Actor Valerie Bertinelli was only 15 years old when she made her national television debut as Barbara Cooper on the CBS comedy One Day at a Time. She didn’t have much experience yet, but producer Norman Lear saw a great deal of promise in her.

Describing her as “winning and eager,” he just had to, he recalled, offer her the role.


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