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There is a rumor existing that Deidre Hall is hesitant to talk about this show. This one is false and inaccurate. People who say this haven't done the easy investigation that will result in the many discussions of the show that she has done throughout her all stages in her carreer. This page will bring you some of them.
1976: Daily TV Serials: "Is It Too Much Too Soon For Deidre Hall?"
This grocery mag has a date of Novemeber. Ms. Hall must have been interviewed during the filming of both shows. In a creepy sense, the article focuses on her marriage to Keith Barbour(hate him), which would end within months of this interview.
So now, after going to "lots of acting schools" while her twin was getting her master's degree, life is really opening up for Diedre. She had saved the best for the last. She isn't in just one series this year: she's in two. Costarring with Judy Strangis, she is on view Saturday mornings in the ABC series, ElectroWoman, and the producers are importing twin Andrea from Florida to play Deidre's double. The women are so identical it is impossible to tell them apart in photos or in person.
"It's a little wild running from one series to another, but I'm doing it."
You bet your life she is-after waiting for one big break al this time, she accepts two graciously and gratefully.
Rona Barrett's Daytimers: May 1979: "Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Deidre" by Andrea Lovell Hall.
Many of the Days are aware that two years ago, Deidre played ElectraWoman on Saturday morning TV. Although the elaborate costumes are not allowed off the sound stage, Deidre secured special permission to wear her "E.W." costume to a birthday party being given for another of her God-children. The children were thrilled to have a visit from the "real ElectraWoman" and finally believed that K@#@ did know the special lady. But, the surprize backfired when the children discovered that their Saturday morning ElectraWoman wasn't able to to take each of them flying!
By far the best interview Deidre has done on the show was through an article that she wrote for Soap Opera Digest with Jane Elliot for the April 13, 2004 edition. I assume that it was no coincidence that this edition was released at the same time these episodes were being shown on TVLand.
Jane on Deidre: We met in the '70s on a Saturday-morning kiddie show called ELECTRA WOMAN AND DYNA GIRL. Dee was playing perhaps the first female superhero, Electra Woman. I was playing the villainous Cleopatra....clearly two roles that have been following us for years in one form or another.
It was summer, blistering hot, and we were looking for any relief possible from the stifling stage we were working on. I soon discovered that the stage next door was cooled in order to accommondate the small ice skating rink used in the opening of DONNY AND MARIE. I did what anyone would do. I dug out my rusty, dusty, ice skates, in retirement since high school, and skated through lunch.....
At the end of the shoot, I was called back onto the stage by the stage manager to "wild" a line they needed. Audio only, they said. So, I trotted to say my one line into the overhead microphone, all the while wondering why the cameras were pointed at me. I no sooner opened my mouth to speak when a large whipped-cream pie was unceremoniously thrown in my face. By Deidre!
Deidre on Jane: During the sweltering summer of 1976, I was swaddled in spandex and trying to survive the penny-pinching production of THE KROFFT SUPERSHOW. During a half-hour lunch break, I was desperately trying to find a cool spot on our energy-efficient un-airconditioned stage. I stumbled through a crack in the door to an adjoining stage to see "Cleopatra" in full regalia gliding across a small patch of ice. It was no less astonishing that seeing a mirage rising from the desert floor. It was, of course, Jane Elliot. Having quickly grasped the details of our shooting conditions,on her second day of shooting, she had packed a bag lunch and her ice skates and hacked her way into the adjoining DONNY AND MARIE stage.......That moment was the beginning of a lifelong friendship.