Jean is one of those people where the more you see them act and the more you know about them, the more you like them.

When she says they were never apart after that day, she chokes up. RIP Richard Gilliland, one of the great TV character actors.

Jean Smart is a legend!

@bonbon0416

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree! She is awesome!

@josephadiaz8343

2 жыл бұрын

She really is 🤗❤️✌️😎

@doloresbriseno2567

2 жыл бұрын

Love her. Loved her husband. They are both great comic actors. I loved her in Designing Women but she stole the Brady Bunch Movie.

@mlchc9004

3 ай бұрын

world class legend

*My favorite episode was when Charlene reminds Julia how she told off the IRS rep once in a restaurant. She does it by mimicking Julia EXACTLY!!!* 🤣 *”We know who YOU are, Ray Doooon.”* 😂

@freckledone1073

2 жыл бұрын

Raaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy Dooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnn

@jenniferhansen3622

2 жыл бұрын

🤣😂 I love that one too!!

@davidwilson1401

2 жыл бұрын

Especially the mimicked line, “and I want to thank you, RAY DON…..”. Jean is a brilliant actress.

@jenniferhansen3622

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidwilson1401 lol🤣😂

@lisag18

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂

Jean Smart is not only beautiful, but a top, top tier actress! I've always felt she's one of those performers who elevates any project she's involved in.

One of the best shows of that era! They had great chemistry!

I never realized she was married to Richard Gilliland until he died in 2021. What a sweet story.

Jean Smart is a class act. She was so good on designing women and Fraisher she was hilarious!! She is still beautiful and what a beautiful couple, sorry for your loss.

@kyxxit3664

2 жыл бұрын

In Garden State too. She is so funny. I just love her.

@patriciadault8983

2 жыл бұрын

@@kyxxit3664 Haven't seen it yet but can't wait. 😊

Jean was great on Designing Women and absolutely hilarious when she did guest spots on Fraser. She was also fab in Watchmen.

I love the snowed in one and the one when Charlene gets married, the New Years eve when she has her baby, and when they're in the bar and those hillbilly's make them dance. So many good ones!

Watch Jean Smart in Season 2 of Fargo!!! Sooooo brilliant!! She is absolutely fantastic in every project she is a part of. She elevates all other actors with her.

That was one of my favorite shows to watch…soooo good and hysterical!

One of my favorite episodes was with the hillbillies in the bar. That was brilliant. I also enjoyed when Jean Smart met her fiancé Bill’s mother and aunt while staying at Bill’s family home. That was lovely. Oh and lastly, I like the one where Jean is a new mother or several months pregnant (can’t remember), and she fell asleep at an appointment and said her pantyhose were down to her knees and she was walking like John Wayne. 😂 Oh wait one more - when she and Mary Jo are looking for a missing set of pearls and frantically rooting through the salad bar and Charlene puts her hand in the canister of dressing and says to the confused waiter “Is this French or thousand island?” 😂

You know why this clip is extra cool, is because Jean remembers things that happened in a certain season and episode number. I’ve seen countless interviews with casts that can’t remember what season something happened, let alone episode as well

My understanding is Delta told Richard,”Jean thinks you’re cute.” That gave him the nerve to pursue her because he thought she was beautiful and funny.

My favorite episode will always be the one where Julia stands up for Suzanne during her reunion. You could feel the love she had for her sister in that episode through her words. Will always remember her telling Suzanne that it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks of you because most people forget you ten minutes after you die, anyway. I have never forgotten that, and still live by it. Love Jean Smart and all the women that made this show the classic that it now is. Miss those days.

I love this! I would love Hacks to have Delta Burke on as a guest star for a few episodes next season.

I think my favorite episode was titled, "Charlene Quits Her Church". Julia has been nominated to sing the closing hymn for a city-wide choir production--it happens to be "How Great Thou Art" and she doesn't know if she'll be able to hit the high notes. in the meantime, Charlene is trying to convince her pastor that women should be allowed to be preachers and he doesn't agree. The women get together for a dinner and Bernice, their elderly friend who has a little, off most times asks to attend. For every scripture the minister comes up with to prove women should just take a back seat, Bernice throws another Biblical quote back at him that disputes it. The pastor remains unconvinced, and Charlene resigns from her Church. Discouraged, she returns to the office to find Julia having an anxiety attack over her solo, but Charlene explains what she just did and reminds Julia how important it is for women to be represented. Julia gives one of the most moving performances ever and hits that impossible high note that had frightened her. It makes me cry every time I watch it. Jean Smart is an amazing actress.

