American actress and singer

Marcia Ann Str*man (April 28, 1948:– October 24, 2014) was an American actress and singer. She played Nurse Margie Cutler on M*A*S*H, Julie Kotter on Welcome Back, Kotter, and Diane Szalinski in the film Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989).

Contents

• 1 Life and career
• 2 Death
• 3 Filmography
  • 3.1 Movies
  • 3.2 Television
• 4 Discography
• 5 Bibliography
  • 5.1 Biography
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Life and career

Str*man was born in New York City and raised in P*aic, New Jersey. Among her earliest acting credits was an appearance in an episode of The Patty Duke Show. In 1963, at age 15, she succeeded Liza Minnelli in the role of Ethel Hofflinger in the Off-Broadway musical Best Foot Forward.

In 1967, she became a recording artist for Uni Records. Her debut single, "The Flower Children", was a top-40 hit in many West Coast U.S. markets, hitting #4 in San Diego and #2 in San Francisco; the track also hit #3 in Vancouver, British Columbia (both at CKLG 730 AM and CFUN 1410 AM in July 1967). However, the single failed to break out nationally in either country; the record stalled at #105 in the United States, and just sneaked into RPM's Top 100 for Canada, peaking at #95. The song also reached #95 on Cashbox Top 100 Singles chart

Her follow-up release, "The Groovy World of Jack and Jill", charted in Denver, Colorado, but virtually nowhere else. A third single, "Star Gazer" (1968) (produced by Kim Fowley), failed to chart anywhere and brought Str*man's brief recording career to a close. Returning to acting after a gap of a few years, she landed the recurring role of Nurse Margie Cutler in six early episodes of M*A*S*H.

She landed the role of Julie Kotter, the wife of *le character high school teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) on the ABC comedy series Welcome Back, Kotter in 1975. The series lasted four years. Str*man was told that Kaplan wanted her off the series, and stated in an interview that working on the series made her "miserable". Kaplan read the interview and realized series producer James Komack was separately telling the two actors they didn't like each other, and Kaplan informed Str*man that he actually wanted more balance between Kotter's work and home environments, which would afford her the chance to do more on the series. Kaplan, a guest host on The Tonight Show that week, had Str*man on to tell the story as an interview guest; she recalled the incident decades later on a Biography Channel special about the history of Kotter.

In the 1970s, Str*man did guest spots on Time Express, The Rockford Files, and The Love Boat, among other shows. In 1980, she starred as Lenina Crowne in a television production of Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. She co-starred in the short-lived sitcom Good Time Harry that year. She guest-starred on the Magnum, P.I. episode "Heal Thyself", where she played Dr. Karen Harmon, a former nurse with whom the *le character served in Vietnam. In 1982, she played Maria Giannin in the romantic comedy Soup for One.

In 1989–90, she had a co-starring role on the 21 Jump Street spin-off, Booker, starring Richard Grieco in the *le role. She guest starred on Murder, She Wrote in 1996. Str*man had movie roles as Rick Moranis's wife in Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (1989) and Honey, I Blew Up the Kid (1992). In 1994, she reprised her role from those movies in the 3-D film spin-off Honey, I Shrunk the Audience! She later went on to play Nancy Sterngood on the television series Tremors (2003).

Death

In March 2007, Str*man was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer that had spread to her bones. Her memoir, in which she discussed her life, career and illness, was published in 2008. Str*man died of the disease at her home in Sherman Oaks, California, on October 24, 2014. She was 66 years old. She had a daughter, Elizabeth Collector (from her 1984 to 1989 marriage to Robert Collector).

Filmography

Movies

Television

Discography

• "The Flower Children" / "Out of the Picture" (1967)
• "The Groovy World of Jack & Jill" / "The Flower Shop" (1967)
• "Self-*ysis" / "Star Gazer" (1968)

Bibliography

Biography

• Str*man, Marcia & Penny Marshall (Foreword) (2008). Life with a Side Order of Cancer. Richmond, VA: Palari Publishing.

References

External links

• Marcia Str*man discography at Discogs
• Marcia Str*man at IMDb
• Marcia Str*man at the TCM Movie Database
• Marcia Str*man at AllMovie
• Marcia Str*man at Find a Grave
• Marcia Str*man(Aveleyman)