Sally Struthers: After All in the Family, she could not get work!
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- Sally is best known in the United States for her roles as Gloria Stivic, the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor and Jean Stapleton) on All in the Family, for which she won two Emmy awards, and as Babette on Gilmore Girls. She was the voice of Charlene Sinclair on the ABC sitcom Dinosaurs and Rebecca Cunningham on the Disney animated series TaleSpin.
My colleague, Janet Langhart is the interviewer on this one.
Hollywood can be cruel. She was talented, great looking and spent 9 years on one of the best tv shows ever yet she couldn’t get a job.
She is one of the most down to earth celebrities I've ever seen. In All in the Family she played a character that I felt a huge connection to, and was super relatable. I feel so bad that she didn't get more work because she killed every role she's ever done.
I love this lady down to earth and a beautiful lady inside and out no matter how old she is
It's refreshing to see a celebrity be so naked and honest in expressing their vulnerabilities, especially when the source of their burdens is showbiz itself. Many actors wouldn't dare, both to protect their image and out of fear of how it may hurt their career. Gloria wasn't my favorite character on All in the Family, and her other roles passed me by, but Struthers certainly has my respect.
I liked Sally Struthers in everything I’ve seen her in! She was part of what made All In The Family so great! The four lead characters were so well chosen. I hope Sally is doing well these days.
Wow! Ms. Sally Struthers I'm sorry to hear that!
All in the Family was very special I'm glad we know you from that acting career. I wish you all the best and to your family. Thank you! ❤
Such a cutie in her heyday. Even before All in the Family.
I only recently heard that Suzanne Sommers (RIP) got fired for asking for a raise when Three's Company became a hit. They killed their cash cow so to speak.
As stated below, typecasting can be a ‘killer ‘ to a career. Actors/actresses can be on an iconic show, and whatever they do afterwards never comes close to their early success. Just goes to show how fame can be so fleeting.
I just found out Valerie Harper passed.Her passing shocked me then saddened me to tears. Valerie Harper took a huge piece of my childhood memories years. It brings me joy we still have a few left from ALL IN THE FAMILY🙏🙏
From a great era of 📺. Today's TV shows are goat 🐐 tripe 😆
I saw this production in Los Angeles.
It was very good.
That was not fair to her. Not being able to get work. She was so good at being Gloria.
Shes not alone, there are many actors that are on a very successful show and then when the show ends their career just dies.
She never received the recognition she deserved; Sally Struthers wasn't given the plot lines and the dialogue, except for being a foil to Mike's posturing, her father's bigotry -- even Edith's lovingness was echoed by Sally Struther's warm presence.
Sally did get one shot after All in the Family... a spinoff, of sorts, where she played a single mom working for a Veterinarian -- called, "Gloria." But the show was canceled after 1 season. Acting is a tough profession. A college classmate of mine won a Tony award, then 4 years of mostly unemployment, then.. another Tony award... then back to looking for work. Not everyone is Meryl Streep.
@@jackm4457 true. I remember the show Gloria it was funny. Everyone else on that show did very well.
@@marygraham3189 The problem with "Gloria" is that it paired TWO very able supporting actors, but there was no lead. Imagine, if Gloria had left Queens with her son and gone to Vermont to work in Bob Newhart's Inn? Sally might have been perfect working off of Newhart, just as she was perfection working off of O'Conner/Stapleton and Reiner.
This lady was so real and humble and honest I had nothing but respect for her highly she’s an great artist especially she star in intimate strangers ❤❤
Thank You for sharing this! God broke the mold with Sally ❣️
Stay safe beloveds
I love her voice. It’s so soothing
We love you Sally very sorry Hollywood treated you that way.
Her problem started when she took her first shitty role. That started her platform of shit material and lack of work. Weight had little to do with it. It was her standards, or lack of it. I’m a huge Sally Struthers fan. I wish she could have went further.
Wow. She was certainly very open.
Funnily enough not too long after this she joined the syndicated version of 9 to 5, which Rita Moreno had appeared in during the show's network years.
I think she had a tough time after All in the Family. I had to cut out the clips for copyright reasons and over one of the clips she said, "it was ironic that the role that made my career also destroyed it". Thanks for watching, Ken.
Because she wouldn’t compromise and sleep around but she was fearful to tell the rest of the industry
the world's FULL of actors who can't find work.
My 6th grade teacher 15 minutes of Fame was directing her in her 1st play for school. It was at James B. Faubion school in Portland, Oregon. Mr. Garrett was proud of his ex student.
Sally Struthers mentions she was married to (and divorced from) a psychiatrist. The daughter they had now works as a psychiatrist.
Wow! What’s her daughter’s name? Is she married? Does she have any kids?
