The Jeffersons: Louise Feels Useless
2:00 pm - 2:30 pm, Saturday, January 10 on WGRZ Antenna TV (2.2)
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Louise Feels Useless
Season 1, Episode 3
Louise is having a hard time getting use to her new wealthy lifestyle and the boredom that comes along with it. She begins trying to talk George into letting her work in the store in the building but he is totally against it. This leads her to inadvertently get a job with another cleaning business and George hits the ceiling when he learns the news. That is until he begins thinking of using her position for sabotage.
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1975
English
Comedy
Family
Sitcom
Spin-off
Cast & Crew
Sherman Hemsley
(Actor)
.. George Jefferson
Isabel Sanford
(Actor)
.. Louise Jefferson
Zara Cully
(Actor)
.. Mother Jefferson
Milton Selzer
(Actor)
.. Wexler
Marla Gibbs
(Actor)
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Did You Know..
Sherman Hemsley
(Actor)
.. George Jefferson
Born:
February 01, 1938
Died: July 24, 2012
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Died: July 24, 2012
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Trivia:
Hemsley is a short, aggressive black comic actor. He came to acting late; after working for the Post Office he moved to New York in the late '60s, hoping to find theater work. Soon he won the choice role of Gitlow in the Broadway musical Purlie (1970), and his performance made a strong, lasting impression on TV producer Norman Lear. When Lear's TV sitcom All in the Family became a hit, Lear created the character of George Jefferson, Archie Bunker's black neighbor; after deciding that his first choice for the role was all wrong, in 1973 Lear tracked Hemsley down in San Francisco, where the latter was appearing in the play Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope. Hemsley was signed for the role, and played it from 1973-85; from 1975-85 he was the costar of the spinoff sitcom The Jeffersons, a top-rated show for many years, for which Hemsley at one point earned $60,000 per episode. He later starred in Amen (1986-91). In 1981 he reprised his Broadway role in the cable-TV production of Purlie. He debuted onscreen in Love at First Bite (1979), appearing with Isabel Sanford, his TV wife. His screen appearances have been few.
Isabel Sanford
(Actor)
.. Louise Jefferson
Born:
August 29, 1917
Died: July 09, 2004
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Died: July 09, 2004
Birthplace: New York, New York, United States
Trivia:
Defying her mother's wishes, African-American actress Isabel Sanford secretly worked as a nightclub performer in her teens. Upon winning 3rd prize in an Apollo Theatre amateur contest, Sanford could keep her new career a secret no longer. Married to a house painter who worked only on a seasonal basis, she held down a full-time job as a keypunch operator at the New York City department of Welfare, spending her evenings acting with such groups as Harlem Y and the American Negro Theatre. Seeking out better opportunities, Sanford packed her family into a bus and headed to Hollywood in the early 1960s. Her breakthrough film role was in Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner; she played Tillie the cook, who heartily disapproved of the upcoming interracial marriage between Katharine Houghton and Sidney Poitier (the hardest part of this assignment was not mouthing the "controversial" dialogue but preparing dinner in a key scene; Sanford had never learned to cook!) On the strength of this film, Isabel Sanford was hired for several guest spots on The Carol Burnett Show, which led to her most famous characterization: Louise Jefferson, the acerbic but loving wife of "movin' on up" Sherman Hemsley, on the immensely popular sitcom The Jeffersons (1975-82).
Zara Cully
(Actor)
.. Mother Jefferson
Born:
January 26, 1892
Died: February 28, 1978
Birthplace: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Died: February 28, 1978
Birthplace: Worcester, Massachusetts, United States
Trivia:
Taught acting classes for more than a decade on her own and at Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, FL. Appeared on the CBS drama Playhouse 90. Movie debut was in the 1969 drama The Learning Tree. First regular TV series role was as Mother Jefferson on the CBS comedy show The Jeffersons; made first appearance in 1975. Used to take public transportation to auditions because she never learned how to drive.
Milton Selzer
(Actor)
.. Wexler
Born:
October 25, 1918
Died: October 21, 2006
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts
Died: October 21, 2006
Birthplace: Lowell, Massachusetts
Trivia:
American character actor Milton Selzer trafficked in bookish types, sometimes with an undercurrent of menace. An ineluctable TV presence, Selzer guest-starred on virtually every major program of the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. He was a regular on Needles and Pins (1973) and The Famous Teddy Z (1989, second-billed as showbiz agent Abe Werkfinder); and on the popular spy spoof Get Smart (1965-70), he was brilliantly cast as a nervous special-weapons expert, who suffered a mild coronary every time dunderheaded Maxwell Smart (Don Adams) inadvertently destroyed Selzer's latest inventions. In films from 1959, Milton Selzer was given ample opportunity to shine as a sharkish movie mogul in Legend of Lylah Clare (1968) and as Nancy Spungen's grandfather in Sid and Nancy (1986).
Marla Gibbs
(Actor)
Born:
June 14, 1931
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Birthplace: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Trivia:
Was employed by a major airline when she was cast on The Jeffersons; continued working for the airline during her first few seasons on the show. Is also a singer; released an album, It's Never Too Late, in 2006. Reunited with actress Regina King, who played her daughter on the 1980s sitcom 227, in a 2012 episode of Southland.
