It's refreshing that she was honest about him. A lot times stars will be diplomatic and say they just didn't get along with each other but to call him a churl is pretty clear cut! And she seems like a real sweet heart so he must've been really bad to get her that upset. That's a good word to know, there are plenty of people like that and it's good to know they have a name!
When he worked with Lucille Ball on Lucy takes a cruise to Havana she said that he had the foulest mouth of anyone she ever worked with and if he made a mistake on set he blamed everybody else for his mistake totally difficult to work with
You are spot on Rick. In another interview, she said he was an absolute curmudgeon. When these episodes were filmed, he had made a request that the name of the street on which he lived be changed to "Rue de Valley". Apparently he was upset when the city refused the request, and was taking it out on everyone. When the cast realized how sweet Glynis Johns was, they said.. well we will just talk to her then, and not him.
That's pretty interesting. I don't know much about Rudy Vallee I think I've heard some of his songs but that was a long long time ago. The only thing I can tell you personally about Rudy Vallee is when I was about 6 or 7 years old and I was with my family at Disneyland I fell on some steps by the rocket ship ride and I was crying and Rudy Vallee came up to be sure I was okay. That's all that I can say. And thank you for telling us what churl meant. I figured it was probably something that wasn't good but I'm glad you looked it up thanks again Rick another great video.
As always very interesting video full of history which I love to learn and it's great to learn about these classic shows. I would not have thought Rudy Valley would be so difficult to work with. Thanks for a great video
Rick, Nice job, as always. This is not the 1st time I've heard this sentiment about Rudy Vallee. I recall that Bennett Cerf found Vallee to be distasteful when he was a guest panelist on "What's My Line." As for Glynis Johns, she's one of only a handful of remaining villains still alive. And she's the oldest surviving villain too, having just turned 97 on Oct 5. The others are: John Astin, Joan Collins, Lee Meriwether, Barbara Rush, and of course, the inimitable Julie Newmar. Great segment, Rick! More Batman, please. Best regards and be hopeful! Paul
Instead of Rudy Vallee as Lord Ffogg, I think it would've been a better and more novel idea to have cast David Tomlinson in the role. Seeing him and Glynis Johns together again as Batman villains instead of their Mary Poppins characters would've added a surreal slant to the story.
It was worse then that. He thought the street should be renamed Rue de Valley. Maybe that was kind of clever. Amazingly Ms. Johns is still alive at 97!
Glynis Johns is one of the few Batman villains/villainesses that are still with us...the others are...Joan Collins (The Siren)...Julie Newmar (The Catwoman)...Barbara Rush (Nora Clavicle)..and John Astin (played The Riddler on ONE two part episode...filling in for Frank Gorshin)
a young 'teen idol' with his megaphone in the 1920's - a grumpy/bitter old 'actor' by 1967/68 who can't get a job to save himself - once when i was young in the 1970's and told someone who i'd like to meet, her reply was "be careful what you wish for - it's almost always a let down when you meet a famous person, for many reasons . . . especially if you really enjoy them and their work" - rudy didn't even register with me so he never made my list of people i want to meet, in my business in the 1980's & '90's i met practically everyone at least once who was anybody in those two decades and only two women, one moderately famous on tv (a character/extra actor) the other a huge solo signer with 3 or 4 #1 pop songs ((no not madonna - who btw was one of the most wonderful to me)) had disappointed me tremendously - also around 1983 or 1984 when i just started out i was warned who the older ones to avoid were, arthur godfrey (passive aggressive, bitter & vengeful), danny thomas (sorry marlo - disrespectful to women & everything was 'my way or the highway' mentality - two costars from his hit 1950's tv series left after 3 seasons because of his mental cruelty - stunned they wanted to leave, he begged them to stay, they wouldn't so they were (1) "killed off" & (2) recast for the 4th season, frank sinatra was full of himself and simply horrid and the other was rudy vallee just as yvonne describes - so lucky me - i NEVER met any of these 4 old timers HA HA :)
According to an on-line article from New England Historical Society, he was difficult to work for and often had fist fights with those with whom he disagreed. He had few friends in the entertainment industry. My great aunt remembered that people lined up for blocks at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre when he appeared there on stage. The theatre was a presentation house then. My mother had a few of his records including "The Stein Song," which he wrote for the University of Maine, his alma mater. To the public he was always popular. I loved his performance in the movie version of "How To Suceed...", which played for many weeks at the Radio City Music Hall along with the Easter Show on stage. Hope this was informative for you, Rick. Enjoy your videos.
