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Joan Prather is a Actor American born on 17 october 1950
Joan Prather (born October 17, 1950) is an American actress, best known for her role in Eight Is Enough.
Prather was born in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Highland Park High School. Her film credits include The Single Girls (1974), Big Bad Mama (1974), The Devil's Rain (1975), Smile (1975), Rabbit Test (1978) and Take This Job and Shove It (1981), and she appeared in TV series such as Executive Suite, Eight Is Enough, CHiPs, Fantasy Island, and the 1980 edition of Battle of the Network Stars.
While on the set of The Devil's Rain, Prather told an "extremely unhappy" John Travolta that Scientology had helped her, inspiring him to get involved with the religion upon his later return to Los Angeles.
She was married to James J Fiducia for 5 years in the late 1970s.
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Joan Prather (born October 17, 1950) is an American actress, best known for her role in Eight Is Enough.
Prather was born in Dallas, Texas, and graduated from Highland Park High School. Her film credits include The Single Girls (1974), Big Bad Mama (1974), The Devil's Rain (1975), Smile (1975), Rabbit Test (1978) and Take This Job and Shove It (1981), and she appeared in TV series such as Executive Suite, Eight Is Enough, CHiPs, Fantasy Island, and the 1980 edition of Battle of the Network Stars.
While on the set of The Devil's Rain, Prather told an "extremely unhappy" John Travolta that Scientology had helped her, inspiring him to get involved with the religion upon his later return to Los Angeles.
She was married to James J Fiducia for 5 years in the late 1970s.
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Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
, 1h40Directed by Gus Trikonis
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Robert Hays, Art Carney, Barbara Hershey, David Keith, Tim Thomerson, Martin Mull
Roles Madelyn
Rating49%
A corporate conglomerate called "The Ellison Group" acquired four breweries, all of them experiencing financial trouble. Enter Frank Macklin (Robert Hays), a young manager hired by Ellison to help reorganize one of the ailing breweries. The only thing, though, was that brewery was a major employer in his home town. Originally, his old friends, who were working at the brewery, gave him a cold welcome, as they thought he would be unable to revitalize the brewery. But when Frank informed them that the brewery was drowning in red ink, and that they may be losing their jobs soon, they welcomed him with open arms, and ramped up the brewery's sales and production. The brewery has improved so much, that The Ellison Group decided to sell it to a Texas oil millionaire, who doesn't know the first thing about running a brewery—or apparently—running a business.
Rabbit Test (1978)
, 1h24Directed by Joan Rivers
Genres Comedy
Actors Billy Crystal, Roddy McDowall, Joan Prather, Alex Rocco, Doris Roberts, Michael Keaton
Roles Segoynia Savaka
Rating31%
Lionel Carpenter is a night-school teacher who has bad luck with women. He remains a virgin until his brash cousin Danny (Alex Rocco) sets him up with a one-night stand. Soon after, Lionel starts feeling nauseated and vomits, eventually doing so onto Segoynia Savaka (Joan Prather), one of his immigrant students. This turns out to be a blessing in disguise, as it gives him an excuse to ask her out on a date, and a romance develops.
, 2hDirected by Randal Kleiser
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Eve Plumb, Leigh McCloskey, Lynn Carlin, William Schallert, Anne Seymour, Joan Prather
Roles Susie
Rating65%
Smile (1975)
, 1h53Directed by Michael Ritchie
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Bruce Dern, Barbara Feldon, Joan Prather, Denise Nickerson, Michael Kidd, Geoffrey Lewis
Roles Robin
Rating70%
The plot revolves around the contestants and people involved with California's Young American Miss Pageant held in Santa Rosa, California. Barbara Feldon starred as Brenda DiCarlo (the pageant's Executive Director), with Nicholas Pryor as Andy DiCarlo (Brenda's alcoholic husband), Bruce Dern as Big Bob Freelander (the head judge), Eric Shea as Little Bob, Big Bob's opportunistic son, Geoffrey Lewis as Wilson Shears (pageant producer), and as the contestants, Joan Prather as Robin Gibson, Annette O'Toole as Doria Hudson, Melanie Griffith as Karen Love, and a small role played by Michael Ritchie's sister, Elsie Ritchie. Choreographer Michael Kidd starred as Tommy French, the pageant's stage director. The movie was filmed on location in and around Santa Rosa, with the pageant held at Veteran's Memorial Auditorium.
The Devil's Rain (1975)
, 1h26Directed by Robert Fuest
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Themes Films about religion, Demons in film, Ghost films
Actors William Shatner, Ernest Borgnine, Tom Skerritt, John Travolta, Eddie Albert, Joan Prather
Roles Julie Preston
Rating51%
A curse affects the Preston family, caused by their betrayal of the Satanic priest Jonathan Corbis (Ernest Borgnine). Corbis has harassed the Preston family for generations to obtain a Satanic book of great power. Corbis captures patriarch Steve Preston, who is allowed to escape to warn his wife and younger son about Corbis's wrath. He tells them to give the book to Corbis, but during a rainstorm he melts into a waxy substance.
Big Bad Mama (1974)
, 1h23Directed by Steve Carver
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Crime
Actors Angie Dickinson, William Shatner, Tom Skerritt, Noble Willingham, Sally Kirkland, Royal Dano
Roles Jane Kingston
Rating57%
In Texas in 1932, after stopping her youngest daughter's wedding, Wilma McClatchie (Dickinson) takes over her late lover's bootlegging business, but gets caught while doing the delivery route with her two daughters. After handing over all her money and ring to the sheriff, they are let go and she begins her crime spree.
The Single Girls (1974)
, 1h23Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Horror
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors Claudia Jennings, Greg Mullavey, Joan Prather, Victor Izay, Albert Popwell, Robyn Hilton
Roles Lola
Rating43%
A group of men and women travel to a Caribbean resort to discover themselves sexually but unfortunately one of them has also discovered that they like to murder people too.
The Thing with Two Heads (1972)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Horror comedy, Horror, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Comedy horror films
Actors Ray Milland, Rick Baker, Don Marshall, Roger Perry, Chelsea Brown, Kathrine Baumann
Roles Nurse (uncredited)
Rating45%
Maxwell Kirshner (Ray Milland) is a dying, wealthy racist who demands that his head be transplanted onto a healthy body. As his health rapidly deteriorates, there remains only one alternative: graft Kirshner's head onto the body of a black death row inmate named Jack Moss (Rosey Grier).