@kimberlycornelius7911

2 жыл бұрын

The best

@ScireTwins

2 жыл бұрын

You recapped the episode perfectly. I miss sitcoms like this!

@andreaandrea6716

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@oliverhilljr1272

2 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite episodes.

@lisag18

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! Yes! Yes!!!!!

I have a great husband - been married forever. He told me the only woman he’d ever leave me for was Jean Smart. She is classy !

@andreaandrea6716

2 жыл бұрын

Your husband has good taste!

@Kimbersea

2 жыл бұрын

Huzzah! A man of culture!

So happy to see interview with Jean Smart I love her and all the cast of Designing Women..Great show!

LOVE Hacks--so fresh & contemporary. Jean Smart delivers! A+++!!!

She looks stunning!!!

I love her she is in an HBO Max series Hacks and she’s awesome.

Oh I LOVE this SO much!! I grew up watching Designing Women on homemade vhs tapes with my wonderful grandmother at her house every time I visited her and we’d just laugh and laugh! Plus, it was the FIRST show she introduced me to that dealt with women’s issues at a time that so great did! Now I’ve seen more Golden Girls and Maude, of course, and all were classics but Designing Women holds a special place in my heart because of my grandmother! ❤️❤️ I really loved how all the shows tackled women’s health like Dorothy telling off that former doctor that dismissed her in that now ICONIC scene from Golden Girls and the way Julie AND Suzanne supported Charlene when she was going through her Breast Cancer scare and that awful doctor who was telling her to “just come back in 6 months, it’s probably nothing and just let ME worry about it” and other bs like that dismissed Charlene from his practice for daring to ask for a referral for a second opinion and how Julia got his name, realized he was the SAME doctor that dismissed her cousin’s concerns who died from HIS horrible treatment of not listening to her about the lump on her breast sooner and how Julia went down to that office to tear him a new one AND let him know he was being reported to the state medical board!! 👏🏻👏🏻 That was definitely ICONIC too!! And I also LOVED when Charlene and Julia were speaking out against the Southern Baptists’ outdated views on how “women shouldn’t become Pastors and dead the Gospel!” 😠😠 It was SO emotional for Charlene to leave her church and pastor that had been there for her for years but she did it BECAUSE they wouldn’t support women becoming pastors! And when he tried to say, “I don’t think it’s up to us to question God’s wisdom.” and Charlene goes, “I’m not. I’m questioning YOURS!” Yessss!! LOVED IT!! 👏🏻👏🏻 Or when Bernice can quote more Scripture than another man who didn’t think women should become pastors and also quoted the ORIGINAL translations and pointed out how many versions of The Bible had been “translated” by men of a certain time period who clearly thought little of women and it left the guy speechless until the audience was roaring with thunderous applause! 🎉🎉

