Valerie Bertinelli on DFS!
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Turn Of The DecadeForward to 1979, and guess what, her father Andy was transferred to Louisiana where a new General Motors plant was launched. Valerie and her younger brother David stayed behind in their new California home while the rest of the family moved there. That same year, Valerie appeared in her first motion picture, "C.H.O.M.P.S." co-starring Wesley Eure, who was an actor from the soap opera "Days of Our Lives." This was supposed to be a children's comedy adventure about a bionic dog, but I guess the movie was far more popular with the young males than it was for the youngsters. Geez, I wonder why. That must explain why I watched it 27 times while it was on HBO during the course.Around that year, 1979, seems that feminine tomboys were the rage, with popularity of other teenage idols such as Marie Osmond, Kristy McNichol from "Family", Jodie Foster, Tatum O'Neal, Erin Moran from "Happy Days", Allison Arngrim from "Little House on the Prarie", Susan Richardson "Eight Is Enough" (ok, she wasn't a teen, but many thought she was anyway, just like the 90210 kids), and my favorite from the 70's Pamelyn Ferdin (sorry Valerie) from "Lassie", "Curiosity Shop", "Paul Lynde", "Peanuts" and recently "Space Academy" and briefly "240 Robert" (ok, I'm going overboard on Pamela, but what the hey.) Somehow, Valerie's popularity was riding on a crest of high waves with her button nose, big brunette hair, Olive Oyl slenderness but curvier, helping her becoming by the late 70's the most popular teenage star on American television. In the late 1980s and 1990's, we would have other teens also achieving popularity including Shannen Doherty, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Katie Holmes, Melissa Joan Hart, Alicia Silverstone, Alyssa Milano, Christina Applegate, Staci Keenan, but by then, Valerie was an adult, and still popular among aging baby boomer males including yours truly. In 1979, Valerie began starring in some made-for-TV movies such as "The Secret of Charles Dickens" (April 16, 1978); the movie was part of the "CBS Festival of Lively Arts for Young People" series. Also Young Love, First Love (Nov 20, 1979), The Promise of Love (Nov 11, 1980), The Princess and the Cabbie (Nov 3, 1981), and I Was a Mail Order Bride (Dec 14, 1982), probably one of her finest works during the time she was still Barbara Cooper. Also in 1979, Valerie co-starred with Wesley Eure in the whimsical Hanna-Barbera live action movie C.H.O.M.P.S. A few more motion pictures would follow later on. Several facts were taken off the Lifetime "Intimate Portrait" of Valerie Bertinelli with added facts from "The Complete Directory To Prime Time Network Shows" by Tim Brooks. |
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