"I was married to a psychiatrist. That was scary." Wow. I am sure she is understating the case here. I can't even imagine.
Todd Craig imagine someone playing mind games with every argument. Yikes.
Troubled Sole ...your crazy
They should have given her a permanent role on General Hospital as Jennifer Smith, Frank's daughter. She was in a couple episodes in the early 2000s. I thought she was great.
She was on GH?
Awesome ,I've been told I love hard along with every other emotion we carry.
I have realized it actually is a gift and embrace it.
Many people in Sitcoms don't get work after bc people still see them in that character. That's the reason she didn't get work.
So Carroll O'Connor was able to to do Archie Bunker's place for four seasons and then move on to In the heat of the night for how ever long amount of seasons, he wasn't type cast, So why was Sally?
Carroll O'Connor was the star of all in the family and already an established actor with a range of roles. however he was type cast. Sally did seem to get the worst of it though she did voice work later on but nothing to the fame of all in the family.
My favorite episode of All in the Family is when Gloria turns the television on and it is playing Sly and the Family Stone's I want to take you higher and she is dancing around. That song came out on their album in 1969 so the episode was probably from 1971. Does anybody know which episode it is?
Russell, type in All in the family S 1 Edith has jury duty. I think it's there. Yes that would be 1971.
So cute
I heard that she and Carroll O'Connor had a falling out when she insisted that her own one season show, GLORIA, not make any references to All In The Family or to any of its cast members. Carroll reportedly took offense, and he was definitely one person in Hollywood whom no one wanted to alienate.
Jane stapleton knew this. That's why She stepped out of the show. The same happened with Bea Arthur.
She comes across as identical to gloria in real life
They gave her her own spinoff, for God's sake!
It only lasted for 1 season.
Sally was the 1st regular teen voice of 'Pebbies Flintstone'.
RIGHT ON NEVER KNEW THAT LISTENING TO HER NOW I HEAR PEBBLES...
+@@lelandlee5008 Cheryl Ladd was the voice of Melody on Josie and the Pussycats. At the age of 19. 1970.
Man I had a crush on her in first 4 season of All in the family..
All of that show, "Archie Bunker's Place," and "Gloria" too. She was lovely on all of them.
ALWAYS LOVED GLORIA SHE LOVES ANIMALS
LELAND LEE wow had no idea she was a vegan
I love her in The Get Away with Steve Mc Queen and a tv movie starting her and Paul Michael Glaser.I wish she had a bigger career in movies.
She was good in AITF only because it was an ensemble show/. None of them were good alone. Rumors has it that she was demanding on the set of “Gloria” and was blackballed.
Before syndication was a thing. She eventually became very rich because of all in the family.
First of all, she put on a lot of weight. Second, she was more or less blackballed when she insisted that her show "Gloria" make absolutely no mention of the All In The Family characters or connection so as to allow the character of Gloria to grow in its own right. This angered Carroll O'Connor, as he helped to put her show together, and he appeared in the pilot episode. Moreover, Gloria aired immediately after Archie Bunker's Place, and was essentially feeding off of it.
atlantic1119 I agree with you on everything except the weight part. Yes, she gained weight. However, she didn’t know how to market herself properly, in spite of the weight gain, causing her to panic, resulting in accepting shit material. On “All in the Family,” she was trying to be regarded as a sex symbol, instead of developing her acting craft. She should have focused on quality, like Rob Reiner did. There are plenty of big and/or overweight women that were successful in Hollywood. Bea Arthur was a big woman that was well-respected. Rue McClanahan was kinda thick. Nell Carter was fat. Roseanne was (and is) fat. They all marketed themselves in a way that showcased their talent....and made it, as they raised their standards and was patient. Sally should have done the same.
If it weren't for Sally, All In The Family would not have even lasted 13 weeks.
Didn't she continue to threaten to leave the show during the middle years of the show and the producers were getting angry?
Tommy Truth I love SS, but what you said is just completely untrue. While she was wonderful to look at, hers was the least important role of the four main players. Carroll O'Connor made the show what it waa...not his daughter.
garylobo3 Don't forget Jean Stapleton. Hers was a complex, multi-dimensional character too.
I miss those days in the70's
I liked Sally Struthers as Gloria in the first several seasons of "All in the Family," but somewhere around season five or six, Gloria became rude, obnoxious and abusive. The part was written this way, of course, but Struthers' over-the-top performance didn't help, and I'm sure that's one reason producers and directors didn't line up to hire her once her run as Gloria was over.
how can u be on a hit show for 5 yrs & not be financially set for life? & she was married to a psychiatrist.
She and JS let go of all the residuals for the show in a buyout, but RR and CO'C wisely refused and get the residuals.
