Episode 80 – A Hart-Felt Chat With Actress Stefanie Powers About Her Legendary Career – Part 2

During the second half of Tony’s fantastic conversation with legendary film and television star Stefanie Powers they discuss how MGM Television bought her contract from Columbia and cast her on the spy series "The Girl from U.N.C.L.E." – which was the first hour-long drama to star a female lead – her memories of her good friend Ava Gardner, her memorable appearance on the “Six Million Dollar Man” in the fan favorite episode “The Secret of Bigfoot”, how the part of Jennifer Hart on the television series “Hart to Hart” came to her life, what her first scene with Robert Wagner was like in the pilot episode, her thoughts on her co-star Lionel Stander who played “Max” on the show, why “Hart To Hart” was abruptly cancelled after its fifth season on ABC, what it was like coming back to film eight “Hart to Hart” TV movies in the 1990s, her work on films like “Mistral’s Daughter”, “Hollywood Wives” and most recently in “The Artists Wife” as well as her ongoing devotion to animal preservation and protection as the founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation.

STEFANIE POWERS

Stefanie Powers began her career at age 15, dancing for famed Broadway choreographer, Jerome Robbins. She was put under contract to Columbia Pictures in the final years of the Hollywood star system. While under contract, she appeared in 15 of the 31 motion pictures she has made, co-starring with screen legends such as; John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Cliff Robertson, Elliot Gould, Roger Moore, Donald Sutherland, Bing Crosby, Glenn Ford, Lee Remick, James Caan and Sammy Davis. She recently co-starred with Richard Chamberlin in the critically acclaimed independent film, Three Days Of Hamlet.

Her first television series, “The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.,” marked a milestone in US television's history as the first hour long series featuring a female in the leading role. Her television career includes over 25 mini-series, over 200 episodic guest starring appearances, 35 movies for television and two more television series, “Feather and Father” & the long running “Hart to Hart,” starring opposite Robert Wagner.

She became a member of the Screen Writers' Guild of America in the 1980s & has produced several of the screenplays she has written, one of which, “Family Secrets,” was not only a stepping stone for the careers of James Spader and Gary Sinise but it garnered her a nomination for the best screenplay of the year by her peers in the Writers' Guild. Her writing has extended itself to a memoir called, One From The Hart, published by The Robson Press.

As much a part of her life as her career, is her devotion to animal preservation and protection, which at times becomes more of a vocation than an avocation. She is founder and president of the William Holden Wildlife Foundation, established in 1982 to continue & to further her long-time partner’s conservation work in East Africa after his death.

She was appointed conservation consultant to Jaguar & Land Rover after creating the Jaguar Conservation Trust which she has operated in Central America. She has been on the advisory board of four zoos in the United States and is a fellow of the Los Angeles Zoo, the Explorers' Club, and the Royal Geographic Society. She is active in the movement to preserve and protect the remaining herds of the North American wild horses and has received numerous international awards for her grass roots work in conservation which she considers a life-long commitment. She resides part of the year in Kenya.

Stefanie Powers Official Website - http://www.stefaniepowersonline.com/index.html

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