Facts About The Nanny That Fans Of The Show Don’t Know
The Nanny was a beloved sitcom that viewers couldn’t get enough of. From 1993 to 1999, Fran Drescher starred on the hilarious show as Fran Fine, a 30-something-year-old woman from Queens who becomes a live-in nanny for the British Broadway producer, Maxwell Sheffield. Despite the fact that the show hasn’t aired in over 20 years, reruns have kept the public’s interest. If you’re one of those who loves the show as much as we do, you’ll love to read about some behind-the-scenes facts you didn’t know about!
Chester Was Fran’s Real Dog
C.C.’s dog’s full name was Chester Drescher, which makes sense. This explains why he always preferred Fran over C.C., she was his real-life mom. “He was fiercely devoted to Fran and they would make me do things like pick him up or come near him, and he would try to bite me,” Lauren Lane, who played C.C., explained in an interview. For this reason, the writers wrote the script so Chester would hate C.C. and love Fran “because that was the way it was in real life.”
Chester Was Fran’s Real Dog
Fran Met A Network Executive On A Flight
Fran had small roles in big movies like Saturday Night Fever, but she was still unknown when she pitched her sitcom to CBS. The reason she had the opportunity in the first place was due to the fact that she used her frequent-flier miles to get a first-class ticket on a flight to France. That’s when she ran into the president of CBS. After the 9.5 hour flight, the executive said that Fran and her then-husband and Nanny co-creator, Peter Marc Jacobson, should pitch the show officially to the network’s development department when they would get back to Los Angeles.
Fran Met A Network Executive On A Flight
