Posted on 06/07/2012 9:31:32 AM PDT by iowamark
These are not Happy Days for Joanie Cunningham actress Erin Moran.
Shes broke, living in an Indiana trailer park and looking haggard well beyond her 51 years, according to the National Enquirer.
Moran and husband Steve Fleischmann, 45, are reportedly living hand-to-mouth at the Berkshire Pointe Mobile Home Park in New Salisbury, Ind., where theyre said to be caring for his ailing mom.
Its a long fall for the actress, best known as Ron Howards wisecracking little sister on one of Americas most beloved sitcoms.
She appeared in 236 episodes of Happy Days between 1974 and 1984 before doing her short-lived spin-off Joanie Loves Chachi.
The couple lost their Southern California home to foreclosure in 2010.
Life hasnt been kind to Erin since the foreclosure of her home, a family friend said.
Despite these tough times, pals admire Morans dedication to her sick mother-in-law.
She and Steve moved in with his ailing mother at the trailer park a few weeks back. Erin is like an angel to her mother-in-law. She cooks and cleans for her and takes care of her personal hygiene, the family pal observed...
While Moran cares for her mother-in-law, Fleischmann reportedly brings home the bacon with a meager Walmart job...
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
looking haggard well beyond her 51 years
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Oh bull-poop! She doesn’t look like she has had all sorts of crud injected into her lips or had her eyes pulled tight. She looks like an average 51 year old woman.
If she lives in a trailer—so what. Other people do, too...is she special just because she was once a star? She had money and it was frittered away somehow.
She looks fine, I like her looks better than all that plastic-surgery crud we see on so many Hollywood types.
What make you think he cares? He's undoubtedly aware of her situation. And he's a Hollywood lib so he'd probably rather other people's money go to help her.And yes, I liked him on his TV shows.
David, in his autobiography, brags about his big johnson, and reports he would give admiring fans the choice: 10 minutes talking, or give him a b-job...
He reports that just about every female, whatever age, chose the latter option.
Really???? WOW, I did not know that.
Never understood her character getting a show with Chachi. At the time, they were pretty much the central characters on Happy Days (Richie was gone and Fonzie was getting a little old for the act, and he was trying to get out of his contract). Putting them on their own also added the problem that it was still family-oriented, but they weren't married, making their relationship even less believable.
Hey,
they put ron howards UGLY brother in a ant poison commercial. Maybe they can add her/S
On an episode on "The Honeymooners", Ralph Kramden delivered a similar line, to which Norton replied: "Happens every day in the sewer!"
“an ant”, before the spell check/grammar police show up!
Honestly, she was never a great actress which is why her career ended once she was past the child stage, but one would think she’d still be making residuals from HD’s of some sort.
I am glad her and her husband are taking care of his Mom, that’s what you do, whether you are rich or poor.
Its a just punishment for ‘Joanie Loves Chachi’.
Actually, it was Murry Wilson, the dad, who sold them without Brian's knowledge or approval.
My wife and I live in a senior citizen "trailer park" by choice and we love it. Besides it is very affordable on our retirement income.
The older ones around here do have trailers pretty close but there are only a couple left. The ones built from the 70’s on are laid out with small but nice lots.
God bless her for what she does with her time, taking care of her family.
I don't know about the money part, but just from that part alone, she sounds richer to me than most of the people in Hollywood and more successful at what truly matters.
For her, given the path she's on, I have little doubt that the rest will take care of itself.
That video used clips from the original show for everybody except Al.
Anyway, 18 years is the difference between a 51 year-old and a 33 year-old; big difference.
But the Happy Days cast members who appeared in that video were all from old clips of the show itself, not filmed for the video.
One exception: Al Molinaro did appear as his original character, filmed expressly for the music video. He introduced the group as "Kenosha, Wisconsin's own Weezer!" which is actually Molinaro's home town.
My accountant says i haz this much moneys
Joanie, Joanie, Joanie....
Didn’t she break the wall of silence and thereby end her career by speaking about her serial sexual abuse as a child actress?
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