AS SEEN ON TV: FRANKIE ADDAMS

For the first day of June, a month known for weddings, I figured the ASOTV showcase should feature a literary TV character associated with one such event.....

FRANKIE ADDAMS

AS SEEN IN:

"The Member Of The Wedding"

CREATED BY:

Carson McCullers

PORTRAYED BY:

Anna Paquin

TV STATUS:

Recastaway

TV LOCATION:

Being the fourth incarnation in the TV Universe, perhaps the 'West Wing' dimension?

From Wikipedia:

"The Member of the Wedding" is a 1946 novel by Southern writer Carson McCullers.

The main action of the novel takes place over a few days in late August. It tells the story of 12-year-old tomboy Frankie Addams, who feels disconnected from the world—an "unjoined person". She dreams of going away with her brother and his bride-to-be on their honeymoon, following them to the Alaskan wilderness. She has no friends in the small Southern town in which she lives. Her mother died giving birth to Frankie and her father is a distant, uncomprehending figure. Her closest companions are the family's African American maid, Berenice Sadie Brown, and her six-year-old cousin, John Henry West.

[McCullers] had originally planned to write a story about a girl who was in love with her piano teacher. Then she had what she called "a divine spark". "Suddenly I said: Frankie is in love with her brother and the bride...The illumination focused the whole book."

The most famous version of the novel was the 1952 movie that kept most of the original cast from the 1950 Broadway play. In both of those, Julie Harris played Frankie.

Here are the other TV versions:

'The DuPont Show of the Month'
- "The Member of the Wedding" (1958) Played by Collin Wilcox Paxton

(This would be the official version for the main Toobworld.)

'ITV Play of the Week'
- "The Member of the Wedding" (1960) Played by Frances Cuka

(Brits for Southerners? Let's make it the Evil Mirror TV Dimension. Just joking, my British friends!)

"The Member of the Wedding" 

(1982) Played by Dana Hill

(Land of the Remakes)

"The Member of the Wedding" 

(1997) Played by Anna Paquin

(And that's how I came to choose the 'West Wing' TV dimension.....)

From the source:

It's hard to believe that about a decade later, Anna Paquin would be starring in a sex-filled, violent, gory TV show like 'True Blood', with Alfre Woodard joining in as a guest star.....

BCnU!