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These Addams Family Movie Secrets Deserve Double Snaps

Cheerios on strings coaxed the twins to crawl, and Fester's suit was a Godfather Part Two hand-me-down; the family was mostly held together by snacks.

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Watch it as it aired: Chip Darnell and Gloria Vance on this story, from BBN Tonight at 6:23 PM ET. Cartoon anchors, real headline: the facts are E! News's, the jokes are ours.

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  1. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe big-screen Addams Family films hid some odd secrets, including that the crawling twins were lured with Cheerios tied to strings, E! News reports.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorCheerios on strings. Did the babies get to keep the cereal, or is that a separate contract?

  3. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe twins also had their black hair tinted slightly darker. Cheerios and a dye job. That is how this family was built.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorAnd Christopher Lloyd's Fester suit came secondhand. It was worn by Bruno Kirby in The Godfather Part Two, in nineteen seventy-four.

  5. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorA suit with a better résumé than most of the cast. And Sir Anthony Hopkins reportedly turned the part down first.

  6. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorReportedly. So Fester was the backup plan?

  7. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorThe studio wanted Cher. The director said she would unbalance the film. I have seen coups with less courtesy.

  8. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMy pitch: watch it if you have ever followed a snack across a room. Rated four snaps out of two hands.

  9. Gloria Vance · World News AnchorI'd watch it for the Cheerios, Chip. They did the hardest work in the film, unpaid, and then the babies ate them.

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