IIene Graff (Mr. Belvedere, Ladybugs)

Ilene Graff joined me to discuss going to grade school and high school with my parents and Lowell Ganz; Queens; Mays Department Store; getting a job on Broadway right after college graduation; Promises, Promises; Jill & Jenny O'Hara; Grease with co-stars Jeff Conaway, Barry Bostwick and occasionally John Travolta; not getting to audition for the movie because she was thought of as too old and then have an older actress get the job; working on I Love My Wife with Joanna Gleason and Lenny Baker; moving to Hollywood; guest starring on Brothers & Sisters; getting cast in the ill-fated Supertrain; there is many Supertrain podcasts but not one Mr. Belvedere; Mr. Belvedere's fans; Lewis & Clark; Wendy Holcombe; 13 13th Avenue; Bob Uecker makes Belvedere a go; Ilene's favorite episodes - singing with Robert Goulet; Belvedere's Very Special Episode; libraries; ratings; disastrous move to Saturdays; Rodney Dangerfield; her and her husbands class Making the Song Your Own; her annual holiday concert; watching Mr. Belvedere with my daughter; Brice Beckham's comic timing; adults on Belvedere creating a family atmosphere; what her TV kids are doing now; performing with her grandniece and Lora Tu-Chan from Awkwafina is Nora from Queens.