A Woman Accusing Him of Sexual Harrassment
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Larry Linville
richard.fuller1 — 19 years ago(June 06, 2006 05:50 PM)
There was a woman who was very buxomed, and she was on Phil Donahue's show way, way back.
She had been on a cable show like Wayne's World, real low budget, filmed in an empty studio. No idea what it was supposed to be about, the show, that is. She got up to do a dance on this show. She was in a mini-skirt, had on a jacket and as I said, she had some breasts on her.
I think the guy hosting this silly show was her husband or boyfriend.
She starts to dance, very badly, but those breasts began moving.
Now I don't think she was trying to be lewd or anything, but the show was cancelled because of her dancing and her breasts. She had no phenomenal cleavage showing.
Beth Smith on "Dog: Bounty Hunter" is bigger than this woman was and Beth has shown more cleavage.
So this is why they were on Donahue, and she just did a lot of Roseanne Barr yelling, nothing really to listen to.
Later on, months or years, she would appear somewhere with Larry Linville, and ol' Frank Burns began mugging for the camera and placed his hands in front of her breasts.
You could see his hands were not grasping or squeezing her breasts. He was doing Frank Burns with a buxomed woman.
I guess there was no video, only still pictures.
Next thing you know, the woman was on one of the tabloid shows, says that Linville was 'wrenching her breasts!' and she was suing.
She actually tried to say that she gave a condescending, cynical smile and said "isnt someone going to call the police?" to explain why she was smiling in the photographs.
It was so unpleasant to see Frank Burns have to go thru that. He did comment on her in the tabloid program and all he would say about her was she needed to get help.
Never did hear if anything came of it, but I doubt it did. -
saberlee44 — 19 years ago(September 03, 2006 09:59 AM)
I never heard this story before.
I met Larry Linville in Florida years ago where he was doing a play. I spoke with him for quite a while after the show and he was a true gentleman, one of the nicest, kindest people I'd met in a long time. My liking him has nothing to do with whether or not this is true, but the sense that I got from him was not one of a man who indulged in this kind of behavior. Since he's gone, I just wanted to put in my two cents. I think if there was a real case here, more people would have heard of it.
Rest in Peace, Larry! -
richard.fuller1 — 19 years ago(September 03, 2006 10:56 AM)
If the woman even filed any kind of charges, it was after she saw the photographs, obvio5b4usly, and she decided she could misconstrue how they looked.
Linville had gone on to other things and was probably way, way off when he heard the charges.
At best, she probably made the accusations and filed sexual harrassment, but clearly nothing came of it.
I doubt Linville even appeared in court over it, as the woman's expressions in the (several!) photographs gave no hint of a woman under duress. No doubt he simply let his lawyers tend to it, and the woman probably realized it would be better to let the whole thing be dismissed because she stood no chance.
If she got any money at all, it was a settlement out of court, but I doubt she got anything.
There would be all kinds of witnesses who would verify what took place, from the photographer at the shoot alone.
I've just never forgotten her attempt at trying to sway why she was smiling in the pictures with "isn't anyone going to call the police?"
Like she was going to try to say that once Larry starts (her words) 'wrenching' her breasts, someone was going to just go wide-eyed and go call a cop and the officer was going to run in and slap the cuffs on Larry.
What amazed me most about Linville was after MASH, he would appear on Love Boat, of all shows, twice, once with Charo and once with Gunilla Hutton, and he was simply wonderful both times with these very beautiful women.
The Gunilla Hutt111con episode, where as cons, they had acquired a large amount of money, Hutton had fallen in love with him and now that they had the money, Linville said they would no longer be together.
Hutton stood and donated her share of the money to an orphanage that was traveling on the ship.
Much applause, then Linville stood.
"She made a mistake. She didn't mean to say she was donating 35000 dollars (her share)," Linville said, then paused.
"She meant to say she was donating . . . . . 70000 dollars!" which was his share along with hers.
Wonderful episode.