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Harper Lee
Lee on November 5, 2007
Born
Nelle Harper Lee
(1926-04-28)April 28, 1926
Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.
Died
February 19, 2016(2016-02-19) (aged 89)
Monroeville, Alabama, U.S.
Pen name
Harper Lee
Occupation
Novelist
Nationality
American
Period
1960–2016
Genre
Literature, fiction
Literary movement
Southern Gothic
Notable works
To Kill a Mockingbird
Go Set a Watchman
Signature
Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926 – February 19, 2016), better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for To Kill a Mockingbird, published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature.[1] Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book In Cold Blood (1966).[2] Capote was the basis for the character Dill in To Kill a Mockingbird.[3]
The plot and characters of To Kill a Mockingbird are loosely based on Lee's observations of her family and neighbors, as well as an event that occurred near her hometown in 1936, when she was 10 years old. The novel deals with the irrationality of adult attitudes towards race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s, as depicted through the eyes of two children. The novel was inspired by racist attitudes in her hometown of Monroeville, Alabama.
Another novel, Go Set a Watchman, was written in the mid-1950s and published in July 2015 as a "sequel", though it was later confirmed to be To Kill a Mockingbird's first draft.[4][5][6]
Contents
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1 Early life
2 To Kill a Mockingbird
2.1 Origin
2.2 Autobiographical details in the novel
3 After To Kill a Mockingbird
3.1 Middle years
3.2 2005–2014
3.3 2015: Go Set a Watchman
4 Death
5 Fictional portrayals
6 Works
6.1 Books
6.2 Articles
7 See also
8 References
9 External links
Early life
Nelle Harper Lee was born on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama [7] where she grew up as the youngest of four children of Frances Cunningham (Finch) and Amasa Coleman Lee.[8] Her parents chose her middle name, Harper, to honor pediatrician Dr. William W. Harper, of Selma, Alabama, who saved the life of her sister Louise.[9] Her first name, Nelle, was her grandmother's name spelled backwards and the name she used;[10] Harper Lee being primarily her pen name.[10] Lee's mother was a homemaker; her father, a former newspaper editor and proprietor, practiced law and served in the Alabama State Legislature from 1926 to 1938. Before A.C. Lee became a title lawyer, he once defended two black men accused of murdering a white storekeeper. Both clients, a father and son, were hanged.[11] Lee had three siblings: Alice Finch Lee (1911–2014),[12] Louise Lee Conner (1916–2009), and Edwin Lee (1920–1951).[13]
While enrolled at Monroe County High School, Lee developed an interest in English literature. After graduating from high school in 1944,[8] she attended the then all-female Huntingdon College in Montgomery for a year, then transferred to the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where she studied law for several years and wrote for the university newspaper, but did not complete a degree.[8] In the summer of 1948, Lee attended a summer school in European civilization at Oxford University in England, financed by her father, who hoped – in vain, as it turned out – that the experience would make her more interested in her legal studies in Tuscaloosa.[14]
To Kill a Mockingbird
I never expected any sort of success with Mockingbird. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers but, at the same time, I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement. Public encouragement. I hoped for a little, as I said, but I got rather a whole lot, and in some ways this was just about as frightening as the quick, merciful death I'd expected.
— Harper Lee, quoted in Newquist, 1964[15]
In 1949, Lee moved to New York City and took a job as an airline reservation agent, writing fiction in her spare time.[8] Having written several long stories, Lee found an agent in November 1956. The following month, at Michael Brown's East 50th Street townhouse, she received a gift of a year's wages from friends with a note: "You have one year off from your job to write whatever you please. Merry Christmas."[16]
Origin
In the spring of 1957, a 31-year-old Lee delivered the manuscript for Go Set a Watchman to her agent to send out to publishers, including the now-defunct J. B. Lippincott Company, which eventually bought it.[17] At Lippincott, the novel fell into the hands of Therese von Hohoff Torrey—known professionally as Tay Hohoff. Hohoff was impressed. "[T]he spark of the true writer flashed in every line", she would later recount in a corporate history of Lippincott.[17] But as Hohoff saw it, the manuscript was by no means fit for publication. It was, as she described it, "more a series of anecdotes than a fully conceived novel".[17] During the next couple of years, she led Lee from one draft to the next until the book finally achieved its finished form and was retitled To Kill a Mockingbird.[17]
