Suzanne Summers and her “Threes Company” actress replacing time in “Dallas”

As a sex symbol, Jennily Harrison wasn’t keen to strip him away.

The actress, who replaced Suzanne Summers with “Threes Company,” posed for the June 1987 Playboy issue. While she was ready for a close-up, Harrison decided to appear in a Hugh Hefner-led magazine on her terms.

Harrison, 67, is co-host for the new podcast. “Stoll Talk” Women of various ages, “Boomer to General Z,” share unfiltered stories and wisdom from personal experiences.

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“On my contract, yes, I’m[Playboy]but I have to be dressed,” Harrison told Fox News Digital.

“So I’ll show up for this photo shoot at the Playboy Building in Beverly Hills and I’ll go into the charging room to do my own makeup and stuff,” recalls Harrison. “And then there’s a photographer who is a very famous photographer. He says, “Are you all ready to go?” And I said, “Yeah, yeah, where’s my wardrobe?” And he looked shocked. No, we’re playing boys. ” And I said, “No, my contract says I’m dressed,” he just was shocked. ”

“So everything stopped,” Harrison continued. “He had to go back to the phone. They had to reorganize and bring their wardrobe… he didn’t know, but I had to fight for it.”

Harrison has become part of a small group of pinups who appeared in Playboy without becoming nude, including Dolly Parton and Barbra Streisand.

Your self-proclaimed tomboy admitted that she struggled to be portrayed as a sex symbol in front of the camera. She wanted to be recognized not only for her beauty, but for her hard work in showbiz.

“I thought of being a sex symbol as just a wardrobe that I had to go to Hollywood and do this job,” she explained.

“Threes Company” actress says she posed for Playboy on her terms

“Your wardrobe is outside of you, but that’s not your core, your soul is not what. But since your wardrobe is an instrument of trade, I had a big wardrobe. I say I had to be a nurse at 10 o’clock. I had to be a secretary at 12 o’clock. The nun had to be all of them.

Harrison revealed that she felt the “blessing” of appearing in Playboy without baring everything. It was one of many amazing moments for her in Hollywood.

“When I was very young – like 19 years old… my agent called me and said, “They want to see you – they “Three Company” replaces Suzanne Summers.” Harrison said. “I was like, ‘Yeah, why am I going to go for an interview? I’m not going to get that role.’ ”

In 1980, after appearing in four seasons of hit sitcom, Summers sought a pay raise. She said it was equivalent to what her co-star John Ritter was paid. The actress was quickly discontinued from the show and fired.

By then, former Rams cheerleader Harrison had already appeared in commercials and episodes of “Chips.” It only took her one interview to secure the role of Cindy Snow is Summers’ cousin on screen.

“When I went to the audition… I tripped while walking,” Harrison said. “I fell over things and grabbed something. They immediately thought, ‘Oh, here’s our Klutzy Cousin Girl.’

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Harrison insisted that she was not embarrassed to have big shoes to meet.

“I live very much right now,” Harrison said. “Fortunately, I’m very disciplined… And I was doing the job I had, I saw it right in front of my eyes, did the job… And when I rode in the ‘Three Company’, I was welcomed with open arms. They treated me nicely. They treated me like my sister.

Harrison was eventually written from the comedy, but her luck didn’t end there. She appeared later The hit melodrama “Dallas.”

“Dallas was still a great joy,” she sparkled. “And I worked with some people there… I remember visiting the set, and with his boys, Patrick (Duffy) was there. His kids started grabbing his shirt, “Daddy, Daddy, that’s the maid of Jack Tripper!” And Patrick said, “What are you talking about?” The boys were watching “Three’s Company” and they were very excited. ”

According to Harrison, the “Dallas” cast wanted her to join the circle. Larry Hagman, who played the ruthless oil tycoon junior Ewing, immediately welcomed her with his sense of humor.

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“He wouldn’t go out to public unless he was wearing a hat,” she said.

“He had to have that cowboy hat. He said, ‘When I went outside, people wanted to see JR’s’, so he loved the character.

Harrison said one of Hagman’s favorite memories, despite being a star of the show, made sure he stayed on set as long as it was necessary to make the scenes easier for other actors to film.

“Larry wouldn’t go home if he needed his line,” she said. “Larry knew that the success of the show wasn’t just about him. The success of the show was because of how they interacted with all the characters.”

“He had the right to be number one star, he just left the set and had that air around him,” she continued. “And he didn’t. He was very realistic and worked hard with all of us. And he continued his work. His life… he would still try autographs and be in public.

Today, Harrison “living his dreams” runs a vast ranch. However, when she is not caring for animals, she shares the story of “Stoll Talk.”

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“Whether you’re a Boomer or Gen Z, we share the issues of the most intimate and honest relationships with ourselves, laughing or crying,” Harrison said. “But we share those stories… all of our guests share real honest questions about what women talk about when they go to the bathroom together.”

“The advice I always give (on the podcast) is to go to the opportunity for your dreams,” Harrison recalled. “If you are patient and endure, anything can happen. You need to remember that anything is possible.”