@emmymorris7648

2 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the classic “The Nights Went Out In Georgia” scene or the hilarious nudist colony episode where they don’t know where to look and Mary Jo says, “Off the top of my head, I’m thinking anything wicker will be a bad idea!” 😆😆 Obviously I never saw that one until I was an adult, but now it’s one of my favorites! Or when Mary Jo got robbed and they took a self defense class together and the next year, she saw the mugger as a waiter at a kid’s pizza place and struggled with so much PTSD as she tried to be certain before turning him in etc. Or when Mary Jo was advocating safe sex be taught in sex Ed class instead of just abstinence and they were calling her “The Condom Mom” or something like that. Or when they were working with a young friend if they’d who was a man who got AIDS from a transfusion and they didn’t treat him any differently and a woman Julia had known a long time as their boys went to school together jumped to the con kid him that he got AIDS because he was gay (he was gay but that had nothing to do with how he got AIDS and even if it had, he and anyone else going through such horrible things did NOT deserved to shunned and blamed that way!! 😡😡 And that awful woman actually said as far as SHE was concerned he was “being punished for being sinful” and stupid, hate-filled, ignorant bs like that and Julia went into one of her famous speeches before she sent that woman packing! Oh it was a brilliantly done scene! They handled such difficult topics SO WELL!! And they even had Suzanne stand up for Anthony in that one where they got stuck in the blizzard on the way to St. Louis and that horrible hotel owner jumped to the conclusion that they were an “unmarried inter racial couple” and treated them so terribly, wanting to throw them out in the middle of that blizzard?! Or when Suzanne went back to her high school reunion and overheard all those catty women in the bathroom fiddling and sniggering cruelly shoot her weight gain and it was SUZANNE’S turn to make a speech up on that stage when she was voted “Most Changed” or something but they meant it as a dig and she spoke passionately and seriously upon the subject of her weight and the bullies! Oh it’s one of the countless speeches that give me goosebumps and as much as I love Julia’s rants, I LOVE that they had SUZANNE standing up for herself and having the speech that time! 👏🏻👏🏻 Or when Charlene figured out her cousins was being hit by her husband and they all talked to her and gave her and her daughters and the baby she was expecting a safe place to get away from him! Yes, watching it now as an older adult, I do see some of the issues with the that episode like Suzanne doing black face even no one else was for their part of the talent show and how it ended with the cousin and girls getting there with their bags like it was all going to be OK, when we certainly know THAT cannot be resolved in a 30 minute sit com! But still, they were one of the first shows to TALK about domestic violence, breast cancer, dismissive male doctors, menopause, weight, religious men in power not wanting to share that power with women, full term wit bing moms turning on moms that did not have a job outside of the home or “only” worked part time, how hard it was to get child support on time from school scumbag like Ted that I’m still amazed Scott Bakula played so convincingly when I see those episodes now as an adult, being a single mom and working and raising kids after a divorce or becoming a widow and all the things Anthony went through! They did a heck of a job addressing all sorts of issues on this show with a mixture of serious and thought provoking moments and side splittingly hilarious moments too! And itis STILL one of my favorite, nostalgia, feel good shows of my childhood and always makes me think harder, smile, laugh AND think of those fun memories with my grandma! 😃😃

I LOVE Jean Smart.

That episode that Kelly is talking about is my favorite episode. They had went away on a trip to some cabins and they all took a date. All the couples were fighting except Charlene and her fiancé. They eventually made up and danced to some country song that just went right with the show. Best episode ever!!!

@chrisparker7256

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, many consider Reservations for Eight the best episode of the series. It's in my Top 11 (couldn't stop at 10!) along with They Shoot Fat People Don't They, Killing All The Right People, How Great Thou Art, La Place sans Souci, Working Mother, Keep The Home Fires Burning, The Rowdy Girls, First Day of the Last Decade of the 20th Century 1 & 2, The Candidate, & Come On and Marry Me Bill. I honestly never realized how many of my favorites were (mostly) Charlene episodes.

@calvthomas6153

2 жыл бұрын

My fav (I have many), was the episode when they all went away to the beach with the men, and they hired that Swedish nanny. Hilarious!

Love her dress

My favorite show of all time!! Love Jean Smart!!

That show to me is one of the best on television EVER. The cast was fabulous, the stories, the ahead-of-it's-time unashamed feminism, and, of course, this beautiful, lifelong love story that is Jean Smart and Richard Gilliland. A fantastic actor.

She's a legend and beautiful! 😍❤️ Just like Jean Smart!

Kelly has got good roots, and an old soul. I love that about her. She’s very nostalgic, sympathetic conscientious to her guests. She’s not all about the glitz and glamour, very down to earth, which makes her very likable!!

My favorite episode is the one where Julia tells off Marjorie for making fun of Suzanne.

@ML-xh6rd

2 жыл бұрын

One of the most iconic monologues in television history. I watch it from time to time here on YT because Dixie Carter is in her top form as Julia Sugarbaker in that episode and is the big sister we all wish we had.

I like her bright outfit I'm definitely feeling it

I think Jean Smart is a tremendous artist. Her work is flawless.

