John Shea (2/82 It's My Turn)
Excerpt from New York Times 2/12/82: John Shea
AT THE MOVIES; PARIS RECLUSE INSPIRES A FILM ON PREHISTORY.
By Chris Chase Published: February 12, 1982
And he'd also made -and been cut out of - ''It's My Turn,'' the Jill Clayburgh movie. ''What seemed tragic to me at the time - I had to phone my family and friends, it was embarrassing - now seems lucky. I'm really glad that fate saved me for 'Missing,' because, in the end, 'Missing' is a great picture, something I'm proud to be a part of. I've waited a long time for 'Missing.' ''
© New York Times
Excerpt from People 5/24/82: John Shea
Missing's Heartthrob John Shea Is Present and Accounted for in An Off-Broadway Hit
By Lee Wohlfert-Wihlborg May 24, 1982 Vol. 17 No. 20
After a part in Jill Clayburgh's It's My Turn that ended on the cutting room floor, Shea flew back to New York and opened in off-Broadway's American Days.
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Excerpt from Moveable Fest 12/11: John Shea, by SDiner82
Extremely Reduced & Incredibly Diminished: Movie Characters Who Were Cut Out of the Final Film
SDiner82 January 2nd, 2012
Here are two examples from movies I worked on as the Unit Publicist of fine actors who didn’t make the final cut:
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Columbia/Rastar’s 1980 release IT’S MY TURN ran a suspiciously short 89 minutes, with good reason. Dianne Wiest’s major film debut was cut down to a bit part. Even worse, John Shea was completely excised from the release print. And here’s the reason why: Jill Clayburgh (then at her peak after “An Unmarried Woman”) portrayed a Chicago college professor, with a live-in boyfriend (Charles Grodin) and a grad student lover (Shea). When offered a prestigious job teaching at Columbia University, she flies to NYC for an interview-and also to attend her father’s remarriage. At a family dinner at the Tavern on the Green restaurant (the huge interior recreated on a soundstage), Jill meets her mother-in-law-to-be’s son, Michael Douglas, a handsome, cheerfully cynical ex-baseball star, grounded by an injury that ended his career on the mound. The two fall instantly in love, and are soon “going at it” in bed. Which gave Columbia’s male executives a collective stroke. Apparently, it was perfectly okay for a male star to be sleeping with 3 (and more) women, but a female star…NO WAY! So of Ms. Clayburgh’s 3 lovers, John Shea’s character was deemed the most expendable.
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