Jenilee Harrison

Let's not OP.

Around the time of Three’s Company I read that she was a financial wiz with a strong portfolio of investments. Enough so that she really never had to work again.

I wonder if that was baseless publicity or true.

r2 I'm going with true

I found this quote - no idea if it’s real or not:

[quote]"Jenilee continued, "I was only in 'Three's Company' for 2 and a half years (she was 21 at the time), but from the money I made and invested, I could retire." 'People Weekly' added, "On 'Dallas', she earned a reported $15,000 a week, which she invested in real estate." Jenilee told fans, "I own shopping centers, apartment buildings, duplexes, things like that. I'm weird with money. I had a business manager for 6 months about 4 years ago (in 1980), but I stopped having one because I realized I was far ahead of him in managing my own money. It's a great feeling for a woman to be able to say I don't need you for support financially."

She was married for 30 years to Cybill Shepherd’s ex Dr.Bruce Oppenheim, the father of Cybill’s twins.

I was very surprised by her career rebound on “Dallas”. Wish she’d done “Step by Step” instead of Suzanne Somers. She would have been a better Bond girl than Tanya Roberts (R.I.P.).

She has/had a beautiful huge home in Agoura Hills, CA

I also heard many years ago that she made a ton of money in real estate in the 80s and has never had to work again.

She IS Jenilee Harrison.

She IS Jamie Ewing!

Who agrees that she's one of the most beautiful women ever?

R11. But I had the talent!

???

Not beautiful...more like the girl next door.

But I admire her business acumen in taking her earnings and investing heavily in real estate. Good for her. You are always reading about former stars with a short career that run through their money and then are destitute as they age.

Jenilee was/is gorgeous! Easily up there with Deneuve, Leigh and Garbo as one of the great beauties of the silver screen. It's beyond me why she never broke out and became a huge star. She had it all, beauty, talent, and janasayquoi!

[quote] janasayquoi

I hope that was purposely obliterated, r15. In fact, I hope your entire post was tongue-in-cheek.

Janet didn't have the talent. Awful actress. They were all bad on that show.

Could she and her boobies squat provocatively in the nude in a roadside field’s ditch!? I think NOT!

Movie star manages to have it all: career, home and family!

She makes a guest appearance in this music video!

She started out as a cheerleader for the Los Angeles Rams.

Really, doesn’t that tell you all you need to know?

My dad loved her, which I always found hilarious. Of all the pretty actresses in the world, SHE was his favorite? I never could figure out how he even knew who she was, since I can’t imagine him ever watching Threes Company or Dallas.

The last time I saw her was on some infomercial, and she’d had so much work done I didn’t even know who she was until they said her name.

I fear we’re witnessing the origin story of The Jenilee Harrison troll.

R22, she never had work done

She was a big titty 70's early 80's blonde, but I never thought her face was anything special. I looked her up again to be sure - yeah - nothing extraordinary.

Her saving and investing was also due to her NFL playing boyfriend footing all the bills.

I'm sure she's done well - but that statement about her investments, etc - is more of a deflection away from her struggling career. "I don't need to work" - ok, fine - but don't act like offers were pouring in either.

How dare you r25. Her career was on FIRE after she left Three’s Company-she did two episodes of Love Boat and a Fantasy Island before getting Dallas!

Jamie Ewing was an insipid character and a lame replacement for Afton Cooper.

The idea was interesting but the execution was terrible. They should have made her the daughter of Miss Ellie’s brother Garrison, the one that was presumed dead in the 30s, which led to Ellie inheriting Southfork. And by that point Ken Kercheval looked like her creepy uncle, not her love interest.

Looks like Charlize Theron

OP, are you a man or a lady?

R29, man

I want to meet her

Its funny how i remember her Dallas entrance. She walked up the Southfork driveway in dusty brown travel clothes.

Were those the same clothes she was wearing when she left the motel that the casting agent from Dallas rented for an hour for her 'audition'?

Meh. She's ok, I guess.

I always thought she looked like a horse.

R35, why?

She looks like she has, at the very least, lip injections. She's starting to look like Daryl Hannah. If she keeps this up, she'll look like Joan Van Ark.

Yikes ^^

If she were so rich, would she do those autograph shows like she still does? Also let's not forget the Infinite Dress, which she can style without u-zeen (she can't get her mouth around the "ng" sound) a mirror, so if you see her being a little off center, you know why! And she's wearing a half-bra.

