Beth Howland question

She could have replaced Valerie Harper in The Hogan Family.

Nah. Too odd and better in small doses. I can’t picture her in a leading role.

I hated both her MTM appearances. So…no.

I’m a die-hard Beth Howland fan.

She could have played Julie Haggerty's sister in any of her films.

I was going to say she kind of fit that niche of nervous, mousy actresses like Julie Hagerty and Valerie Mahaffey. Good in supporting roles but not a headliner.

After Company on Broadway Ms. Howland moved to California but had comparatively little work in film or television until Alice. She rode out that gig until series ended, then went into semi-retirement.

IMHO Ms. Howland like many other actors/dancers got lucky with a few big breaks. Afterwards or in between she took what jobs came her way that suited. Doesn't seem as if she was hugely interested in becoming a big star.

I'd like to have seen her in a rom-com opposite a much younger man.

Her choppers were too big.

For someone who as a life long smoker, Beth Howland had remarkable breath control as a singer. Few have managed to top her in "I'm Not Getting Married Today".

R10, this is one of those songs where if you mess up a single word, the song is fucked and you can't catch up again. It's happened to talented performers.

I think you're grasping at dropped drinking straws.

She was an incredibly grating presence so I was shocked when I saw the Company in Concert video taped in the 90s. She was completely charming and very much a star in the ensemble.

R11

IIRC most singers manage "I'm Not Getting Married Today" by slowing down the tempo, sometimes quite a bit.

Why didn't Alice have any waitresses of color working at Mel's?

I think Beth could have played Janet in Rocky Horror better than Susie Sarandon.

R16

No way! Beth Howland's looks wouldn't at all suit as "Janet". She was too thin (with legs like two toothpicks), mousey and rather fragile looking.

Beth Howland couldn't pull off the bedroom scene from Rocky Horror.

And can you really picture Beth Howland doing "Touch-a Touch-a, Touch Me"?

With or without "I want to be dirty".....

Is Howland Street on the East End of Provincetown named for Beth. I pretend it is

No, Howland was best in small doses.

She could be sensual.

She would have been strong in You Light Up My Life, maybe even better than Didi Conn.

This begs the next question: what had more charisma Beth Howland or Didi Conn?

Because there were no people of color living in Phoenix in the 1970s, R15.

Frenchie >>>>> Vera

Could Howland have played the mother in Mask?

She pretty much disappeared after Alice.

She gave Dolly Parton a gorilla fist pussy chain.

Always found it odd that she and Michael J. Pollard were married for a while. Cannot picture those two together.

She was so lucky to have bedded Michael J. Pollard. sigh.

She said Pollard was a deadbeat that didn't pay any child support for their daughter. During her career slow years before landing Alice, she stuggled getting by and she and her daughter lived on tuna fish sandwiches for some time.

I loved Vera’s pet Hamsters