Anyone remember this actress? She seemed to be in every piece of schlock under the sun in the late 70s. What was her story? WTF was up with those nostrils?
She works steadily (see IMDB link below). She did a lot of schlock in the 80s and 90s too. She played Matlock's (Andy Griffth) daughter for example.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 21, 2020 2:58 AM |
She played Pam’s mom on The Office. Looks good for her age. I think she lives in Colorado now
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 21, 2020 3:03 AM |
I first knew her as Fonzie’s girlfriend (and Heather O’Rourke’s mom) on the later seasons of Happy Days. She did a hilariously bad Single White Female ripoff TV movie with Heather Locklear. Can’t remember the name but it’s worth seeking out.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 21, 2020 3:20 AM |
Oh, I thought she was pretty. But you are right, she was in EVERYTHING. However, she was capable and always delivered.
I hope she's had a nice life. I liked her.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 21, 2020 3:28 AM |
She gave a fantastic performance as a oversexed wife in a Murder, She Wrote aping Tennessee Williams plays. Lansbury underplayed most of the episode, which allowed the fabulous overacting of Barry Nelson, Penny Fuller, Beah Richards, and the always great Lois Nettleton time to shine. Purl was really unexpectedly terrific in it, and it made me wonder why she did so much episodic and dreck when she was capable of more.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 21, 2020 3:36 AM |
I remember her in some made for TV movie about two mentally retarded (what's the new word for that? don't intend to offend) and she says 'It's not Mr. Bugs Bunny, It's MRS. Bugs Bunny!"
I believe it was with Shaun Cassidy.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 21, 2020 3:40 AM |
"WOGER, I WANT TO HAVE A BAY-BEE!"
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 21, 2020 3:41 AM |
God forgive me but when I read R6 my immediate thought was Woger I luff you! And then burst out laughing at R7.
When I was a kid I had a school assignment where I had to interview someone about their career. I wrote to Ms. Purl and sent a list of questions, my phone number and instructions to call by a certain date before the assignment was due. I think I picked her because there was an address for her (or a fan club) in one of my sister’s 16 magazines. She never called or wrote back.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 21, 2020 3:56 AM |
[quote] I remember her in some made for TV movie about two mentally retarded (what's the new word for that? don't intend to offend) and she says 'It's not Mr. Bugs Bunny, It's MRS. Bugs Bunny!"
Here's the MRS. Bugs Bunny scene.
Yes, it was Shaun Cassidy.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 21, 2020 4:04 AM |
[quote] She never called or wrote back.
Cunt.
Speaking of cunts, Mrs. Peterson at R6 was a cunt.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 21, 2020 4:05 AM |
I just saw her in this delicious piece of tripe from 1977, with Desi Arnaz Jr., Jessica Walter, Bill Bixby, David Doyle, and Tom Bosley:
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 21, 2020 4:20 AM |
Sweet Mother of God R9. Who had the gem of an idea to make and cast that movie? Please let me know because I want to track him or her down and viciously slap them - multiple times!
Never mind - I'll do it myself. I'm IMDbing and I'm on it.
O.K. DL - I'll send a card from (what I am assuming will be) CA right now.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 21, 2020 6:10 AM |
Purr-l.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 21, 2020 11:16 PM |
Lucy was her mother in law!!!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 21, 2020 11:19 PM |
She was cute and talented. She was the first choice to play Chris Hargensen in Carrie but she refused the role, saying the script was sordid and unpleasant.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 21, 2020 11:25 PM |
She might have made a good Carrie. She had that vulnerable and innocent, yet intense look.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 23, 2020 10:16 AM |
No, she was up for a different role, not Sissy Spacek's part.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 23, 2020 10:20 AM |
I remember her as Maude’s runaway drug addicted pregnant 🤰 daughter
by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 23, 2020 10:25 AM |
There were rumors that she was in a relationship with Stephanie Zimbalist.
by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 23, 2020 10:32 AM |
She was supposed to play Regan in the Exorcist but she was 6 months pregnant 🤰 (no father)
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 23, 2020 10:37 AM |
No father? Did someone alert the Vatican, R20?
