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Tewes was cast for the role of cruise director Julie McCoy on The Love Boat, selected from more than 100 actresses who auditioned. [11] She starred in the third and final pilot of the show, cast the day before production began on the RMS Queen Mary in Long Beach. [ 12 ]
The Love Boat is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Wilford Lloyd Baumes that originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1977, to May 24, 1986. In addition, three TV movies aired before the regular series premiered and four specials and a TV movie aired after the series ended.
The Love Boat ran for 10 seasons, but cruise director Julie McCoy, played by Lauren Tewes, disembarked after season 7, being written off due to her public struggle with cocaine addiction.
As a highly visible member of staff on a cruise ship, many television actors have portrayed the role of a cruise director. Notable examples are Lauren Tewes as Julie McCoy in The Love Boat and Gale Storm as Susanna Pomeroy in The Gale Storm Show.
YouTube When talking to cruise directors, there's no escaping images of the infamous "Love Boat" - and all the inevitable jokes that follow. And, who could forget Julie McCoy, the perky, blond ...
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A reunion-themed episode reunited several cast members of the original The Love Boat [2] – Gavin MacLeod (Captain Stubing), Bernie Kopell (Dr. Adam "Doc" Bricker), Ted Lange (Isaac Washington), Jill Whelan (Vicki Stubing) and Lauren Tewes (Julie McCoy). This episode revealed that Julie and "Doc" had been in love all along. [3]
She appeared in the September 22, 1979, episode "Grass Is Always Greener" of The Love Boat as Julie McCoy's former classmate from the line's cruise director course. Hackett won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1981 ...