This video is DL catnip BTW, worthy of its own thread.

Yes, R22, she's had work done.

I saw her at the Jamba Juice on Santa Monica in WeHo about 20 years ago, and she had definitely had some face work done.

R41, was she nice?

Jamie Ewing was a good idea at first as another foil for JR and Ewing Oil but then she quickly became Cliff's punching bag. Her character was killed twice-blowed up then died in a rock slide. I'm guessing the writers didn't care for Jenilee.

I wonder what the real reason was why she left Three's Company.

She deserved to be on it longer, she was hilarious.

R42 I didn't speak to her. She seemed fine. Just like any other customer waiting in line.

R44 The producers wanted no connection to Suzanne Somers character after Suzanne was terminated, so they let Jenilee go. But they allowed her to appear in a couple of episodes of the following season to get viewers used to Terri Alden.

r37 r40 She looks like a baboon.

She was let go from Three’s Company because they realized she wasn’t that talented.

She had only been hired as an emergency stopgap, anyway.

How would you rank the women on Three's Company from best-looking to worst-looking?

r46 Incorrect.

Please see r48

Did she invent the Infinite Dress?! God, I miss the 90's!

Fun trivia - she was in a horse-riding accident and broke all the toes on her left foot.

R52, false

Nothing like a bunch of queens judging feminine attractiveness. Every photo of her posted here so far has been meh.

Why do so many of the women who acted on prime time soaps go overboard with plastic surgery?

So many of them have gone too far-Joan Van Ark, Linda Evans, Priscilla Presley, Jennilee Harrison, Marcia Cross, Lisa Rinna….not to mention the actresses who are just an eyelift away from looking just as clownish-Michele Lee, Linda Gray, Victoria Principal, Morgan Fairchild…..

Enough cunts! Your sexy days are over. Sit down and have some stewed prunes.

they really look alike...watery eyes, weird jaws...how did they sign up for it?

Is this Harrison or Farrah Fawcett?

eBay says it is Harrison… but while it looks like Fawcett, I don’t remember FF’s hair ever looking that stiff, and almost crunchy.

That's a heavily airbrushed Farrah Fawcett at R57.

Mmmmm. That was my first thought.

I was thinking we might have to go off the freckles on the chest.

R53 incorrect

I love her voice

Wasn't Jenilee shown braying with a mule in the opening 3's company credits at the zoo?

She has/had a beautiful huge hole in Agoura Hills, CA

A bit of trivia: she was in Loverboy’s “Lovin’ Every Minute of It” video.

R64, I wish her part was bigger in it

Great comedic actress

[quote] How would you rank the women on Three's Company from best-looking to worst-looking?

Suzanne Somers

Priscilla Barnes

Joyce DeWitt

Ann Wedgeworth

Jenilee Harrison

Audra Lindley

R66 Hmmm.

I'd take out the word "great," keep "comedic," and put quotes around the word "actress."

I'm sure she's a lovely person, though.

She came and knocked on my door.

R69 Did she help you find that life is a ball again and that laughter is calling for you?

It’s the daily troll who bores everyone with shit threads and replying to shit threads he’s created.

[quote] How would you rank the women on Three's Company from best-looking to worst-looking?

Suzanne Somers - 6

Priscilla Barnes - 1

Joyce DeWitt - 3

Ann Wedgeworth - 4 (had to look her up, the name didn't ring a bell for me)

Jenilee Harrison - 2

Audra Lindley - 5

"How would you rank the women on Three's Company from best-looking to worst-looking?"

Priscilla had the best face in her youth, and Jenilee was attractive as a whole package (I've always liked tall girls). Joyce was attractive, particularly when she grew her hair out, and aged the best of the lot. Despite being the bombshell of the show, I don't think Suzanne was as naturally pretty as the others.

Suzanne was a different person from seasons 1 and 2 until she was booted. The clown makeup and bleached blonde straw hair didn't help matters.

Jenilee aged well

I’ve been listening to a podcast about the original production of the musical INTO THE WOODS.

Apparently Ms. Somers auditioned for the role of the Witch when Bernadette Peters left the show… and was awful. The pianist doesn’t go into detail, unfortunately.

R75 She looks like a horse.