Like many unpublished authors, Lee was unsure of her talents. “I was a first-time writer, so I did as I was told,” Lee said in a statement in 2015 about the evolution from Watchman to Mockingbird.[17] Hohoff offers a more detailed characterization of the process in the Lippincott corporate history: “After a couple of false starts, the story-line, interplay of characters, and fall of emphasis grew clearer, and with each revision — there were many minor changes as the story grew in strength and in her own vision of it — the true stature of the novel became evident.” (In 1978, Lippincott was acquired by Harper & Row, which became HarperCollins, publisher of Watchman.)[17]
There appeared to be a natural give and take between author and editor. “When she disagreed with a suggestion, we talked it out, sometimes for hours,” Hohoff wrote. “And sometimes she came around to my way of thinking, sometimes I to hers, sometimes the discussion would open up an entirely new line of country.”[17]
As for her relationship with Lee, it’s clear that Hohoff provided more than just editorial guidance. One winter night, as Charles J. Shields recounts in Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee, Lee threw her manuscript out her window and into the snow, before calling Hohoff in tears. “Tay told her to march outside immediately and pick up the pages,” Mr. Shields writes.[17]
When the novel was finally ready, the author opted to use the name "Harper Lee", rather than risk having her first name Nelle be misidentified as "Nellie".[18]
Published July 11, 1960, To Kill a Mockingbird was an immediate bestseller and won great critical acclaim, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1961. It remains a bestseller, with more than 30 million copies in print. In 1999, it was voted "Best Novel of the Century" in a poll by the Library Journal.[19]
Autobiographical details in the novel
Like Lee, the tomboy Scout of the novel is the daughter of a respected small-town Alabama attorney. Scout's friend, Dill, was inspired by Lee's childhood friend and neighbor, Truman Capote;[11] Lee, in turn, is the model for a character in Capote's first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, published in 1948. Although the plot of Lee's novel involves an unsuccessful legal defense similar to one undertaken by her attorney father, the 1931 landmark Scottsboro Boys interracial rape case may also have helped to shape Lee's social conscience.[20]
While Lee herself downplayed autobiographical parallels in the book, Truman Capote, mentioning the character Boo Radley in To Kill a Mockingbird, described details he considered autobiographical: "In my original version of Other Voices, Other Rooms I had that same man living in the house that used to leave things in the trees, and then I took that out. He was a real man, and he lived just down the road from us. We used to go and get those things out of the trees. Everything she wrote about it is absolutely true. But you see, I take the same thing and transfer it into some Gothic dream, done in an entirely different way."[21]
After To Kill a Mockingbird
Middle years
After completing To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee accompanied Capote to Holcomb, Kansas, to assist him in researching what they thought would be an article on a small town's response to the murder of a farmer and his family. Capote expanded the material into his best-selling book, In Cold Blood, published in 1966.
From the time of the publication of To Kill a Mockingbird until her death in 2016, Lee granted almost no requests for interviews or public appearances and, with the exception of a few short essays, published nothing further, until 2015. She did work on a follow-up novel—The Long Goodbye—but eventually filed it away unfinished.[22] During the mid-1980s, she began a factual book about an Alabama serial murderer, but also put it aside when she was not satisfied.[22] Her withdrawal from public life prompted unfounded speculation that new publications were in the works.
Film producer Alan J. Pakula with Lee, who spent three weeks watching the filming of To Kill a Mockingbird
in 1962.[23]
Lee said of the 1962 Academy Award–winning screenplay adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird by Horton Foote: "I think it is one of the best translations of a book to film ever made."[24] She became a friend of Gregory Peck, and after his death remained close to the actor's family; Peck's grandson, Harper Peck Voll, is named after her.[25]
Peck won an Oscar for his portrayal of Atticus Finch, the father of the novel's narrator, Scout.
In January 1966, President Lyndon B. Johnson appointed Lee to the National Council on the Arts.[26]
In 1966, Lee wrote a letter to the editor in response to the attempts of a Richmond, Virginia, area school board to ban To Kill a Mockingbird as "immoral literature":
“ Recently I have received echoes down this way of the Hanover County School Board's activities, and what I've heard makes me wonder if any of its members can read.
Surely it is plain to the simplest intelligence that To Kill a Mockingbird spells out in words of seldom more than two syllables a code of honor and conduct, Christian in its ethic, that is the heritage of all Southerners. To hear that the novel is 'immoral' has made me count the years between now and 1984, for I have yet to come across a better example of doublethink.
