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WILLIAMS, BORN ANSON WILLIAM HEIMLICH TO A JEWISH FAMILY. HIS FATHER, HASKELL HEIMLICH, LEGALLY CHANGED THE SPELLING OF THE FAMILY NAME TO "HEIMLICK", HIS UNCLE BEING DR. HENRY HEIMLICH, NAMESAKE OF THE HEIMLICH MANEUVE. AFTER HAPPY DAYS AND A LONG CAREER AS AN ACTOR, WILLIAMS BECAME A PROMINENT TELEVISION DIRECTOR.

TAYLOR WAS FIRST INTRODUCED TO TV AUDIENCES ON ED SULLIVAN SHOW AND LATE THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW WHERE HE WAS KNOWN AS “CRYING COMEDIAN”. HIS SIGNATURE CONFETTI TOSSING GAG CAME BOMBING AS A STAND-UP COMEDIAN.

IN OCTOBER 1984, HER ESCORT SERVICE WAS DISBANDED, AND AFTER PLEADING GUILTY AND BEING FINED $5,000 FOR PROMOTING PROSTITUTION, SHE WROTE A 1986 AUTOBIOGRAPHY, MAYFLOWER MADAM: THE SECRET LIFE OF SYDNEY BIDDLE BARROWS.

KOENIG WAS UNFAMILIAR WITH SCIENCE FICTION BEFORE BEING CAST ON STAR TREK. ONE OF ONLY TWO ACTORS TO AUDITION, HE WAS CAST AS CHEKOV ALMOST IMMEDIATELY PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF HIS RESEMBLANCE TO BRITISH ACTOR AND SINGER DAVY JONES OF THE MONKEES.

RUTA LEE IS A CANADIAN-BORN AMERICAN ACTRESS AND DANCER OF LITHUANIAN DESCENT. RUTA LEE APPEARED AS ONE OF THE BRIDES IN THE MUSICAL SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS.

MARION ROSS, BEST KNOWN AS MRS. CUNNINGHAM FROM "HAPPY DAYS" SHARES SHARES HER EXPERIENCES WITH ICONIC STARS, AND INSIGHTS FROM HER BOOK "MY DAYS: HAPPY AND OTHERWISE." 

SHE MADE FRIENDS AND SHE MADE ENEMIES. CONTROVERSIAL COLUMNIST RONA BARRETT CALLED ‘EM LIKE SHE SAW ‘EM IN PRINT, TV AND MORE. BUT THERE IS ANOTHER SIDE THAT WILL SURPRISE YOU ON POPP STAR TALK.

TV’S “EIGHT IS ENOUGH” WAS NEVER ENOUGH FOR ACTOR DICK VAN PATTEN. ADD MOVIE STAR TO THE LIST//SHE SPOKE OUT. SHE DIDN’T HOLD BACK PUNCHES ON ANY TOPIC. HEAR A DIFFERENT SIDE OF ICONIC JOAN COLLINS ON POPP STAR TALK

SHIRLEY MAE JONES AN AMERICAN ACTRESS AND SINGER HAS STARRED AS WHOLESOME CHARACTERS IN A NUMBER OF MUSICAL FILMS, SUCH AS OKLAHOMA! (1955), CAROUSEL (1956), AND THE MUSIC MAN (1962). SHE PLAYED THE LEAD ROLE OF SHIRLEY PARTRIDGE IN THE MUSICAL SITUATION-COMEDY TELEVISION SERIES THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY (1970–1974).

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