80s TV Ladies Podcast: Stephanie Zimbalist Talks Remington Steele

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It's more Summer Reruns. Check out this cool encore episode from Season 1: Susan and Sharon sit down with a true show business icon and classic 8os TV Lady -- “Remington Steele’s” one-and-only Laura Holt -- Stephanie Zimbalist.

• Growing up Zimbalist: what it’s like to be born into a true show business dynasty.
• How Stephanie started writing, directing and producing – at the age of seven.
• How she attended Julliard with friends and classmates Robin Williams and Christopher Reeve -- and then got kicked out!
• Winning – or not winning – an “Enema” (oh wait -- “Emmy”)
• A Life in the Theater: performing award-winning roles in classic plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Tennessee Williams and more.
• The gift of making “big choices” on stage – and screen. And the pleasure of refining and reinventing a performance over a long run.
• Playing Katherine Hepburn in “Tea at Five” – and how she discovered they’re cousins!
• Turning down the role of Laura Holt three times before finally taking it on.
• “Backwards and in High Heels” – on water skis! Stephanie takes us through doing her own stunts on “Remington Steele” -- and working with legendary stuntwoman Debbie Evans.

Join Susan and Sharon (and Stephanie) as we talk fame, fedoras – and wet-biking in France with Pierce. PLUS -- MORE listener mail!!

ENCORE: Revisit Stephanie Zimbalist Talks Remington Steele, Part 2

BONUS: Check out this exciting encore episode from Season 1: Part TWO of our interview with true show business icon and classic 8os TV Lady -- “Remington Steele’s” one-and-only Laura Holt -- Stephanie Zimbalist.

In a career spanning six decades, Stephanie has performed on stage and screen with everyone: Alec Baldwin, Walter Matthau, Jessica Tandy, Anthony Hopkins, John Goodman, Patricia Neal, Alfred Molina, Tommy Tune, Jimmy Stewart AND her own father, the legendary Efrem Zimbalist Jr.

Steele Talking: Susan and Sharon continue their interview with the award-winning stage, TV and film actress…

THE CONVERSATION

• - Working with her real-life dad – showbiz legend Efrem Zimbalist Jr – How he became a father figure for co-star Pierce Brosnan. (And how he taught Stephanie the secret to “playing drunk”…!)
• - Her decades-long friendship with Alec Baldwin.
• - When James Stewart was almost on Remington!
• - The Amazing Remington Steele Guest Stars, including…
• - Paul Reiser – and how Pierce broke up every time he said a line.
• - Louie Anderson – and that horse…
• - And Beverly Garland – Laura’s mom! (Wait -- were Laura Holt and Amanda King sisters??)
  
• - How she was cast in – but had to quit – ROBOCOP.
• - Why she has never gone back to rewatch “Remington Steele.”
• - Why “the blood isn’t real on “Remington Steele” -- and how humor on TV has changed…
• - How curiosity leads to love.
• - New York, noodles – and a “rude awakening” in the theater

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Listen in as Susan, Sharon and Stephanie talk “Moonlighting”, memories and Mary Tyler Moore!

[Fallon97]

I love this. Thanks for posting. I miss seeing Stephanie Zimbalist on television.