Not surprising. Rudy Vallee had quite a reputation for being arrogant toward others...and for just being downright mean. As long as people fawned over him, he would treat them like gold. I'm sure that with the rapid pace production schedule of the Batman episodes, nobody had any time to give him the star treatment he truly thought he deserved.
I had the same experience with Don Adams (Get Smart). He came for a solo stage appearance in my city and the moment he arrived backstage he spewed hate to everybody in his path, yelling, insulting, complaining - at first we thought he was doing a bit - just pretending to be nasty - not the case! He was just an extremely vile nasty man. I was shocked. What a little, tiny POS.
Can’t remember where I heard/read this but it was something to the effect that there’s was a line that went around a block of people who hated Don Adams. Always liked Get Smart.
I loved Rudy Vallee in "How to Succeed in Business"...but Lord Ffogg was one of my least favorite villains. Still, as usual Rick, you knock this video out of the park with lots of great info about both the Batman TV show as well as Rudy and Yvonne!
For what it's worth, Yvonne Craig's opinion seems to match Rudy Vallée's "personal" section on Wikipedia. Not that we should take Wikipedia at face value necessarily, but it does appear like Rudy Vallée had a reputation for being a cranky and sometimes violent person.
It's especially credible as Yvonne has spoken so highly of almost everyone who guested on the third season. She's never come across as a vindictive person who would make up such a thing about someone's temperament. If she was that bothered by his attitude, I'm sure those episodes were a nightmare slog. Especially for someone who'd admired him, as she had.
Was jus a tot when the show started but loved it just the same. So much so that I bought the box set with a couple special additional items. Wondered if it was one on the same of Rudy Valley. I've heard that he put on himself before any performance. Also heard that the dance host for the dance contest in the movie Grease was both based on Rudy Valley and Dick Clark. Dick Clark of course being the nicer portion of the character.
Actors are like politicians It doesn't really matter who they are as long as they get the job done. I guess he did a good job because I would have never known his demeanor.
I guess it’s not totally uncommon for talented people to be regarded as rude. I defiantly can see why she was disappointed when she worked with him. I really enjoy these Batman videos Rick, and this one was really interesting, keep up the great work!
I bet Vallee could've had a larger recurring role in the series (had it been renewed), if he'd been as nice to work with as the other special guest villains. As it was, I doubt we ever would've seen him again, had season 4 been commissioned.
On a side note, the show did make a couple of toung-in-cheek references to him him in previous episodes. In the 1st Egghead story, Bruce said that he was able to acquire the racoon pelts he needed by buying an entire racoon coat from a singer who had fallen in hard times; a racoon coat was one of his trademarks. And in a Catwoman episode an inventor named Pat Pending had a valet named Rudy.
More good stuff, only know the name Rudy Valley, but I’ll look for him on the I Love Lucy episode you mentioned. Interesting Batgirl didn’t care for him, did any other cast member comment on him?
Interesting video. While I hadn't heard these specifics before, it doesn't surprise me about either Rudy Vallee or Glynis Johns. Incidentally, Glynis Johns is still alive at 97 years! And, by the way, churl and churlish are perfectly fine English words--too bad you hadn't encountered them before now.
A friend of mine would say of Rudy Vallee, he was in show business from the time he was mustered out of the Army of Alexander the Great. . . My Mother who was of about Vallee's generation called him over-rated and boring. I asked who was better, Vallee or Ozzie Nelson. She said Ozzie, by far. Ozzie had some really good songs in the 30s when he led a big band.
Interestingly, Rudy Vallee was NOT the oldest actor on the Batman set; series regular Neil Hamilton was actually two years older. Glynnis Johns (who is still alive at 98) was fresh off her most popular role, playing Winifred Banks in "Mary Poppins."
I recall a story about the making of these episodes and there was a roamer he turned up drunk or something like that but there's another story he was struggling with his lines and kept forgetting his marker and there is a roamer to he and Adam West didn't get on at all and he was having memory problems?
Like EVERYONE else seems to be doing... I looked up Rudy (or should I say 'RUDE-y'!) after this Vid. Only other thing I really remember him from is 'How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'! (Which to his credit, he was fantastic in!) Don't know if you've seen it... but that one might you! A musical about the 'old-boy network', they scoured Hollywood for aging Hoofers to play the codgers! One of whom was Emmett from the Mayberry Universe!
