Eileen Herlie had a successful Broadway career. But she was best known for almost 30 years as boutique owner and everyone's confidant Myrtle Fargate on the soap opera "All My Children." Herlie died a few days ago.
Here's a link to a few scenes in a 1983 episode of "AMC." Herlie, as Myrtle, is in the scene with an unknown soap opera actress named Carol Burnett ;) :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhdRcYYt3So&feature=related
That was when Burnett, a big fan of the show, played Verla Grubbs, Langley Wallingford's long-lost daughter. And remember when Palmer and Donna were married? (Yikes!)
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Season 3 of "The Partridge Family" was released on DVD this week. Earlier episodes of the show can be found on Hulu.com.
The show, which starred Shirley Jones, David Cassidy and University of Miami graduate Dave Madden, was about a family that started singing together after Jones' character, Shirley Partridge, was widowed. The show was loosely based on the real-life singing family The Cowsills.
The show was engaging (I was never a fan of Danny Bonaduce, whom I've always found annoying.), but the best part was unquestionably the performance of a song in each episode. I have an album of some of the earliest songs. Here's a YouTube link to one of them, the hit "I Think I Love You":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJYSu2OVCGM&feature=related
Producer Wes Farrell put together some good songwriting talent (including Terry Cashman, who would later write and sing the popular "Willie, Mickey and the Duke") for the show. Jones and Cassidy did their own singing; studio musicians would fill in for the rest of the cast, which included Susan Dey.
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