Actress Natalie Schafer, who played Lovey Howell, had a contractual clause that there would be no closeups of her during taping of the series. Why?

As an actress in Hollywood, Natalie Schafer worked hard to keep her age a secret. Even her closest friends didn't know her age, thinking she was born in 1912, when she actually born 12 years earlier, in 1900. That would have made her 63 at the time of the filming of the pilot.

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