Think you know Maureen McCormick? Well, you don’t have a clue until you read her autobiography. For those who are not familiar with her, she is the actress who played Marcia Brady on the TV show “The Brady Bunch.” McCormick is nothing like the role she played. She tells how her grandmother contracted syphilis and passed it on to her own mother. She reveals that for so long she lived with the fear she would someday be told she had the disease and, like her mother and grandmother would go crazy before dying from it. She tells how she entered the drug culture world and how it affected her work. She also tells how she was able to kick the habit and live a more normal life. She also deals with her family and tells all about her relationship with her father and brothers. She is to be applauded for the unflinching tone of the book. McCormick in the beginning of the book is so mad that people only see her as Marcia Brady. By the end of her life journey she has come full circle and has a healthy respect for how people see her. This is an honest look at what happens when an actor is typecast as a character and it shows the effect it can have on the actor’s own life.
Here’s The Story
Maureen McCormick
William Morrow
10 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022
www.harpercollins.com
ISBN 978-0-06-149014-9
$25.95
