Why did she use the name Augusta Summerland?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Linda Harrison
leetallahassee — 12 years ago(May 19, 2013 05:52 PM)
I remember this lovely lady from "Planet of the Apes," but it never dawned on
me that she a2000lso used the name Augusta Summerland on "Barnaby Jones" and
"Airport 1975."
I see nothing in her IMDB bio about this.
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HowYaLikeDemApplesWill — 11 years ago(June 09, 2014 06:51 AM)
From the Planet of the Apes Wiki
http://planetoftheapes.wikia.com/wiki/Linda_Harrison
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Linda Harrison was to play the sheriff's wife in Jaws (1975), which Zanuck was producing. However, Universal chief Sid Sheinberg wanted his own wife, Lorraine Gary, to have the part, and since Sheinberg was effectively Zanuck's boss, Gary got the part. Around the same time, Harrison filmed the movie Airport 1975, but she was credited under the pseudonym 'Augusta Summerland':
"For one reason or another, I got involved with a guru - which was the 'in' thing at the time. The guru claimed in his cult that you change from who you were born, and so as you can make that change, you need a new name. Unfortunately, this guru wanted to make movies from his own screenplays. And for whatever reason, he put a terrible wedge through my relationship with Dick. It ended that I left Dick."
Whose idea was it for the word "Lisp" to have an "S" in it?