S17E21: The Pill | Florence Henderson
Trashy Divorces
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4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
The Brady Bunch offered the vast middle of America a place of quirky, family-oriented respite in a time of enormous change and social conflict. Real-life Brady matriarch Florence Henderson, beloved as "America's Mom" for the rest of her life, was as changed by the times as anyone. She'd grown up poor, married young, and spent much of the 1950s and '60s trying to balance a thriving career in entertainment with the demands of a growing family, amidst the backdrop of Women's Liberation, the pill, and the Sexual Revolution. Alicia has the goods on one of our era's most adored performers.
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Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond, by Florence Henderson, with Joel Brokaw (Amazon link)
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, welcome to trashy divorces. |
| 0:03.4 | Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:07.2 | My name is Stacey. |
| 0:08.3 | Thanks for joining us, friends. |
| 0:09.5 | Alicia here. |
| 0:10.4 | We're back again this week with a brand new sitcom mom to add to our trashy divorces universe. |
| 0:16.5 | Cinematic universe. |
| 0:17.8 | That's right. |
| 0:18.4 | One of our favorites, Florence Henderson, maybe the favorite of all |
| 0:23.3 | sitcom moms. I think so, yeah. And when we get through her story, you might feel just like one of |
| 0:29.0 | those Brady kids, too. Florence Henderson, remarkable woman with much achievement, but also |
| 0:36.0 | a lot to overcome and a saucier story than you may expect from the wholesome Carol Brady. |
| 0:44.7 | With big thanks to Melissa O for the story on this one, |
| 0:48.2 | this episode it is the story of a lovely lady with one trashy divorce that accompanies a cultural revolution. Vivalah! |
| 0:58.6 | Let's go, go, go. |
| 0:59.9 | All right, Alicia, so you've got the one and the only Carol Brady for us this week. |
| 1:17.2 | I do, I do, and it's how she is remembered Florence Henderson. |
| 1:21.2 | Yeah. |
| 1:22.2 | Oh, such a dynamic lady. |
| 1:23.9 | America's first blended family. |
| 1:26.4 | Florence Henderson has had a long career as an actress and performer. |
| 1:31.2 | Too many, as mentioned, she will always be best known for her role as Carol Brady in the Brady |
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