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Life Is Not a Stage
From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond
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About this book
For millions of people around the world, Carol Brady is synonymous with motherhood, but growing up as the youngest of ten children in rural Indiana in the aftermath of the Great Depression, Florence Henderson lived a life quite different from that of the quintessential TV mom she later played on television.
Florence's father was a dirt-poor tobacco tenant farmer who was nearly fifty years old when he married Florence's twenty-five-year-old mother, and was nearly seventy when Florence was born. Florence's childhood was full of deprivation and abandonment. Her father was an alcoholic at a time when there was no rehab or help for the disease. Their home rarely had electricity or running water. When she was twelve, Florence's mother left the family to work in Cleveland and never returned.
Florence opens up about her childhood, as well as the challenges she's faced as an adult, including stage fright, postpartum depression, her extramarital affairs, divorce, her hearing loss, and heart problems. She writes with honesty and wisdom of how her faith and ability to survive has brought her through rough times to a life of profound joy and purpose.
Florence's father was a dirt-poor tobacco tenant farmer who was nearly fifty years old when he married Florence's twenty-five-year-old mother, and was nearly seventy when Florence was born. Florence's childhood was full of deprivation and abandonment. Her father was an alcoholic at a time when there was no rehab or help for the disease. Their home rarely had electricity or running water. When she was twelve, Florence's mother left the family to work in Cleveland and never returned.
Florence opens up about her childhood, as well as the challenges she's faced as an adult, including stage fright, postpartum depression, her extramarital affairs, divorce, her hearing loss, and heart problems. She writes with honesty and wisdom of how her faith and ability to survive has brought her through rough times to a life of profound joy and purpose.
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Publisher
Center StreetYear
2025eBook ISBN
9781455504916Subtopic
TelevisionTable of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Welcome
- Dedication
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: It Will Never Be Noticed on a Galloping Horse
- Chapter 1: The Faith of a Child
- Chapter 2: Singing for My Supper
- Chapter 3: Growing Up Fast
- Chapter 4: Wide-Eyed and Confident
- Chapter 5: Wish You Were Here
- Chapter 6: Hitting the Road
- Chapter 7: The Big Break
- Chapter 8: Yes, I Was a Virgin!
- Chapter 9: The Today Show Girl
- Chapter 10: Do Re Mi
- Chapter 11: The Girl Who Came to Supper Loses Her Appetite
- Chapter 12: The Pill
- Chapter 13: The âNo Door Actâ
- Chapter 14: Detours and Other Digressions
- Chapter 15: HollywoodâŚFinally
- Chapter 16: Brady-monium
- Chapter 17: Good Help Is Hard to FindâŚ
- Chapter 18: Days of Wine and RosesâŚand Clam Chowder and Chicken
- Chapter 19: Cutting Through the Layers to the Truth
- Chapter 20: D-Day
- Chapter 21: The Dragonflies
- Chapter 22: The Horse Stays in the Game
- Photographs
- Copyright Page