Season 3 was also where the had Milton Berle as Louie The Lilac. Berle was another one that was found to be unpleasant and in Miss DeCarlo’s case, extremely sexist. What a tough season to work through
According to the late Adam West, Rudy Vallee was hard to deal with and living hell. Rudy made a guest appearance on CHiPs in the late 1970's. Who knows what he was like?!
I heard stories that Rudy Vallee had a foul temper. But the image that I will always have of him is playing a saxophone or singing into a megaphone. Anyway, the Londinium episodes revealingly showed the reduced budget of the third season of Batman. When the cast arrived in Londinium and went to see the authorities in "Ireland Yard," the police official's office was an exact duplicate of Commissioner Gordon's office in Gotham City. It was said this was because police officials are similar the world over. The reality was because it was cheaper to use the existing set instead of spending money constructing a different set that would be used in only three episodes.
Has anyone ever noticed how Batgirl had to change from her suitcase behind a bush, and in Batman Returns Catwoman has to change in her Volkswagen Beetle?
Not necessarily surprising, but always disappointing to hear when a celebrity is a jerk in real life, particularly to people they should be working with.
Wasn't Leslie Gore Catwoman in an episode? I remember her lip-syncing to that fab record of hers, "California Nights," wearing some kind of ridiculous outfit.
To me this was not a very good episode. I never knew much about Rudy other than he was popular long ago & of course he was on the Lucy Desi Comedy Hour. Thanks Rick for a glimpse into Batman¡¡¡ 😷
According to IMDb, during his radio days on The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour in the 1920s and 30s, he was hated by his cast and crew "due to his explosive ego-driven personality." According to Wikipedia, "during his divorce from his second wife, Fay Webb, she alleged that 'Vallée is possessed of a violent, vicious, and ungovernable temper, and given to the use of blasphemy and the use of intemperate, vile, and vituperative language, particularly when applied to [her].'" Based on the title of this video, I thought you were going to say that he grabbed her behind or something.
I am in the minority, in that I LOVE the Londinium episodes. However, Yvonne Craig's opinions are validated by similar stories told by other actors through the years. In fact, Lucie Arnaz shares extremely similar comments about working with him on a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy. I don't know what Lucille Ball herself thought about Rudy Vallee, but Lucie didn't enjoy making the show & is very up front about it. Rudy, sadly, was simply someone who was a little too egocentric & full of himself, despite being able to play affable characters when the cameras are rolling!
I tend to believe that he was churlish. As a kid I thought that all the characters on Batman were good. They were all funny. But the older I get and the more you see behind the scenes too often people inhale praises from those working for them and their fans, then believe all of it. It's sad. Too bad he made working conditions hard. I love Glyniss. I hope she was nice to everyone!
@@rickrick5041 wow you must be a mind reader cause I didn't get who he was talking about. But Glynis John just turned 97 a week ago so I'm assuming it was her.
Hi Rick, it isn’t surprising that Rudy Valley was a horses butt. He always thought of himself as the most important person in American culture. He spoke very rudely about his conquests back when he was a singer in the 1920’s. He once sued the city of Beverly Hills because they hadn’t named a street after him. During WW2 he paraded up and down the local streets singing his 1920’s hit Vagabond Lover. The young girls in the 1940’s would laugh at him because he thought he was still a big deal. One of the young girls was my mother. So that’s first hand information. I hope this helps for back ground information.
It's refreshing that she was honest about him. A lot times stars will be diplomatic and say they just didn't get along with each other but to call him a churl is pretty clear cut! And she seems like a real sweet heart so he must've been really bad to get her that upset. That's a good word to know, there are plenty of people like that and it's good to know they have a name!
I had only heard of being 'churlish' Yeah, cool new word!
Keep it in mind. Karens are certainly churlish. . . amongst many other character deficiencies.
@@lazyhomebody1356 agreed 😊
I was expecting a "me too" tale, so I was pleasantly surprised.
Rudy Vallee was a superstar back around 1930. He was a singer and extremely popular back then. So I guess success must have gone to his head.
