Freddie In TV Picture Life (Magazine)!

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

I finally found the magazine I won on Ebay awhile back about Freddie breaking down at Kitty Bruce's wedding.I will post the whole story on here later on tonight.

[Cheryl Harrell]

Thanks! We can't wait to read it! There was one where you would've thought it was about him marrying Kitty Bruce & broke down crying when he got married but it turned out to be he was best man at Ray Andrade's (CATM producer or director) wedding & he broke down & cried at the wedding cuz he cries at weddings. Thats so sweet he cries at weddings.

In one of the pics in the article he is wearing a tux & holding what looks like his hankerchief in his hand & looks like he's tearing up.

I'll post it here & a version of it I colorized... Enjoy!

[Cheryl Harrell]

Here is the version I colorized. He looks so handsome, mature & adult...

[Pitooey]

Oh Cheryl i wsh I had your talent! I can't wait to read the article.

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

Freddie Prinze Breaks Down At The Altar!
The Real Reason He Couldn't Marry The Woman He Loves!

They had turned the room at the Latin-American Press Club into a kind of non-denominational chapel for the wedding,possibly because the different religious backgrounds of the bride and groom made it difficult to choose a more traditional setting. But the room was filled with flowers and a speakers' lectern served as the altar from which a minister of the Universal Life Church would unite the pretty young girl to the man from Chico and the Man.

Members of the Chico cast and crew were among the witnesses and well-wishers, and the atmosphere was festive. But as Freddie Prinze came up to the altar, he didn't seem at all like his usual happy-go-lucky self. He seemed, some said afterward,alone in the middle of that happy, celebrating crowd. And, in a sense, he was. For all of them, only he knew the real reason he couldn't marry the woman he loves!

It doesn't seem all that long ago that the world first learned of his plan to marry Kitty Bruce, the pretty, 18-year old daughter of the star-crossed comic genius. Freddie's first statement, made about the time that Chico debuted on TV, promised a wedding "sometime in November." Even after that month passed, there seemed no reason to believe it wouldn't take place. As Kitty told a reporter,"Although we knew on our first date that we loved each other,we decided to wait a few months and have an old-fashioned engagment first."

As time passed, rumors of a rift between the young lovers were mixed in with a lot of other whispers about Freddie. That success had gone to his head, changed him from a good-natured kid into a rising star with a swelled head and a hopeless crush on himself!
He signed to appear in Vegas(with Diana Ross) for a whopping $25,000 a week, asked $10,000 per guest appearence on TV, started making the covers of national magazines and fired his manager. He began getting invitations to parties at Hugh Heffner's mansion,when a couple of years ago Hef wouldn't even return his calls. As he reported himself,"I see these troops of girls going up and down the street knocking on all the doors because some fan magazine said I lived on Hollywood Boulevard, and now they're working their way down the length of it."

But Hollywood oldtimers beileved it.They'd seen it all before, and they weren't at all surprised when it began to look as if success had put a fast end to the blooming love affair and planned marriage of Freddie Prinze and Kitty.

The cynics certainly seemed confirmed when newspapers began printing reports of a hot romance between Freddie and, of all people, Raquel Welch. But the story was a hoax, pure and simple, like so many of the other rumors about Freddie. For one thing, he may have a strong sense of worth as an entertainer, but he has not turned greedy. He's turned down $200,000 in jobs, including $20,000 for Christmas week in Miami, and specials with several major stars at $10,000 each. He won't do anything he feels is wrong for him, or would keep him from doing what he wants to do. One special he turned down because it would've kept him from visiting his parents. "My folks are worth more than ten grand to me," he explains. And after he signed a recording contract, he took the money to buy his parents a house in L.A. "There the money had a purpose," Freddie says. "I was doin' somethin' worthwhile.I could get the house in the hills and the porsche and be Steve Stunning, the star.What is it, though? A temporary high. My father's 60 and my mother's 56; they haven't that much time. I can get them theirs and still have all the time in the world to get mine. I'm only 20."

And Freddie is very determined to get his, because he's known to poverty and doesn't ever want to know it again. "Everything I say in my routines is truth: I was born in Hell and grew up in Hell-and it was not laughs," he reminds you. "I did get regularly mugged,man... I fitted in nowhere: I wasn't true spic, true Jew, true anything. I was a miserable fat kid with glasses and asthma. . . I couldn't hang out with the guys; I also got good grades which made all the other cats look bad. I learned very early to hate. It was a secret attitude, but I knew I wouldn't end up like them, fat at 40 in front of some tenement TV set, that I would be something big!"

Well, now he is something big, Freddie the TV star, with a hit show and an even bigger future ahead of him. And he must have been thinking of that on the day of the wedding at the Latin-American Club, as he went toward the altar. He seemed, it was said later, "very emotional-like he was so deeply moved that he might break down in tears at the altar." And some say his Latin macho did actually break down-that there was what old-fashioned novels used to call " a suspicious moisture" in his eyes when he stood up at the altar. Perhaps he was thinking then of how much he had wanted to escape from the life of his childhood-and how close he came to losing it all.

