Suzanne Somers on leaving the role of "Chrissy" on Three's Company - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG

[cruzthemuse]

Why NOT negotiate for more? Why not get what the men were making? In the end, she had the balls to go up against the big guns; and learned that, although she lost the immediate battle, she picked herself up and reinvented career---going on to find success again. To sum things up, "he who laughs last, laughs loudest..." Because of her business smarts she is now worth 100 million. She's 65 years old and looking like she's in her 40s. My hats off to her. cruzthemuse

[l337pwnage]

Usually people aren't so much like their character, lol.

[thomasjrbg]

Does anyone feel bad for her because she lost the match trying to strong arm her employer? Suzanne, there is nothing that you have ever done in your life (except raise your babies if you ever did) that is worth $150,000.00 a week and remember folks she was also demanding "a piece of the back end." It's not about what the men were being payed it's a matter of your destitute and personally abhorrent greed.

[Cut3gyrl4lyfe]

Yes she looks hot here!

[FightForUtopia]

There was nothing wrong with her face like this. It was very pretty, even with the "accents", which come naturally. I wish she hadn't stretched it out and lost the shape of her cheeks and the curve of her smile. I hope it snaps back into this shape, so she'll look like herself again.

[mikewalker789]

Other actresses like Brittany Murphy have talked about or been afraid of, some unseen "blacklist" after getting the wrong bigs mad at them - but in Suzanne's case it appears that it was real.

She had ungodly drawing power for ratings in those years, and it's hard to believe nobody would do a new venture - but we all saw how she disappeared from TV, for many years until Step By Step I think.

Others got far wealthier than Suzanne did on her appeal, bur credit her for clawing back for something

[kgmaj]

I like her. I really do. But there is something about her that is not quite authentic. I sense a phoniness. Before all that stuff went down she DID refuse to come to work. The cast had two different scripts. There is some selective memory with her. Did she ever stop to think how the producers were going to pay her and her co-stars $150,000 and a piece of the back end. Was she crazy?

[DA90027]

The Producers of Three's Company Ted Bergman and even his bitch secretary Bea Dallas were all pigs. They treated all the women on that show like dirt. Joyce was too timid to speak up even Priscilla Barnes said they treated her badly. But it was typical of that era the goold old boys network. The ones that are still alive are probably a pain in the ass to their caregivers.

[RICARDOAGUAS]

She wanted to make Alan alda and carrol o connor money John Ritter was the star of the show

[MLP88]

An entire show ~ and entirely written ~ based on a misunderstanding.

Ewe...

[YELLOW42758]

John made $50,000 to Suzanne's $30,000. That's not 10x as much.

She also left out the part where she cost the studio at least 230,000 for a missed taping, and forced them to rewrite a handful of scripts. THAT'S why they let her go.

[agamemnon419]

@YELLOW42758  230,000 is not much in Hollywood

[Brian211978]

in the early 1980s?? Yeah it was!

[mukaikof]

@YELLOW42758 30k per episode is lots of money, Suzanna was just dumb!

[goldengirl67]

I always say: out of the bad will come some good! It is sad that they let her go and the show was never the same but she went onto to do so much more and make more money so good for her. So maybe that was the path she was meant to take albeit not on her terms. She really should have been present though at that meeting so she would have more control and actually see where it was going and maybe it might have turned out differently.

[garycalgary]

the public i am sure would have been infuriated that such a successful actress was treated that badly

Seems odd it was such a funny show yet they had such problems with ignorant childish management

[ncdude367]

It was a hard road for Suzanne Somers, but she ended up having the last laugh .. her success in Las Vegas and then another successful sitcom [on ABC of all places] ... and I give her props for being civil when she talks about that whole situation. :)

[DreamsCumTrue469]

Important story for all to hear. The flip side to Hollywood's glamour has always been the cut throat retaliatory collusion among the studios. Piss anyone off, and you go years without working, if you ever work again. CBS similarly cut #1 sports annnouncer Brent Musburger back in the 1970's over contract issues. He didn't make it back to top game status for at least 10 or 15 years at another network. Many actors beat the game by quitting early after saving money from early success.