@andreaandrea6716

2 жыл бұрын

Did you mean flawless?

@charlessweeting9669

2 жыл бұрын

Sorry auto-correct.

@andreaandrea6716

2 жыл бұрын

@@charlessweeting9669 That's what I thought! (I hate auto-correct!! I disable it).

"Happy birthday to me!" I loved that episode also.

Favorite episode was when Julia stood up for Suzanne, and gave the "and that's the night the lights went out in Georgia" speech. Second favorite was Julia's school prayer speech.

Jean was always my favorite on the show! 🌼

My favorites are her friend who was abused by her husband and also the episode where she finds out her childhood friend is a madam and they are redecorating her house. She was wonderful in both of those!

@PJChgo1

25 күн бұрын

Yes, "The Rowdy Girls" with Kim Zimmer from Guiding Light as the abused wife. And they were all performing a Supremes number (somehow).

Kelly is cracking me up, back in those days it absolutely was NOT rare for two lovebugs to talk on the phone for 2 hours a stretch- heck, that's part of how you got to know each other and fall more deeply in love, lol! 🥰🥰🥰

Bernice singing “BLACK MAN! BLACK MAN! WHERE DID YOU CONE FROM?” Although Bernice only actually appeared in a handful of episodes, Alice Ghostly gave such an amazing performance that she seemed a weekly cast member. And of course, who can forget the lovely Louise Lathem who played Julia’s & Susanne’s mother “Perkey”, who is our introduction to the wonderful insanity of Bernice Clifton. Hands down, THE BEST AND MOST MEMORABLE CAST MEMBER OF ALL!

@lisag18

2 жыл бұрын

😂😂 Anthony: Bernice , what are you singing about?!

@Nacho-Mamma

2 жыл бұрын

@@lisag18 I loved Alice Ghostly in just about everything she was in. Especially Aunt Clara in “Bewitched”.

Such a great clip thanks. But was dying to hear more! Who doesn't love a crazy romantic love story???

Designing Women still holds up. Coincidentally enough, just l had just introduced my DIL to that show a few days before seeing this KCS. She said she plans on binge-watching the whole thing now lol.

Love Jean Smart!🩷

I liked the one where Jean Smart (Charlene) dreams she is a singer during WW2.

Such a lovely voice too !

Reservations For Eight has always been my favorite episode from the dialogue to Charley Pride singing You’re So Good When You’re Bad! They had lots of great shows. Every show with Anthony in it was solid gold too! If he and Suzanne were in it together then you knew you were going to laugh your head off watching those two interact. So funny and clean!❤

I loved that show. I didn't know until recently that her real husband was playing Annie Potts boyfriend on the show. Wow, talk about acting!

I absolutely love Jean Smart, beautiful, classy woman

Jean is the best of the best.

Her character in Fraiser was brilliant!

Love her ❤️❤️❤️

I first remember her husband as Jonesy on the Waltons--one of my favorite Waltons characters ever.

I loved watching Designing Women and still do. I have been watching the reruns on Tubi here lately. I love the one Kelly is talking about, but I love the one where they have a New Years Eve Party. They had the Christmas tree still decorated and Jean Smart's ( Charlene's ) dress was so gorgeous...!! They all had the most beautiful clothes that they wore on the show, but that black dress she was wearing with the red underneath it at the bottom of dress was absolutely gorgeous....!!❤ There's so many other episodes I loved too. It will always be one of my favorite shows. ❤❤❤❤ I met Gerald McRainy ( Dash , Suzanne's boy friend and Delta's husband in real life ) and I got an autographrf picture of him one time at a car show in Atlanta. It was back in the late 80's and I was only about 16 or 17 at the time. I believe Chuck Berry or Little Richard was there too.

Jean Smart is ridiculous pretty. She is not underrated as an actor. Hollywood knows she is great. She just needs a great part to get on "The Walk". She is not a bit player. Hacks is good but she needs a movie roll lead.

She is a pretty lady. Love her.

She stated the episode where she met her husband and I immediately agreed thinking of Charlene's husband, Bill. I thought that episode was so romantic and he was such a handsome gentleman for our over trusting, pipe dreaming Charlene. It took me a moment to realize she was talking about her real life husband, Richard Gillian (RIP).

