Four different roles on "Golden Girls", three roles on "General Hospital" and two on *Designing Women", and of course "Marnie" and "Star Trek", Meg Wyllie is the perfect example of the adorable older character actress who just oozed loveable everytime you'd see her, even when playing feisty or a bit wicked. You expect to see her with a tweety bird and umbrella. Here, in her second role on "Designing Women" (having been one of the wilderness girls), she's Mary Jo's old art teacher, now 85 and in a Shady Pines like retirement home complete with Nurse DeFarge like health professional. She is joined by Dona Hardy as the feisty Mrs. Chesley who gives Suzanne a hard time when she visits after they escape from "the home". Wyllie, as the delightfully independent Eulalie, is dignified but her own woman. Charlene gets a minor story with baby Olivia going to audition for an agent for commercials, and Suzanne making a ridiculous looking baby wig that Mrs. Chesley calls a dead rodent on the coffee table. Julia has a great scene describing her experience hosting Mrs. Chesley. Hardy is very funny, and the script non-stop laughs. Too bad that Wyllie and Hardy didn't return, or perhaps Hardy was just afraid that the mean girl would take her seat.
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