When he worked with Lucille Ball on Lucy takes a cruise to Havana she said that he had the foulest mouth of anyone she ever worked with and if he made a mistake on set he blamed everybody else for his mistake totally difficult to work with
Well, this is totally going to ruin that one episode of Full House!
Wow!
I heard Lucy swore like a sailor herself. Maybe he was just upstaging her.
You are spot on Rick. In another interview, she said he was an absolute curmudgeon. When these episodes were filmed, he had made a request that the name of the street on which he lived be changed to "Rue de Valley". Apparently he was upset when the city refused the request, and was taking it out on everyone. When the cast realized how sweet Glynis Johns was, they said.. well we will just talk to her then, and not him.
That's pretty interesting. I don't know much about Rudy Vallee I think I've heard some of his songs but that was a long long time ago. The only thing I can tell you personally about Rudy Vallee is when I was about 6 or 7 years old and I was with my family at Disneyland I fell on some steps by the rocket ship ride and I was crying and Rudy Vallee came up to be sure I was okay. That's all that I can say. And thank you for telling us what churl meant. I figured it was probably something that wasn't good but I'm glad you looked it up thanks again Rick another great video.
Whoa?, no way! Rudy Vallee actually picked you up when you fell down at Disneyland?
Right on 👍🏻 thanks Rick I'm such a huge fan of the Batman series thank you sir 😁
Thanks and I’m glad you’re enjoying the channel!
As always very interesting video full of history which I love to learn and it's great to learn about these classic shows. I would not have thought Rudy Valley would be so difficult to work with. Thanks for a great video
Rick,
Nice job, as always. This is not the 1st time I've heard this sentiment about Rudy Vallee. I recall that Bennett Cerf found Vallee to be distasteful when he was a guest panelist on "What's My Line."
As for Glynis Johns, she's one of only a handful of remaining villains still alive. And she's the oldest surviving villain too, having just turned 97 on Oct 5. The others are: John Astin, Joan Collins, Lee Meriwether, Barbara Rush, and of course, the inimitable Julie Newmar.
Great segment, Rick! More Batman, please.
Best regards and be hopeful!
Paul
Awesome as always Rick, big thanks!
I have read other accounts of Rudy Vallee's ill treatment of others on sets. Kudos to Ms. Craig for being candid.
Rudy played a creepy, insane surgeon on an episode of "Night Gallery". The episode, with Robert Morse co-starring, is disturbing.
Instead of Rudy Vallee as Lord Ffogg, I think it would've been a better and more novel idea to have cast David Tomlinson in the role. Seeing him and Glynis Johns together again as Batman villains instead of their Mary Poppins characters would've added a surreal slant to the story.
Or James mason as he wanted to do it
I remember hearing he tried to get his neighbors to change the name of their street to rudy valley blvd/way. They declined.
It was worse then that. He thought the street should be renamed Rue de Valley. Maybe that was kind of clever. Amazingly Ms. Johns is still alive at 97!
Glynis Johns is one of the few Batman villains/villainesses that are still with us...the others are...Joan Collins (The Siren)...Julie Newmar (The Catwoman)...Barbara Rush (Nora Clavicle)..and John Astin (played The Riddler on ONE two part episode...filling in for Frank Gorshin)
Loved Julie, Glynis, and John. Glad to know they're all still with us.
Also, Lee Meriwether, who played Catwoman in the full-length movie.
@@PaulTestathe still gorgeous former Miss America Lee Meriwether played Catwoman in the 1966 theatrical film.....NOT the TV series
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Yep, that's what I said in my comment. I always include Lee Meriwether because she's part of the overall '66 Batman franchise.
@@PaulTesta oops..... need to remember to either clean my glasses....or my eyes....sorry for the slight gaffe on my part
a young 'teen idol' with his megaphone in the 1920's - a grumpy/bitter old 'actor' by 1967/68 who can't get a job to save himself - once when i was young in the 1970's and told someone who i'd like to meet, her reply was "be careful what you wish for - it's almost always a let down when you meet a famous person, for many reasons . . . especially if you really enjoy them and their work" - rudy didn't even register with me so he never made my list of people i want to meet, in my business in the 1980's & '90's i met practically everyone at least once who was anybody in those two decades and only two women, one moderately famous on tv (a character/extra actor) the other a huge solo signer with 3 or 4 #1 pop songs ((no not madonna - who btw was one of the most wonderful to me)) had disappointed me tremendously - also around 1983 or 1984 when i just started out i was warned who the older ones to avoid were, arthur godfrey (passive aggressive, bitter & vengeful), danny thomas (sorry marlo - disrespectful to women & everything was 'my way or the highway' mentality - two costars from his hit 1950's tv series left after 3 seasons because of his mental cruelty - stunned they wanted to leave, he begged them to stay, they wouldn't so they were (1) "killed off" & (2) recast for the 4th season, frank sinatra was full of himself and simply horrid and the other was rudy vallee just as yvonne describes - so lucky me - i NEVER met any of these 4 old timers HA HA :)
Should’ve got James mason to play that role he wanted to do Batman
According to an on-line article from New England Historical Society, he was difficult to work for and often had fist fights with those with whom he disagreed. He had few friends in the entertainment industry.
