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  • Eve Plumb, Of ‘Brady Bunch’ Fame, Returns To TV With ‘Grease: Live Cast’

    The Brady Bunch star Eve Plumb will be singing along with the cast of Fox’s Grease: Live as she plays the role of teacher, Mrs. Murdock.

    Eve Plumb is best known for her role as middle child Jan Brady on the ‘70s ABC TV series The Brady Bunch. Plumb appeared on various TV shows and films in the last 50 years. She has been acting since she was six years old when she first appeared in a fabric softener ad.

    Eve Plumb Played Jan Brady on the Iconic TV show ‘The Brady Bunch’

    Plumb will take on the role of Mrs. Murdock, the owner of the garage where the T-Birds work on their “Greased Lightning” car. Appearing in a musical show is nothing new for the versatile actress as she has already done some musical theater.

    “I played Sandy in a production of ‘Grease’ that Fran Drescher produced,” says Eve Plumb. She admitted that she “actually came to singing and dancing really late” and it took her some time to feel comfortable with it but it helped her land several musicals.

    Eve Plumb Talks About Joining the Cast of ‘Grease: Live’

    Mrs. Murdock was originally played by Alice Ghostly in the John Travolta-Olivia Newton-John film. With her experience in TV and theater, it became easy for Plumb to adjust for the live musical telecast.

    “It is being done like a theater production but there is that psychology that millions are watching. In the end, whether you are acting in a theater or in front of cameras, you just forget all of that and do the work,” explains the 57-year-old actress. She hopes that this project will spark an interest in people to do theater.

    Today, besides acting, Eve Plumb works as a painter with her art being showcased at galleries across the U.S.

    The TV Musical ‘Grease: Live’ Premiered on Fox on Jan. 31

    Grease: Live also stars Dancing with the Stars champion Julianne Hough, Broadway actor Aaron Tveit High School Musical star Vanessa Hudgens, singer-talk show host Keke Palmer, and pop singer Carly Re Jepsen.

  • Julianne Hough Talks Trouble With “Grease: Live” Line Just Days Ahead of Premiere

    Julianne Hough stars in the upcoming Grease: Live, set to air on Sunday evening on Fox. She plays the part of Sandy, the iconic role made famous by Olivia Newton-John in the original film.

    During an interview with Entertainment Weekly on Thursday, the Dancing With the Stars alum talked about the trouble she’s having with one line in the production–not because she can’t memorize it, but because it touches at the core of who Julianne Hough truly is.

    “It’s a line that I should be able to deliver because it’s so me,” Hough said.

    Julianne Hough delivers the line while the main cast is inside the diner.

    Hough–as Sandy–says, “Who wants to watch a bunch of amateurs in a dance contest on live TV?”

    The line references the school dance being filmed on national TV, as is shown later in the show. It was added solely for Julianne Hough because of her past with Dancing With the Stars.

    “I mess it up every time,” she says.

    “The diner scene is the death of me for sure,” she adds.

    Early photos released of Julianne Hough in character as Sandy are reminiscent of Olivia Newton-John’s Grease era. Aaron Tveit plays Danny Zuko–the role John Travolta made famous in the film.

    In addition to Julianne Hough and Aaron Tveit, Grease: Live stars Vanessa Hudgens, Carly Rae Jepsen, Keke Palmer, Carlos PenaVega, Ana Gasteyer, Eve Plumb, Mario Lopez, and more.

    Will you be tuning in to see Grease: Live on TV? It airs January 31 on Fox at 7 p.m. ET.

    Will Julianne Hough ace that tricky line for the live show?

  • ‘The Brady Bunch:’ Fans Mourn Ann B. Davis’s Passing

    The Brady Bunch was a beloved TV hit from 1969 to 1974 and even today fans still recall lines from the iconic series. Those same fans are no doubt among those mourning the passing of Ann B. Davis whose role as the quirky but lovable housekeeper Alice Nelson was a staple in the Brady household. Davis died on Sunday at a hospital in San Antonio, Texas, where she was undergoing treatment for a subdural hematoma she received in a recent fall. She never regained consciousness following the fall. The actress was 88 years old.

    Known for wearing her trademark light blue maid’s uniform, Alice was in the middle of everything The Brady Bunch did, infusing each storyline with her quick wit and big smile. It was during an interview with the Archive of American Television–back in 2004–that Ann B. Davis talked about how she created the character known as Alice.

    “I made up a background story. I did have a twin sister, so I used that as a basis. … I cared very much about this family. It was my family. It was as close to my family as Alice would ever get. I would have died for any single one of them at any point,” she said. “You know, they wrote me such gorgeous things to do, as the intermediary between the kids and the adults, and between the boys and the girls. And they gave me funny things to do.”

    Davis once admitted that she really didn’t do many of the things in real life that she did on The Brady Bunch, however.

    “I basically don’t do that well with children, although my sister says I’m a great aunt,” she said. “When it’s my turn in the house we just eat out.”

    Florence Henderson played the role of the Brady matriarch–Carol Brady–on The Brady Bunch. She was crushed to learn that Ann B. Davis had passed away. She shared her sadness in a Facebook post.

    Post by Florence Henderson.

    Actress Christina Applegate took to Twitter to express her sadness over ‘Alice’s’ passing.

    Davis had planned to study medicine, but had a brother who was a dancer and she ‘caught the acting bug’ from him. She won two Emmy Awards and received two additional nominations, plus earned a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960 for her role in The Bob Cummings Show.

    Few people knew that about Ann B. Davis, however. To most people she was simply Alice on The Brady Bunch.

    Bishop William Frey was a close friend of Davis’s. He said fans often told her they felt like she had raised them.

    “What you see on The Brady Bunch was who she was,” Frey said. “She was a very faithful Christian person.”

    Ann B. Davis retired in the late 1970s and settled in an Episcopalian community.

    “I’m convinced we all have a God-shaped space in us, and until we fill that space with God, we’ll never know what it is to be whole,” she said during an interview with PEOPLE magazine several years ago.

    Davis joined many of The Brady Bunch cast members on the big screen in 1995 for The Brady Bunch Movie in which she played a truck driver trying to talk Jan Brady, who had run away (Jan was played by actress Eve Plumb in the TV series) to go back home. Of course that truck driver was Alice.

    The TV world has indeed lost an icon. Ann B. Davis will long be remembered for her role as Alice Nelson in The Brady Bunch. Many of the lessons learned by Greg, Peter, Bobby, Marcia, Jan, and Cindy Brady from their faithful housekeeper were also learned by viewers at home, too.

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