View Full Version : Is it safe to say that Valerie Harper's career never truly recovered...


TMC
10-05-2019, 09:52 PM
after she was in essence, fired (https://www.quora.com/Which-actors-were-so-troublesome-on-their-hit-TV-show-that-they-were-eventually-let-go-and-the-show-continued-without-them/answer/Jon-Mixon-1) from the very TV show that had her namesake. I was looking at her IMDb profile (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001320/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1) and many of her subsequent acting jobs, were one shot guest starring roles. Her most "high profile" acting roles post-Valerie/The Hogan Family were perhaps a sitcom The City (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(TV_series)) and a sitcom called The Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(1995_TV_series)) (and no, not that Office (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Office_(U.S._TV_series))). Both shows didn't last very long, and have long been forgotten in the annals of history.

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rcbrad
10-07-2019, 08:08 PM
Perhaps you mean her sitcom career? Mary Tyler Moore also tried three different series after TMTMS and failed with each one also!

I do not think that the firing impacted her much at all (if any) as far as her career and her legacy goes. She did quite a bit of humanitarian work and she also was nominated for a Tony award later in her career.

JR1
10-30-2019, 04:23 PM
Yes, her heyday was behind her by that point (same with the aforementioned MTM), so I don't think it had that much impact.

'80sSitcoms
11-04-2019, 10:58 AM
Right, even Mary Tyler Moore couldn't get regular work again, and she was America's beloved Mary Richards. I too think it was just the fact that her heyday had come and gone.

TMC
04-11-2020, 01:28 AM
What happened (https://books.google.com/books?id=ZG_IDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT160&lpg=PT160&dq=blacklisted+valerie+harper&source=bl&ots=6fHwYDy3yh&sig=ACfU3U0oE8rwd37qExo41W4oFLpkuIjs0w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwisy5GS0t_oAhUDbawKHYsCBoQQ6AEwEXoECBAQKQ#v=onepage&q=blacklisted%20valerie%20harper&f=false) to Valerie (https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1987-12-30-8702150029-story.html) could be looked at as a Pyrrhic victory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic_victory). The judge ruled in her favor (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-19-ca-1680-story.html) and she got some money, but it's safe to assume that she was essentially blackballed (https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/03/arts/harper-in-tv-film-on-network-she-sued.html) in the '90s. The same sort of thing happened to Crispin Glover (https://lebeauleblog.com/2020/02/18/what-the-hell-happened-to-crispin-glover/) when he sued over the unlicensed usage of his likeness in Back to the Future II.