Harvey Brownstone Interviews Highly Acclaimed Actress, Singer & Dancer, Sandy Duncan

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Harvey Brownstone conducts an in-depth Interview with Highly Acclaimed Actress, Singer & Dancer, Sandy Duncan

About Harvey's guest:

Today’s guest, Sandy Duncan, is a highly acclaimed and beloved actress, singer and dancer who has been dazzling audiences for 6 decades in every medium of the entertainment world.

On the big screen, she starred in “Star Spangled Girl”, for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. And that same year, she received another Golden Globe nomination for most promising female newcomer for her delightful performance in the Disney movie, “The Million Dollar Duck”. She also appeared in a number of other great movies like “The Cat From Outer Space” and “Never Again”, and she was unforgettable as “Pinocchio” in the wonderful 1976 TV movie, “Pinoccio” co-starring Danny Kaye and Flip Wilson. And of course, we all remember her stellar performance as “Missy Anne Reynolds” in the groundbreaking TV miniseries, “Roots”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding supporting actress.

She starred in several TV sitcoms, starting with “Funny Face”, for which she received an Emmy Award nomination for outstanding lead actress in a comedy series. She then starred in “The Sandy Duncan Show”. And then, in 1987, she astonished the whole world by achieving something that many people thought was impossible: she took over the lead in Valerie Harper’s TV sitcom, “Valerie”, after Ms. Harper left the show, which was ultimately renamed “The Hogan Family”, and she actually made the show better, and kept it going successfully for a further four seasons, which is a truly remarkable accomplishment that no one else in this business could ever have done unless they had the immense popularity and likeability of our guest.

She guest starred in many classic TV shows like “Bonanza”, “The Six Million Dollar Man”, “The Bionic Woman”, “Law & Order: SVU”, and she starred in one of my all-time favourite TV movies, “My Boyfriend’s Back” with Jill Eikenberry and Judith Light. She was also a regular on “Hollywood Squares” and numerous TV game shows, and she guest starred on every major variety show including “The Sammy Davis Jr. Show”, “The Jackie Gleason Show”, “The Sonny and Cher Show”, “The Flip Wilson Show”, “Laugh-In” and dozens more. And get this: in the late 70s, our guest received four consecutive nominations for a Photoplay Gold Medal Award for Favourite Variety Star.

And on Broadway, our guest has had a stellar career, with THREE Tony Award nominations, for her performances in “Canterbury Tales”, “The Boy Friend”, and “Peter Pan”. She won a Drama Desk Award for her performance in “The Boy Friend”, and she received ANOTHER Drama Desk Award nomination for her work in “Peter Pan”. Her other Broadway performances include “My One and Only”, “Chicago” and “Finding Neverland”. She’s starred in numerous national tours of “Peter Pan”, “My One and Only” and “The King and I”.

And off-Broadway, she won a Theatre World Award for her performance in “The Ceremony of Innocence”. She’s also starred in many theatrical productions including “No, No Nanette”, “Driving Miss Daisy”, “The Glass Menagerie” and many more.

And if all of that weren’t enough, our guest is a recipient of the prestigious National Rehabilitation Hospital Victory Award, which is given to individuals who exhibit exceptional courage and strength in the face of adversity. And most recently, she received the Medal of Arts Award from her home state of Texas.