WHET Susan Dey?

She left LA Law to do some awful sitcom, which she left after a season. I think maybe she returned to LA Law, and then was basically never heard from again.

She was in a movie called "Echo Park" with Tom Hulce that got very good reviews, IIRC. She bared her breasts in it.

Yhey filmed her nekkid in "Looker". As a gayling, I was shocked.

I thought most of the cast stared vacantly off into space in the Partridge Family. The two younger kids looked like 'tards.

[quote]She left LA Law to do some awful sitcom, which she left after a season.

"Love and War" with Jay Thomas. But she didn't quit -- she was fired by Diane English and replaced by Annie Potts.

This was one of those shows that was on for a few years, but no one remembers it any more.

At one of the Partridge Family reunion things, Shirley Jones or David Cassidy said that Susan left the business voluntarily and was living in West L.A. with her family -- and didn't have any interest in reunions.

She was limited and could not do comedy. She was great as the humorless Grace Van Owen on LA Law.

She was stunning as a teen but was personality free in the Partidge Family.

She had a tremendous overbite.

A beauty, she did nice work in MARY JANE HARPER CRIED LAST NIGHT and ECHO PARK. I hope she is well.

I heard Susan was teaching drama classes with Kristy McNichol.

WHET Diane English, that hack?

I vaguely remember Love and War. Annie Potts is obviously a better comedic actress, but if I remember correctly the change made the already mediocre show worse. I think Potts' character did not really fit in with the premise of the show and Dey's character might have been a better balance with Thomas's character.

While normally I would have thought it was a bad move for Dey to leave LA Law -- they really did not know what to do with her character her last year or so and the show itself was circling around the drain. I think it only went a season or two after she left.

Sweet Jesus, there are a lot of people on here for whom life stopped in the 1980s. The last role you mention ended a quarter-century ago; and the first role you mention started 41 years ago.

"What ever happened to?" What the fuck? A female actress whose career traded heavily on her looks worked for years and now mostly doesn't. She's in her sixties; people retire in their sixties, or get tired of doing what it takes to have "gorgeous hair" in the sixties.

r13 = nutty Sally Kirkland

R13 has tired thinning hair and her floors have yellow waxy buildup. I blame the heroin(e).

She had fleas in her cunt.

Diane English demanded another series to keep Murphy Brown on. CBS let her put this piece o' shit on, and then English said Day had no chemistry with Jay Thomas, who was basically a male version of Rhea Perlman. Why they thought the guy who killed Mork and Mindy was better than Susan Dey is beyond me.

She did an interesting TV movie with Harry Hamlin called "Disappearance" about 15 years ago. Very Twilight Zone-ish. That's the last time I remember seeing her.

I called her from my deathbed and she said, "Who are you?"

I remember when Diane English blamed Dey for the lack of chemistry on "Love and War" -- so tacky and irresponsible! Didn't she hire her in the first place? And as I never understood the "appeal" of Thomas, I love the Rhea Perlman comparison!

Who are you, R19?

Wasn't she an alcoholic and ended up getting fired from one or both shows in the 80s?

Well I guess R13 told us. I just wish he would have told us the acceptable threads too.

Whatever happened to R13?

She's part of some nonprofit rural development project in NY called the Mark Project (Google same - I needed to post her pic).

[quote] After spending 37 years in California Susan returned to her home state of NY to be closer to family and to once again live where her sensibilities were formed. Along with her career as an actress Susan worked on many awareness and fundraising campaigns for organizations that addressed children with special needs, affordable housing, food bank distribution, and other socioeconomic issues. Susan continues serving on the Executive Board of The Rape Foundation in Santa Monica, CA.

What happened ever to?

And " Why are straight me so pron graxy non event toast?" R26.

r20, I still remember Diane English accepting an award at the Golden Globes in the 90s. As a joke, she brought her dinner onstage with her and held up the chicken portion to make fun of how tough it was to eat. So tacky and the chef must have been humiliated.

recently I saw Dey in an Airport ripoff movie on TCM

She's 63 years old and her last credit was and episode of Third Watch 11 years ago. Let her live her third act in peace.

She looks so sad in her R25 pic

She was a woman who leveraged her beauty but once it started to fade she lost her leverage. She is not an actress with a lot of range.

None of this makes her a bad person needless to say. She had something marketable and then it went away.

In 1975, she starred in a TV movie called "Cage Without a Key"

The teenage girl riot stabbing at the end really freaked me out. It started by the girls running in what looked like an all girls gym class. One of the girls tripped another and there you have a full scale teenaged rampage. Hilarity brings about tragedy!

It's on youtube r33

Who the fuck would tune into anything with Jay Thomas? How did he keep getting work?

He's Jewish, r35

Looks good in pic at r25, aging naturally and still beautiful.

Hi HRT at r30!

Sweet Jesus, there are a lot of people on here for whom life stopped in the 1980s. The last role you mention ended a quarter-century ago; and the first role you mention started 41 years ago. R13

Ally McBeal ended in 2002. That is 13 years ago. I don't understand your timeline, R13

I disagree that Susan stared into space during the Partridge Family. I recently watched the entire series this summer, as I hadn't seen the show since it was in syndication when I was a kid. Dey was a little stiff in the first few episodes (but not at all a disaster), but she very much held her own with the other leads throughout the four seasons. The problem was they didn't give her as much to do as they did Keith and Danny and Shirley (and even Ruben), so she didn't get a chance to stand out as much. But when called upon, Dey certainly did not embarrass herself. Chris and Tracy are another story.

R36 No, he isn't. Half-Italian and Catholic.

Holy shit, r33 - I forgot about that TV movie until now. That ending totally freaked me out too!

[quote]Why they thought the guy who killed Mork and Mindy was better than Susan Dey is beyond me.

It's funny 'cause it's true

She's fine, she sends her love.

A four year old thread, OK. I have no idea but Here's what I think. I think that she was raped/stalked/abused and or Weinsteined. One day she seemed like a MTM, whole life in front of me kind of gal and the next minute, she was sullen, withdrawn and super cautious about her choices and publicity. She's done a lot of charity work and is on the rape prevention board in Santa Monica. She was one of my only girl crushes when I was gayling.

She got her ass canned.

She got her ass canned.