Cindy?
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jefgg — 11 years ago(July 02, 2014 03:29 PM)
An urban legend claimed that Susan Olsen had become an adult film star. On a late 1990s television interview, Olsen herself stated on camera that her "porn" connection was that she created space ship sound effects for a porn film called Love Probe From a Warm Planet. She did this as a favor for a friend who worked in the technical side of the business. She also went on to state that perhaps the legend got started because the star of a porn film "Crocodile Blondee" which was widely distributed among troops during the Persian Gulf Crisis, was rumored to be her. She added that since the porn star was very pretty, she did not try too hard to dispel the rumors.
When Eve Plumb declined to participate in "The Brady Bunch Hour" variety show the reason given was that she was filming the made for TV movie "Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway". I think that was misconstrued as she was starring in an adult film. -
dhhurst — 18 years ago(August 18, 2007 09:17 AM)
Actually, the vacation is the story that was put out at the time the movie aired. In more recent years, Brady cast have shared that there was some dissention regarding salaries for this movie. As it was explained by by Susan Olsen and Chris Knight, for most of these reunions the Green Light is given by networks/producers if they can get at least 4 of the "kids" back for the project. In this case, all 6 were interested in the project, but the budget wasn't expanding to cover all 6. Whereas you would think maybe all the kids would get the same $$, apparently they all have to negotiate through their managers, etc. As such, Chris/Susan shared that Susan was being offered less to be involved than all of the other "kids." Chris went on to say that because Maureen is so popular for these projects, the producers offered her more and thus Susan was getting less. Maureen "sucked it all up" according to Chris. Susan did already have honeymoon plans for Jamaica, and decided the money offered for the movie, as well as how she felt treated, wasn't worth cancelling her plans. Chris said he and Maureen were at odds about this for a while, because he felt Maureen could have done it for less to ensure Susan was there, but have apparently reconciled their differences.
Worth noting that Chris said part of the issue is that all of the TV execs making these decisions are guys who were teens when the original series aired and had the hots for Maureen, so they are more interested in her participation than the others. -
MichaelMovieLoft — 9 years ago(December 03, 2016 09:42 PM)
just curious to know has susan olsen ever said in any interviews about how she felt jennifer runyon did playing the role of cindy?
From an interview:
"When I saw "Cindy" seated at the children's table I thought "Better her than me!" I think Jennifer is much prettier than I am so I was OK with her as a replacement. A few years ago we met, just by accident, at a Burger King! We were there with our kids. We hugged. She's totally nice and got out of the business to be a Mom. I think she's great."
Jennifer has also put a picture of her and Susan on her twitter page:
https://twitter.com/Runyon2Runyon/status/798223327437303808
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jefgg — 12 years ago(September 02, 2013 07:19 PM)
Susan Olsen didn't do the movie because of money. Fans hate to think about it but it is called show BUSINESS. Jennifer Runyon was pretty, but not the real Cindy. Runyon had a small part in "Ghostbusters". Before "A Very Brady Christmas" she was on "Charles In Charge". Her last acting credit was in 1993 so I assume she has left the business.
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jefgg — 10 years ago(February 16, 2016 02:35 PM)
Oliver wasn't really necessary for a Brady reunion because he appeared in only the last six episodes of the original series. All six Brady kids were mandatory for reunions so if one was unavailable a replacement was used. Geri Reischl played Jan on "The Brady Bunch Hour" variety show and Leah Ayres played Marcia on the short lived 1990 series "The Bradys".