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| Diana & Judy Canova |
THE JOE BEV EXPERIENCE:
The Diana Canova Experience about her mom Judy Canova
Diana
Canova made her television acting debut in a 1974 episode of Happy Days portraying Richie's
date who is taller than he. She later guest-starred on episodes of Chico and the
Man and Starsky and
Hutch and appeared in television films before
landing the role of Corinne Tate on Soap in 1977, opposite Katherine
Helmond.
She remained with the series until 1980. In 1979, she made an appearance on Barney Miller as nude dancer/prostitute/graduate student
Stephanie Wolf in "Strip Joint" (Season 6, Episode 6.
Later,
in 1980, ABC executives offered Canova her own television
series, starring alongside Danny Thomas in I'm a Big Girl
Now.
The show lasted just one season. She was cast as Sandy Beatty in Throb!,
a sitcom which was broadcast in syndication from 1986
to 1988. In 1990, she
played Maggie McCauley in an episode of Murder, She
Wrote,
entitled "Murder: According to Maggie". In 1993, Canova co-starred in the ABC sitcom Home
Free.
Since the mid-1990s, she has mainly done voice work for cartoons in video
shorts. In 1995, she played "Jenny" in a revival of Stephen Sondheim's .
Judy Canova (November 20, 1913 – August 5, 1983)
born Juliette
Canova, (some sources indicate Julietta Canova), was
an American comedian, actress, singer, andradio personality. She appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own self-titled
network radio program, a popular series broadcast from 1943 to
1955.
Radio and films
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| CAST OF THE JUDY CANOVA RADIO SHOW |
When
bandleader
Rudy Vallée offered the still-teenaged Canova a guest
spot on his radio show in 1931,
The
Fleischmann Hour, the door opened to a career that spanned more than
five decades. The popularity of the Canova family led to numerous performances
on radio in the 1930s, and they made their Broadway theater debut in the
revue
Calling All Stars. An
offer from
Warner Bros. led to several bit parts before she signed
with
Republic Pictures.
She recorded for the
RCA Victorlabel and appeared
in more than two dozen
Hollywood films, playing leading roles as well as
supporting parts, including
Scatterbrain (1940),
Joan of Ozark (1942), and
Lay That Rifle Down (1955).
In
1943, she began her own radio program,
The Judy Canova Show, that ran for
twelve years—first on
CBS and then on NBC. Playing herself as a
love-starved Ozark bumpkin dividing her time between home and Southern
California, Canova was accompanied by a cast that included voicemaster
Mel Blanc as Pedro (using the accented voice he later
gave the cartoon character
Speedy Gonzales) and
Sylvester (using the voice that later became associated with the
Looney Tunes
character); Ruth Perrott as Aunt Aggie;
Ruby Dandridge as Geranium;
Joseph Kearns as Benchley Botsford; and Sharon Douglas as
Brenda.
Gale Gordon,
Sheldon Leonard,
Gerald Mohr, and
Hans Conried also appeared sporadically
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