Top 10 Heartwarming Behind the Scenes Cast Stories

[@MsMojo]

Do you have any other heartwarming behind-the-scenes stories to share? Warm all our hearts by dropping them in the comments!

[@kamsismith]

Lucille Ball fought to have her husband, Desi Arnaz as the lead in I Love Lucy when network executives refused to air a sitcom about an interracial couple.

[@samday2534]

The modern family cast protecting Ariel winter from her crazy mother and helping Sarah hyland when sick and her now husband asking Julie Bowen and Ty Berrell for permission to marry her

[@jameswolf133]

Barbara Billingsley became friends with Al White and Norman Gibbs after they were in the juvenile talking scene in ‘Airplane.’

[@Omar-wq9dz]

I love the Mara Wilson story where Danny Devito and Rhea Perlman watched over her during Matilda, and Robin Williams keeping in touch with her until his death

[@girlishgamer1]

Robin was a gem.

[@tmoore4075]

The Matilda story with DeVito taking a rough cut to show to her mother. That had to mean so much to her.

[@marissamay8527]

Here's another Robin Williams story! During the filming of Jumanji, Robin Williams helped defend one of the child stars Bradley Pierce from the overbearing and demanding producers during the making of the movie. The producers wanted Pierce to work overtime, but Williams stood up to them and protected him.

[@vickicole4787]

Alan Rickman being a sweetheart doesn't surprise me at all. One of the few actors that you never heard a bad word about.

[@user-qt6zl9oi8t]

So sad he's gone 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@trinaq]

I love that the six main Friends were so close in real life, and they even paid for Matthew Perry to attend rehab.

[@Nightcore-336]

RIP Matthew/Chandler 🕊️

[@user-qt6zl9oi8t]

I ❤ Alan Rickman its been 8 years and I still miss him so much 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@kamsismith]

Danny DeVito being there for Mara Wilson when her mom died from cancer and as a gift to her, her mother was featured in the in-memoriam section in the end credits and her mom was able to see the final version before her death and before the movie came out to the general public.

[@brianagrzybowski4734]

When the Big Bang Theory final episode was being taped and Penny and Leonard announce they’re having a baby, Johnny Galecki actually was an expecting dad. His son was born later that year. His excitement in that scene was him channeling his real emotions about starting his family.

[@celticpoet21]

Cool list! When Vincent Price was making the film "diary of a mad-man", his less experienced (at the time) female co-star Nancy Kovack was a fan and a bit intimidated to be working with him, but he was a lovely, kind and respectful gentleman. In fact, just before they shot her character's big murder scene, Vincent tried to break the tension by tickling her.

[@moonbeamsun9066]

The story for why Sean Connery did the sci fi film Zardoz is really sweet. Apparently the town the movie was filmed in, County Wicklow in Ireland, had suffered a severe economic collapse due to the town’s main job source being destroyed in a fire, and the town was at risk of being completely abandoned and the townspeople were struggling to find work. Wanting to help, Sean agreed to do the movie but only if the locals were hired to help with the cast and crew jobs and the film was made in County Wicklow. This choice saved the town’s economy and helped it stay alive and running.

[@Michaela1942]

When I was at Columbia Pics in the 1980s, we had a film - Richard Pryor Live on the Sunset Strip - which was based on his stand up performance about nearly burning himself to death while free-basing. The night of the actual performance which was to be filmed, Pryor was beyond nervous and scared - so scared that everyone but his own people were instructed to stay out of his sight until after the performance. Of course, finally someone had to let him know when it was time to go onstage and guess who was selected to do it - me. I knocked on his dressing gently. Robin Williams opened the door to me and smiled. He had been in the room all afternoon calming Pryor. I gave him the word that it was time and then scooted away. All went very well that night and Pryor was great. Robin Williams never took any credit for it of course (which was his way of being) but I know what a big part he played in the success of the night - and the film.

[@emiliobello2538]

What about how Clark Gable opposed segregation and treated Hattie McDaniel as equal?

[@Viglin123]

Yur but he also did some evil things that counter that

[@orbison]

Here's a better one: James Cagney became friends with Hattie so much that he was the only Hollywood star to attend Hattie's funeral.

[@emiliobello2538]

@@orbison wow

[@emiliobello2538]

@@Viglin123 such as?

[@emiliobello2538]

@@orbison and he opposed segregation too

[@alexmarshall2195]

Probably not a very well known tv series but after doing Earth 2, Clancy Brown set up a fundraiser for his onscreen daughter, J Madison Wright who needed a heart operation and bought her a laptop that Christmas.

[@voutsider190]

I didn't know that! Always been a fan of his

[@marcieotto8600]

I heard that Robin insisted that homeless would be hired as extras. ❤️

[@Mcb0223]

How did the Santa who learned ASL for the Miracle on 34th Street reboot miss the list!

[@aliservan7188]

Every time I watch Love Actually, I can't help but think of Dogma

[@beautifulmidnight]

I had the same thought seeing the Alan Rickman segment here. I remember Kevin telling the story about Jay basically memorizing the script because he didn’t want to fuck up in front of “that Rickman guy”

[@alyzu4755]

Going a little farther back, during filming of "The Phantom of the Opera" (the silent 1925 version) Mary Philbin, who played Christine, was pretty inexperienced and having trouble in the role. Lon Chaney, who played the Phantom, quietly took her under his wing and coached her. She then asked him to be on set for every film she did after that, and he obliged.

