Is it safe to say that Valerie Harper's career never truly recovered... - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

TMC · 10-05-2019, 09:52 PM

after she was in essence, fired from the very TV show that had her namesake. I was looking at her IMDb profile 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 and a sitcom called The Office (and no, not that Office). Both shows didn't last very long, and have long been forgotten in the annals of history.

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 to Valerie could be looked at as a Pyrrhic victory. The judge ruled in her favor and she got some money, but it's safe to assume that she was essentially blackballed in the '90s. The same sort of thing happened to Crispin Glover when he sued over the unlicensed usage of his likeness in Back to the Future II.

10-05-2019, 09:52 PM	#1
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,450	Is it safe to say that Valerie Harper's career never truly recovered... after she was in essence, fired from the very TV show that had her namesake. I was looking at her IMDb profile 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 and a sitcom called The Office (and no, not that Office). Both shows didn't last very long, and have long been forgotten in the annals of history.
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10-07-2019, 08:08 PM	#2
rcbrad Member Frequent Poster Join Date: Jan 21, 2007 Posts: 479	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.

10-30-2019, 04:23 PM	#3
JR1 Member Forum Regular Join Date: Mar 07, 2009 Location: USA Posts: 742	Yes, her heyday was behind her by that point (same with the aforementioned MTM), so I don't think it had that much impact.

11-04-2019, 10:58 AM	#4
'80sSitcoms Member Forum Star Join Date: Jan 30, 2013 Posts: 12,474	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.

04-11-2020, 01:28 AM	#5
TMC Member Forum Idol Join Date: Jan 09, 2001 Posts: 124,450	What happened to Valerie could be looked at as a Pyrrhic victory. The judge ruled in her favor and she got some money, but it's safe to assume that she was essentially blackballed in the '90s. The same sort of thing happened to Crispin Glover when he sued over the unlicensed usage of his likeness in Back to the Future II.