“The Dick Van Dyke Show” was the pinnacle of TV sitcoms in the 1960s, however, tensions behind the scenes were not so funny.
Late actress Rose Marie, who died in 2017, starred on the CBS comedy alongside icons Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore.
Marie’s daughter, Georgiana “Noopy” Guy Rodrigues, recently got candid about the issues that occurred between the former child star, Moore (who died in 2017) and Van Dyke, 97.
“Mary was up and coming,” Rodrigues told Fox News. “There was a little bit of conflict between my mother and Mary on the show.”
She counted: “Originally, my mother was told that the show was about the writers. And then as the show progressed, it started to go more toward the home life with Dick and Mary.”
“They never became close,” Rodrigues added of her mother and Moore’s relationship.
“The Dick Van Dyke Show” ran on the network for five seasons, beginning in 1961 and ending in 1966.
The series followed the “Mary Poppins” alum as Rob Petrie, a writer of a comedy show produced in New York City, as well as the lives of his family and coworkers. Moore portrayed his wife, Laura, while Marie played man-hungry typist and writer Sally Rogers.
The vaudeville starlet spoke to The Post months before her passing about what her friendship with the “Ordinary People” star was actually like on set.
“We were friendly enough but we weren’t very close,” she said at the time. “Mary knew the minute she did the show how her life was going to be; she wanted to be a big star and she accomplished that.”
“Mary was an artist as far as all of us were concerned because I was like one of the boys,” Marie said.
She added that her co-star Morey Amsterdam, creator Carl Reiner, as well as producers Danny Thomas and Sheldon Leonard “always fit [her] into their group.”
Marie went on: “Mary was strictly feminine, beautiful and young and everyone made a play for her.”
Eventually, Marie and Moore got to “be very close” in 2004 when they did “The Dick Van Dyke Reunion Show.”
“We said to each other that we wasted a lot of time not being that close. So now and then we would write a note, and whenever she came here [to LA] we would go out to lunch,” Marie recalled of their meeting after decades had gone by.
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