Eve Plumb Reveals What It Was Like Working with Lucille Ball During “Here's Lucy” Guest Star
Eve Plumb Reveals What It Was Like Working with Lucille Ball During “Here's Lucy” Guest Star
Virginia ChamleeWed, June 3, 2026 at 6:32 PM UTC
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Eve Plumb (left), Lucille Ball
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Eve Plumb is opening up about what it was like working with Lucille Ball
Plumb guest-starred alongside Ball on a 1972 episode of Here's Lucy in which she played a devoted teenage fan of Donny Osmond
Plumb is best known for playing Jan Brady from The Brady Bunch
Eve Plumb is sharing what it was like to work with Lucille Ball — if only briefly.
While best known as Jan Brady from The Brady Bunch, Plumb guest-starred alongside Ball on a 1972 episode of Here's Lucy in which she played a devoted teenage fan of then-14-year-old singing sensation Donny Osmond.
Speaking to Houston Public Media, Plumb, 68, recalled Ball being "very focused."
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Donny Osmond
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Plumb said of working with Ball on the show: "It was a fairly short amount of time. I think it was one scene — and again, television is very fast, and she was very focused on what we were doing and her performance, and it seemed very broad to me, and because I don't think I was really aware of her as an actress or a comedian."
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"So, all of that business sort of confused me, but you know, here we go. Let's do it. Yeah. You just go along," Plumb said of being so young at the time and working in Hollywood.
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Plumb began her acting career at the age of 6. She worked in commercials and also had small roles on shows like Lassie, Dick Tracy, It Takes a Thief and Gunsmoke. She was 11 years old in 1969 when she was cast in The Brady Bunch, the hit family sitcom that ran from 1969 to 1974.
Plumb has recently been promoting her new book, Happiness Included: Jan Brady and Beyond, and recently revealed she once went on a "sweet date" with her on-screen brother, played by Christopher Knight.
Knight himself told PEOPLE of his and Plumb's relationship as child actors: “Eve was more mature than me very early [and] always had, from the earliest I can remember, her claim on me, but I wasn't there. You know, I wasn't ready to be claimed. I wasn't even aware for part of that time that it just wasn't there, right to the very end.”
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