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Dallas star only got $25 for Graduate pose

Dallas star Linda Gray has shocked The Graduate fans around the globe
Dallas star Linda Gray has shocked The Graduate fans around the globe

Dallas star Linda Gray says she was only paid $25 for the famous leg pose used in the iconic poster for The Graduate.

The shot from the ground-breaking 1967 film shows a young Dustin Hoffman gazing at a fine pair of pins, which were long assumed to belong to that of the movie's female lead, Anne Bancroft.

The stocking-clad leg actually belongs to actress and former model, Linda Gray who went on to become very famous indeed playing Sue Ellen in Dallas.

In a recent chat show interview, 72-year-old Gray, who reprised her role in last year's well-received Dallas reboot, said, "I think [Anne Bancroft] was absent that day . . . I don't know. I got paid $25, one leg."

Are you trying to seduce me Mrs Ewing, sorry, Mrs Robinson?

Inside Edition host Deborah Norville, who also featured on the chat show, told her: "That is the best bit of movie and television trivia, 'cause the world thinks that's Anne Bancroft's leg!"

Gray's fellow Dallas star Patrick Duffy, also a guest on the show, chipped in: "I'll give you 50 for that leg right now."

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