I feel, however, that the problem is one of illiteracy, not Marxism. Therefore I enclose a small contribution to the Beadle Bumble Fund that I hope will be used to enroll the Hanover County School Board in any first grade of its choice.[11]
”
James J. Kilpatrick, the editor of The Richmond News Leader, started the Beadle Bumble fund to pay fines for victims of what he termed "despots on the bench". He built the fund using contributions from readers, and later used it to defend books as well as people. After the board in Richmond ordered schools to dispose of all copies of To Kill a Mockingbird, Kilpatrick wrote, "A more moral novel scarcely could be imagined." In the name of the Beadle Bumble fund, he then offered free copies to children who wrote in, and by the end of the first week, he had given away 81 copies.[27]
When Lee attended the 1983 Alabama History and Heritage Festival in Eufaula, Alabama, she presented the essay "Romance and High Adventure".[28]
Late in 1978, Lee spent some time in Alexander City, Alabama, researching a true-crime book called The Reverend.[29]
Lee lived for 40 years at 433 East 82nd Street in Manhattan.[30]
2005–2014
In March 2005, Lee arrived in Philadelphia – her first trip to the city since signing with publisher Lippincott in 1960 – to receive the inaugural ATTY Award for positive depictions of attorneys in the arts from the Spector Gadon & Rosen Foundation.[31] At the urging of Peck's widow, Veronique Peck, Lee traveled by train from Monroeville to Los Angeles in 2005 to accept the Los Angeles Public Library Literary Award.[32] She also attended luncheons for students who have written essays based on her work, held annually at the University of Alabama.[24][33] On May 21, 2006, she accepted an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame, where graduating seniors saluted her with copies of To Kill a Mockingbird during the ceremony.[34]
On May 7, 2006, Lee wrote a letter to Oprah Winfrey (published in O, The Oprah Magazine in July 2006) about her love of books as a child and her dedication to the written word: "Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cellphones, iPods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books."[35]
While attending an August 20, 2007, ceremony inducting four members into the Alabama Academy of Honor, Lee declined an invitation to address the audience, saying: "Well, it's better to be silent than to be a fool."[36][37]
Lee being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, November 5, 2007
On November 5, 2007, George W. Bush presented Lee with the Presidential Medal of Freedom. This is the highest civilian award in the United States and recognizes individuals who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant public or private endeavors".[38][39]
In 2010, President Barack Obama awarded Lee the National Medal of Arts, the highest award given by the United States government for "outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts".[40]
In a 2011 interview with an Australian newspaper, Rev. Dr. Thomas Lane Butts said Lee now lived in an assisted-living facility, wheelchair-bound, partially blind and deaf, and suffering from memory loss. Butts also shared that Lee told him why she never wrote again: "Two reasons: one, I wouldn't go through the pressure and publicity I went through with To Kill a Mockingbird for any amount of money. Second, I have said what I wanted to say, and I will not say it again."[41]
On May 3, 2013, Lee had filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court to regain the copyright to To Kill a Mockingbird, seeking unspecified damages from a son-in-law of her former literary agent and related entities. Lee claimed that the man "engaged in a scheme to dupe" her into assigning him the copyright on the book in 2007, when her hearing and eyesight were in decline, and she was residing in an assisted-living facility after having suffered a stroke.[42][43][44] In September 2013, attorneys for both sides announced a settlement of the lawsuit.[45]
In February 2014, Lee settled a lawsuit against the Monroe County Heritage Museum for an undisclosed amount. The suit alleged that the museum had used her name and the title To Kill a Mockingbird to promote itself and to sell souvenirs without her consent.[46][47] Lee's attorneys had filed a trademark application on August 19, 2013, to which the museum filed an opposition. This prompted Lee's attorney to file a lawsuit on October 15 that same year, "which takes issue the museum's website and gift shop, which it accuses of 'palming off its goods', including T-shirts, coffee mugs other various trinkets with Mockingbird brands."[48]
2015: Go Set a Watchman
According to Lee's lawyer Tonja Carter, following an initial meeting to appraise Lee's assets in 2011, she re-examined Lee's safe-deposit box in 2014 and found the manuscript for Go Set a Watchman. After contacting Lee and reading the manuscript, she passed it on to Lee's agent Andrew Nurnberg.[49][50]
On February 3, 2015, it was announced that HarperCollins would publish Go Set a Watchman,[51] which includes versions of many of the characters in To Kill a Mockingbird. According to a HarperCollins press release, it was originally thought that the Watchman manuscript was lost.[52] According to Nurnberg, Mockingbird was originally intended to be the first book of a trilogy: "They discussed publishing Mockingbird first, Watchman last, and a shorter connecting novel between the two."[53]
Jonathan Mahler's account in The New York Times of how Watchman was only ever really considered to be the first draft of Mockingbird makes this assertion seem unlikely.[17] Evidence where the same passages exist in both books, in many cases word for word, also further refutes this assertion.[54]
