Think about a world the place Seinfeld captured the adventures of Jerry, George, Kramer and … Claire? That nearly got here to be. In a bit of tv “What if?” trivia, it was Lee Garlington , moderately than Julia Louis-Dreyfus, who initially appeared as the primary feminine character reverse Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander and Michael Richards within the pilot episode of the “present about nothing.”
Garlington, 72, had accrued a handful of noteworthy roles within the Eighties, showing in movies like Psycho II, Cobra, and Area of Goals and exhibits like Sledge Hammer!, Hill Avenue Blues and The Golden Ladies. And in 1989, she landed the a part of Claire in a present referred to as The Seinfeld Chronicles. Garlington performed a waitress at Pete’s Luncheonette who was a buddy of George Costanza. However, check audiences didn’t react effectively to the pilot basically, forcing the present’s creators to make some main adjustments.