In the Lonesome Dove Photo, I Could Pick out only Woodrow Call and Clara Allen. Did the Other Main Cast Members Leave the Set?

In the Lonesome Dove photo, I could pick out only Woodrow Call and Clara Allen. Did the other main cast members leave the set?

Dan Winrow
Sioux Falls, South Dakota

I thought the same thing when I saw the photo. I looked for Diane Lane, whom I must confess to having a long-time crush, and couldn’t find her.

Most of *Lonesome Dove’s* starring cast were not present for the last day of filming the CBS miniseries, when Bill Wittliff took this photograph of cast and crew at Clara’s.
— Courtesy Wittliff Collections at Texas State University-San Marcos —

Since the CBS miniseries featured so many segments shot over a period of time, many actors and actresses would have done their segment in a day or two, and moved on to other projects. Most of the folks in the photo were probably extras or crew members.

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