Ketty Lester, Moses Gunn, and Blacula
Original Airdates: Feb. 25-27, 2022
TVC 570.3: Part 2 of a conversation that began last week with Ketty Lester, the Grammy Award-nominated singer/actress known around the world for her international No. 1 hit record from 1962, “Love Letters (Straight from Your Heart),” and for playing schoolteacher Hester Sue Terhune on Little House on the Prairie and Juanita, the wise-cracking cab driver, in the 1972 blaxploitation horror movie Blacula. In this segment, Ketty talks to Ed about how she came to join the cast of Little House, as well as some of her other film and TV roles. She also shares a few memories of working with Moses Gunn (both before and during Little House), Bernie Mac, David Janssen, and with William Marshall and director William Crain on Blacula.
Ketty’s memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com.
Ketty Lester and the Back Story of “Love Letters”
Original Airdates: Feb. 25-27, 2022
TVC 570.4: Ketty Lester talks to Ed about her love for acting, which began when she was a young girl in Arkansas; how she formally studied acting at Theatre West in Los Angeles (and befriended, among others, Carroll O’Connor); and how she successfully transitioned from nightclub singer to actress when the music industry changed in the late 1960s. Ketty’s memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online.
Ketty Lester on Performing a Song
Original Airdates: Feb. 25-27, 2022
TVC 570.5: Grammy Award-nominated singer/actress Ketty Lester talks to Ed about the many ways in which performing a song is another form of acting. Ketty’s memoir, Ketty Lester: A Memoir: From Arkansas to Grammy nominated Love Letters to Little House on the Prairie, is available at Amazon.com and wherever books are sold online. You can follow Ketty Lester on Facebook, Instagram and KettyLester.com.
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