Love her in Hacks! 💕

I ❤️ her!

Love her.

And she did such a great job as the First Lady Mrs. Logan on the series "24".

I also loved her on Frasier

So elegant, she’s a beauty ..love her in Fargo !

My favorite is also Reservations for Eight. Top notch!

Iconique queen!

That was Such a good show. So funny

Jean was also fantastic as the First Lady on 24.

Love Jean Smart on Designing woman,she was something else,so funny and beautiful , she still a beautiful woman !

I love ❤️ Jean Smart and Designing Women

I love everything Jean's on! love Hacks

Great show.

It's amazing to read a script 30 years old. Oh kelly you can be more...more 😂

She’s so beautiful!

Love her!

Amazing woman

Jean Smart is so fabulous in Hacks!!

Love Jean Smart.

I saw the “table read” on KZread. Very cool idea. As she said, sadly Dixie is no longer with us, so obviously she couldn’t participate. But I was curious as to why Delta wasn’t there. 🤔🤔

@Nunofurdambiznez

2 жыл бұрын

Delta has gained so much weight that she very very seldom will go out in public. She's tipping the scales at close to 350lbs..

@der22672

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nunofurdambiznez Really? You have proof or are you just being a jerk about someone’s weight? 🙄🙄

@harperstacey9604

2 жыл бұрын

@@Nunofurdambiznez that's too much weight for Delta Burke. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

@cecegiles7286

2 жыл бұрын

Delta couldn't get along with the producers. They had ongoing fights

@harperstacey9604

2 жыл бұрын

@@cecegiles7286 the producers wanted Delta Burke to lose weight. From Ms. Harper Stacey.

Beautiful, smart and funny.

She looks fantastic 💞👍

The episode where Julia was trying to let loose, so she would order these sultry outfits and go off and sing at a piano bar - upon speculation, Charlene says: "...what if she's developed a split personality and she doesn't even know it. I mean c'mon, don't you people watch 'One Life to Live'?!" That, and the celebrity guardian angel is when I knew Charlene was my character, lol

loved n the show..n some lifetime movies

I love designing women

She's kind of like Laurie Metcalf. All raw TALENT while quietly mastering... actually killing it (their craft) decade after decade. Nothing pretentious, high maintenance diva-eaque, attention seeking. All about the quality*work. You'd never know by how UN- assuming she is she's been sweeping every major acting award. I also love it when they OWN & embrace their beginnings (early work that put them on the map) vs blacklisting it, or being dismissive at best.

One of my top favorites is the episode where they mistakenly sign a contract to decorate a brothel.

Well, looks like I need to rewatch Designing women. Again. lol

I wish Jean Smart, Delta Burke, and Annie Potts (as Meemaw) would do a "Designing Women" reunion in the Big Bang Theory franchise. They would be part of an episode plot or subplot, and the characters would be watching "Designing Women" making tongue in cheek comments of the show and actors/characters during the tag.

I love Jean And she’s still gorgeous

@kathleenl.7125

2 жыл бұрын

Her inner beauty surpasses even what we can see.

I loved her on Frasier. She was so obnoxious I laughed and laughed.

Charlene Frazier!!! My favorite! Love her so much!

When Charlene has the shopping spree and takes EVERYTHING.

I love the one when Charlene wants to be a preacher.

I remember her most from Fraisier.

And her husband passed. So sad...he was so special

I can't hear Jean's voice and not flashback to Charlene.

I'm not actually going to watch this lol...but for some reason it popped up in my feed, and I just have to say, she was REALLY great in Fargo. I remembered her from Designing Women but let's be honest, that's utter fluff acting. Fargo she showed what she can really do. Always interesting when that happens

GREAT cast and scripts! Wasn't Ray Charles in the opening credits too?!

She worked wonders with a small part in Bruce Willis’ “The Kid” (2000), as Southern Belle TV Anchor transplanted to a Northern Big City “Deidre Lefever”. “Don’t lose the southern accent, make it even drippier…”

My sympathies on the loss of her Husband Richard but It seems they had many happy years together.

That suit is Sharp.

Love jean