Post by marianne48 on Jul 14, 2020 3:44:19 GMT
One of my favorite contemporary actresses when I was a kid was Pamelyn Ferdin. She made lots of appearances on TV shows in the early 1970s--she was the first of the two actresses to play Felix Unger's daughter Edna on The Odd Couple; she starred as
Francie Nolan in the TV movie remake of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and perhaps most notably, she played the voice of Lucy in several Peanuts cartoons. As an adult, she became a registered nurse and a militant animal activist. I had wondered what happened to her until I heard a local news report about how "the voice of Lucy" was arrested at a nearby lab which performed testing on animals. Apparently she also did jail time for showing up at a trial carrying a bull hook, a device used to force circus elephants to perform tricks. Good to see she moved on from playing sometimes-annoying little girls to an adult who annoyed alleged abusers of animals.
Francie Nolan in the TV movie remake of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and perhaps most notably, she played the voice of Lucy in several Peanuts cartoons. As an adult, she became a registered nurse and a militant animal activist. I had wondered what happened to her until I heard a local news report about how "the voice of Lucy" was arrested at a nearby lab which performed testing on animals. Apparently she also did jail time for showing up at a trial carrying a bull hook, a device used to force circus elephants to perform tricks. Good to see she moved on from playing sometimes-annoying little girls to an adult who annoyed alleged abusers of animals.