The misadventures of four women and their handyman running a design firm in Atlanta, Georgia. I couldn't help over hearing part of your conversation. Julia : Yes, and I gather from your comments there are a couple of other things you don't know, Marjorie. For example, you probably didn't know that Suzanne was the only contestant in Georgia pageant history to sweep every category except congeniality, and that is not something the women in my family aspire to anyway.
Or that when she walked down the runway in her swimsuit, five contestants quit on the spot. Or that when she emerged from the isolation booth to answer the question, "What would you do to prevent war?
She didn't twirl just a baton, that baton was on fire. And when she threw that baton into the air, it flew higher, further, faster than any baton has ever flown before, hitting a transformer and showering the darkened arena with sparks! And when it finally did come down, Marjorie, my sister caught that baton, and 12, people jumped to their feet for sixteen and one-half minutes of uninterrupted thunderous ovation, as flames illuminated her tear-stained face! And that, Marjorie - just so you will know - and your children will someday know - is the night the lights went out in Georgia!
Sign In. Episode guide. Play trailer Creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. Top credits Creator Linda Bloodworth-Thomason. See more at IMDbPro. Episodes Browse episodes. Top Top-rated. Clip Designing Women: The Final Season. She quickly became a key comedic fixture of the series, and stayed for the final two seasons. After Designing Women , Hooks continued to log major comedic appearances in shows like 3rd Rock from the Sun , Primetime Glick , and The Simpsons , though her career slowed in the 21st century.
Her final roles were guest-starring spots on 30 Rock and The Cleveland Show. She died of cancer on October 9, , at the age of After launching her TV career in the s with a recurring role on the soap The Doctors and working in the theater, Julia Duffy became a sitcom icon when she joined the cast of Newhart in as Stephanie Vanderkellen.
She remained on the show for seven seasons and earned seven consecutive Primetime Emmy nominations and a Golden Globe award for the role, forever cementing her place in sitcom history. After a season of the series Baby Talk , Duffy joined Designing Women alongside Jan Hooks in season 6 as Allison Sugarbaker, Julia and Suzanne's conservative cousin who becomes a partner in the firm after Suzanne's departure.
Duffy remained on the series for just one season before departing and launching another sitcom, The Mommies. Judith Ivey began establishing herself as a formidable acting force on both stage and screen in the early s, winning Tony Awards for performances in Hurlyburly and Steaming and appearing in TV series including Search for Tomorrow and Long Hot Summer and films including Brighton Beach Memoirs.
After appearing on the TV series Down Home in , she joined the cast of Designing Women for its final season in , replacing Julia Duffy's character. Poteet, a millionaire who becomes Sugarbaker's new partner, she helped fill a similar comedic role to Delta Burke's Suzanne, though she was only on the series for one season until the series finale in Ivey has since continued to work regularly in film, television, and theater, where she's also established herself as an accomplished director.
The show is somewhat scattered in this way. Charlene Elaine Hendrix is on vacation, maybe. Cleo Carla Renata provides an impassioned refusal to attend a wedding at a plantation. And Haley often played by Kim Matula, but played by Debra Capps during my viewing of the show discusses her controlling husband, who might also be gay.
But I also wonder how this show will hold up 20 years from now. In the present, TheatreSquared has brought in a powerhouse cast featuring Broadway and television veterans to fill the rolls. Aesthetically, the big open room where the characters hang out was beautifully decorated, as required for a show that is ostensibly about interior designers. I was too young and perhaps too Northern to understand or invest in the original series, but this production is aimed directly at its many fans.
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