Florence Henderson

Full 10-part oral history interview with actress Florence Henderson. Ms. Henderson discusses her career as an actress, first on Broadway, and later in television. She talks about her appearances on The Tonight Show with Jack Paar, on which she became the first woman to guest host, and discusses her tenure as a "Today Girl" on NBC's Today Show . Ms. Henderson speaks extensively about The Brady Bunch . She also recalls her appearance was on Jim Henson's The Muppet Show . She also reminisces about each of the later Brady incarnations, and the place that the show holds in pop culture. She speaks about her long affiliation with Wesson Oil. She mentions her then-recent "cutting edge" work on the first Emmy Webcast and enthuses about her work on NBC's "Later Today". Conducted on October 20 & 29, 1999 by Michael Rosen.