Leta Powell Drake Interview with Danielle Brisebois
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- Junket Interview with Danielle Brisebois regarding Archie Bunker's Place. Conducted August 1981. Broadcast on KOLN/KGIN-TV, Lincoln, NE.
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She was insanely adorable, and really good on AITF and ABP. Very sharp too, quick-witted
When 12 looked like 12 back in the day!
I don't see many 12 year old girls walking around who look like this bombshell with a body to match. She could have easily passed for 15 or 16.
What does 12 look like now?
@@romans52345-cy3tq a grown woman that looks 22.
@@romans52345-cy3tq 40
So wonderful!! Thank you for sharing!
Talented, beautiful young lady!
I had a crush on this girl back then. A year younger than me and cute :-)
Danielle is a mighty fine actress
It's nice watching her talk about Star Wars, Empire, Raiders, and all of that. I'm 50 now, but those were my days.
You were brilliant on the show. The perfect choice!
I thought she did a good job at first, very decent for a child actress her age and what she lacked in ability she was able to make up for with adorability. But I assume acting is like most things, you need to do it frequently to stay in a good groove. As she got older on ABP especially when she became a teenager and her part lessened, she didn't seem as sharp as when she was on almost every episode and her limitations as an actress kinda showed. Really disappointing her ABP run would end like that.
@@lobohobo9218 You are delirious.
She was good at the beginning and filled big hole on the show admirably. But later on when the program became a workplace comedy and they had to add Denise Miller because Danielle didn't fit in a show centered at a saloon I think there was some buyers remorse with the Stephanie character as she drifted aimlessly with no real purpose or direction the last season and a half.
She was adorable!
Love me some Danielle! 💕🥀💕
Had a big crush on Danielle. She was sooo cute.♡♡♡♡♡
She was a doll
SHE IS SO BEAUTIFUL
Gorgeous! Too bad Wonder Woman had ceased production by this point. I thought she would have been a good replacement for Debra Winger as Wonder Girl.
"Can you get everything in 3 hours," lol, the interviewer doesn't understand how education works.... Homeschoolers are way ahead of public school goers.
I forgot what the interviewers name was!
Im the same age as Danielle...had a huge crush in those days. Then got to college and Big Bad Mama 2 cane out...aye carumba
I'd luvv for her to write an autobiography and fill in the many blanks of her life and enigmatic career:
Chapter 1 Thru 1983: This part of her life is already fairly well documented. She was pretty much everywhere and highly visible.
Chapter 2 84-86: Archie/Knots Landing fame quickly evaporates. Only brief stints in Grease (84) On the Level & Circus of Stars (85)
Chapter 3 87: Comeback attempt 1. Mama 2, Murder She Wrote, demo record. Instead of revitalizing her career it was like a last hurrah.
Chapter 4 88-91: Plummets further into abyss with only roles Kill Crazy (1988) and brief Florida production of Hair (1989)
Chapter 5 92-94: Comeback attempt 2. Very different & much older looking Danielle reemerges as singer/ musician on Gregg Alexander's 2nd record & her own Arrive All Over You, neither sells.
Chapter 6 95-97: Disappears from public again
Chapter 7 98: Comeback attempt 3. Muted success as part of Alexander's 3rd record released under short lived New Radicals moniker
Chapter 8 99: Comeback attempt 4. RCA balks at solo Portable Life all but ending her 7 year endeavor to get back in spotlight as singer
Chapter 9 2000-04: Vanishes again
Chapter 10 2005-2021: Comeback attempt 5. Transitions to behind the scenes in music sporadically showing up on Unwritten, etc.
Great recap but you forgot her topless scene in "Big Bad Mama ll". (not exactly a cinematic classic).
@@sugarjoe50 The film was great, but 30 seconds of boob scenes wasn't about all that.
@@lobohobo9218 Growing up in the 80's, there was no doubt an explosion of prime time child star T.V. talent surfaced during that time with too many names to mention here. When I last seen her playing "Steph", she was about this age here and then poof, she disappeared from sight and what seemed from all the other television networks. I would never forget about "Stephanie" even though I never knew her real name. I would then get caught up in these new 80's child stars. With Danielle by this time grown up, I wouldn't know what she looked like even if she was in other founding channel circuit set ups. If you ask me, some of the 80's child star talent that I saw growing up wasn't really all that great compared to Brisebois's beauty THEN and stubborn cuteness.🥰
Danielle must have crossed paths with half of Hollywood in those days not only through her work on Archie but she was also on almost every network special like Get High On Yourself, Circus of the Stars, etc. It just amazes me that even with all those connections, she couldn't find consistent work after ABP and a decade later she'd be travelling the country playing coffee houses in an ill fated attempt to reboot her career as a singer.
She's so uncomfortable and rehearsed. Trying to play the part of an adult. But, sweet
Strange, she doesn't strike me that way at all. Quite the opposite, actually. You want to see rehearsed, have a look at a Dakota Fanning interview sometime, at that age.
She live is immature. Poorly spoken.
@@K1OIK Danielle was a brunette bombshell and that alone was enough for an intriguing interview. But you are correct, it was missing the refinement and polish you would except from someone who had spent her entire life in front of a camera. She looked as nervous and uncomfortable as a regular girl which made watching this captivating yet disappointing at the same time.