My great aunt remembered that people lined up for blocks at the Brooklyn Paramount Theatre when he appeared there on stage. The theatre was a presentation house then.
My mother had a few of his records including "The Stein Song," which he wrote for the University of Maine, his alma mater.
To the public he was always popular. I loved his performance in the movie version of "How To Suceed...", which played for many weeks at the Radio City Music Hall along with the Easter Show on stage.
Hope this was informative for you, Rick. Enjoy your videos.
This is my second favorite show next to the Munsters, the show was campy but that's what makes the show. THANKS
Not surprising. Rudy Vallee had quite a reputation for being arrogant toward others...and for just being downright mean. As long as people fawned over him, he would treat them like gold. I'm sure that with the rapid pace production schedule of the Batman episodes, nobody had any time to give him the star treatment he truly thought he deserved.
Great video.
It is all about Ego, a lot of stars suffer from this affliction.
Lucie Arnaz made a similar statement about him when he appeared on "Here's Lucy" in 1970...
I had the same experience with Don Adams (Get Smart). He came for a solo stage appearance in my city and the moment he arrived backstage he spewed hate to everybody in his path, yelling, insulting, complaining - at first we thought he was doing a bit - just pretending to be nasty - not the case! He was just an extremely vile nasty man. I was shocked. What a little, tiny POS.
Can’t remember where I heard/read this but it was something to the effect that there’s was a line that went around a block of people who hated Don Adams. Always liked Get Smart.
I loved Rudy Vallee in "How to Succeed in Business"...but Lord Ffogg was one of my least favorite villains. Still, as usual Rick, you knock this video out of the park with lots of great info about both the Batman TV show as well as Rudy and Yvonne!
Haha, thanks Dave! He def was quite a character and probably not the most interesting.....his super evil weapon? Fog 😆
Would you rate him above or below Louie the Lilac and The Puzzler?
@@masterbondofox8982 ooohh The Puzzler!! I forgot about him
For what it's worth, Yvonne Craig's opinion seems to match Rudy Vallée's "personal" section on Wikipedia. Not that we should take Wikipedia at face value necessarily, but it does appear like Rudy Vallée had a reputation for being a cranky and sometimes violent person.
I read it also. More than one person, made statements about his temperament, so I would tend to believe he did have a problem relating to others.
Guess that’s why he called himself Rudey !!
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It's especially credible as Yvonne has spoken so highly of almost everyone who guested on the third season. She's never come across as a vindictive person who would make up such a thing about someone's temperament. If she was that bothered by his attitude, I'm sure those episodes were a nightmare slog. Especially for someone who'd admired him, as she had.
Was jus a tot when the show started but loved it just the same. So much so that I bought the box set with a couple special additional items. Wondered if it was one on the same of Rudy Valley. I've heard that he put on himself before any performance. Also heard that the dance host for the dance contest in the movie Grease was both based on Rudy Valley and Dick Clark. Dick Clark of course being the nicer portion of the character.
Actors are like politicians It doesn't really matter who they are as long as they get the job done. I guess he did a good job because I would have never known his demeanor.
I guess it’s not totally uncommon for talented people to be regarded as rude. I defiantly can see why she was disappointed when she worked with him. I really enjoy these Batman videos Rick, and this one was really interesting, keep up the great work!
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Reading through the comments, Vallee sounds like a real jerk. Sigh....there's always one in the crowd. At least his role wasn't as a semi-regular.
I bet Vallee could've had a larger recurring role in the series (had it been renewed), if he'd been as nice to work with as the other special guest villains. As it was, I doubt we ever would've seen him again, had season 4 been commissioned.
