She was the first woman to host The Tonight Show for the vacationing Johnny Carson.įor eight years she also commuted to Nashville to conduct a cooking and talk series, Country Kitchen, on The Nashville Network.
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"Corrective surgery in both ears restored my hearing," she said in 2007.Īs her TV career blossomed with The Brady Bunch, Henderson also began to make frequent TV guest appearances. She was diagnosed with a hereditary condition called osteosclerosis. Her career nearly came to an end in 1965 when she suddenly lost her hearing while appearing in The King and I in Los Angeles.
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She made her movie debut in 1970 in Song of Norway, based on the 1944 operetta with music by Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg. She went on to play Maria in a road production of The Sound of Music, was Nellie Forbush in a revival of South Pacific and was back on Broadway with Jose Ferrer in The Girl Who Came to Supper in 1963.įlorence Henderson with Bing Crosby in 1968. To broaden her career, Henderson took acting, dancing, singing and guitar lessons, even studying French and Italian. "She is the real thing, right of of a butter churn somewhere," wrote Walter Kerr of the New York Herald Tribune. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were so impressed they made her the female lead in a 1952 road tour of Oklahoma! When the show returned to Broadway for a revival in 1954, she continued in the role and won rave reviews. Henderson was a 19-year-old drama student in New York when she landed a one-line role in the play Wish You Were Here. Henderson, in her own book, denied having any relationship with Williams, but did acknowledge a fling with former New York City mayor John Lindsay. Barry Williams, who played eldest son Greg Brady, would confess to having a crush on his TV stepmom. Numerous memoirs also kept interest in the show alive, as cast members revealed they were more than just siblings off camera. This time she was Grandma Brady opposite Shelly Long's Carol. She was also back again in 1995 when a new cast was assembled for The Brady Bunch Movie, a playful spoof of the original show. She and Reed did return, however, for The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Brides and The Bradys. Like the Beatles, there was even a Saturday morning cartoon version called Brady Kids, although Henderson was not in that show. We were like the Beatles!" she said of the attention the show brought the cast. But after The Brady Bunch, she would always be known to fans as Carol Brady. The blonde, ever-smiling Henderson was already a Broadway star when the show began, having originated the title role in the musical Fanny. The eight of them became The Brady Bunch, with a quirky housekeeper, played by Ann B. As its theme song reminded viewers each week, Henderson's Carol was a single mother raising three daughters when she met her TV husband, Robert Reed's Mike Brady, a single father who was raising three boys. Premiering in 1969, it also was among the first shows to introduce to television the blended family.
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