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This slim young guy Richard Chamberlain, who gets so much of the fan mail at NBC, turns out to be a blunt-spoken bloke who speaks right out — particularly about "Dr. Kildare."
Chamberlain, who got famous playing Kildare, doesn't always like Kildare.
"He's grown up this year," he said. "But last year I had the feeling I wouldn't trust this guy near me with a stethoscope. . . ."
Let alone with a surgical instrument! Chamberlain, last year, would have preferred to be operated upon by Dr. Ben Casey.
The six-foot-one, milk-drinking, beef-eating, 26-year-old TV hero con
fessed this as we had dinner at the Plaza Oak Room in New York. . . . "They are writing Kildare a little better than last year," he said, while being constantly interrupted — even in the smart Oak Room — for autographs. "When we come to a point in the story where he has to be incredibly naive, I sometimes speak up. . . ." He doesn't say to the writers. "Hey, this is lousy!" Instead: "When something doesn't feel right, I merely say, 'I think there's room for discussion about this. Why don't we pick it apart?' '
"Somebody has said,'" I told him, "that Dr. Kildare is cornball, whereas Dr. Ben Casey seems to want every operation to be a failure."
"No. no!" said Chamberlain, "I haven't seen Casey a lot. But I think people confuse Vince Edwards' personal image with Dr. Ben Casey. What I've seen have been good. . . . If anything much is wrong with Kildare, it's that he gets too involved with his patients for his own good."
It made Chamberlain a little uncomfortable to be compared with Clark Gable. (An NBC press release had mentioned that MGM reported his fan mail was the greatest since Gable was there.) "I wouldn't particularly like to walk in Gable's footsteps," he said. "He got caught in a personality trap and it nearly drove him mad. He wanted to play other kinds of parts, and couldn't."
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