- What can you tell us about the film "Fortune Hunter" that you just finished
shooting with Richard Thomas? What's the plot, and when can we look forward to
seeing it?
It was a lot of fun filming this movie "Fortune Hunters" with
Richard Thomas, and a wonderful supporting cast, including Estelle
Getty, Kay Ballard, Cory Feldman, Randy Travis, and other talented
people..
The plot: the good news is that the Hunter family just won a $50 Million
dollar lottery. The bad news is that they lost the ticket in the middle
of Los Angeles, and have only 4 hours to find it and claim their prize.
It is a fast paced. adventure-action comedy, with a lot of exciting
things happening throughout, and with a real surprise ending.
At the present time, no definite time or place has been announced.
Keep watching Brady World for all updates on "Fortune Hunters".
- How old were you when you decided you wanted to sing? Do you write music
as well as sing and perform? What instruments do you know how to play?
My mother and father always did their best to see that my brothers
and I went with them to the Valley Music Theatre near our home. We saw
many wonderful musical comedy stage productions and had a well stocked
record collection of the old 78's and 45's. At the age of about four.
I loved to sing the songs from them with my family. My father bought a
four track recorder which really was the beginning of my singing
instruction. I also took singing and dancing lessons, and when I was
about eleven years old started guitar lessons. My older brother, Kevin
and I wrote a song for one of the movies I was in. He also is teaching
my daughter Natalie to play guitar.
- I read somewhere that you are the youngest child in your family. Did you
enjoy playing one of the oldest siblings in the Brady Bunch?
Yes, I was the youngest in our family. I have three older brothers,
Michael, Kevin and Dennis. I did enjoy playing the oldest girl in the
Brady family. After being told what to do, and how to act by three
older brothers, I enjoyed telling my younger sisters in the Brady Bunch,
what to do and how to act. Not really, but that is the way the scripts
were written.
- Since there were so many Brady Bunch episodes, did it ever feel as though
you were part of two REAL families?
After five years of living as a Brady with five other siblings and
having lived in my own family with three brothers, it was very easy and
enjoyable to combine both families. My brothers were included with some
of the get-to-gethers of the Brady family, as were the other siblings of
all of the cast. We rehearsed the Brady Kids concert and touring act at
our home at the beginning when it was being planned to form a singing
group.
- How does it feel to know that your a hero to people like me?
I feel most fortunate to have been selected to be a part of the
Brady Bunch family, and felt very lucky to be in the right place at the
right time. I do not at all feel like a hero but the person to thank is
Mr. Sherwood Schwartz who created the Brady Bunch, and I am most
grateful for the love and kindnesses shown by our many fans.
- I wrote Phantom Hill Records and ordered your tape. It's great. My question
is-----What song has been released to radio so I may request it to get you
heard out here in Owensboro, Kentucky?
The songs from my album that received the most air play were the
title song "When you Get a Little Lonely" and "Tell Momma". The
selections from my album can be sampled through my Official web site,
and the album can also be ordered through my brother, Michael of Phantom
Records, who produced the album.
- We know that you wrote the title song to Texas Lightening. Have you written
any other songs for movies or television or just for fun?
No, I have not written any other songs. At the present time, my
ambition is to do another television series. I would also love to do
another album.
- What was your favorite Brady Bunch episode and why?
I really enjoyed performing on all of the Brady Bunch episodes, but
the one that was the most fun for me was the episode when Bob and
Florence had to perform for the School PTA fundraiser. Singing and
dancing with Florence in the hobo skit was a real thrill.
- Since Robert Reed has died, do you think their should be one last reunion
with the Bradys dealing with Mike's death? Because the Bradys never dealed
with death before.
We all have mixed feelings as to whether we should have done one
last episode dealing with Robert Reed's death.
Who knows what the future will bring? I personally prefer to remember
him as the warm, kind and generous human being that he was to everyone
in our cast.
- Please tell me what your favorite T.V or movie role has been and why. Also
is there a T.V. or movie role that you have wanted to do?
The Barbara Mandrell Story that was done on CBS was a very
challenging acting role for me. It required a lot of research and
preparation, not to mention lots of practice on the saxaphone and steel
guitar in my home, with a teacher for both instruments. I was also very
grateful that CBS and Barbara selected me to play the role. Being
given the chance to play a variety of parts such as "Touched by an
Angel", "Single Guy". "Panic In the Skies" and recently "Teen Angel" and
"Fortune Hunters" has allowed me to keep current with my Brady Bunch
fans.
As to which parts I wanted to do, and there were many, in this business
you go out on many interviews and later find out that someone else got
the part. One must be prepared to accept much rejection which is part
of the business and be thankful for the parts you are selected for.
- Are you going to do another country album? I loved your first one.
Thank you for your kind compliment on my album. I would love to do
another album.
- If you had not been an actress what career would you have followed?
If I had not become an actress, I would have probably gone into the
teaching profession. preferably teaching drama in Junior High and High
School. Presently I volunteer in my daughter's elementary school
helping her teacher put on class plays.
- What was your most valuable learning experience growing up in an
environment that placed you in front of millions of viewers every week and
constantly had you in the public eye?
My most valuable learning experience while growing up in the Brady
Bunch and later appearing on many talk shows, is to "Speak no Evil, See
no Evil, and Tell No Evil", and to be a good listener.
- The Brady Bunch was such a good show. Do you worry that there aren't
enough shows like that for your daughter to enjoy today?
Yes, I hope that the networks and sponsors are starting to get the
message that wholesome family entertainment will be a refreshing change.
- Of all the people that you have ever worked with, who is your favorite and
why, and who would you like to work with in the future, that you have yet to
work with?
Wouldn't everyone like to work with Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, and
Dustin Hoffman, or Harrison Ford?
Through the years, I have been so lucky to work with so many wonderful
actors and actresses. Very early in my career, I did a play with Mike
Connors, and worked with Ed Asner, the cast of Love Boat and Fantasy
Island, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Streets of San Francisco,
Harry-O. My Three Sons, Happy Days, Marcus Welby, Vegas, Farmer's
Daughter, Herman's Head, Single Guy, Honey West,and Harvey Korman and
Richard Thomas, recently, so I hope you will understand why I don't want
to name any one as being my first choice. I have enjoyed each and every
performance I have been in, whether it is stage, Broadway, voice work,
television or movies or commercials.