Eve Plumb: Spaghetti with American Cheese
Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle
Rachel Belle
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Eve Plumb was 10 years old when she landed the role of Jan Brady, the middle daughter on The Brady Bunch, and now she's sharing what was going on behind-the-scenes in her new memoir, Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond.
The night Eve got the part, in 1969, her parents took her out for a celebratory dinner at Martoni’s, a martini-soaked, Italian-American Hollywood hot spot popular with folks in the music industry. Los Angeles culinary historian Katherine Spiers spills the tea on all the juicy Martoni’s celebrity gossip and tells host Rachel Belle which unsuspecting dish was all the rage in 1960s L.A.
Eve connects the dots between her favorite fast food order and her last meal and talks about which The Brady Bunch cast member she still has monthly drinks with!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal. |
| 0:12.4 | The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most, and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world. |
| 0:21.6 | Today on the program, Eve Plum, the actor who played Jan Brady, the middle daughter on the Brady Bunch. |
| 0:28.6 | Are you so tired of people yelling Marsha, Marcia, Marcia at you? I'm sure they do. |
| 0:32.6 | Sometimes. |
| 0:33.6 | Last week, Eve released her memoir. Happiness included, Jan, Brady, and Beyond. |
| 0:40.2 | When Eve got that part back in 1969, her parents took her out to dinner at a Hollywood |
| 0:45.2 | hotspot called Martoni's. |
| 0:47.7 | Later in the show, Los Angeles food writer Catherine Spires will spill all the vintage martini-soaked |
| 0:53.9 | martoni celebrity gossip. |
| 0:55.9 | But right now, let's hop into my conversation with Eve Plum. |
| 1:06.0 | Let's talk about the start of your career. |
| 1:07.9 | You started acting when you were six years old. |
| 1:10.1 | How did that happen? |
| 1:11.8 | That happened. Well, I mean, it's a weird thing because I was born at St. Joseph's Hospital in Burbank, which is right across the street from Disney Studios. And then my parents were helping to found a church and they were using services in a movie theater. So that's where I was baptized. And then when I was about six years |
| 1:27.9 | old, a children's agent moved in next door to us. And I was a chatty little kid and chatted her up. |
| 1:34.5 | So she ended up saying to my mom, well, you know, let's send her out an audition. And I went on the |
| 1:40.0 | audition and I got the job and I've been working ever since. So your very first audition, |
| 1:44.4 | you got the part. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. The universe really wanted you to be in show business. |
| 1:50.7 | I guess so. I wish it happened more often now. I would go on an audition and get the job. |
| 1:57.9 | I mean, when I was a kid, I had a busy, busy schedule of auditioning |
| 2:01.1 | and jobs and jobs. It was all TV, all those, all those westerns that were going on in the 60s. |
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