In 1986, she starred in the failed CBS comedy series Leo & Liz in Beverly Hills with Harvey Korman.[5]. West was one of the first female “private eyes” to ever appear on television. (In “The Fun-Fun Killer”, which originally aired on March 4, 1966, the African series Daktari is showing on Honey's TV, and Honey asks, “Oh Bruce, why do we always have to watch your show?”). Like Peel's Lotus Elan sports car, Honey's similar-looking AC Cobra convertible emphasized her independence and vitality. [8] Her mother was Scottish (of Irish descent), from Helensburgh in Dunbartonshire.[9]. Owing to her father's career, Perrine lived in many locations as the family moved to different posts. Bruce’s mother, Sally Marr (real name Sadie Schneider, born Sadie Kitchenb… Lenny Bruce was born Leonard Alfred Schneider in Mineola, New York, grew up in nearby Bellmore, and attended Wellington C. Mepham High School. The Honey West character was created by Gloria and Forrest E. “Skip” Fickling under the pseudonym “G.G. Army. [7] Kenneth Perrine was the grandson of Robert Allen Perrine, a descendant of Staten Island Huguenot Daniel Perrin, and Mary Staats, the latter of Dutch ancestry. And she lives in the West, so there was her name.”[2]. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. Later in 1973, she appeared in the episode "When the Girls Came Out to Play" of the romantic anthology television series Love Story (1973). Learn how and when to remove this template message, BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films, "Winners & Nominees : Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama (1975)", National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress, New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Valerie_Perrine&oldid=981417018, BAFTA Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles winners, Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress winners, BLP articles lacking sources from February 2013, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Female Cop Pulling Over Lamborghini Babes (uncredited), Episode: "When the Girls Came Out to Play", Episodes: "Motherhood", "And Baby Makes Two", Episodes: "Key Witness", "Internal Affairs", "The Brothers McMillan", Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles, This page was last edited on 2 October 2020, at 05:26. His parents divorced when he was young, and Lenny lived with various relatives over the next decade. In 1975, Perrine was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress[1] and the Golden Globe[2] for Best Motion Picture Actress (Drama) and won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival[3] for her role as comedian Lenny Bruce's wife, stripper Honey Bruce, in Bob Fosse's Lenny (1974).[4]. She played soft-core pornography actress Montana Wildhack in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five (1972). Skip had been a United States Army Air Forces air gunner during World War II, then enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve after the war, when he was called back into active service during the Korean War. A native of Manila, Arkansas, she was born Harriet Jolliff, later changing her name to Honey Harlow. For sneaking around at night and engaging in energetic fight scenes, she wears a black fabric bodystocking reminiscent of Emma Peel's leather jumpsuit. She then became the first actress to appear nude on American television by exposing her breasts during the May 4, 1973, PBS broadcast of Bruce Jay Friedman's Steambath on Hollywood Television Theater. She uses a number of James Bond-like gimmicks: a high-tech surveillance van, an exploding compact, a garter-belt gas mask, and tear-gas earrings. 30 half-hour episodes were produced. Blackman turned the role down. This came down to two factors: competition from Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., and the network reportedly decided it would be cheaper to import The Avengers and run it in the same time-slot than to keep producing Honey West. This film has since become a cult classic.