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Sally Struthers Was Brutally Fired Before Joining All In The Family
By VALERIE ETTENHOFER
Before she was one of America's most famous sitcom daughters on “All In The Family,” actor Sally Struthers made her primetime debut dancing on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."
Struthers spoke to Closer Weekly about the fortuitous circumstances that eventually led to her casting by Norman Lear. As with many breaks, it came after a rejection that stung.
"I had just come off 'The Tim Conway Comedy Hour.' After the fifth show, the executives said, 'Get rid of that dancer girl. She makes the show look cheap!'" Struthers recalled.
"I went to read for this man nobody knew, Norman Lear," Struthers explained. "He said it was the role of the daughter, and he gave me a yelling scene."
According to Struthers, she hit it off with the show's creator by another happy accident "I had laryngitis that day, so my voice was raspy, but I guess it made him remember me."