Nurse Gina Rowe
I am assuming she is the same nurse that was walking with the group of people heading towards the bow in the original movie? Any thoughts?
shareYes-it is the same character, but obviously played by much different women. Some people think that there was more than one nurse aboard, but "she" is called "Gina" in a lot of the 1972 production notes, etc. I have wondered why Sheila Allen didnt reprise her role. She showed up in "When Time Ran Out" a year later.
shareI thought that also - Her husband was after all Irwin Allen who did all these films!! Maybe they needed a bigger star so they went for Shirley!
Gina was always my favorite character from "Beyond"...so sweet. I'm glad she was one of the lucky few who made it at the end.
sharedont think she was much of a nurse....in the scene when she popped ms knights dislocated shoulder back into place...she apologised that it would hurt a lot...but she had jus given her smelling salts to revive her first...wouldnt it of been kinder to have left her half unconsious while she did it!!
shareLOL...this is true. Maybe Gina was a sadistic nurse, after all.
shareSheila Allen was never a star. She married the boss, but there was still no indication to use that to her advantage or try to promote her as some low-budget or sitcom available actress, such as what happened with Norma Shearer and Irving Thalberg in the 30s.
She was always a visual presence, in Posiedon, Towering Inferno and When Time Ran Out; each situation was just not where a large, frowsy blonde was supposed to be.
She was also a cheaper Shelly Winters, as Winters eventually became nothing but the same, such as in City On Fire, in which she was a nurse as well.
Shirley Jones had her Oscar as well as Partridge Family recognition (tho from what I recall, Partridge Family was totally forgotten by the late seventies) so she had that appeal.
Sheila Allen was often seen and if the viewer didn't know better, would think it was Shelly Winters again.
Simple recasting with not an inkling that there would be online discussions about it forty years later.