ILUVO&H
03-17-2009, 07:53 PM
I was searching images of O&H, trying to find one for an avatar when a pic of two little kids on an ep. of O&H caught my eye. I clicked on the link and found an interview with the former child actress Katie Sweet.
She was in the episode The Runaways, and had some really cute scenes with Ozzie. I've only seen the episode once, unfortunately I didn't get to tape that episode, but I've always remembered it. She played the part of Katie, and Ozzie sings Ka Ka Ka Katie to her; of course, over a bowl of ice cream! :)
In the interview Katie tells how she started in show business. Here's the part relevant to Ozzie and Harriet.
Where it all began: The Tom Duggan Show
Jim - You've been doing this - - the earliest listing I have is Crimson Kimono and Fine Young Cannibals - you were doing this when you were four or five years old, then?
Katie - When I started, I was two-and-a-half. There was a late-night TV talk-show deal in Los Angeles called The Tom Duggan Show, and I was in the audience with, I don't know who I was with, my mom or my aunt and uncle or somebody - - and because I was so *little*, they called me up and had me talk to the host, Tom Duggan. And it just so happened, Jim, that *Ozzie and Harriet* were watching! And they had an episode where they were looking for a little girl my age - - and I was very *verbal* and could carry a conversation -- I talked early. And they called up the Tom Duggan people and they got them in touch with "my people" and I went! So, Ozzie and Harriet was my first appearance.
Jim - Wow.
Katie - And it was "The Runaways" episode. It was -- do you know the name Donald Losby?
Jim - The actor?
Katie - He was a child actor -- and I've Googled him - he's out there on the web and stuff - - he was my brother in that episode. So, after Ozzie and Harriet, I think the next thing I did was a Bob Hope movie, Alias: Jesse James with Maureen O'Hara. Bob Hope and Maureen O'Hara were the principals. And I played their kid - - it was really just a quickie thing. It wasn't like, a lot of lines or anything. On Ozzie and Harriet, I had a lot of lines, and it was a big deal.
Jim - And you were only two-and-a-half or three years old when you were doing this.
Katie - Yeah, I was two-and-a-half when I did Ozzie and Harriet and three by the time I did Alias: Jesse James. Then, I got an agent, of course, and you go on interviews, and I would go interview for things and just got a lot of stuff. I think a lot of it was that I spoke a lot. In All the Fine Young Cannibals, when I was hired for that, I didn't have a speaking role. There was a girl who was older than I was - - by two or three years - - she just couldn't get the lines out. And I was just very *chatty* and everything, so I got the lines! And of course my scale went up, too - - a speaking role is worth more than a non-speaking role. So, I think it had a lot to do with the jobs - my verbal skills from an early age. And not that I wasn't just as cute as a bug's ear, too, Jim, I mean, come on!
Jim - Oh definitely - you were great!
If you're interested in reading the full interview here's the link http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tvdads.com/images/tvdsweet31.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tvdads.com/tvdsweet.shtml&usg=__phI9d0945nYp0RMucdiWY6Xa36k=&h=373&w=300&sz=34&hl=en&start=28&um=1&tbnid=Qh3GjggdH3SS-M:&tbnh=122&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dozzie%2Band%2Bharriet%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GWYE_enUS253US253%26sa%3DN%26start%3D20%26um%3D1
She was in the episode The Runaways, and had some really cute scenes with Ozzie. I've only seen the episode once, unfortunately I didn't get to tape that episode, but I've always remembered it. She played the part of Katie, and Ozzie sings Ka Ka Ka Katie to her; of course, over a bowl of ice cream! :)
In the interview Katie tells how she started in show business. Here's the part relevant to Ozzie and Harriet.
Where it all began: The Tom Duggan Show
Jim - You've been doing this - - the earliest listing I have is Crimson Kimono and Fine Young Cannibals - you were doing this when you were four or five years old, then?
Katie - When I started, I was two-and-a-half. There was a late-night TV talk-show deal in Los Angeles called The Tom Duggan Show, and I was in the audience with, I don't know who I was with, my mom or my aunt and uncle or somebody - - and because I was so *little*, they called me up and had me talk to the host, Tom Duggan. And it just so happened, Jim, that *Ozzie and Harriet* were watching! And they had an episode where they were looking for a little girl my age - - and I was very *verbal* and could carry a conversation -- I talked early. And they called up the Tom Duggan people and they got them in touch with "my people" and I went! So, Ozzie and Harriet was my first appearance.
Jim - Wow.
Katie - And it was "The Runaways" episode. It was -- do you know the name Donald Losby?
Jim - The actor?
Katie - He was a child actor -- and I've Googled him - he's out there on the web and stuff - - he was my brother in that episode. So, after Ozzie and Harriet, I think the next thing I did was a Bob Hope movie, Alias: Jesse James with Maureen O'Hara. Bob Hope and Maureen O'Hara were the principals. And I played their kid - - it was really just a quickie thing. It wasn't like, a lot of lines or anything. On Ozzie and Harriet, I had a lot of lines, and it was a big deal.
Jim - And you were only two-and-a-half or three years old when you were doing this.
Katie - Yeah, I was two-and-a-half when I did Ozzie and Harriet and three by the time I did Alias: Jesse James. Then, I got an agent, of course, and you go on interviews, and I would go interview for things and just got a lot of stuff. I think a lot of it was that I spoke a lot. In All the Fine Young Cannibals, when I was hired for that, I didn't have a speaking role. There was a girl who was older than I was - - by two or three years - - she just couldn't get the lines out. And I was just very *chatty* and everything, so I got the lines! And of course my scale went up, too - - a speaking role is worth more than a non-speaking role. So, I think it had a lot to do with the jobs - my verbal skills from an early age. And not that I wasn't just as cute as a bug's ear, too, Jim, I mean, come on!
Jim - Oh definitely - you were great!
If you're interested in reading the full interview here's the link http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.tvdads.com/images/tvdsweet31.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.tvdads.com/tvdsweet.shtml&usg=__phI9d0945nYp0RMucdiWY6Xa36k=&h=373&w=300&sz=34&hl=en&start=28&um=1&tbnid=Qh3GjggdH3SS-M:&tbnh=122&tbnw=98&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dozzie%2Band%2Bharriet%26ndsp%3D20%26hl%3Den%26rlz%3D1T4GWYE_enUS253US253%26sa%3DN%26start%3D20%26um%3D1