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 23, 2020 10:38 AM |
Visiting Hours. She was good in this sleazy Canadian horror flick.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 23, 2020 10:46 AM |
with 6 you get egg roll
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 23, 2020 11:08 AM |
I just saw her in this delicious piece of tripe from 1977, with Desi Arnaz Jr., Jessica Walter, Bill Bixby, David Doyle, and Tom Bosley:
OMG! I remember that movie - those were the "movies of the week" - one sordid thing after another: pregnancy! drug addiction! pregnant drug addiction! mentally retarded people wanting to get married! (I don't remember that clip with Shaun Cassidy, but I was a huge fan, so I'm sure I watched it). Linda Purl had that generic, mid-western, corn-fed girl look and she showed up on practically everyone of these flicks.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 23, 2020 11:09 AM |
Unimpressive vocal stylings, that's how she hooked Desi Jr.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 23, 2020 11:15 AM |
As to her singing, she's no Garnett McGee.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 23, 2020 11:21 AM |
R19 Really? Do tell!
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 23, 2020 11:32 AM |
I’ve met her twice. Really a lovely person. Looks great. In terrific shape. Very devoted to acting. Impressive woman.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 23, 2020 11:33 AM |
She killed The Secret Storm
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 23, 2020 11:40 AM |
I remember her! I want more personal life gossip please!
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 23, 2020 11:54 AM |
she has creepy eyes
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 23, 2020 12:04 PM |
sly eyes
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 23, 2020 12:16 PM |
There was an attention hog Miss Popularity in my neighborhood who succeed with a face similar to LP's. She got the same sticky-uppy nose with prominent nostrils from her mom; she also had bright blue eyes and dramatic aspirations, she could have played LP's younger sister in a Movie of the Week.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 23, 2020 5:32 PM |
I lOVED her in "Young Pioneers", then she started showing up everywhere. In 2001, imagine my schock to see her as Aunt Polly in Broadway's flop "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"! Since then, she's been popping up at different Jazz venues in NYC. Here she is singing "Just the way you look Tonight", last year at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 23, 2020 6:38 PM |
She lived in Japan for years - I think her dad was a diplomat. She was also had a singing career in Japan, recording 'hit' singles,
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 23, 2020 9:02 PM |
R40 wasn’t she Kim Cattrall’s body double at one point?
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 23, 2020 10:06 PM |
That's a very bad nose job from a young age, right?
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 23, 2020 10:31 PM |
"Linda Purl"? Was "Lurleen" unavailable? Sounds like a Hee-Haw name.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 23, 2020 11:12 PM |
It's a Virgo nose.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 23, 2020 11:19 PM |
She’s more talented than that Patty Duke girl.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 24, 2020 1:14 AM |
From IMDB: [quote]Linda Purl was born in Greenwich, Connecticut, and raised in Japan, becoming the only foreigner to train at the Toho Geino Academy.
That is pretty interesting. I remember Linda in two tv movies: Women at West Point and A Last Cry for Help (with DL fave Grant Goodeve). Both movies were from 1979.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 24, 2020 3:10 AM |
She was in an episode of Designed Survivor just 2 or 3 years ago.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 24, 2020 3:17 AM |
She was supposed to be the hot ingenue on “The Partridge Family”, but then the studio pushed for someone prettier and more talented.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 24, 2020 11:07 AM |
FINALLY a Susan Dey comment!
by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 24, 2020 11:10 AM |
R45 I love you. LP really is a Virgo, as I'm sure you knew.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 30, 2020 6:10 PM |
She had the career I dreamed of.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | November 5, 2020 1:07 PM |
"People" magazine says that she and Patrick Duffy are now an item. Years ago, I was told that she and Perry King were together in between their respective marriages. Girl gets around!
by Anonymous | reply 54 | November 5, 2020 3:27 PM |
She looks like a good-time girl
by Anonymous | reply 55 | November 5, 2020 8:20 PM |
[italic]Like Normal People[/italic] upthread reminded me of the other "special" TV movie that came out around the same time: CBS's [italic]No Other Love,[/italic] with Julie Kavner and Richard Thomas.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | November 5, 2020 8:26 PM |
Eagerly awaiting the sequel “Still Like Normal People: The Other Side of Vir-ginia”.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | November 5, 2020 9:01 PM |
R3 - the Linda Purl and Heather Locklear TV Movie was Body Language (1992). Linda also co-starred with Linda Gray in the hilarious Accidental Meeting (1994).
by Anonymous | reply 58 | November 5, 2020 9:47 PM |
But who played who? Linda was the good girl to Heather's bad?
by Anonymous | reply 59 | November 5, 2020 9:55 PM |
I remember her. And the nostrils.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | November 5, 2020 9:56 PM |
[quote] But who played who? Linda was the good girl to Heather's bad?
