Life Is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond

By Florence Henderson

Book Overview

Carol Brady, the character Florence Henderson played on the perennially popular sitcom the Brady Bunch was the perfect mother, but Henderson's background growing up in the aftermath of the Great Depression was a sharp contrast to that innocent suburban idyll. And though Mrs. Brady is the character she's most associated with, Henderson's talents have taken her career far beyond the scope of one TV sitcom. From The Tonight Show, to Broadway with Rodgers and Hammerstein, to her more recent appearance on Dancing With the Stars, Florence opens up about her life in and out of the spotlight. From her challenging childhood, to her extramarital affairs and divorce, Florence writes with honesty and wisdom in this inspiring memoir.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599953870
• ISBN13: 9781599953878
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Center Street
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 7.9"

Customer Reviews

Lovely read with real depth

I really enjoyed reading Florence Henderson's life story who died two years ago. She writes honestly in the same way as the late Mary Tyler Moore did in her 1995 memoir on the ups and downs of her life and no sugar coating. She is best known for playing the mother and wife in the tv show, The Brady Bunch. There is a lot more to her than that. In later life she trained as a hypnotherapist and writes movingly of how she could feel and see the spirit leave the body of her last husband when he died, who was also a hypnotherapist she met later in her life. She was married twice and had 4 children; two sons and two daughters from her first marriage. She was a working mother and the main breadwinner it seems and she worked hard on stage and in TV and was one of the first lady presenters on the Today show back in the 1960s. She also had her own tv chat/lifestyle and cookery show in the 1980s and so on. She liked to be positive in how she lived life but she did suffer intensely from depression after the birth of two of her children. Medics didn't know much about it then. but we know today that hormones levels, eg., progesterone, can collapse or decrease severely in some women after giving birth. Florence was a great lady and a great mum and good wife as much as she could.