The book was controversially[4] published in July 2015 as a sequel to To Kill a Mockingbird, though it has been confirmed to be the first draft of the latter, with many narrative incongruities, repackaged and released as a completely separate work.[4] The book is set some 20 years after the time period depicted in Mockingbird, when Scout returns as an adult from New York to visit her father in Maycomb, Alabama.[55] It alludes to Scout's view of her father, Atticus Finch, as the moral compass ("watchman") of Maycomb,[56] and, according to the publisher, how she finds upon her return to Maycomb, that she "is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand her father's attitude toward society and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood."[57]
Not all reviewers have such a harsh opinion about the publication of the sequel book. Michiko Kakutani in Books of The Times article[58] finds that the book "makes for disturbing reading" when Scout is shocked to find... that her beloved father... has been affiliating with raving anti-integration, anti-black crazies, and the reader shares her horror and confusion... Though it lacks the lyricism... the portions of "Watchman" dealing with Scout's childhood and her adult romance with Henry capture the daily rhythms of life in a small town and are peppered with portraits of minor characters" and she mentions that "Students of writing will find "Watchman" fascinating." While not fully praising the book she finds the publication of "Watchman" an important step stone in understanding Harper Lee's work.[58]
The publication of the novel (announced by her lawyer) raised concerns over why Lee, who for 55 years had maintained that she would never write another book, would suddenly choose to publish again. In February 2015, the State of Alabama, through its Human Resources Department, launched an investigation into whether Lee was competent enough to consent to the publishing of Go Set a Watchman.[10] The investigation found that the claims of coercion and elder abuse were unfounded,[59] and, according to Lee's lawyer, Lee was "happy as hell" with the publication.[60]
This characterization, however, was contested by many of Lee's friends.[4][61][62] Marja Mills, author of The Mockingbird Next Door: Life with Harper Lee, a friend and former neighbor, painted a very different picture.[63] In her piece for The Washington Post, "The Harper Lee I knew",[61] she quoted Alice—Lee's sister, whom she described as "gatekeeper, advisor, protector" for most of Lee's adult life—as saying, "Poor Nelle Harper can't see and can't hear and will sign anything put before her by anyone in whom she has confidence." She made note that Watchman was announced just two and a half months after Alice's death and that all correspondence to and from Lee went through her new attorney. She described Lee as "in a wheelchair in an assisted living center, nearly deaf and blind, with a uniformed guard posted at the door" and her visitors "restricted to those on an approved list."[61]
New York Times columnist Joe Nocera continued this argument.[4] He also took issue with how the book was promoted by the 'Murdoch Empire' as a "newly discovered" novel, attesting that the other people in the Sothebys meeting insisted that Lee's attorney was present in 2011, when Lee's former agent (who was subsequently fired) and the Sotheby's specialist found the manuscript. They said she knew full well that it was the same one submitted to Tay Hohoff in the 1950s that was reworked into Mockingbird, and that Lee's lawyer Tonja Carter had been sitting on the discovery, waiting for the moment when she, and not Alice, would be in charge of Harper Lee's affairs.[4]
Stephen Peck, son of actor Gregory Peck, also expressed concern. Responding to the question of how he thought his father would have reacted to the book, he said that he "would have appreciated the discussion the book has prompted, but would have been troubled by the decision to publish it."[62] Peck noted that his father considered Lee a dear friend. She gave him the pocket watch that had belonged to her father, on whom she modeled Atticus and that Gregory wore it the night he won an Oscar for the role.[62] Stephen, who is president and chief executive of the United States Veterans Initiative, went on to say "I think he would have felt very protective of her," and that his father would have counseled Lee not to publish Watchman because it could taint Mockingbird, one of the most beloved novels (in) American history.[62]
"Not to protect himself, but to protect her," Peck said, also noting that the decision to publish it was made not long after the death of Alice Lee, who had long handled Harper Lee's affairs. "You just don't know how that decision was made... If he had to, he would have flown down to talk to her. I have no doubt." Later in the article, which was posted in The Wall Street Journal, he said, “To me, it was an unedited draft. Do you want to put that early version out there or do you want to put it in the University of Alabama archives for scholars to look at?”[62]
Death
Lee died in her sleep on the morning of February 19, 2016, aged 89.[64][65] Prior to her death, she lived in Monroeville, Alabama.[66] On February 20, her funeral was held at First United Methodist Church in Monroeville.[67] The service was attended by close family and friends, and the eulogy was given by Wayne Flynt.[68]
Fictional portrayals
Harper Lee was portrayed by Catherine Keener in the film Capote (2005), by Sandra Bullock in the film Infamous (2006), and by Tracey Hoyt in the TV movie Scandalous Me: The Jacqueline Susann Story (1998).[69] In the adaptation of Truman Capote's novel Other Voices, Other Rooms (1995), the character of Idabel Thompkins, who was inspired by Capote's memories of Lee as a child, was played by Aubrey Dollar.
Works
Books
To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
Go Set a Watchman (2015)
Articles
"Love—In Other Words". Vogue. April 15, 1961. pp. 64–65.
"Christmas to Me". McCall's. December 1961.
"When Children Discover America". McCall's. August 1965.
"Romance and High Adventure". 1983. A paper presented in Eufaula, Alabama, and collected in the anthology Clearings in the Thicket (1985).
"Open letter to Oprah Winfrey". O: The Oprah Magazine. July 2006.
See also
Alabama literature
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Maureen McCormick
Maureen McCormick in 2009
Born
Maureen Denise McCormick
(1956-08-05) August 5, 1956 (age 61)
Encino, California, U.S.
