch • Charlie's Buddy • The Artist • Blanche's Little Girl • Dorothy's New Friend • Grab That Dough • My Brother, My Father • Golden Moments, Part 1 • Golden Moments, Part 2 • And Ma Makes Three • Larceny and Old Lace • Rose's Big Adventure • Mixed Blessings • Mister Terrific • Mother's Day
Season 4 Yes, We Have No Havanas • The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo • The One That Got Away • Yokel Hero • Bang the Drum, Stanley • Sophia's Wedding, Part 1 • Sophia's Wedding, Part 2 • Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket • Scared Straight • Stan Takes a Wife • The Auction • Blind Date • The Impotence of Being Ernest • Love Me Tender • Valentine's Day • Two Rode Together • You Gotta Have Hope • Fiddler On the Ropes • Till Death Do We Volley • High Anxiety • Little Sister • Sophia's Choice • Rites of Spring • Foreign Exchange • We're Outta Here, Part 1 • We're Outta Here, Part 2
Season 5 Sick and Tired, Part 1 • Sick and Tired, Part 2 • The Accurate Conception • Rose Fights Back • Love Under the Big Top • Dancing in the Dark • Not Another Monday • That Old Feeling • Comedy of Errors • All That Jazz • Ebb Tide • Have Yourself a Very Little Christmas • Mary Has a Little Lamb • Triple Play • Clinton Avenue Memoirs • Like the Beep Beep Beep of the Tom-Tom • An Illegitimate Concern • 72 Hours • Twice In a Lifetime • Sisters and Other Strangers • Cheaters • The Mangiacavallo Curse Makes a Lousy Wedding Present • All Bets Are Off • The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 1 • The President's Coming! The President's Coming!, Part 2
Season 6 Blanche Delivers • Once, In St. Olaf • If At Last You Do Succeed • Snap Out Of It • Wham, Bam, Thank You Mammy • Feelings • Zborn Again • How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia? • Mrs. George Devereaux • Girls Just Wanna Have Fun... Before They Die • Stand By Your Man • Ebbtide's Revenge • The Bloom Is Off the Rose • Sisters of the Bride • Miles to Go • There Goes the Bride, Part 1 •There Goes the Bride, Part 2 • Older and Wiser • Melodrama • Even Grandmas Get the Blues • Witness • What a Difference a Date Makes • Love for Sale • Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 1 • Never Yell Fire in a Crowded Retirement Home, Part 2 • Henny Penny — Straight, No Chaser
Season 7 Hey, Look Me Over • The Case of the Libertine Belle • Beauty and the Beast • That's For Me to Know • Where's Charlie? • Mother Load • Dateline: Miami • The Monkey Show, Part 1 • The Monkey Show, Part 2 • Ro$e Love$ Mile$ • Room Seven • From Here to the Pharmacy • The Pope's Ring • Old Boyfriends • Goodbye, Mr. Gordon • The Commitments • Questions and Answers • Ebbtide VI: The Wrath of Stan • Journey to the Center of Attention • A Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 1 • A Midwinter Night's Dream, Part 2 • Rose: Portrait of a Woman • Home Again, Rose, Part 1 • Home Again, Rose, Part 2 • One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 1 •One Flew Out of the Cuckoo's Nest, Part 2

References

  1. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 2, Episode 14, “The Actor”. Fanaro, Barry and Nathan, Mort (writers) & Hughes, Terry (director) (January 17th, 1987)
  2. ↑ The Golden Girls, Season 4, Episode 23, “Rites of Spring”. Cohen, Eric (writer) & Hughes, Terry (director) (April 29th, 1989)
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