2:57 Isn’t that Wayne Manor, with different furnishings?
On a side note, the show did make a couple of toung-in-cheek references to him him in previous episodes. In the 1st Egghead story, Bruce said that he was able to acquire the racoon pelts he needed by buying an entire racoon coat from a singer who had fallen in hard times; a racoon coat was one of his trademarks. And in a Catwoman episode an inventor named Pat Pending had a valet named Rudy.
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More good stuff, only know the name Rudy Valley, but I’ll look for him on the I Love Lucy episode you mentioned. Interesting Batgirl didn’t care for him, did any other cast member comment on him?
Interesting video. While I hadn't heard these specifics before, it doesn't surprise me about either Rudy Vallee or Glynis Johns. Incidentally, Glynis Johns is still alive at 97 years! And, by the way, churl and churlish are perfectly fine English words--too bad you hadn't encountered them before now.
Life is a process and a journey--we are always learning.
A friend of mine would say of Rudy Vallee, he was in show business from the time he was mustered out of the Army of Alexander the Great. . . My Mother who was of about Vallee's generation called him over-rated and boring. I asked who was better, Vallee or Ozzie Nelson. She said Ozzie, by far. Ozzie had some really good songs in the 30s when he led a big band.
Great video Rick
Never heard of the guy, no opinion to give... However I trust Batgirl!...😉
Loved!!!! The Batman movie 1966
I’m not surprised. Rudy Vallee had a reputation as “churlish” since his days in vaudeville
Maybe he was a method actor, and stayed in villain mode even in between takes. If so, of course he would snarl at Batgirl.
Not surprised at Yvonne's reaction. Rudy gave me the impression of being a very stuck up, nasty, full of himself, type of person.
By this time the new criminals on the show were largely playing their roles for laughs.
Rick, Vallee was in Live a Little Love a Little with Elvis. I wonder how they got along.
Didn't know much about him but did check out his Wikipedia page. Seems he was a rather nasty person all his life and not very well liked by anyone
Yet he became (in)famous -- go figure.
Interestingly, Rudy Vallee was NOT the oldest actor on the Batman set; series regular Neil Hamilton was actually two years older. Glynnis Johns (who is still alive at 98) was fresh off her most popular role, playing Winifred Banks in "Mary Poppins."
I recall a story about the making of these episodes and there was a roamer he turned up drunk or something like that but there's another story he was struggling with his lines and kept forgetting his marker and there is a roamer to he and Adam West didn't get on at all and he was having memory problems?
Like EVERYONE else seems to be doing... I looked up Rudy (or should I say 'RUDE-y'!) after this Vid. Only other thing I really remember him from is 'How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying'! (Which to his credit, he was fantastic in!)
Don't know if you've seen it... but that one might you! A musical about the 'old-boy network', they scoured Hollywood for aging Hoofers to play the codgers! One of whom was Emmett from the Mayberry Universe!
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I read they originally were going to cast Bill Cosby for this part, so she really dodged a bullet
Season 3 was also where the had Milton Berle as Louie The Lilac. Berle was another one that was found to be unpleasant and in Miss DeCarlo’s case, extremely sexist. What a tough season to work through
Yes, you should check out my video on Louie the Lillac and other Batman vids in my playlist
How could Bill Cosby play the part when he was too busy doing I Spy?
According to the late Adam West, Rudy Vallee was hard to deal with and living hell.
Rudy made a guest appearance on CHiPs in the late 1970's. Who knows what he was like?!
He had competition with Erik Estrada.
I heard stories that Rudy Vallee had a foul temper. But the image that I will always have of him is playing a saxophone or singing into a megaphone. Anyway, the Londinium episodes revealingly showed the reduced budget of the third season of Batman. When the cast arrived in Londinium and went to see the authorities in "Ireland Yard," the police official's office was an exact duplicate of Commissioner Gordon's office in Gotham City. It was said this was because police officials are similar the world over. The reality was because it was cheaper to use the existing set instead of spending money constructing a different set that would be used in only three episodes.
Has anyone ever noticed how Batgirl had to change from her suitcase behind a bush, and in Batman Returns Catwoman has to change in her Volkswagen Beetle?
Not necessarily surprising, but always disappointing to hear when a celebrity is a jerk in real life, particularly to people they should be working with.
