Interview Vicki Lawrence In her nearly three-hour interview, Vicki Lawrence discusses her early experience in a high school musical troupe called Young Americans. She explains how a letter she wrote to Carol Burnett (along with her striking resemblance to the star) wound up jump-starting her career. She outlines her first...
Interview Tracey Ullman In her three-hour-and-fifteen-minute interview Tracey Ullman talks about growing up in England and how she started doing impersonations as a kid. She discusses attending a performing arts school starting at the age of 12, leaving school at 16 to be a dancer in Berlin, and how she made the...
Interview Horace Newcomb In his three-hour interview, Horace Newcomb talks about his early life and his impressions of television in his youth. He describes his involvement with the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, and his opinion that the television of the era made society more socially aware. He recounts how he...
Interview Hank Azaria In his one-hour-and-forty-five-minute interview, Hank Azaria talks about his early life and his decision to pursue a career in acting, which led to his first job, in an Italian gum commercial. He describes going on several auditions in both New York and Los Angeles, which led to him being cast as "...
Interview Charlotte Rae In her two-hour interview, Charlotte Rae (1926-2018) talks about her early life, including majoring in drama in Northwestern, and appearing on Broadway in The Threepenny Opera . She recalls early television roles, including on The Phil Silvers Show , and her role as “Sylvia Schanuser” on Car 54,...
