Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Get Christie Love

Did you Know - Singer/Actress Theresa Graves started her career as a singer with The Doodletown Pipers. She later turned to acting appearing regularly on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967) in 1969 and 1970. She had supporting roles in several films during the 1970s, including Black Eye (1974), That Man Bolt (1973), and Old Drac (1974), with David Niven. On Get Christie Love! (1974), which ran during the 1974-1975 season, she played the first black woman hired by a big-city department. She left acting shortly afterward. She died tragically in a house fire in 2002, she was 54.
*Did you know that Whitney Houston was going to do a remake of 'Get Christie Love' after she filmed 'Waiting To Exhale'? Their resemblance was uncanny*

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