Occupation
Actress, singer, author
Years active
1964–present
Spouse(s)
Michael Cummings (m. 1985–present)
Children
Natalie Cummings
Maureen Denise McCormick (born August 5, 1956) is an American actress, singer and author. She is best known for her portrayal of Marcia Brady on the ABC television sitcom The Brady Bunch, which ran from 1969 to 1974. She reprised the role in several of the numerous Brady Bunch spin-offs and films, including The Brady Kids, The Brady Bunch Hour, The Brady Brides as well as A Very Brady Christmas (1988). McCormick also appeared in The Idolmaker (1980) as well as a wide range of other supporting film roles. In the 1980s and 1990s, she ventured into stage acting, appearing in a variety of different roles and productions such as Wendy Darling in Peter Pan and Betty Rizzo in Grease. McCormick also had a brief career as a recording artist, releasing four studio albums with the Brady Bunch cast as well as touring with them. Her only release as a solo artist to date is a country music album, When You Get a Little Lonely (1995).
Despite professional success on The Brady Bunch and its spin-offs, McCormick struggled largely in her personal life in the years following the original series' end. Addictions to cocaine and quaaludes, as well as bouts of depression and bulimia, all contributed to McCormick losing her reputation for reliability as an actress. Since the 2000s, she has appeared on several reality television series such as VH1's Celebrity Fit Club, CMT's Gone Country (which led to a short-lived spin-off series led by McCormick, Outsiders Inn) and the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!, as well as guest spots on a wide range of television series. In 2008, McCormick published an autobiography, Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice, which debuted at number four on The New York Times bestseller list and garnered significant publicity and mild controversy.
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1 Early life and career
2 Marcia Brady
3 Later career
3.1 Other acting roles
3.2 Reality TV
3.3 Recording career
3.4 Autobiography
4 Personal life
5 Biographical portrayals
6 Film and television
7 Awards and nominations
8 References
9 Further reading
10 External links
Early life and career[edit]
McCormick was born in Encino, California, to Irene (née Beckman) and William McCormick, a teacher.[1] She has three older brothers: Michael, Dennis, and Kevin. According to her biography, McCormick attended Taft High School in Woodland Hills, California.
At age six, she won the Baby Miss San Fernando Valley beauty pageant.[2] In 1964, she first appeared on national U.S. television, in Mattel commercials for Barbie and Chatty Cathy dolls. Through the later 1960s McCormick appeared in two episodes of Bewitched and played guest roles on I Dream of Jeannie, Honey West, The Farmer's Daughter, and My Three Sons. In 1970, she lent her voice to a redesigned Chatty Cathy doll.[3]
Marcia Brady[edit]
Further information: The Brady Bunch
Further information: Characters of The Brady Bunch
McCormick's most famous role was as eldest daughter Marcia Brady on the classic 1970s sitcom The Brady Bunch.
McCormick played the eldest daughter, Marcia, who had five siblings. She had a perky and popular personality in The Brady Bunch, an American television sitcom about a blended family that aired from late 1969 to early 1974 on ABC, on Friday nights. After its cancellation, the series was later rebroadcast in syndication for decades, as children's programming, gathering a long-lasting, cross-generational popularity that led to spinoffs and movies. The Brady Brides aired briefly in 1981 as a miniseries that was spun off from the movie The Brady Girls Get Married (1981), placing McCormick in a shared lead role alongside Eve Plumb. However, when The Bradys aired in 1990 as a revival of the original series, McCormick had just given birth to a child and was unavailable to return as Marcia, so Leah Ayres filled the role instead.
In 2015, archive footage of McCormick as Marcia was used for an American TV commercial advertising Snickers chocolate bars. The commercial, which debuted during Super Bowl XLIX, features action film star Danny Trejo as young Marcia who (in the context of being hungry) isn't acting like herself. After eating a Snickers, Marcia appears as McCormick once again.[4][5]
Later career[edit]
In 2008, she became a spokesperson for Children International.[6]
Other acting roles[edit]
After The Brady Bunch, McCormick made guest appearances on many television series such as Happy Days, Donny & Marie, Love Boat, Vega$, Streets of San Francisco, and Fantasy Island, along with supporting roles in The Idolmaker and B movies such as A Vacation in Hell (1979), Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979) and Return to Horror High (1987). McCormick later claimed she failed to get a role as a prostitute or heroin dealer for the movie Midnight Express because she continued to be identified with her Brady Bunch role.[7] McCormick was the first actress to play Rebecca Crane on the soap opera Passions, but she was not put on contract. She also performed in several musical stage productions during the 1980s and 1990s, portraying such characters as Wendy Darling in Peter Pan and Betty Rizzo in Grease.[8] In 1997, she portrayed country singer Barbara Mandrell in the television biopic Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story. In 2003 she appeared as herself on an episode of the sitcom Scrubs with references being made to her Marcia Brady character.