Actually it was the opposite. Purl was the scheming (murderous?) secretary to Locklear’s basically decent executive. No Amanda Woodward here. The plot was kind of a combo of Single White Female and The Temp, though The Temp came out a year after Body Language and was nowhere near as entertaining. Even Dunaway couldn’t elevate that one.
Thanks for the title, r58. So generic it’s no wonder I forgot it. Sounds like a late night Skinemax movie.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | November 5, 2020 10:24 PM |
[quote]Is that her on the left?
No, not Linda, that woman on the left was the sex bomb of that soap, actress Marla Adams. She reminded me a bit of the actress who played Angelique on Dark Shadows.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | November 5, 2020 11:26 PM |
Sex bomb? She looks like Katherine Helmond.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | November 6, 2020 12:13 AM |
R59 all I remember is that it did go into penalty kicks!
by Anonymous | reply 64 | November 6, 2020 12:26 AM |
I always got her and Season Hubley missed up.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | November 6, 2020 12:34 AM |
Omg r8! A woman I lived with in college used to suddenly say “Woger I luff you, Woohhhgggeeer” and I would burst into uncontrollable laughter. Mean and stupid, I realize, but amusing when you’re a bored and drunk 20 year old.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | November 6, 2020 1:24 AM |
[quote]Sex bomb? She looks like Katherine Helmond.
Yes, her character was some sort of femme fatale. I can't be 100% sure, I was a kid when my mom watched The Secret Storm. IIRC, Marla's character was a typical sexy female soap character with multiple marriages, BFs and lots of 'drama'.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | November 6, 2020 1:56 AM |
Was she the Melissa Benoist of her day? Did one of her husbands beat her too?
by Anonymous | reply 68 | November 6, 2020 1:59 AM |
She gave a great performance in "Visiting Hours", which I think has been unfairly sidelined as far as slasher flicks go. It's a well-made, trashy horror flick with Lee Remick playing a feminist journalist who is being stalked in a hospital by a misogynist psychopath (played by Michael Ironside). Linda Purl plays a nurse at the hospital and has a lot of screen time. There is one particularly horrific scene where she returns home and is stabbed viciously by Ironside while her young daughter is in the house.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | November 6, 2020 2:07 AM |
Linda Purl is a much better actress than Heather Locklear so Body Language puts us on her side, despite her playing the psycho and Heather the victim. Plus Heather is crazy to neglect her gorgeous boyfriend.
by Anonymous | reply 70 | November 6, 2020 4:18 AM |
What the hell? So in the past few hours, DL has conjured up Linda Purl to now she's in all of the entertainment magazines?
It's all over E, Entertainment Tonight, People, USA Today.
I haven't heard of Linda Purl in over 40 years - and now DLers start a thread a week ago and BAM!! She's back in the news?
by Anonymous | reply 71 | November 6, 2020 4:19 AM |
Here's some of Body Language. The whole movie is on YouTube.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | November 6, 2020 4:22 AM |
Ev'rything's Coming Up Purl!
by Anonymous | reply 73 | November 6, 2020 4:22 AM |
She gently slid two very soft fingers into me. I slid back and moaned in pleasure as Linda brought me into the height of ecstasy.. I'll never forget her.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | November 6, 2020 4:23 AM |
R74 - Bitch stole my story!
by Anonymous | reply 75 | November 6, 2020 4:25 AM |
Season Hubley and Miss Kay Lenz are legends. I've never heard of Linda Purla.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | November 6, 2020 4:26 AM |
Please tell me Patrick Duffy is starring in a one man show about Mark Twain on his own VOD home channel.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | November 6, 2020 4:26 AM |
Are we sure Linda Purl and Kay Lenz weren’t the same person? Have they ever been seen in the same room at the same time?
by Anonymous | reply 78 | November 6, 2020 4:28 AM |
Jesus Christ, this is funnier than any of the movie-within-the-movie scenes in "Postcards from the Edge."
