Message #263873

[Janelle MacDonald]

DENISE NICKERSON

As Amy Jennings, Denise Nickerson became the on- and offscreen playmate of fellow child actor and "Dark Shadows" co-star David Henesy.

"We had a blast," Nickerson said of working with Henesy.

"We started a little restaurant on the set. We were charging 'em five bucks a day for a hot plate."

But not everything Nickerson and Henesy did on the set was quite so wholesome.

"We spent a lot of time in ('Dark Shadows' co-star) Joan Bennett's dressing room, smoking cigarettes," Nickerson said with a laugh.

"We could do that, because she wore Jungle Gardenia (brand) perfume, which is extremely intense. She bathed in it, practically. You could smell her way before you ever saw her. So her dressing room was a perfect place to smoke. You couldn't smell the smoke through the Jungle Gardenia."

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