One Role Wonders...

#1

One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 2:55pm

Ever stop to think about the actors/actresses who played only one role, then left acting all together?

examples would be

Maureen McGovern (Marcia, Brady Bunch)
Charmain Carr (Leisl, The Sound of Music)

Can you think of any others?

#2

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 2:57pm

*clearing throat* Firstly, dear, it's Maureen McCormick, not McGovern. Secondly, she didn't leave acting altogether..she still tries to work.

#3

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 2:59pm

yeah she did Grease..

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#4

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:00pm

maureen DID play Rizzo in Grease! on broadway.. she also played Wendy in Peter Pan when she was a teen and she did a brief stint as Rebecca Hotchkiss on Passions before the current actress in the role.

#5

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:01pm

well, sh!t. I stand corrected.

#6

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:03pm

Yes, we all love to jump down Rodney's throat, don't we, but this is a good idea for a thread.

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#7

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:04pm

Not only that, she was the mom on a really cute (awful, but cute) tv show about a teenager and his teenage guardian angle. the lead boy was adorable!

And Miss Charmian Carr actually starred in Playhouse 90's production of Evening Primrose. I believe (not having seen it) she introduced to the world the beautiful Sondheim songs 'I Remember' and 'Take Me to the World'.

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#8

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Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:05pm

I wish Charmain Carr would come back and do something. I don't care if she is like fifty-something now.

#9

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:08pm

Rodney,

She is still ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS! And is a friend and decorator for Michael Jackason. Read that in her autobiography.

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#10

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:11pm

I did not mean to imply that I did not think she was still gorgeous.

I saw a recent picture of her and she still has those piercing blue eyes.

#11

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:18pm

robbie, I remember that Tv show! I loved it!

#12

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:23pm

bguy,

I was gonna say 'You weren't even an itch in your daddy's pants when EVENING PRIMROSE was aired.' And then realized you were talking about Marcia Marcia Marcia's show!

What was the name of it???

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#13

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:25pm

FOUND IT!

And Conchetta Farrell was on it. How could you NOT love this show???


TEEN ANGEL

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#14

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:33pm

hahaha. yes.. I watched that show EVERY week.

#15

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:36pm

It was so TGIF on ABC!

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#16

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:43pm

Susan Swift, "Audrey Rose"

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#17

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:45pm

Peter Ostrum, WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

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#18

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:47pm

Kristin Chenoweth, STEEL PIER

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#19

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:52pm

Very funny Rath!

Peter Ostrum is a vet in upstate NY.

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#20

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 3:52pm

What?

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#21

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Posted: 11/18/04 at 4:01pm

Peter Ostrum was offered a five picture contract after Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), but turned it down. Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) was his only film appearance. He is now a vet to large farm animals (cows and horses) in rural New York state.
Peter Ostrum on IMDB.com

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#22

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 4:02pm

I take back Susan Swift. I just checked IMDB and apparently she has worked a bit since Audrey Rose. Her last job was in 1995.

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Have I ever shown you my Shattered Dreams box? It's in my Disappointment Closet. - Marge Simpson

#23

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 4:06pm

Another Wonka child...

Michael Bollner interested in acting, but his father made him stop so that he could continue with his education. He is now a tax accountant.
Michael Bollner on IMDB

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"I'm a pretty girl, mama." -Penny Lou Pingleton, Hairspray
"You like football, Ed?" "Yeah..." "Good. Me too." -Chad & 'Ed', All Shook Up

#24

re: One Role Wonders...

Posted: 11/18/04 at 5:58pm

Erzsebet Foldi, who played Joe Gideon's daughter in All That Jazz.