#Jo Anne Worley

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Happy birthday, Jo Anne Worley

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The JoAnne Worley Podcast

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Happy birthday, Jo Anne Worley! She is so special to me since she’s in my favorite movie, Beauty and the Beast, *and* I more recently discovered her on Laugh-In. Along with a standard portrait of her, and the enchanted Wardrobe, here is her chicken version who resides in my cuckoo world of Beautiful Downtown Birdbank!

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The iconic ladies of Laugh-In (Chelsea Brown, Goldie Hawn, Judy Carne, Jo Anne Worley and Ruth Buzzi) 1968

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Jo Anne Worley in Laugh-In

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST 1991

If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope, for who could ever learn to love a beast?

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Vicki Lawrence and Jo Anne Worley guest star on Murder, She Wrote

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Happy birthday, Jo Anne Worley

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"I believe this is from a 1968 taping of Squares. Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones and Mike Nesmith of The Monkees all shared a square. Also pictured are three cast members from "Laugh-In" -- Judy Carne, Henry Gibson and our dear friend and Actors & Others For Animals chief Jo Anne Worley, who was over for dinner the other evening."- Peter Marshall via Facebook

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Jo Anne Worley

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The Las Vegas Show (1967) was the flagship program on The United Network, an aborted attempt at a fourth television network.

The Las Vegas Show was hosted by comedian Bill Dana and syndicated to independent stations around the country.

When it folded after just a few weeks, it was revealed to have been part of a shady venture capitalism scheme.

Pete Barbutti: It was called the United Network.

Bill Dana: It still remains a mystery how they scuttled that show, but they did.

Pete Barbutti: Jack Sheldon was the bandleader. The comics were Jo Anne Worley, Ann Elder, John Byner, Jackie Vernon, and me. The director was a guy named Win Opie, who was clueless. Bill Dana was the host.

Bill Dana: I received word we were destroying that awful man Joey Bishop [in the ratings]. We were destroying him in all these major markets - Philadelphia, Seattle and so on.

Pete Barbutti: Bill Dana is one of the most knowledgeable people in the world. Terrible host.

Bill Dana: We had a lot of people on there that did their first real television,  people like John Wayne.

Pete Barbutti: We had the biggest stars from John Wayne to Maureen O'Hara.

Bill Dana: I picked him up at the airport myself.

Pete Barbutti: I remember we had two writers that were hot and cold. They would write you the funniest things you ever heard and then the worst things you ever heard. Bill and I hit it off. We'd do these routines together and I found that I could always break him up.

Bill Dana: Rona Barrett called me with the news that my show was going under. I sort of laughed at her. I said, “I don't mean to laugh at you, Rona, but I'm looking at the numbers here and we are destroying Joey Bishop."

Pete Barbutti: After we finished a show on a Friday the producer came in -David Sontag. Another no-talent.

Bill Dana: To this day I have no idea what the hell happened...

Pete Barbutti: Sontag said, "I'm sorry to tell you, we've done our last show." We said, "What do you mean? Two weeks notice?" "No, we're never doing another show. We're finished."

Bill Dana: It was such a devastating blow. And the show was coming along so well.

Pete Barbutti: Nobody got their check.

Bill Dana: I was just sort of learning as we went along and I had never been the focus of that sort of a show before.

Kliph Nesteroff: Who was bankrolling it?

Pete Barbutti: It was a cattle company out of Kansas.

Bill Dana: Yeah, that's what we heard. There was also some church element to it too.

Pete Barbutti: The show was starting to get some numbers and starting to make some noise, but their accountants said, "If you bankrupt the show you can switch these funds over here and take a loss here and make this much money here." That's what they did. The United Network.

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1966: Recording The Mad Show, MacIntyre Dixon, Dick Libertini, Jo Anne Worley, Linda Lavin, Paul Sand.