Stoddard's brother, Roger Collins, played by Louis Edmonds & his young pre-teen son, David, played by David Henesy.
Stoddard, mysteriously missing for twenty years or so, is presumed dead. There was Elizabeth Collins Stoddard & her grown, 20something daughter Carolyn, played by Nancy Barrett who lived on the family estate/mansion Collinwood. The initial modern Collins family was not a traditional nuclear family. The Collins family live in the coastal town of Collinsport, somewhere on the coast of Maine. The show is a true American Gothic original. But the show is so much more than its fashion. Bennett's upswept hairdos & flowing chiffon dresses or tailored skirt/blouse 'sets' to the younger womens' minis & long flip hair styles, the show's a veritable time capsule of retro chic. Closing credits of the shows always had."Fashions by Orbachs." The show is great for, if nothing else, a study in late 60s early 70s fashion sensibilities. Bennett wore on the show were the real thing from Ms.
Bennett's 'old' Hollywood trained voice & poise gave the show glamour.
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Former movie star Joan Bennett, headlined the show as the Collin's family matriarch, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard. Still, this only helped to give the show a theatrical feel, as if you were sitting in the audience watching a live piece of theatre which consequently endowed the show a certain prestige that typical soap operas never achieved. The show is famous for the occasional slip-up: crew visible on screen, a boom-mike shown above the actors' heads, actors struggling to remember their lines or actors calling another character by their wrong name. Only the most catastrophic of events would cause producers to re-shoot a scene. Though not 'run' live, the show was taped with almost no interruptions so it 'felt' live. Originally airing in the afternoon in 1966 as a half hour "Gothic" soap opera then a few months later morphing into pure supernatural story telling, Dark Shadows is unique in American television.
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