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08-23-2016, 09:45 PM
https://lebeauleblog.com/2016/08/23/aug-23-happy-birthday-shelley-long-and-rick-springfield/
Posted by jestak2
Shelley Long dropped out of Northwestern University to pursue an acting career. She joined The Second City comedy troupe, while also hosting a Chicago area television program. In the late 1970s she began to get regular guest spots on television shows like The Love Boat and M*A*S*H.
Long’s big break was in 1982. She appeared in the quirky romantic comedy Night Shift opposite Henry Winkler (although they were both a bit upstaged by a supporting player named Michael Keaton), and later that year began a five year run on television, playing a graduate student who is forced to take a job as a cocktail waitress at a certain Boston bar after her fiancé abandons her:
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Long won an Emmy and two Golden Globes during the first five seasons of Cheers. It may be hard for those who were not following the show back then to grasp how deeply important the ups and downs of Sam and Diane’s relationship were to fans of the show. She also returned for the series finale and made a number of guest appearances, as Diane Chambers, on the spinoff series Frasier.
During the 1980s her film career was also fairly successful. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for Irreconcilable Differences and was in financially successful comedies like The Money Pit and Outrageous Fortune. Her most prominent role since then has probably been as Carol Brady in the two Brady Bunch feature films of the mid-1990s.
Posted by jestak2
Shelley Long dropped out of Northwestern University to pursue an acting career. She joined The Second City comedy troupe, while also hosting a Chicago area television program. In the late 1970s she began to get regular guest spots on television shows like The Love Boat and M*A*S*H.
Long’s big break was in 1982. She appeared in the quirky romantic comedy Night Shift opposite Henry Winkler (although they were both a bit upstaged by a supporting player named Michael Keaton), and later that year began a five year run on television, playing a graduate student who is forced to take a job as a cocktail waitress at a certain Boston bar after her fiancé abandons her:
GGdiYly5HAY
Long won an Emmy and two Golden Globes during the first five seasons of Cheers. It may be hard for those who were not following the show back then to grasp how deeply important the ups and downs of Sam and Diane’s relationship were to fans of the show. She also returned for the series finale and made a number of guest appearances, as Diane Chambers, on the spinoff series Frasier.
During the 1980s her film career was also fairly successful. She was nominated for a Golden Globe for Irreconcilable Differences and was in financially successful comedies like The Money Pit and Outrageous Fortune. Her most prominent role since then has probably been as Carol Brady in the two Brady Bunch feature films of the mid-1990s.