“Shirley Wilhelmina Feeney”Cynthia Jane Williams
22ND August 1947 ~ 25TH January 2023
(died aged 75)
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Laverne & Shirley theme song, ♫ Making Our Dreams Come True ♫ , sung by Cyndi Grecco (above), and featuring The Ron Hicklin Singers.
...We're gonna do it...
Give us any chance we'll take it,
read us any rule we'll break it,
we're gonna make our dreams come true,
doing it our way;
Nothings gonna turn us back now,
straight ahead and on the track now,
we're gonna make our dreams come true,
doing it our way;
There is nothing we won't try,
never heard the word impossible,
this time there's no stopping us,
we're gonna make it...
On your mark, get set, and go now,
got a dream and we just know now,
we're gonna make our dreams come true;
And we'll do it our way, yes our way,
make all our dreams come true,
and we'll do it our way, yes our way,
make all our dreams come true, for me and you...
for me and you...♫
...We're gonna make it...
Nothing's gonna to turn us back now,
straight ahead and on the track now,
we're gonna make our dreams come true,
doing it our way;
There is nothing we won't try,
never heard the word impossible,
this time there's no stopping us,
we're gonna make it...
On your mark, get set, and go now,
got a dream and we just know now,
we're gonna make our dreams come true;
And we'll do it our way, yes our way,
make all our dreams come true,
and we'll do it our way, yes our way,
make all our dreams come true,
for me and you.
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Although “Laverne & Shirley“ aired from 27TH January 1976 until 10TH May 1983 (season 8, episode 22), for me it ran from 27TH January 1976 until only 12TH October 1982 (season 8, episode 2), as that was the final episode with Cindy Williams (Shirley Feeney) in it.
Cindy Williams revealed the real reason she left the popular TV show, Laverne & Shirley, something that would (hopefully) never happen today, and should not have happened then! Her run on Laverne & Shirley came to a seemingly abrupt end in the fall of 1982, when she left the show two episodes into its eighth season. Many people think she walked out, but that’s not what happened. She had even started filming the 8TH season without a contract. The change was just as shocking behind the scenes, and for good reason: In March 1982, Cindy got pregnant with her first child, daughter Emily. She coordinated with the show to continue working through her pregnancy, thinking that she was going to come back and they’d hide her behind benches, couches, pillows, but that wasn't it. Instead, the show had her scheduled to work through her due date that fall, all of which was stipulated in her contract. When it came time for her to sign her contract for that season, she said that she couldn't sign it, and it went back and forth and back and forth, and it just never got worked out. |
She chose to walk away from the sitcom, instead of signing what today would be considered a discriminatory and unrealistic contract.
Soon after she left Laverne & Shirley, she noticed that more and more shows were building nurseries on sets and providing nannies for their stars. The way Laverne & Shirley dealt with Cindy’s departure on-air was jarring. In the second episode of Season 8, which aired on 12TH October 1982, things were seemingly normal with the wacky duo, as the pair spent a week in a store-display, before somehow being hypnotized to think they were chickens whenever they heard a bell. In the show’s next episode, however, Shirley was gone, having disappeared while Laverne and Carmine were out at a dance contest. The plot noted that Shirley had packed up all her things and left in the space of a couple of hours, under the guise of her new husband being transferred overseas, leaving only a note to say goodbye. It was an ignominious ending to Cindy’s long run on the show, but one that reflected the climate for working-mothers at the time. Laverne & Shirley wasn't renewed at the end of its eighth season, and the show quietly faded from ABC’s schedule after its season finale in May 1983. Meanwhile, Cindy continued to have a long and successful acting career, appearing in a variety of other TV shows and films. |
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