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What did Pamela Sue Martin do in 1980?

Actress Pamela Sue Martin is primarily remembered for her television work, first as Nancy Drew on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries from 1977-1978 and then as Fallon Carrington on Dynasty from 1981-1984. Between those two major TV roles, Pamela Sue Martin did some great work. Her first post-Nancy Drew project was a TV movie called Human Feelings in which she co-starred with Billy Crystal. 1979 saw Pamela Sue Martin take a shot at feature films (she hadn't appeared in a theatrical release since 1974), and a stab at changing her 'good girl' image, with the film The Lady in Red. Things were quiet for quite some time following those two movies, but then in December 1980, Pamela Sue Martin appeared in episodes of two sappy ABC series: Fantasy Island and The Love Boat.

Fantasy Island - "The Snow Bird" (originally broadcast December 6, 1980)

In Pamela sue Martin's Fantasy Island guest appearance, she plays a trapeze artist named Velda. A guy who works at the circus, Ned Pringle (played by future Fall Guy sidekick Douglas Barr), falls in love with her and uses the magic offered by Fantasy Island to win her attention by becoming a trapeze performer himself.

Pamela Sue Martin and Douglas Barr

The Love Boat - "Boomerang" (originally broadcast December 13, 1980)

In Pamela Sue Martin's Love Boat guest appearance she plays a model named Donna Dayton who wears a fake wedding ring to distance herself from unwanted male attention. In this episode, she primarily acts opposite actor Barry Van Dyke.

Pamela Sue Martin and Barry Van Dyke

Clip of Wendy Kilbourne in Condor

In 1986, Wendy Kiblourne co-starred with Ray Wise in a feature-length TV series pilot called Condor. This scene serves as the introduction of the not-quite-human Lisa Hampton (Wendy Kilbourne's character).

Kay Lenz: A career vs. a water bed

Here's a early press piece about actress Kay Lenz which was originally published in December, 1973. At this point, her career was just beginning to take off due to her starring roles in the feature film Breezy and the well-received TV movie Lisa, Bright and Dark. The odd title of this article refers to the fact that she used to date a waterbed salesman.

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Lois Chiles newspaper coverage 1972-1978

The following is a collection of newspaper clippings about actress Lois Chiles spanning the first decade of her career. She first started getting press at the end of 1972 for her second movie, Robert Redford/Barbara Streisand project The Way We Were. Lois Chiles then garnered more publicity in 1974 for her supporting role in the film The Great Gatsby. The actress then took several years off in the mid-1970s but newspaper coverage of her activities resumed in 1977 when she began filming Death on the Nile. In 1978, Lois Chiles began working on her biggest movie, and perhaps best remembered role of her career, the James Bond classic Moonraker. Of course, her new-found status as a Bond girl brought her even more press attention.

1972

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1974

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Lois Chiles and Yves St. Lauren

1977

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Janet Louise Johnson in the newspapers

In 1978, Janet Louise Johnson (who changed her name to Janet Julian) debuted as Nancy Drew on the ABC TV series The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, taking over the role from Pamela Sue Martin. Accordingly, Janet Louise Johnson received a fair amount of press during the early months of 1978.

Mostly, people just wanted to get to know the new actress who was taking over the role of Nancy Drew. When Janet Louise Johnson was cast as Pamela Sue Martin's replacement, she was a new face on television (she had previously appeared as a child actor in small roles on Alias Smith and Jones and The Waltons back in 1973). Her assumption of the Nancy Drew role was slightly controversial since the network did not immediately explain why Pamela Sue Martin had departed.

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Samantha Eggar: how it all began (in Hollywood)

The above article is one of the first press pieces about Samantha Eggar to be published in the United States. Samantha Eggar had only begun acting in 1961 and this short article appeared in American newspapers in January of 1962. It is interesting to note, however, that the actress would not appear in an American movie until several years later and that she would not appear in a Paramount Pictures production until 1970 (The Molly Maguires).

The article below was featured in American newspapers in the summer of 1964 and is an early publicity piece for Samantha Eggar. The following year, she would receive a great deal more press coverage following her Oscar-nominated role in The Collector. This article is actually promoting The Collector, though the film would not be released for another year.

Kitty Winn stars in Message to My Daughter in 1973

In 1973, Kitty Winn co-starred with Bonnie Bedelia and Martin Sheen in the ABC TV movie Message to My Daughter. Previously, Kitty Winn had done two other made-for-television movies: The House That Would Not Die in 1970 and also a less prominent role in Man on a String in 1972.

Message to My Daughter came out around the same time as the TV movie tearjerker Sunshine, and the two projects cover the some of the same ground. the following article touches on the similarity and explains how the two projects, though superficially similar are actually quite different.

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