View Full Version : Gilligan Fanatic, I have a Fun Fact for You about Sanford Arms


TVFactFan
07-17-2006, 07:49 PM
Lawanda Page went to a Highschool to give a lecture in the spring of 1977 at Carver High in Los Angeles. Most of the students TUNED HER OUT during the lecture but it was one student who actually listen to Lawanda speak and take her seriously, 12 year old "John Earl". John earl was the son in Sanford Arms and by listening to Lawanda Speak he won himself a role on Sanford Arms.


Info came from August 25, 1977, Jet Magazine

gilligan fanatic
07-17-2006, 07:54 PM
That would have been a fun lecture. Everyone would be cracking heart attacks and dummy jokes. If they class acted up I wonder if she told them to watch it sucka.

I wonder what she was talking about?

TVFactFan
07-17-2006, 07:57 PM
That would have been a fun lecture. Everyone would be cracking heart attacks and dummy jokes. If they class acted up I wonder if she told them to watch it sucka.

I wonder what she was talking about?


She was telling them just because they grew up in the Ghetto didn't mean they had to be STUCK in the Ghetto

gilligan fanatic
07-17-2006, 08:25 PM
She was telling them just because they grew up in the Ghetto didn't mean they had to be STUCK in the Ghetto

For some reason I was going to guess that-lol

TVFactFan
06-11-2007, 12:45 AM
Bump for Cloud9Lorraine

Cloud9 Lorraine
06-11-2007, 02:07 AM
Lawanda Page went to a Highschool to give a lecture in the spring of 1977 at Carver High in Los Angeles. Most of the students TUNED HER OUT during the lecture but it was one student who actually listen to Lawanda speak and take her seriously, 12 year old "John Earl". John earl was the son in Sanford Arms and by listening to Lawanda Speak he won himself a role on Sanford Arms.


Info came from August 25, 1977, Jet Magazine


Cool! I would have loved to have heard that lecture! Besides Redd, LaWanda Page was my favorite actor in the series.

TVFactFan
06-11-2007, 02:39 PM
Cool! I would have loved to have heard that lecture! Besides Redd, LaWanda Page was my favorite actor in the series.


Have you seen any one of the Sanford and Son Spinoffs-"GRADY" or SANFORD ARMS"?

Cloud9 Lorraine
06-11-2007, 04:03 PM
Have you seen any one of the Sanford and Son Spinoffs-"GRADY" or SANFORD ARMS"?


No. :(

TVFactFan
06-11-2007, 04:06 PM
No. :(


Well some more Fun Fact for you. TV guide Critic in 1975 felt the Spinoff "GRADY" was a better show than Sanford and Son-lol

Cloud9 Lorraine
06-11-2007, 06:35 PM
Well some more Fun Fact for you. TV guide Critic in 1975 felt the Spinoff "GRADY" was a better show than Sanford and Son-lol


Imagine that??? I've never seen the show Grady, but I know it wasn't better than S&S!! :cuckoo

TVFactFan
06-11-2007, 08:27 PM
Imagine that??? I've never seen the show Grady, but I know it wasn't better than S&S!! :cuckoo


The TV guide critic expained that he felt Grady was a better show because Sanford and Son was too ONE DIMESIONAL-lol I was surprised because the Grady spinoff wasn't all that GOOD. It was OK