by Anonymous | reply 79 | November 6, 2020 4:28 AM |
I remember her being everywhere back in the day, but I only specifically remember her in Young Pioneers. I forgot who played the husband, but I think he was hot.
by Anonymous | reply 80 | November 6, 2020 4:31 AM |
Kay Lenz was a goddess, a supreme actress - introduced in a tragic two part episode of Medical Centre. She went on to star in feature films directed by Clint Eastwood, starring William Holden and Mr. Charles Bronson. Miss Kay Lenz was the video vixen of her day for Rod Stewart and her beloved husband, David Cassidy. Kay Lenz is still a young woman, Gorgeous, glamorous and legendary. Linda Purla was just a pig faced chick who fucked Desi Arnaz junior and opened her eyes wide for Andy Griffin.
No, they have never been in the same room. How unlikely. They are very different people R78!
by Anonymous | reply 81 | November 6, 2020 5:11 AM |
Was there a rivalry between her and Linda Blair? I used to get them mixed up in the 70s.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | November 6, 2020 5:24 AM |
Accidental Meeting is also on YouTube. Here's a trailer.
by Anonymous | reply 83 | November 6, 2020 7:26 AM |
Anyone remember the series “Robin’s Hoods” from back in the early 90s?
by Anonymous | reply 84 | November 6, 2020 7:35 AM |
Linda gets Maxwell Caulfield as The Perfect Tenant.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | November 7, 2020 12:03 PM |
Linda has a pleasant if unremarkable singing voice.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | November 7, 2020 1:03 PM |
It was so random when I saw her trending yesterday on Yahoo. First it was just her name and then a few hours later she was trending as: "Who is Linda Purl?" Heh.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | November 7, 2020 1:57 PM |
R88 - I know, right? Like I said upthread - DL started some random thread about her and now there's articles in the celebrity magazines about her relationship with Patrick Duffy.
WHY? Somebody must read DL or something. Why the sudden interest in Patrick Duffy's dating life and Linda Purl?
by Anonymous | reply 89 | November 7, 2020 2:03 PM |
Patrick Duffy is the one talking about it. Linda Purl's lips are sealed.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | November 7, 2020 2:08 PM |
People magazine reports that years ago, the pair were casual friends, but lost touch over time. During the pandemic, they both happened to be on a group text chain with other friends, and as the weeks passed, eventually the conversation dwindled down to just the two of them.
At that point, “I loaded up my car and drove 20 hours and ended up on her doorstep just to see if it was real,” says Duffy. “We haven’t been apart since.”
by Anonymous | reply 91 | November 7, 2020 2:28 PM |
They were probably spotted together in a torrid embrace. PEOPLE or another outlet contacted Patrick Duffy and told him they were going to run the story, with or without him. Duffy decided to take part in shaping the narrative. Linda Purl maintains a dignified silence.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | November 7, 2020 2:31 PM |
Linda's latest album is called Taking a Chance On Love. Coincidence?
by Anonymous | reply 93 | November 7, 2020 2:45 PM |
Self releases are always the worst for fonts.
by Anonymous | reply 95 | November 7, 2020 2:52 PM |
When I was a kid, I confused her with Sian Barbara Allen. I'd have to tell myself that Linda was the smart one and Sian was the one who who always played "special" characters.
They both guest starred on "The Waltons".
by Anonymous | reply 96 | November 7, 2020 3:05 PM |
She's still very close with former sister-in-law Lucie Arnaz.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | November 7, 2020 3:18 PM |
Vice Squad also featured MTV VJ Nina Blackwood in a small role.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | November 7, 2020 3:20 PM |
I wonder if Linda Purl & Patrick Duffy rim each other?
by Anonymous | reply 100 | November 7, 2020 4:28 PM |
Butts are old people's worst feature. I doubt it.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | November 7, 2020 4:31 PM |
Maybe the first few dates, but really not much after that.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | November 7, 2020 4:37 PM |
I think at their age even fisting just means holding hands.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | November 7, 2020 4:39 PM |
Victoria Principal on the new romance: "Better Linda Purl than Linda Gray".