She shut her down, quickly
She was beginning her 4th season on the show, yet her father had yet to move to LA? It's not like ITT didn't have an office there. Guess it's no surprise her parents would divorce a year later. In an April 1981 interview with People CoC said with the departure of Balsam, lovely Danielle would be relied upon to shoulder additional responsibility. She would have an expanded co-star role with more Archie/ Stephanie home episodes. But in reality the show shifted to additional bar focused stories which meant far fewer scenes involving Stephie Mills not more.
LUV U ROSEMARIE!!!
Also had a Big Crush on this Doll
This is a nice kid, and I hope that she has had a great life (which she probably did because her mom kept an eye out for her).
Desperately trying to jump a stalled career she was emancipated at 15 hoping it would increase the number of parts she could be considered for. But Danielle was more interested in boys than balance sheets and not having business savvy, her child actress fortune was left exposed. When she turned 21 she had a mere $10k left.
She had a pretty successful music career. Let's cast light on your life jagoff.
In a Jan 1986 Star interview lovely Danielle said she was putting her life on hold, ie boys, school, etc to try to jump start her acting career, mentioning specifically that she desperately wanted to get back on TV. After a few minor guest shots a year later she finally landed a recurring role on Days of Our Lives but that only lasted a handful of episodes. I'm guessing that's why she bared it all in Mama II and Kill Crazy; a last ditch attempt to revive her career.
She's so cute
she is
read these comments, some of y'all talking about her home schooling can't even spell yourselves lol
Interviewer was condescending calling her a little girl. Danielle was a very lovely, impressive, and accomplished young lady but this interview ended up being a jinx. Until then she was everywhere, not only ABP, but side projects like City vs. Country and Battle of Network Stars. She also did speeches around the country and sang at high schools. She must have felt unstoppable. Then in a couple years it was unexpectedly over. I'm guessing it had to be incredibly humbling for her at a such a young age being so motivated to go from being one of Hollywood's It girls to career oblivion almost overnight. She was also asked about her father but her parents would soon divorce. Then she speaks of having a business manager to handle her money but she was left in pretty dire financial straits not too long after the series ended.
I blame the eyebrows. She needed an eyebrow consultant.
I blame the eyebrows. She needed an eyebrow consultant.
@@TheKitchenerLeslie I thought her eyebrows were really cute because they were natural looking as was Danielle. She looked like she could have been a cheerleader for the local high school.
@@ronjohnson3129 Oh, they got more out of control as she got older. You must like hairy women.
The way Danielle is interrupting the lady is kinda weird. Not that she's doing it in a rude or disrespectful way, but it just looks and sounds odd to me. Please tell me I'm not the only one who notices that ? 🤔
You're the first one to broach the subject of interrupting, but it is more like the other way around!
Danielle is 12 years old ... she is natural, she’s being herself, and it’s nice to hear the way children spoke lo those many years ago. It’s called a conversation, rather than an interview. She’s a sweet kid. And she did an episode of “murder she wrote” and Danielle was very good in it and very beautiful.
@@Jasper7182009 She was so cute and classy in this interview; outfit, hair and makeup perfect. It's a good thing I never saw this interview live. When she said she didn't have a boyfriend, I wouldn't have been able to control my 13 year old hormones! I felt so sorry for her on Murder, She Wrote though. Her part was okay, but they gave her awful fake hair and a horrible fake accent. They destroyed her natural beauty. In an early 1986 Star article she mentions putting her entire life on hold trying to jump start her acting career in an attempt to get back on TV. But in very competitive network television those opportunities were exceedingly rare and there were fewer alternatives in those days. I'm guessing her efforts failed which is why she ended up topless in BBM II. Too bad there weren't Hallmark/ Lifetime movies in the 80s & 90s. Many former child actresses that came along a decade later and not anymore talented than Danielle revived their careers going that route after their prime time series days were over.
kinda?
She says how she will have more air time now and her part is growing now that Balsem is gone and yet the opposite happened and she had even less time as they brought another girl on who took up more scenes
@@goforho7257 exactly
@@ronjohnson3129 Very true!
@@jackmcgee5331 That could very well be what happened good point
@@ronjohnson3129 wow I did not know that!
@@jackmcgee5331 All good points
Shes sounds different
She was great on the show, poor here.
You're right, beautiful Danielle looked distracted. Maybe she had to pee. Or perhaps she was just tired at the end of a long day where she had done a bunch of these interviews. How many times can you answer the same question about Annie!?
@@lobohobo9218 She was nothing like her character, poorly spoken, immature, poor elocution.
She is so cute
She only got prettier wit age
Now Danielle is a songwriter and has fraternal twin girls Charlotte and Lola with her husband Nick Lashley!
Huh? She was never married to Nick Lachey. Get your facts right.
@@stevetaylor3008 I did get them right! Nick Lashley is who she married, not Nick Lackey!
@@abbieprice3430 Oh gimme a break. You originally typed "Lachey" and now you changed it to "Lashley". Don't try to snow me. Nice try, though! LOL.
@@abbieprice3430 In your reply, you even typed "not Nick LACKEY" which is not even how his name is spelled. Jeez!
@@stevetaylor3008 I meant she didn’t marry Nick Lachey!
I want to school with her we data before
THE LONGEST RUNNING ROMANCE ON TV.......ARCHIE BUNKERS PLACE.....WE WERE IN LOVE FROM 1980 TO 1983.........FOR THREE YEARS EXACTLY.......WE WE WERE MARRIED.....SHE WAS 11 I WAS 15