Re: Who was your first childhood TV \
Anybody remember Sian Barbara Allen? She's probably best known
as Jenny Pendleton, John-Boy's girlfriend on "The Waltons" (she and
Richard Thomas dated in the '70s and once, when Thomas was co-hosting
"The Mike Douglas Show," Douglas surprised him by bringing her out) and
as Anne Morrow Lindbergh in the TV-movie "The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case."
She was kind of sleepy-eyed but had that indescribable something: not beautiful,
but something about her looks and demeanor made her seem beautiful. (Actually,
I think she's better looking now, in her 60s, than she was in her 20s; she also
reminded me of a former girlfriend of mine, but I won't get into that.)
Many of you may have seen her in the movie "Billy Two Hats," where she played
Gregory Peck's much-younger wife.
Her heyday was the '70s, a little work in the '80s, and then she seems to have
retired from acting. I've heard an unsubstantiated rumor that Sharon Case, who
plays Sharon on "The Young And The Restless," is her daughter.
Also, does anybody remember Lauren Tewes, who played Julie McCoy, the cruise
director on "The Love Boat"? I thought she defined the word "perky" before Katie
Couric came on the national scene. Last I heard, she was working in little theater
around Seattle.