Wasn't Leslie Gore Catwoman in an episode? I remember her lip-syncing to that fab record of hers, "California Nights," wearing some kind of ridiculous outfit.
@Dark Wolf Thanks! As Paris Hilton used to say, "That's hot!" Leslie Gore was just terrific.
Never heard a word about Rudy
3 minutes in he comes to the point."she didn't like him" that's it.
To me this was not a very good episode. I never knew much about Rudy other than he was popular long ago & of course he was on the Lucy Desi Comedy Hour. Thanks Rick for a glimpse into Batman¡¡¡ 😷
According to IMDb, during his radio days on The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour in the 1920s and 30s, he was hated by his cast and crew "due to his explosive ego-driven personality." According to Wikipedia, "during his divorce from his second wife, Fay Webb, she alleged that 'Vallée is possessed of a violent, vicious, and ungovernable temper, and given to the use of blasphemy and the use of intemperate, vile, and vituperative language, particularly when applied to [her].'"
Based on the title of this video, I thought you were going to say that he grabbed her behind or something.
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I am in the minority, in that I LOVE the Londinium episodes. However, Yvonne Craig's opinions are validated by similar stories told by other actors through the years. In fact, Lucie Arnaz shares extremely similar comments about working with him on a 1970 episode of Here's Lucy. I don't know what Lucille Ball herself thought about Rudy Vallee, but Lucie didn't enjoy making the show & is very up front about it. Rudy, sadly, was simply someone who was a little too egocentric & full of himself, despite being able to play affable characters when the cameras are rolling!
Why did he have the organ theme song? Bookworm had it too
I tend to believe that he was churlish. As a kid I thought that all the characters on Batman were good. They were all funny. But the older I get and the more you see behind the scenes too often people inhale praises from those working for them and their fans, then believe all of it. It's sad. Too bad he made working conditions hard. I love Glyniss. I hope she was nice to everyone!
She's still alive at age 97.
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P L is correct. Glynis Johns just turned 97 on Oct 5.
@@PaulTesta He was talking about Yvonne Craig
P L: Who were you referring to when you said, "She's still alive at age 97," Glynis Johns or Yvonne Craig?
@@rickrick5041 wow you must be a mind reader cause I didn't get who he was talking about. But Glynis John just turned 97 a week ago so I'm assuming it was her.
I always liked Glynis Johns.
Me too. She did 2 her mermaid movies🧜♀️🧜♀️🧜♀️
Glynis Johns did a very nice Job in the 49th Parallel.
You can take the actor out of "La La Land" but you can't take the "La La Land" out of the actor🤦🏽
That term would fit him.
Thank goodness Miss Craig went on to such a great career. Otherwise, she would seem churlish in her comments regarding a great star.
Rick, by any chance, do you have a favorite TV theme song?
Hi Rick, it isn’t surprising that Rudy Valley was a horses butt. He always thought of himself as the most important person in American culture. He spoke very rudely about his conquests back when he was a singer in the 1920’s. He once sued the city of Beverly Hills because they hadn’t named a street after him. During WW2 he paraded up and down the local streets singing his 1920’s hit Vagabond Lover. The young girls in the 1940’s would laugh at him because he thought he was still a big deal. One of the young girls was my mother. So that’s first hand information. I hope this helps for back ground information.
I did t know all of this but it was very enlightening. Thank you!
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Yes. Rudy Vallee was known as far back as the 1930s as a Class "A" "churl." A Prima Donna. An Ego maniac. A precursor of Jerry Lewis.
Not surprising in the least
So, Rudy didn't do anything to Batgirl outside of make her player not like him.
So, what did he do to Batgirl on set during filming ?
On needs to watch the entire video to find out 😀
@@ricknineg I did watch the video and saw nothing being done to Batgirl on set during filming.
Had read from other celebrities that Rudy was very arrogant. Doesn't surprise me...
Wow, lots of nasty things about Rudy. Just read his Wiki or obituary, what a jagoff!
😂😂😂😂😂 It takes an Italian to tell it like it is... He's a jag off 🤷🏽
He's wearing a wedding ring. What about his long-suffering wife?
She loved him very much!
Maybe he was becoming senile? Depressed? Those are all songs of both.
Shame he was like that.
A big let down!
Really bad S3 episode. 😜
Lol
A Franco-American
WAY TOO MUCH BABBLING...
Wasting your time