Reality TV[edit]
In 2007, McCormick joined the cast of the fifth season of VH1's reality show Celebrity Fit Club, hoping to lose 30 pounds she had gained since her mother died of cancer and needing to move her disabled brother into an assisted living facility. McCormick lost 34 pounds and, in June of that year, was the individual winner of the series. In 2008 she joined the cast of the CMT reality show Gone Country, where she competed for a recording contract. This led to a spin-off reality series called Outsiders Inn, in which she opened a bed and breakfast in Newport, Tennessee. In March 2009, McCormick appeared on Comedy Central's roast of Larry the Cable Guy.
In 2015, McCormick appeared in the Australian version of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, where she lasted 42 days and was the last evictee before the finale.[9]
On August 30, 2016, McCormick was revealed as one of the celebrities who would compete on season 23 of Dancing with the Stars. She was partnered with professional dancer Artem Chigvintsev.[10] McCormick and Chigvintsev were eliminated on the seventh week of competition and finished in 8th place.[11]
Recording career[edit]
McCormick recorded four albums with the Brady Bunch cast, and toured with them. In 1972, she released her first solo single with the songs "Truckin' Back to You" and "Teeny Weeny Bit (Too Long)". The following year, McCormick recorded an album with her Brady Bunch co-star Christopher Knight, a pop extended play titled Chris Knight and Maureen McCormick, which carried both duets and solo tracks. McCormick's second solo single "Little Bird", backed with "Just a Singin' Alone", had mild chart success in the western United States. McCormick later performed "Little Bird" on American Bandstand, where host Dick Clark encouraged her to follow a singing career. McCormick released another single in 1973, "Love's in the Roses", backed with "Harmonize".
Over twenty years later, McCormick released her first and only solo studio album to date, a country album titled When You Get a Little Lonely (1995). Although not a commercial success, it garnered mostly positive reviews.
Autobiography[edit]
McCormick released her autobiography, Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice, on October 14, 2008, with wide and sometimes controversial publicity. It debuted at number four on The New York Times bestseller list, where it stayed for three weeks.[12] The book was published by HarperCollins and was acquired by Director of Creative Development Lisa Sharkey. While promoting the book, McCormick was a guest on many news and talk shows such as Access Hollywood, The Howard Stern Show, Good Day L.A., and Paula's Party. The Today Show reportedly aired an interview with McCormick about the book rather than switch to a story about the 2008 recession.[13] McCormick said that a film would likely be made about her autobiography.[14]
Personal life[edit]
In her autobiography, McCormick wrote that her grandmother died from syphilis in a mental institution, infected by her husband, who caught it in Europe during World War I (and who committed suicide a week after his wife's death). McCormick's mother contracted syphilis in utero, and McCormick dealt with a lifelong but unfounded fear that she would also get the disease, and stated that her favorite scenes in The Brady Bunch were those that called for her to cry, since this allowed her to release feelings that she drew upon from those fears.[15]
McCormick had a sporadic romance with her Brady Bunch co-star Barry Williams during the original series' run. Following the cancellation of The Brady Bunch, McCormick spent years addicted to cocaine and quaaludes, which harmed her career. McCormick later claimed that she sometimes traded sex for drugs, and also had two abortions during her early twenties. She flubbed an audition with Steven Spielberg for a part in Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), arriving for the audition under the influence of cocaine and having not slept for three days. She lost her reputation for reliability as an actress in Hollywood, and one producer threatened that she would never work as an actress again. She also dealt with bouts of depression and bulimia.[2][16]
McCormick married Michael Cummings on March 16, 1985, who had heard of The Brady Bunch but had never seen it at the time. They fell in love upon meeting in a church.[17] McCormick and Cummings have one child, Natalie Michelle, born May 19, 1989. The family lives in Westlake Village, northwest of Los Angeles. After getting married, McCormick went through a series of interventions, stints in rehab, and experimental therapies. She says that treatment with psychologist Eugene Landy set her back. She began to get sober after marrying, but she still suffered from depression and paranoia. She once threatened to jump from a balcony in front of her husband.[17] She and her husband were at first wary of medication, but McCormick has been treated with antidepressant medication such as Prozac since the 1990s. McCormick also said that she was helped by her friendships with former Brady Bunch cast members.[2][7]
In April 2007, McCormick appeared on Dr. Phil to discuss a family dispute, accusing her brother of both elder abuse and alienating their father from his other children to gain control of his finances.[18]
Biographical portrayals[edit]
Kaley Cuoco portrayed Maureen McCormick in Growing Up Brady (2000). McCormick's character Marcia Brady has been portrayed by Christine Taylor in The Brady Bunch Movie (1995) and its sequel A Very Brady Sequel.
