Sandy Duncan

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Career

Duncan began performing at the age of 12, appearing in a local production of The King and I for $200 a week. She appeared in a commercial for United California Bank and in the soap opera Search for Tomorrow for a brief period of 1968.

Duncan was named one of the "most promising faces of tomorrow" by Time magazine in 1970. She appeared in The Boy Friend's Broadway revival in the same year, for which she received laudation. Duncan appeared in the Walt Disney family film The Million Dollar Duck, co-starring Dean Jones. She was then cast as Amy Cooper in the Paramount film version of Star Spangled Girl, based on Neil Simon's Broadway performance. Both films did poorly at the box office. Duncan appeared on the CBS sitcom Funny Face in fall 1971. The program was included in All in the Family and The New Dick Van Dyke Show's Saturday-night primetime schedule. Critics dismissed the episode, but Duncan, especially TV Guide columnist Cleveland Amory, praised the woman as "a wonderful comedienne."

Duncan underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumor from her left optic nerve shortly after the premiere of Funny Face. She lost vision in the eye as a result, but not with a prosthetic eye as some urban myths claim. She lost vision in her left eye, but Duncan and her doctors decided to keep her natural eye in place because the eye still tracked with her right eye. Despite Duncan's recovery from the hospitalization was quick, CBS postponed production on Funny Face until the following year after the 12th installment had been shot; the original series pilot appeared as the 13th (and final) episode. Funny Face's ratings were low, ranked in the lower 50s, but they eventually climbed to #17, earning the show as the most popular new show of the television season. Duncan was nominated for the Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Comedy Series. Funny Face's return in September 1972 as The Sandy Duncan Show, with a new look, new writers, and a new time slot, but without the show's strong lead-in of All in the Family, the numbers plummeted. CBS has cancelled the series after 13 episodes.

Duncan appeared in a television musical version of Pinocchio in 1976 starring Danny Kaye and Flip Wilson as Geppetto and Flip Wilson. She appeared in a first-season episode of The Muppet Show. She received another Emmy nomination for her role as Missy Anne Reynolds in the miniseries Roots.

Duncan has been back to Broadway for many years. She received many awards in 1979 for her role in Peter Pan's title role. She has appeared in My One and Only and Chicago as a replacement. She has been nominated for a Tony Award three times, in 1971, for Featured Actress (Musical) for Canterbury Tales as the Best Actress (Musical) for Peter Pan, and in 1980, she was named as Best Actress (Musical) for the Boy Friend.

Duncan's animated version (who contributed her own voice) appeared in the CBS Saturday-morning cartoon "Sandy Duncan's Jekyll and Hyde" episode in 1972. In 1976, she appeared in "The Return of Bigfoot" episodes as Gillian.

Duncan appeared in Disney's The Cat from Outer Space in 1978, alongside Ken Berry, Harry Morgan, and Roddy McDowall. Duncan, a mid-1970s to the 1980s, served as Nabisco's commercial spokesperson for the Wheat Thins crackers.

Duncan's Vixey appeared in The Fox and the Hound in 1981. -----8, she appeared in a song and dance revue titled 5-6-7-8 in 1984. As Firefly and Applejack, I was at Radio City Music Hall and recorded voice for the My Little Pony television special Rescue at Midnight Castle. She resurrectioned her role as Firefly in the My Little Pony 'n Friends series from 1986 to 1987. Valerie Harper was fired in 1987, she joined Valerie's Family (previously known as Valerie), then renamed The Hogan Family). Duncan starred as the matriarch's sister-in-law Sandy Hogan, who lives in with her brother Mike (Josh Taylor) and his three children to help raise the family after Valerie Hogan's death. Duncan remained with the series until its cancellation in 1991. She appeared on the first three Barney and the Backyard Gang children's films in 1988. Duncan had been invited to participate in the Barney & Friends television series but declined. In the Don Bluth film Rock-a-Doodle, she portrayed Peepers the mouse in 1991. In 1994, she appeared in the Richard Rich film The Swan Princess.

Duncan appeared in the Off-Broadway staged reading of Wit & Wisdom in 2003. She appeared in No. No. Nanette, one of the City Center's annual Encores, in May 2008. The series "Comes" was the longest in the series. She appeared in Driving Miss Daisy at Casa Maana Theatre in Fort Worth, Texas, in April 2009. She appeared in Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie at the Mountain Playhouse in Jennerstown, Pennsylvania, in September 2009. She has appeared in a number of traveling stage productions, including The King and I.

Duncan appeared in Madame du Maurier's Broadway performance of Finding Neverland on February 12, 2016. The show's designers announced on February 17 that she would take a temporary leave of absence due to family commitments.

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