[@cheyennebrennan966]

ME: _Hearing 'warnings' all throughout about crying & emotions:_ Huh...I guess I'll be okay. *No. 3 Alan Rickman Being an All-Round Sweetheart.* ME: 😭😭😭😭❤❤❤❤

[@Buggy-su4oy]

Seeing behind the scenes of cartoon recording sessions like SpongeBob and Futurama and watching the cast joke, improvise and feed off of each other.😊

[@Buggy-su4oy]

Catherine O'Hara's concern for a young Mac Culkin when she saw that he wasn't getting to have a real childhood due to having to work all the time.

[@samuelcollantes1175]

Happy monday afternoon, Kirsten, take care and God bless you. Greetings from Colombia to you as well

[@dlmbs]

Hi, the MsMojo/The Good Place fan here, in addition to Manny getting D'arcy the J+J necklace, I believe in the same interview, Ted got the wallet Janet gave Michael to before he went to Earth as a human. He said it has a picture of the main cast.

[@adriangarcia543]

Nice list

[@orbison]

Here's one of my favorites: Andy Griffith famously had a very close friendship with Don Knotts. On the last day Don worked as a series regular on The Andy Griffith Show, the two guys, as per they usual habit, stuck around on the set after filming to chat with each other and have some laughs. At one point, both guys looked around and realized that the entire set was empty. Usually, some cast and crew also stuck around after filming and sometimes joined the two. Don and Andy realized that everyone quietly left because they understood how close the two men were and wanted to give them their space to say goodbye to each other.

[@timothylyons1529]

its nice to hear positive behind the scenes instead of all those negative ones

[@hectorsmommy1717]

Another great one from the Harry Potter films: Richard Griffiths, who played Uncle Vernon, took Daniel Radcliffe under his wing during the filming. They spent a fair amount of time together on the set and he mentored Radcliffe both in life and in acting. Radcliffe's first stage performance was in the play "Equus" co-starring Griffiths and it included full-frontal nudity. Radcliffe said many times he wouldn't have had the nerve if it wasn't for Griffiths calming presence.

[@PrincessofPower84]

-Margaret Hamilton, in spite of playing the iconic Wicked Witch of the West, was a sweetheart and a former teacher who also championed for animals. She was universally loved by the cast, especially Judy Garland, whom she also protected on the set. -Albert "Cubby" Broccoli learned about the lousy food and conditions on the set of The Spy Who Loved Me and he not only arranged to have home-cooked Italian food shipped to the set out of his own pocket, but he made it himself.

[@jessicajayes8326]

Danny DeVito is an angel!

[@beautifulmidnight]

God, Alan Rickman seemed like such a genuinely good soul. I bet he would’ve had some things to say to JK Rowling.

[@jackiebraile6484]

My mom is a huge fan of F.R.I.E.N.D.S!! When Matthew Perry died, my mom said: “They were a group! Now, it’s broken up!” 🥺☕

[@MissCharlotte75]

On the last show of Mash, Charles Ogden Stier wrote his own number in the book of poetry to Loretta Swit. Boris Karloff became friends with the little girl who played against him in one of his movies.

[@MissCharlotte75]

During the production of Frankenstein (1931) there was some concern that 7-year-old Marilyn Harris who played Maria, the little girl who was thrown into the lake by the Frankenstein Monster and then drowned, would be overly frightened by the sight of Karloff in his makeup and costume when it came time to shoot the scene. When the cast was assembled to travel to the location, Marilyn ran from her car directly up to Karloff, who was in full makeup and costume, took his hand and asked "May I drive with you?". Delighted, and in typical Karloff fashion, he responded, "Would you, darling?". She then rode to the location with "the Monster".

[@MissCharlotte75]

Goodbye, Farewell and Amen (1983) In an undated interview, Loretta Swit stated that she often teased David Ogden Stiers' being rather reclusive, particularly that she didn't even know his phone number. In the episode, Winchester gives a particular book of poetry to Houlihan. When Swit opened the book during filming, there was a slip of paper with Stiers' phone number on it. As Margaret/Loretta is leaving camp, waving her right hand, Winchester/David puts his right hand on his heart, an old gesture of respect.

[@frederickseltzerjr2170]

Love the stories but where was what Steven Spielberg did for Drew Barrymore while on lunch breaks filming "E.T.?" COME ON #MsMojo !!! The cast, particularly Drew, recounts that during lunch breaks, Drew (who thought E.T. was a real life creature) would take her lunch over by where the costume was and talk to it as if E.T. could hear and understand her. When Spielberg was made aware of this, he made sure that someone was always in the costume to move and respond to Drew at those lunch breaks!!

[@Buggy-su4oy]

Also Catherine hating having to get angry at Mac when scolding him for acting like a brat during the pizza scene in Home Alone.😊

[@KristineElizabethKraycer]

I heard the opposite about the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. He had such an ego and got the woman who played the first mom fired and blacklisted. She had no money trying to raise her children. He apologized at a reunion special. A little too late if you ask me.

[@BlueB360]

Moral of the story (for number 4 anyway): In an industry filled with Cordens, Shatners, and Degeneres’, be a Danny Devito.