Growing Up Brady (film)

Growing Up Brady is a 2000 made-for-television film based on the 1992 autobiography Growing Up Brady: I Was A Teenage Greg written by actor Barry Williams with Chris Kreski. It was originally broadcast May 21, 2000 on NBC and was released on DVD in 2004.

The movie is a slightly fictionalized tale about the production of the 1969-1974 ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch, on which Williams played teenager Greg Brady, with backstage dramas among the cast and the show's producer.

Cast

• Adam Brody as Barry Williams
• Kaley Cuoco as Maureen McCormick
• Daniel Hugh Kelly as Robert Reed
• Rebeccah Bush as Florence Henderson
• Michael Tucker as Sherwood Schwartz
• Michael Fetters as Lloyd J. Schwartz
• Ricky Ullman as Christopher Knight
• Kaitlin Cullum as Eve Plumb
• Scott Lookinland as Mike Lookinland
• Carly Schroeder as Susan Olsen
• Suanne Spoke as Ann B. Davis
• Barbara Mallory as Frances Whitfield
• Paul Greenberg as Davy Jones
• Marianne McAndrew as Doris Williams
• Sherwood Schwartz as Himself
• Barry Williams as Narrator
• Mark Kassen as Eddie Fontaine
• Mike Lookinland (uncredited) as Shorr (seen in the scene on the set of "Room at the Top")

Scenes not like the book

In his book, Williams writes that he first kissed McCormick in Hawaii, rather than in a limousine bringing them home from a Who concert in Los Angeles. The flirting between McCormick and Williams whilst filming for "A Room At The Top" (episode 94) happened a few months before the Hawaii episodes and was boosted for the TV movie. Although in the movie Eve Plumb's character is unfazed when a security guard stumbles upon her and Christopher Knight making out in a prop car on the Paramount Pictures backlot, Knight has said Plumb was "mortified" and started to cry. Also a scene where Williams' agent tells him that The Brady Bunch had been canceled is changed somewhat. Instead of drinking a bottle of Bourbon, he is drinking a bottle of Scotch.

External links

• Growing Up Brady at the Internet Movie Database