That could buy her a lot them cement ponds she so favors...
The settlement will buy a lotta vittles, varmints, and pot passers.
Good thing I was on ice at the time, I don’t remember any of these folks.
Not only has Donna Douglas always been a very beautiful woman, but from the interviews I’ve seen her do over the years, she always came across as a genuinely nice person - she never took on the “Diva” attitude that some many other actresses display.
I’m quite surprised to find a case of an actor owning rights to the character they portrayed.
Barbie Doll is used to problems. Tidbit of trivia about the creator of Barbie, Ruth Handler:
1978: Pled no contest to charges of false reporting to the SEC, fraud, and conspiracy.
But the good times soon soured. Ruth described the major mistake made by Mattel in her autobiography: “We should have stayed in the toy business, accepted a slower growth rate, and resisted the temptation to acquire so freely. Our organization was not really equipped to evaluate and control so many diverse companies, and our internal auditing capability was inadequate to ferret out the problems in advance.” In 1970 Mattel’s plant in Mexico was destroyed by fire, which necessitated the cancellation of one-third of that year’s Christmas orders, and the following year a shipyard strike in the Far East cut off their toy supplies during their busiest season. To maintain the appearance of corporate growth, the financial records showed as income millions of dollars of orders that had been placed but not fulfilled. For two years (1971 and 1972) Mattel issued false and misleading financial reports. In 1973 the company reported a $32 million loss just three weeks after stockholders had been assured that the company was in sound financial condition. Mattel’s stock plummeted and the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) stepped in to investigate.
Ruth, in charge of the company’s administrative and financial affairs, was indicted by a grand jury in 1978. She entered a no contest plea to the charges (false reporting to the SEC, fraud, and conspiracy) and was ordered to pay $57,000 in fines. Her 41-year sentence was suspended for a probation of five years, during which she was required to perform 500 hours per year of community service. Elliot, a product designer with no say in the day to day running of the company, was exonerated. The federal court ordered Mattel to restructure, while the firm’s bankers and creditors pressured the Handlers to resign. Shareholders then entered a series of class-action lawsuits. To settle, the Handlers turned over 2.5 million shares of their own stock, described by Ruth as “half of everything we’d worked for in the previous thirty years.” In 1980 the Handlers cashed in most of their remaining Mattel stock (worth $18.5 million), ending their involvement in the company they had founded.
She used to pull up in a shiny convertible to my elementary school to pick up one of my classmates, the daughter of her husband or boyfriend. She was gorgeous.
ping for later view.....er....reading!!!
Dang dont want to go completely off Topic, Miss Ely was my Favorite, but anyone wanting to stroll down Memory Lane take a look at this site sort of a FR for sitcoms. Lots of pictures!
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/showgallery.php/cat/504
She had a nice figure but I would not say “buxom” as the article did.