Description

Join us to meet the woman behind Mary Beth Lacey! Sharon and Susan are excited and honored to talk with Emmy and Tony-award winning actress and the star of Cagney & Lacey, Tyne Daly.

In a career spanning eight decades, Tyne Daly has appeared on stage and screen in over 100 roles in everything from “The Mod Squad” and “Judging Amy” to co-starring with Clint Eastwood in the Dirty Harry film “The Enforcer”. She has received six Emmy awards – four for her outstanding portrayal of Mary Beth Lacey on “Cagney & Lacey.” In this intimate interview, Tyne Daly shares stories of her childhood, barely finishing high school, her early days acting in New York, her eventual move to Los Angeles with then husband actor/director Georg Stanford Brown -- and a lifetime of acting, politics and poetry.

THE CONVERSATION

• How Dustin Hoffman opened the door for “non-perfect” people on film and TV.
• Coming to California -- and being “done at 21”!
• How the internet is the death of conversation and the power of words.
• Doing her early pilots – and hoping they didn’t go!
• “I Did My Cop” - How Dirty Harry almost kept Tyne from doing “Cagney & Lacey”
• How Tyne went to the mat for Meg Foster (the 2nd Cagney) at the end of season one – and almost lost her job for it.
• What it was like to read with the (many) actresses auditioning to play the third Cagney – and how it felt to hear what the producers said about them when they left the room.
• Why Tyne hasn’t re-watched the show – and doesn’t want to.
• Tyne’s idea for a new holiday: Interdependence Day – a day celebrating everything we have in common.
• Tyne reads the poem “Life While You Wait” by Wisława Szymborska
• How after a life time of striving and struggling – as an actress and woman – Tyne sees that certain battles are never over…
• What's Tyne's one word to explain the 21st century? And what's yours?

So join Susan, Sharon – and Tyne -- as they talk Bette Davis, Angela Lansbury, Jimmy Stewart, “Colleagues with penises” and “Lining up with the pigs”!

AUDIOGRAPHY

Visit the Official Cagney & Lacey Facebook page.
& Official Tyne Daly Facebook page.

WHERE TO WATCH:
Cagney & Lacey on Roku
The Bread Factory, Part 1 and Part 2
Stream for free with library card or university log-in: Kanopy.com
- On Apple TV.
- On Amazon.

BOOKS & MORE

• Remembering Cagney & Lacey with Sharon Gless & Tyne Daly by Brian McFadden
• Poems New and Collected by Wisława Szymborska
• The New Handbook for a Post Roe America by Robin Marty
• Check out 80s TV Ladies Susan and Sharon on Rainbow Remix podcast

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