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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She probably lost it all to her husband in their divorce. But she still has her SAG and AFTRA retirement and that can be substantial.
I hope she wins Survivor. However as soon as the girls find out who she is, she's toast. It's a fact of life on Survivor.
Yes she was a stunt woman. Denise Chesire.
“I’d wager that she probably didn’t even make $1000/week”
Her bio says she made $900 per episode in 1974. So, yeah, after everyone else took their cut she got minimum wage. Hollywood has always been a greedy liberal place.
I believe she dropped out of acting in order to take care of sick family.
Not if you're living at a Holiday Inn and out drinking every night.
Just think of it as that big eye in Mordor.
Atleast $65,000 and how does that become $0 in just 3 months???
Anson Williams kicked me off his Facebook page for daring to disagree with him about gay marriage. Potsy was nasty and called me names...I asked him how was his acting career, if he had enough time to put down his mop and answer me.
Scott Baio who played Chachi is a bigtime conservative. I would not be surprised if he was a FREEper.
She did say something about having invested her money but lost it like everyone else did in the ‘80s...or something like that. Still.
Child stars often have it rough. Of course, the eight-balls of crack cocaine don’t help.
” 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.”
Hollywood already has something like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_%26_Television_Country_House_and_Hospital
I know two things. Many actors, during the seventies, did not make a whole lot of money with their tv shows. The studios ripped them off big time, in all sorts of ways. For example, all those computing books or lunch boxes that were sold did not provide residual sales back to the actors.
Having said that, it was still the actor’s responsibility to manage their money as best they can. Erin probably could have afforded at least a small house with the money she made, then she could have, if she chose, worked at some mediocre job after her acting career wound up and had a decent life.
She chose badly.
Computing books was supposed to be colouring books.
Stupid auto correct.
Roach is McFly!
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