{"id":3644,"date":"2015-09-20T16:15:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-20T16:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sixtiescinema.com\/?p=3644"},"modified":"2015-09-20T16:15:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-20T16:15:37","slug":"judy-carne-more-than-just-the-sock-it-to-me-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomlisanti.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/20\/judy-carne-more-than-just-the-sock-it-to-me-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"JUDY CARNE: MORE THAN JUST THE SOCK-IT-TO-ME GIRL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To most television fans actress Judy Carne is only remembered as the original Sock It To Me girl on Rowan and Martin\u2019s Laugh-In<\/em>.\u00a0 But the bouncy auburn-haired British lass (born Joyce Audrey Botterill on April 27, 1939 in Northampton, England) had a prolific career on television before she literally made a splash on that groovy hit variety series.\u00a0 The daughter of a London fruit merchant, she danced with the Bush-Davies ballet and made her stage debut in the 1956 revue For Amusement Only<\/em> in the West End.\u00a0 Before Carne headed for the U.S. she was a panelist on Juke Box Jury<\/em> and a regular on the sitcom The Rag Trade<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Judy Carne was first introduced to American audiences as Heather Finch, a British exchange student who comes to stay with an American family in the first hour long comedy series Fair Exchange<\/em> in 1962.\u00a0 She next played the rich Barbara Wyntoon daughter of the snobbish Cecil Wyntoon (John Dehner) and in love with the poor Jim Bailey (Les Brown Jr.) on the long forgotten sitcom The Baileys of Balboa<\/em> during the 1964-65 season.\u00a0 And on the big screen she had a small role as one of the three \u201cnameless broads\u201d (the others being Janine Gray and Kathy Kersh) who are found in bed with James Coburn in the comedy The Americanization of Emily<\/em> (1964).<\/p>\n

With the advent of the Beatles in 1964, all things British were in during the mid-sixties so Carne with her cute looks and mod dress was perfect for the spy genre making two memorable appearances on The Man from U.N.C.L.E.<\/em> in 1965 and 1967.<\/p>\n

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In between, Judy Carne landed her third TV series called Love on a Rooftop<\/em> during the 1966-67 TV season.\u00a0 She played newlywed Julie Hammond Willis, the pampered daughter of a rich used car dealer, who is married to struggling architect David (Peter Duel) and living in a tiny windowless apartment, which sits on the roof of a building with a wonderful view of the San Francisco Bay area.\u00a0\u00a0 Though warm and original, critical kudos could not save it from\u00a0cancellation after only 1 season. I remember\u00a0this show and Carne in it quite fondly. It made me want to live in an apartment with incredible city views. Something I still have not achieved to this day. The sitcom was rerun at night during the summer of 1971, which was a few years after my first memories of watching prime time TV. Land of the Giants, Here Come the Brides, Here’s Lucy, Mayberry R.F.D., Petticoat Junction, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Mothers-in-Law<\/em>, and the western Lancer\u00a0<\/em>still standout for me.<\/p>\n