by Anonymous | reply 104 | November 7, 2020 5:41 PM |
Who gave Ms. Perl a bigger necklace - Patrick or Desi Jr.?
by Anonymous | reply 105 | November 7, 2020 6:08 PM |
Linda looks like younger less plastic-surgeried Trudie Styler!
by Anonymous | reply 106 | November 8, 2020 12:31 AM |
The mid 70's had so many young actresses in movies of the week, soaps, primetime - Glynnis O'Connor, Kay Lenz, Pamela Sue Martin, Jamie Smith Jackson, Linda Purl, Sian Barbara Allen, Sissy Spaceck and the list goes on.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | November 8, 2020 1:00 AM |
Doesn't TV always have young actresses?
by Anonymous | reply 108 | November 8, 2020 1:02 AM |
TV doesn't have Season Hubley or the legendary Miss Kay Lenz. We are unlikely to see their likes again.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | November 8, 2020 1:04 AM |
Did she ever do Battle of the Network Stars? Will someone start a “It’s Tuesday, tell me about Linda Purl” thread?
by Anonymous | reply 110 | November 8, 2020 1:07 AM |
Ms. Annette O'Toole. She was far too beautiful for television - so she was forced to become a superstar!
by Anonymous | reply 111 | November 8, 2020 1:10 AM |
[quote]I don't see a resemblance.
I was just a dumb kid.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | November 8, 2020 5:00 AM |
As a kid I got her confused with Linda Blair
by Anonymous | reply 113 | November 8, 2020 5:05 AM |
If you were a young actress in the 1970s, was it compulsory to play a prostitute?
by Anonymous | reply 114 | November 8, 2020 12:50 PM |
most actress' have played prostitutes.
by Anonymous | reply 115 | November 8, 2020 2:19 PM |
All actresses are prostitutes. And Lesbians. I think Norman Mailer said that.
"Yes, it was delicious; but are they any other parts of a Matzo that you eat?"
by Anonymous | reply 116 | November 8, 2020 5:44 PM |
R115 Eve Plum set the bar high and it was a great way to bury Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!
by Anonymous | reply 117 | November 8, 2020 5:46 PM |
I’m watching The Office on Comedy Central and she has been in the last few episodes. She looks great!
by Anonymous | reply 118 | November 8, 2020 6:16 PM |
Kay Lenz always played sleazy slutty characters. Did she ever play a normal likable woman?
I remember some awful movie Kay was in with James Woods, she was giving Pizza Face Woods a blowjob.
Of course, it wasn't a real blowjob. James was sitting down on a chair, Kay was under a coat, or blanket, with her head bobbing up and down.
What a turn-off, especially as Woods is so repulsive looking and ReThug to boot! ugh
by Anonymous | reply 119 | November 8, 2020 8:14 PM |
^^^MISS Kay Lenz
by Anonymous | reply 120 | November 8, 2020 8:21 PM |
Exactly R120. Her full name is "Introducing MISS Kay Lenz". She was never slutty. Sexy and sensitive, alluring and heartbreaking, young, beautiful, Breezy. Yes.
Ann Margaret was slutty.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | November 8, 2020 8:55 PM |
Linda Purl's nose was so ugly.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | November 8, 2020 9:25 PM |
Do we have Linda's high school yearbook pic?
by Anonymous | reply 123 | November 8, 2020 9:27 PM |
R121 But she was a bit of a downmarket Shelley Hack. Kay would never be a fabulous “CHARLIE GIRL”!
by Anonymous | reply 124 | November 8, 2020 9:36 PM |
How can she be a downmarket Shelley Hack when Shelley could barely keep a job as an actress.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | November 8, 2020 9:38 PM |
I always got Kay Lenz and Shelley Hack confused.
Linda's a good actress and she does have a nice singing voice. As someone else said, it's not very memorable or unique, but she knows how to put over a song.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | November 8, 2020 9:56 PM |
[quote]As a kid I got her confused with Linda Blair
In the article about she and Patrick Duffy dating I assumed the story was about Linda Blair until I saw her picture and realized I was confusing the two.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | November 9, 2020 1:29 AM |
The lines about their split write themselves. Go back to Atlantis! Go back to Dallas!
by Anonymous | reply 128 | November 9, 2020 3:23 AM |
Purl's a singer.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | November 9, 2020 3:37 AM |