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FLORENCE HENDERSON

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LAS VEGAS (AP) — Multitalented Florence Henderson, the blonde who

raised The "Brady Bunch for

five years on network television, says people are often surprised when they meet her.

The . wife of ‘Broadway ‘producer Ira Bernstein wit our children of. her own, Miss Henderson has carved

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image of her but she said the

“I’m very outspoken,’’ said the veteran singer- as she relaxed. between shows at the MGM Grand Hotel where she recently co- headlined a three-week

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‘engagement with comeaan Shecky Greene. “A lot of le don’t realize that on the Brady Bunch, I’m acting,” said Miss Henderson,

A native of the small southern Indiana farming: community of Dale, Miss Hendersen was the youngest of 10 children’ in a poor family that had little more

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Her talent was recognized early and the family found a way to send her to New York’s Academy — af Dramatic Arts. It was there at the age of 17 that she got her first rele in. the play

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known for years, it was 3 The Brady Bunch and the role of a good-natured suborban ‘housewife as e flock that sent Florence . Henderson to stardom, “There’s nothing like a television series, a successful one, to keep you before the public and make you a household name ,. Miss Henderson said. "I think one. thing that pleases me the most about Brady Bunch is that it has given me a whole new audience of young people and they just keep coming.” Brady Bunch reruns have been in syndication for three years, and-are seen in 165 markets,”

Despite being | perfectionist, Miss

nderson said her work is - almost a relaxation to her, ° and the audience always

- comes first.

“I couldn’t walk out and do the same thing, or say, ‘Oh they won't difference,’ 1 know the difference, and I feel that every audience, 1 no. matter how big or small, Generves the beat that we've got. I don't know another way to

After Broadway, national touring companies, a starring role in the movie Song of Norway and a fit television series, Henderson said ‘“‘I would love to make another

ovie.'"’ comedy, gsy pani sort of combination of Carol. Lombard and Lucille Bail."’

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Same Landlord ; ' A. group of American - tourists .was being guided through an ancient castle in Europe. “This place,” the guide told them, “4s 600 years old, Nota stone in it -has- been touched, nothing altered, nothing replaced in all. those years.” “Well,” |, said one woman dryly, “they must have the same landlord

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