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08-14-2020, 08:09 PM
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/young-restless-star-melody-thomas-scott-stabbing-clint-eastwood-almost-marcia-brady-135718836.html
Scott was also almost Marcia Brady. It came down to her and Maureen McCormick, who landed the part with Scott’s height being a factor. (Scott and McCormick were friendly, often auditioning together.)
“I remember being in [show creator] Sherwood Schwartz’s office,” she recalls, “and I think every kid in town was out at that interview, as you can imagine. They had pencil marks on the wall because Schwartz wanted the [six Brady] kids to go up in a diagonal line, according to height. I don’t remember if I was too tall or too short, but my height was my downfall there” in losing the role.
Scott recalled later watching the pilot and Schwartz “often had the kids line up in that kind of graduating sequence. So that seemed to be very important to him. Of course, after a few years, the kids all started growing at different rates and they no longer had that nice lineup look.”
Scott was also almost Marcia Brady. It came down to her and Maureen McCormick, who landed the part with Scott’s height being a factor. (Scott and McCormick were friendly, often auditioning together.)
“I remember being in [show creator] Sherwood Schwartz’s office,” she recalls, “and I think every kid in town was out at that interview, as you can imagine. They had pencil marks on the wall because Schwartz wanted the [six Brady] kids to go up in a diagonal line, according to height. I don’t remember if I was too tall or too short, but my height was my downfall there” in losing the role.
Scott recalled later watching the pilot and Schwartz “often had the kids line up in that kind of graduating sequence. So that seemed to be very important to him. Of course, after a few years, the kids all started growing at different rates and they no longer had that nice lineup look.”