October 16: Happy Birthday Suzanne Somers

[TMC]

https://lebeauleblog.com/2017/10/16/...-david-zucker/

Suzanne Somers is celebrating her 71st today. She grew up in San Bruno, California, and after college and a marriage that did not last, at the end of the 1960s she began working on a game show, The Anniversary Game, as a prize model. She eventually married the show’s host, Alan Hamel—they have been together for 40 years. She also began acting at that time—her first feature film role was an uncredited cameo in Bullitt. During the 1970s she appeared in guest roles on The Rockford Files, The Six Million Dollar Man, and three times on Starsky and Hutch. Then, in 1977, she landed the role that was both her breakthrough and the one she will always be most identified with, Chrissy Snow on Three’s Company.



Somers left Three’s Company in 1981 after a contract dispute—big news at the time, as I recall—with the producers. After a few years where she did virtually no screen work, Somers returned to series television as the star of the syndicated series She’s the Sheriff, which ran for two seasons. She followed that by starring in Step by Step, which ran for six seasons on ABC and a seventh on CBS from 1991-1998. She has been largely retired from screen acting since then, but she has hosted two or three shows, and made her Broadway debut in 2005.

[Sacha61]

71....wow!

[Retro4Life]

Given the discussions I've seen before, I'm going to assume this thread won't be overflowing with well wishes for Suzanne, so I'll pitch in.

Happy birthday, Suzanne! Thanks for years of entertainment!