Denise Nickerson

And according to the actors who were there, the children had not been told exactly how far he was going to take it.

Denise Nickerson, who played Violet Beauregard, later said that her jaw dropped and never came back up.

Her immediate thought was, this man is a maniac and nobody is going to see this movie.

To be fair, that prediction was actually not wrong, at least not initially.

When Wilder died in 2016, Ostrom described the loss as feeling like the death of a parent.

He remembered Wilder as funny and gentle and respectful and wonderfully unpredictable.

Denise Nickerson, aka Violet, continued acting through the 70s and did quite a bit of TV work on shows like Dark Shadows and The Electric Company, which was a favorite of mine as a child.

She left the business as a young adult and lived a very private life also until her death in 2019.

So, it still holds up.

You know, Denise Nickerson, who's the...

Beauregard Violet Beauregard when she done her blueberry scene because it was taking the whole day to do it they had to stop for lunch she was still dressed in the blueberry thing and they had to keep rolling us so that her blood circulation so that

was her in it I thought that was just a toy Because when they're rolling it, it's a blue face and hair, and it's like the legs sticking out.