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C'mon Make a "Partridge Family" Movie?
Saturday May 29, 1999
By Joal Ryan
http://au.eonline.com
Greg Brady got his due. So, now, it's Keith Partridge's turn?
Could be. A report in Daily Variety this week said Warner Bros. has commissioned a film script based on the shagadelic family sitcom, The Partridge Family.
Along with The Brady Bunch's Brady Kids, TV's Partridges were the leading exporters of tube-spawned bubble-gum pop in the early 1970s. But while Brady mania has spawned two features, a stage play, a library's worth of books and numerous TV spinoffs, The Partridge Family's legacy has been largely untapped. Curiously, it could be a man named Brady who comes to the rescue of Keith, et al.
Indie director Jordan Brady, late of the hit festival comedy, Dill Scallion, has been tapped to work with David Brendel on a Partridge screenplay, Variety said.
A Warners rep said she had no info on the reputed project. The trade paper said it was being prepared in conjunction with Witt-Thomas Films.
The Partridge Family originally ran on ABC from 1970-74. While The Brady Bunch beat it to the air by one season, it was the Partridges who did the music thing first--the music thing, after all, was the show's hook.
Loosely based on the real-life singing family, the Cowsills ("The Rain, the Park And Other Things"), The Partridge Family followed the adventures of a reel-life singing family, their cranky manager Reuben (Dave Madden) and their psychedelic bus.
The show made a major teen idol of David Cassidy, as lead singer/guitarist Keith, and spawned several bona-fide hit songs, including "I Think I Love You."
The other Partridges were: Susan Dey, on keyboards, as Laurie; Danny Bonaduce, on bass, as Danny; Suzanne Crough, on tambourine, as Tracy; Jeremy Gelbwaks (and, later, Chris Forster), on drums, as Chris; and Shirley Jones, on back-up vocals, as mother Shirley.