Not only did JS get bought out if residuals, but she turned down the role of Mike TeeVee's mother in, "Willie Wonka," and the starring role of Jessica Fletcher in the series, "Murder, She Wrote."
Stu Mack She was also on the show for 8 years. Dumb to sell her rights away!!!!!!!!
@@travisjames3517 She turned down the Willy Wonka role because it conflicted withe the start of AITF. Mel Stuart - the Wonka director - assereted that she made the right decision, and anyone with half a brain would have to agree.
@@travisjames3517 Yeah, but only in America is someone so talented so screwed over. She should have been set for life under whatever circumstances.
Why is there no volume.
its in a whisper
Ummmmm... Does anyone remember her in the sitcom version of "9 to 5??"
OMG, now I feel old!
Funny thing that she couldn't get work due to an ugly word in the TV industry----TYPECASTING! Strange how Carroll became a new character in In The Heat Of The Night.
I agree, typecasting was a "blue suit" disease. If the executives decided that the American public could not make the mental switch with a character, we would never see them again. I think she had great comedic talent. It is still the same. Thanks for watching. Hope you will check out my other interviews. Best to you....
Thanks much.
Thanks!
Not really a different CHARACTER. Southern Archie...
But not as abrasive.
Its called talent....some have more.
Her 1983 solo show wasn't bad.
Sally's Gloria character never really got any great lines in the show. Furthermore she wanted to quit after the fifth season. She even held up the production after the shows summer hiatus. Her lawyer said she didn't want to be known as the Gloria character forever (even though she is and forever will be) The producers had a replacement ready for her but she would still be under contract and not allowed to work anywhere else for three years so they worked something out and she got back to work. Word of mouth gets around and Lear was a heavy hitter at the time. So I speculate producers probably learned about the production hold up and opted to not hire her for future projects in fear of her being difficult with them.
THIS IS MY CAKE
Good Grant High girl from Portland, Oregon.
What year was this interview? This was right before she started packing on the weight
Why does a woman's body weight mean so much to you White men? Just curious
Yea, for years jerks use to make cracks about her weight which was suppose to be funny. It just lets you know that those guys were pathetic jerks.. I am a white man I don't care about weight. I thought Sally was fine in All in the Family. Seen it in reruns and was surprised that such a topical show really holds up.
Does anyone know when this interview was originally taped or aired?
Also, the cast gelled great as an ensemble, but, separate, no. Even in "Archie Banker's Place," Archie was no good without the others. In Season 09 without Gloria and Mike, the show was awful. The show needed all four players.
Travis James~~I absolutely agree. Archie lost his sparring partner, Meathead, and the rest of Archie Bunker's Place was very bland. They added nothing to the show. The show just wasn't cohesive without Edith, Gloria, and meathead. The show lost its' heart, with the death of Edith.
@@deedeegreen8338 The actor's greed cost the character everything.
I agree, Travis. See my comment above to garylobo3.
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I disagree Archies place was an amazing show yes it was different but carol oconner was a great actor on his own
Sally Struthers could have been touted for Supergirl.
beautiful eyesssssssssssssssss ;---) ;-)
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Too bad Carroll O'Connor didn't offer her a role on In the Heat of the Night.
Gloria xoxo
These “celebrities” baffle me. They call acting “work” yet that is the only job they would ever consider. “I couldn’t get work for a year and a half” I bet she didn’t once check the want ads like the rest of America does. She made more on All In The Family back in the 70’s than most Americans will still see in a lifetime today yet she still talks about financial difficulties. If I made half of what she did I would still have most of it in the bank.
I surely doubt if it had anything to do with Weight
Beverly Waits so do I. Her weight had nothing to do with it. She is still beautiful and Sooooooooooo talented. Love her
Still loved her in Gilmore Girls
She would have trouble acting like she was wet if she was in a lake.
Guys, she was barely good as Gloria on AITF, in her own show.......ugh. However, if you look at her solo show, the AITF characters are barely mentioned, if at all, so.........
She was very good.
Amber Rose I agree she was very good
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She left AITF to do other things. She should have stayed on AITF.
She’s not a good actress and she was blackballed after “Gloria” because of her demanding ways. Carroll O’Connor was furious with her because she demanded that all references to AITF be omitted. He dumped her quickly.
She couldn't get work because she was a space cadet who ballooned up to 300 pounds.
She’s too short to get big role, hihihih.
I think it's lame when someone uses prejudice against being overweight as an excuse. It's your job not to get fat! If you'd rather be lazy and let yourself go, then don't expect to get roles where the character is in shape.
In order to support ones child and not Leave them to be raised by others'...then you suck it up and get a real job!!..
What a nut case!!!
Your audio really really sucks !