Sharon Gless installment, by Loretta Swit. Swit, like Foster, was chosen as Cagney because, though the character of Cagney had been created with Gless herself in mind, she was unavailable for the pilot or the first seven installments of the first season.) In 1991, she married the series' executive producer, Barney Rosenzweig, who speaks in his book "Cagney & Lacey...and Me" about wanting Sharon Gless from the beginning and Gless being unavailable due to her contract with Universal. Rosenzweig created the 1990–1992 CBS drama series "The Trials of Rosie O'Neill" for Gless and, uncredited, played the only partially seen psychiatrist to whom
George S. Brooks It opened on Broadway on April 4, 1927 and ran for eighty performances. Raymond Massey, who starred as the Hearst-inspired Joe Cobb, directed the subsequent London production. It garnered mixed reviews. Long thought to be lost, the play was rediscovered in the basement of the 5th Avenue New York public library and was revived by the L.A. Theatre Works radio theatre company who made an audio recording of the play in 1999 with actors Fred Savage, Ed Asner and Sharon Gless. "Spread Eagle" is shaped in part by Brooks’ experience in World War I, as well as criticism of the