Posted on 09/27/2012 8:16:14 AM PDT by Perdogg
Erin Moran was just 14 when she signed on to play Joanie Cunningham, the feisty little sister of Richie Cunningham in the hit Seventies show Happy Days.
But while child actor Ron Howard, who played Richie, has since gone on to become an A-list Hollywood producer and director, his on-screen 'sister' has fallen on much harder times.
Moran, 51, was photographed looking worse for wear outside a Holiday Inn in Corydon, Indiana, after reportedly being kicked out of the trailer she shared with her husband Steve Fleischmann.
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So what accounts for the massive inequality among former actors playing Cunningham children? If you said “obviously, discrimination” go to the head of the liberal class!
Bump!
I have zero sympathy just based on this....boy she has not aged well.
And Weezy was 20 years older than her husband, George.
Reminds me of the story about "Joanie loves Chachi" being one of the most popular shows on South Korean television even though the show was in English and only really broadcast for the American Military families stationed over there. Nobody could figure out why a show that was mediocre at best got such huge ratings...until somebody realized that "Chachi" is slang for the male sex organ in Korean.
Well, yeah, actually she did. It is standard in the contract for any working SAG or AFTRA members.The royalties would dwindle over time.
A no name featured actor shooting a national commercial could realize 50 to 75 k over half of which is residuals.
The ones that really got screwed over where those in the 30's like Our Gang and the Bowery Boys.
Moran, whose home was foreclosed on, now lives in an Indiana trailer park.
“I feel bad, but sometimes you make your bed and you have to sleep in it,” said Baio. “That is unfortunate. I have extended myself a couple of times and at a certain point you have to say, ‘You know what? I have got my own life to live. I am not going to worry about this.’”
Damn, that’s sad....
Each received a payment of $65,000
according to Wiki
yuck
Baio has a new show on cable apparently
It may have changed since then....
Happy Days ended in 1984, when she was 24, and her acting gigs were few after that. She was still young, she could have gone to college, gotten a degree in something useful, and had a life. She chose not to.
Yes and he said he won’t invite Erin for a guest appearance.
She apparently appears in a 2012 film called “The Deceit” or something... I haven’t heard of it
Ron Howard is an Obama loving bleeding heart liberal who has no problem with Obama throwing away tax payer money. Let his bleeding heart charity start at home for a change.
"The aging actress and three of her Happy Days co-stars, Don Most, Anson Williams and Marion Ross, plus the estate of Tom Bosley, who died in 2010, filed a $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS, which owns the show.
"The suit claimed that cast members had not been paid for merchandising revenues owed under their contracts.
In July 2012, the actors settled their lawsuit with CBS. Each received a payment of $65,000 and a promise by CBS to continue honoring the terms of their contracts."
It's hard to believe that $65,000 could dwindle to destitution in just 3 months.
Some TV network should buy some land and throw some double-wides on it and invite Hollywood has-beens to live in them for free. Give it to them if they live there for 4 years. In the meantime tape a reality show about them.
lol.
Hollywood Has Beens or Hollywood Trailer Park
I'm pretty sure. She would have been a member of AFTRA as residuals were becoming standardized in the early 70's. I know mine were.
The 65k they received were not for residuals. It was for unpaid income from merchandising, marketing, licensed likeness usage and so on.
Essentially this boils down to "you want to put my face on a lunchbox,pay me.
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