For when Chico debuted, there was an immediate outcry from some members of the chicano community.They picketed the studio, and worse, threatened a boycott of its sponsors.TV insiders remembered that a similar threat was held responsible for CBS' decision to cancel "Bridget Loves Bernie" a few years back, and watched nervously as spokesmen called Freddie's show "racist," "degrading," "dishonest" and "damaging to the community".

But about that they were wrong. Ray Andrade, the associate producer was a chicano, and some say that it was his influence that helped to cool the protests and tone down the more insulting bits of dialogue-and maybe, to save the show that would make Freddie Prinze a star. Perhaps it was thinking of this that made Freddie blow his customary cool and almost break down in tears as he went up to the altar the day his friend Ray Andrade got married.

Or maybe it was the ceremony itself that got to Freddie. Watching the minister ask Ramo Jacan Andrade if he took Rhea Ester to be his bride, it wouldn't be surprising to think that another girl was on his mind-the girl he loves, Kitty Bruce-and the real reason he couldn't marry her.

"I've decided not to comment on her at all anymore, so this is an exclusive," Freddie says. "Kitty is an angle of a lady. The papers had us married, which is bull. . . But if I could marry any lady, it would be Kitty Bruce. "Could?" the interviewer asks, and Freddie explains, "I mean I gotta realize before I settle in. I don't mean just TV or clubs. . . That's not what I mean when I talk about the future. I want to become. . . Freddie Prinze, the complete entertainer! By the time I'm 25, I may just be the best producer/writer in the business. I'm going to write my own series and produce it, and it'll be, "Hey , he did it again, even BIGGER'!" I will never have " Oh, him, he was a heavy a coupla years hafta put in a couple of years of heavy study to get quality level I'm gonna get."

In other words, the real reason Freddie feels he can't marry the woman he loves is that he still can't believe in his success. He has to keep working, trying, devote all his attention to his career for fear it will evaporate someday, and people will talk of him as a has-been-and he'll be back in the crumbling neighborhood he came out of. He calls it Hell, and he doesn't intend to ever go home again. His plans for the future aren't really even that far-fetched; his producer, Jimmy Komack started as a comedian. It is very possible that as he stood at the altar on his friend Ray Andrade's wedding day, Freddie broke down and did something he seldom does-let an unfunny emotion show through in pubilc-because he regretted his decision not to wed. Obviously, he still loves Kitty and thinks about marrying her, even says, "If I could marry any lady it would be Kitty Bruce. . ."

For the time being, however, the 20-year-old star feels he can't marry-not now, not for awhile. It's not a matter of going to hollywood or forgetting his friends or anything like that. It's just that Freddie knows where he's been, and where he doesn't want to be again, and where he wants to go.He's not out to hurt anybody, but he's mature enough to understand he can't devote himself to marriage and a career full-time and for now, his future is what he feels he has to think about. But he doesn't want to turn into "Steve Stunning, the star." He points to Jimmy Komack and Bill Cosby as his ideals-"people who are successful but didn't step on nobody-that's what I wanna be." And for the time being, for Freddie Prinze, that means marriage will just have to wait.

[Pitooey]

Thank you Sitcomsarethe way..........

While reading this it bought me back to the time when I was 20 years old. If only Freddie had waited......... When I was 20 I didn't know
anything I'm sure everyone in their 20's feel the same way. If only Freddie would've waited until he matured. It might've taken 20 more years but, somehow maturity comes. He was so in a hurry. So Hyper to be a man. But, still a little boy inside. At least he did good by his parents. I didn't even know his father was 60. My father was also 60 at the time. That means his father was born in 1914 like my father. My father may have been older but, he is the best father. Now my pops is 88 and still with us. Thanks to God. I'm sure if his parents could've had Freddie alongside them they wouldn't have wanted that house he bought them. He wanted to grow up too fast......... To be so missrable as a young soul had to literally hurt....................

[SitcomsAreTheWay]

Originally posted by JennyLee22
Thank you Sitcomsarethe way..........

While reading this it bought me back to the time when I was 20 years old. If only Freddie had waited......... When I was 20 I didn't know
anything I'm sure everyone in their 20's feel the same way. If only Freddie would've waited until he matured. It might've taken 20 more years but, somehow maturity comes. He was so in a hurry. So Hyper to be a man. But, still a little boy inside. At least he did good by his parents. I didn't even know his father was 60. My father was also 60 at the time. That means his father was born in 1914 like my father. My father may have been older but, he is the best father. Now my pops is 88 and still with us. Thanks to God. I'm sure if his parents could've had Freddie alongside them they wouldn't have wanted that house he bought them. He wanted to grow up too fast......... To be so missrable as a young soul had to literally hurt....................

I agree. The fact of him being 22 and ahead of his time was probably part of the reason why he thought he was ready to take such a big step at such a young age.I look at his photos and being that he looked older than he really was, I sometimes forget that he was still a young adult who basically had just gotten out of his teens.