Drama films This article is more than 11 years oldLinda Gray: leg on The Graduate poster was mine, not Anne Bancroft's
This article is more than 11 years oldFuture Dallas star who began career as a model was paid $25 to act as body double for unavailable BancroftAs stories go, this one has legs: 46 years after The Graduate was released, Dallas star Linda Gray has claimed the famous pin on the poster as her own, rather than either of those attached to the film's star, Anne Bancroft.
The poster for The Graduate, framed within a peephole, shows a woman rolling on a stocking under the watchful gaze of a barefoot Dustin Hoffman. All that can be seen of her is an arm, a leg and a hand. But the lady to whom these limbs were presumed to belong was apparently unavailable for poster-posing duties.
"I think she was absent that day," said Gray. "I got paid $25. For one leg, that was good."
Gray made the revelations on Anderson Cooper's chat show, where she was speaking about the death of her Dallas co-star Larry Hagman.
Gray began her career as a model before moving into acting. Her early roles included Girl at Pool with Yellow Swimsuit in Palm Springs Weekend (1963) and Miss Engle in Dogs, a horror from 1976 about a pack of pooches that turns psychotic.
The use of body doubles is not as frequent on promo images as in films themselves, but there have been a few key instances. The most famous is the grafting of Julia Roberts's head onto Shelley Michelle's body for the poster for Pretty Woman. There also appears to have been some Photoshop work on Richard Gere's hair.
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