Tom Bosley on his "Happy Days" co stars - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG

I want to go over some of your castmates and if you could describe them, I did something that people don't know about, it's a misconception to really describe, get a sense of the talents that they brought to the table. It was Marian and, furthermore, she is an unusual person. If I had to name actresses that I have enjoyed working with in my entire life, I think she would be in the top three, thank God from the moment the show went off the air she was involved in wonderful, wonderful work, so There's a lot of recognition for her ability, she's a

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person now, it's another case of a woman who raised two kids alone and, you know, she wasn't the biggest actress in the world until that show came along, she did some jobs, but that made her a star, it's just wonderful since Ron Howard had another very successful show.

How did he do it? What did he contribute to the program? He was different from the rest of the young actors. Well, we experimented with Henry, who did maybe one or two television shows. Anson maybe. one, I don't know about dinner, most of them had done something and he had been in front of the camera since he was so big, it was a natural thing, right? Ron Howard is a very rare individual in this business, wonderful parents, fantastic parents who knew exactly how to do it. to raise him he just lost his mother and we went to a memorial and it was the most beautiful thing you could imagine because it was a celebration and that's how he and his brother were raised by these wonderful people and his mother was an actress in a moment his father was an actor and writer, everything is there, but he was the master.

Normal kid, went to public high school, married his childhood sweetheart, I mean, he was the story, he was the storybook you don't find in Los Angeles, he's the storybook you find in Keokuk, Iowa , you know what I mean, and it was just steeped in a never flaunted her position we were all equal to the show I keep going down the cast erin moran erin she wasn't in the pilot they didn't like the girl and they brought in Erin and she was wonderful, she was perfect, but like Erin When she grew up there were a lot of problems in her personal life and in her brother's family and it's hard to say what the accumulation of all this did to her, but she really got sick.

I think she also had a bad marriage and kind of disappeared from In the scene there was an article that was supposed to have been written by her and one of the magazines and one of the

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or whatever those terrible things were where she did certain claims and accusations that none of us ever believed a word of it when We made a return to the

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, we want to call it that, which was not long after we were off the air, maybe five or six years, and she didn't show up and I always told everyone during things with Aaron that we look like a lot of cameras.

We're sorry you're not here honey, we missed you so much in the living room when Nick put our show back on the air that night. Marian, Aaron and I went to New York to see the press and a party at Pat Morita. and this was a wonderfully different girl if she was a girl who emerged from all the problems happily married to a wonderful guy with whom we flew together on the plane sitting next to each other she had a Bible in her hand almost all the paralysis she was reading and I I joked with her and said: you know they haven't cast all the roles and that's fixed and she got her life fixed and little by little she's trying to get back to acting, but that doesn't mean as much to her as it does to her.

I thought so when I was a kid because they were kids, sometimes they can't get away with it, which Ron Howard never had to worry about, they never pushed you to do it and he was around before we started, happy day, he said he wanted to be a director. I just knew it well, in that it was evident that the Senate had been, well, sure, well, that he was going to UIC at that time and then, when our schedule became so busy, he transferred to a school in the valley, He just took fewer courses, but you couldn't find Ron on set when he wasn't working.

He had found him on someone else's set watching the director or in the editing rooms. That's what he wanted. Henry would mention it before. He described Henry in that room for that role. perfect for that role, I mean if you had interviewed Henry Winkler with his background you probably would have never considered him because he is highly educated and comes from a good family with a European background, which he said at Yale and we used to say that When I was a kid in New York, I had come after school to Central Park, where Broadway shows had a softball league.

He said he used to watch you play softball. Henry is dedicated, hardworking, he always faced any challenge that came his way, he handled his success wonderfully well and is an extremely charitable person, he got married during the show and raised a stepson and then had a couple of children of his own and I think the most The smart thing he did when we broke up was he stopped acting for a while and went into production. and he started directing, he had a contract with ABC or Paramon, I don't know and he's still doing those things and he'll act.

I think he's on Broadway now or will soon be on Broadway in the Neil Simon play they tried. Here and very involved with the children, he works very hard with McLaren Hall, which is a Handel's. Disturbed kids got in trouble with the law, so you know, what else can you say? Any discussion about what the funds are essentially was the kind of dark side. of that show, potentially, was whether his discussions about how far to take that character, what that was, I don't even think so, so I mean, he did great things by policing his own boundaries as to what he felt the character was. cut could do. an antihero and he never hurt anyone the backgrounds of the character he never hit anyone and you know somehow there was a moral in every situation that when the show really involved his problem or whatever he was in there was always a moral that he had turn out well and he is very much that type of person who