John Shea (10/81 Family Reunion)
Excerpt from The Eugene Register Guard 10/10/81: John Shea | Family Reunion
Bette Davis holds 'reunion'
After reading Allen Sloane's part one script for NBC's fall movie "Family Reunion," Bette announced she would be available for the series version.
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Miss Davis also had a hand in casting. Bette bumped into Hollywood's David Huddleston, and put him in the show alongside Broadway's David Rounds, Paul Rudd, Roy Dotrice, newcomer John Shea and Katharine Walker.
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Excerpt from People 5/24/82: John Shea
Missing's Heartthrob John Shea Is Present and Accounted for in An Off-Broadway Hit
By Lee Wohlfert-Wihlborg May 24, 1982 Vol. 17 No. 20
"I've been lucky," admits Shea. Indeed, he landed work almost as soon as he hit New York. After debuting in the decidedly un-WASPy Broadway play Yentl opposite Tovah Feldshuh, he scored in a string of off-Broadway dramas (Sorrows of Stephen and Safe House) that eventually led him to Hollywood and TV parts in The Last Convertible and most recently Family Reunion with Bette Davis. ("I asked her in her dressing room if she minded if I smoked," he recalls. "She said, 'I can't stand men who don't,' and gave me one of her nonfilters.")
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Excerpt from Sun Sentinel 1/30/85: John Shea
Consequently, Shea chooses to alternate between the stage and movies.
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He also starred with Bette Davis in a made-for-TV movie, Family Reunion. Shea says that ultimately the variety of roles will mean fewer distinctions between movie stars and stage actors. He is content to keep waiting and discriminating.
© Sun Sentinel
Excerpt from DVD 7/21/11: John Shea
Family Reunion
Review by Christopher McQuain | posted July 21, 2011
Family Reunion
Sony Screen Classics by Request // Unrated // March 4, 2011
List Price: $20.95 [Buy now and save at Amazon]
Winfield is a former schoolteacher of the sort that will correct her current and former students' grammar until the very day she dies.
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Fortunately, while in New York visiting family, Elizabeth has run into a former student, James (John Shea, Missing), now a big-city lawyer who is becoming disillusioned with the rat race and is longing for the simple integrity of good old Winfield.
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