Film and television[edit]
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Notes
1964 Bewitched Young Endora – Girl TV series; season 1, episode 12: "And Something Makes Three"
1965 The Farmer's Daughter Christine TV series; season 2, episode 25: "Why Don't They Ever Pick Me?"
1965 Bewitched Young Endora – Girl TV series; season 2, episode 7: "Trick or Treat"
1965 Honey West Margaret Mary Driscoll TV series; season 1, episode 8: "In the Bag"
1965–
1966 Camp Runamuck Maureen Sullivan TV series; two episodes; season 1, episode 1: "Who Stole My Bathtub"; season 1, episode 16: "Tomboy"
1966 I Dream of Jeannie Susan TV series; season 1, episode 20: "My Master, the Doctor"
1967 My Three Sons Sylvia Walters TV series; season 8, episode 10: "Ernie the Bluebeard"
1969 The Arrangement Uncredited Zephyr Commercial
1969–
1974 The Brady Bunch Marcia Brady TV series; 116 episodes; series regular
1971 Cold Turkey Talking Doll Voice
1972 The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie Marcia Brady (voice) The Brady Kids on Mysterious Island; television movie
1972–
1973 The Brady Kids Marcia Brady (voice) TV series; 17 episodes
1973 Marcus Welby, M.D. Sharon Boyd TV series; season 4, episode 23: "The Day After Forever"
1973 The World of Sid & Marty Krofft at the Hollywood Bowl The Brady Bunch Kids TV special
1975 Happy Days Hildie TV series; season 2, episode 16: "Cruisin'"
1975 Harry O Nancy Wayne TV series; season 1, episode 22: "Street Games"
1975 The Turning Point of Jim Malloy Uncredited Television movie
1975 Joe Forrester Irene Kellogg TV series; season 1, episode 3: "Bus Station"
1976 The Streets of San Francisco Cindy Lawson TV series; season 5, episode 5: "No Minor Vices"
1976 Pony Express Rider Rose of Sharon Theatrical release
1976 Gibbsville Uncredited TV series; season 1, episode 4: "All the Young Girls"
1976–
1977 The Brady Bunch Hour Marcia Brady TV series; 9 episodes; series regular
1977 Delvecchio Lynette Youndfellow TV series; season 1, episode 14: "One Little Indian"
1977 Moonshine County Express Sissy Hammer Theatrical release
1977 The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries Karen Phillips TV series; season 2, episode 10: "Nancy Drew's Love Match"
