![]() ![]() ![]() No sooner had she arrived on the show in autumn 1967, as an unassuming servant girl to Barnabas’ fiancée Josette du Prés (played by Scott), when she began casting spells, uttering incantations, turning one foe into a cat and, by the end of the flashback arc, summoning the bat that would curse Barnabas for eternity - all while filling the small screen with her big, stunning blue-green eyes, widened to a maniacally effective extent. Although some cast members had imagined a raven-haired sorceress, producer and creator Curtis apparently saw something in the blond, blue-eyed (or, in some lights, green), Southern-accented Parker that screamed Martinique witch.Īs with most of his gut instincts, Curtis was right. When Curtis and the show’s writers decided to do a six-month story arc set in 1795 to show how Barnabas had become a blood-sucker, they set about finding an actress who could play the witch who had set the curse on him way back when. RELATED: Suzanne Somers Dies: ‘Three’s Company’ Actress And Personal Fitness Guru Was 76 Frid’s storyline changed the show from a moody, Gothic Jane Eyre-type serial into a flat-out horror show. Parker, who also authored four popular Dark Shadows-related novels from 1998-2016, arrived on the supernatural soap opera in 1967, not long after Canadian actor Jonathan Frid had been cast as vampire Barnabas Collins. Christopher Pennock Dies: ‘Dark Shadows’, ‘General Hospital’ Actor Was 76
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