R77, how so?

Beautiful

R78 Big mouth with big horse teeth, tall and gangly.

As a kid I remember noticing her perky tits on Three’s Company. Somers was all about the jiggling jugs but Jenilee’s were really taut and upstanding even with no bra

I'm really surprised Jenilee was never offered the role of Vivien in Pretty Women, she was perfect for the part and much more beautiful than Julia Roberts. To be honest, I could see Jenilee doing justice to a lot of parts that Roberts wound up playing, most notably Erin Brokavitch. Jenilee would have hit it out of the park. I believe she was offered the role that Roberts played in Sleeping with the Enemy but turned it down to focus on the stage as she was in rehearsals for a production of Sheer Madness with Richard Kline.

Joyce DeWitt is more attractive than Jenilee Harrison AND a better actress. We've all seen her dramatic skills on that episode of The Love Boat.

^^ hahahahaha

I thought she was preparing a production of War & Peace at the Actors Studio at the time?

I honestly do think that Joyce Dewitt is pretty.

I think it's telling that Joyce was NOT invited back to Jaclyn Smith and Dierdre Hall's acting workshops, wherein they perform scenes from the works of Chekov, Letts and Fornes at each other's homes, after which they give one another extensive acting notes. Joyce was, to quote Hall a "lightweight" and Smith said that she felt DeWitt didn't have the "edge and grit" to be a real actor.

R86. Was Tina Yothers part of that acting circle?

No. You’re thinking of Marete Van Kamp. She audited sessions for a while but was never asked to join.

Jenilee's Blanche Dubois is not to be missed.

Your heart will break as she says, "I've always relied upon the versatility of the Infinite Dress."

Jaclyn Smith was no Meryl Streep.

R90. Good for Jacklyn...

Great interview with Jenilee. Part 1 of 2:

Part 2 of the great Jenilee interview. :

Why doesn’t she talk about the RADA years?

R94, what's RADA?

She didn't go to RADA. She went to Yale and helped coach Meryl. I thought everyone knew that.

Bullshit r96, the only school this bitch ever attended was thePonds Beauty Institute, and she flunked out, hence the drastic fillers and surgeries.

R97. She does a Medea that puts Zoe Caldwell to shame.

But where is her Phaedra? Her Lady Macbeth?

Deborah van Valkenburgh beat her out for Lady M.

IF

Jenilee Harrison : Shelley Hack :: Priscilla Barnes : Tanya Roberts

AND

Shelley Hack : Diane Ladd :: Tanya Roberts : Celia Weston

THEN

Kate Jackson : Polly Holliday :: Suzanne Somers : Farrah Fawcett

TRUE OR FALSE

Modern Marilyn Monroe

Would the answer be "False," R101 because the replacements in Kate Jackson's track on Charlie's Angels were Shelley and Tanya

the replacements in Suzanne's track on Three's Company were Jenilee and Priscilla

the replacements in Polly's track on Alice were Diane and Celia

But Farrah Fawcett was replaced only once, by Cheryl Ladd, who is not mentioned. The correct fourth name in the last line would be the original actress from a 1970s sitcom or drama with a track where she was replaced twice over the course of the series by a different character who served the same function in the context of the show, played by a different actor.

Is that correct?

Excellent work, r103. Your gay card is safe

We never thought Jenilee Harrison was pretty.

R105, yes you both did

I'm watching 3's Company now

r107 Oh ok

Jenilee? Reductive.

R107. No way! How did you find it?! You're so awesome!

I remember it now. The week she moved in, it was the 2nd time in the 80s that Stanley let me go to the store without coupons.

I was molested with a fork when I was down visiting the south.

Great beauty:

R32, I remember that scene mainly for Patrick Duffy, in the best shape of his life, in a Speedo.

Horse face

butta face

The modern day Marilyn Monroe.

When she joined “Three’s Company,” my mother says she was awful, as though she were reading her lines.

She was pretty bad. And bug-eyed.

During the zoo opening credits on TC,, her shirt is cropped so high you can practically see her tits when she waves.

Does anyone think that she can act?

I don't see how the answer to that question has anything to do with the career she's had, R120. She was good in physical comedy bits with Ritter.

[quote]Does anyone think that she can act?

Well I didn’t have to hire an acting coach for her unlike some Three’s Company blondes I could mention