1977–
1982 The Love Boat Barbara Holmes TV series; 5 episodes
1978 Vega$ Jenny Logan TV series; season 1, episode 8: "The Pageant"
1978–
1983 Fantasy Island Angela Brennan TV series; 6 episodes
1979 Take Down Brooke Cooper Theatrical release
1979 Insight Jenny TV series; one episode: "When, Jenny? When?"
1979 Lou Grant Tiffany TV series; season 2, episode 16: "Sweep"
1979 A Vacation in Hell Margret Television movie
1979 The Runaways Janet TV series; season 2, episode 2: "Throwaway Child"
1979 Skatetown, U.S.A. Susan Theatrical release
1980 The Idolmaker Ellen Fields Theatrical release
1981 The Brady Girls Get Married Marcia Brady TV movie
1981 The Brady Brides Marcia Brady-Logan TV series; 6 episodes; series regular
1981 Texas Lightning Fay Theatrical release
1983 Shout for Joy Alma Co-stars: Michael Cummings; Robert Pierce
1986 New Love, American Style Uncredited TV series; episode: "Love and the F.M. Doctor"
1987 Return to Horror High Officer Tyler Theatrical release
1988 A Very Brady Christmas Marcia Brady Logan Television movie
1989 That's Adequate Space Princess Theatrical release
1989 Day by Day Marcia Brady TV series; season 2, episode 11: "A Very Brady Episode"
1993 Bradymania: A Very Brady Special Marcia Martin Brady-Logan TV special
1996 The Single Guy Valerie TV series; season 2, episode 4: "Kept Man"
1996 Panic in the Skies! Tukey, Walker's Assistant Television movie
1997 Touched by an Angel Jodi TV series; season 3, episode 19: "Clipped Wings"
1997 Dogtown Didi Schmidt Theatrical release
1997 Get to the Heart: The Barbara Mandrell Story Barbara Mandrell Television movie
1997 ABC TGIF Judy Beauchamp TV series; episode: "Halloween Frightful Bash"
1997–
1998 Teen Angel Judy Beauchamp TV series; 11 episodes; series regular
1997–
2003 Johnny Bravo Franny
Amberly
Pizza Girl TV series; voice; 3 episodes
1999 Baby Huey's Great Easter Adventure Nick's Mom Direct-to-video
1999 Moesha Saleslady TV series; season 5, episode 8: "Isn't She Lovely?"
2000 The Million Dollar Kid Betsy Hunter Theatrical release
2000 Passions Rebecca Hotchkiss (#1) TV series; season regular
2000–
2002 Son of the Beach Mrs. Strawther TV series; 3 episodes
2001 The A-List Uncredited Short film
2001 Title to Murder Leah Farrell Theatrical release
2001 Shock Video 2002: America Undercover Narrator Television special
2002 The Ellen Show Rita Carter TV series; season 1, episode 14: "Shallow Gal"
2002 Jane White Is Sick & Twisted Nancy Theatrical release
2003 The Brothers García Mrs. Bauer TV series; season 4, episode 11: "Moving on Up"
2003 Scrubs Maureen McCormick TV series; season 3, episode 2: "My Journey"
2004 The Guardian Receptionist TV series; season 3, episode 12: "Beautiful Blue Mystic"
2008 Stone & Ed Dream Mother Theatrical release
2008 Outsiders Inn The Innkeeper TV series; series regular; 7 episodes
2011 Prayer Hour Stage Mom TV movie
2011 Christmas Spirit Sarah TV movie
2012 Snow White: A Deadly Summer Eve Direct-to-video
2014 Video Game High School Mrs. Barnstormer Web series
2014 Naughty & Nice Kate, Sandra's Mother Television Movie
2015 I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! Herself Contestant
2015 Christmas Land Glinda Stanwick Hallmark TV Movie
2016 Dancing with the Stars Herself Contestant on season 23, 8th place
2016 The Loud House Jancey (voice) Guest star; TV animation: Season 2 episode 19A: "Future Tense"
2016 Accidentally Engaged Jeanette Clarissa Byers Agent
2017 The Guest Book Herself Cameo appearance
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year
Presenter
Award
Result
2005–
2006 TV Land Awards Choice Dream Sequence Nominated
2005 TV Land Awards Choice Singing Siblings (shared with the kids of The Brady Bunch) Nominated
2006 TV Land Awards Most Beautiful Braces Nominated
2007 TV Land Award Pop Culture Award Won
References[edit]
Jump up ^ "Maureen McCormick Biography (1956–)". Filmreference.com. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
^ Jump up to: a b c "And the Truth Will Set You Free: Maureen McCormick Steve Duin for The Oregonian October 17, 2008". The Oregonian. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Chatty Cathy -- Little Known Facts".
Jump up ^ AdWatch: Snickers Super Bowl Ad Brings Out Different Side of Marcia Brady. Retrieved June 10, 2015
Jump up ^ The Snickers ‘Brady Bunch’-themed Super Bowl 2015 commercial starring Danny Trejo and Steve Buscemi. Retrieved June 10, 2015
Jump up ^ "Actress works with poor children in Africa on “Access Hollywood”".
^ Jump up to: a b "A Very Brady Confession Maureen McCormick for Newsweek Magazine November 10, 2008 issue". Newsweek. November 10, 2008. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
Jump up ^ "Brady World Peter Pan". Retrieved October 22, 2013.
Jump up ^ Munro, Peter (February 1, 2015). "'I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here' begins in South African jungle". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved February 1, 2015.
Jump up ^ "'DWTS' 2016 Celebrity Cast Revealed: Ryan Lochte, Amber Rose, Rick Perry Among Star Lineup". Good Morning America: Yahoo. August 30, 2016. Retrieved August 30, 2016.
Jump up ^ Kubicek, John (October 24, 2016). "'Dancing with the Stars' Recap: 'Dancing with the Stars' Recap: Past vs. Future with the Team Dances". BuddyTV. Retrieved October 24, 2016.
Jump up ^ "New Thriller 'The Brass Verdict' By Michael Connelly Tops New York Times Best Seller List AHN October 27, 2008". Allheadlinenews.com. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
Jump up ^ Thursday, October 16, 2008 (October 16, 2008). "The Thursday wrap Pittsburgh Tribune Review October 16, 2008". Pittsburghlive.com. Retrieved May 7, 2010. CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
Jump up ^ "'Brady Bunch' Star's Memoirs May Be Made into A Movie Access Hollywood October 25, 2008". Accesshollywood.com. October 25, 2008. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
Jump up ^ okmagazine.com, McCormick Talks Cocaine, Abortions & Syphilis Archived September 11, 2009, at the Wayback Machine., October 16, 2008. Retrieved October 3, 2009.
Jump up ^ Leach, By Ben. "Brady Bunch star Maureen McCormick traded sex for drugs".
^ Jump up to: a b "Marcia Brady" On Her Drug Use, Paranoia CBS Early Show November 21, 2008". CBS News. November 21, 2008. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
Jump up ^ "The True Life of Marcia Brady". Drphil.com. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
Further reading[edit]
McCormick, Maureen (October 14, 2008). Here's the Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice. William Morrow. ISBN 978-0-06-149014-9.
External links[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Maureen McCormick.
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