Who destroyed her career?
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Shelley Long
fillypa — 15 years ago(November 30, 2010 08:06 AM)
Two men are responsible for this. They have destroyed many promising careers. Through incompetence or arrogance. Their names are Marty Mickelson and Sandy Littman.
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poem — 15 years ago(April 05, 2011 01:50 AM)
Aha.
How ?
And for the record, I simply think she didnt get the right parts to stay in business. Its a shame but oh well. Its not like today choices for good acting parts for women are that much better.
Always listen to your own advice. -
riverwalk — 14 years ago(March 05, 2012 06:44 PM)
cos when she was in cheers she was a leading lady in a global show that was high up in the ratings 238so she would always get offers in her time there,it even shows as her film career during the 82-87 era was resptable and she was budding.It was after she left cheers that it all went down for her.Danson has fared alot better than her career wise by staying on in the show.
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riverwalk — 14 years ago(March 06, 2012 10:59 AM)
but she still would have lasted longer career wise and have been earning the big bucks like danson for it by the end of the shows reign,by leaving she screwed everything up.Even if she's never worked again,her career would have been better if she'd stayed in a top rated show till the end as apart from the brady bunch everything after cheers was not what she was hoping for.ie. mediocre tv work,flop movies and tv movies.
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SimplemindedSociety — 14 years ago(March 06, 2012 12:35 PM)
I understand what you mean, but there is no pattern or correlation in show biz. It's not like she left after one season
She also would had been 5 years older if she stayed for the full run; there is a better chance of beginning a feature film career when you're younger(for a woman) -
riverwalk — 14 years ago(March 06, 2012 06:35 PM)
she was nearly 38 when she left,not 25,her best days already were behind her[career wise,yes sadly that is how it is for most women] thus she should have being delighted to have been top billing a huge globally succesful show whilst getting at least 2 films a year also.And she had already began her feature film career whenever she did her first film,all i can say is that it was a very silly move to make on her behalf career wise,she lost millions from it.It was also highly embarassing for her and she still remains the symbol for the bad career move in hollywood to this day and despite her declarations in 2007 that 'i never regretted it',i honestly would say she did very much when she seen the show continued well in the top spot after her demise shooting her costars like ted danson and kelsey grammar into the alist while her career went2000 into rapid decline and she turned into a b list cleleb and never really took off again.You can argue it all you want but the facts speak for themselves,career wise[maybe not personally] her departure from cheers was a big mistake.Any actor who is lucky enough[and believe me it's almost impossible to land a successful show never mind get acting work in a film] to land a lead in a big tv show should stay put as time and time again it has being shown that to jump shop leads to a drowning.
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SimplemindedSociety — 14 years ago(March 06, 2012 08:08 PM)
Well,then why not another sitcom, or Tv films?(her tv film list is short also)We keep talking about a film career.
David Caruso went back into TV. Isn't it possible that Long has a bad rep?
Maybe she isn't worried about the millions she lost, since her husband is rich, or she comes from wealth. We can't make assumptions for everything. -
dwarol — 13 years ago(August 26, 2012 02:00 AM)
It would be hard to say that Danson made more bucks than Long. He's been the lead in a couple of moderately successful TV series after "Cheers", but only a couple big movies (e.g., "3 Men and a Baby"). Ms. Long starred in several major movies, which while they didn't pan out, each probably brought in more than "Cheers" did per season. She's had pretty steady work after her movie star career fizzled.
If Danson's made a lot more money than Long, much of it has to do with the years on "Cheers" after Long left. Ironically, he was probably able to get more money because he became the sole lead actor. -
devonerd — 10 years ago(May 24, 2015 04:05 AM)
I realize this discussion is from 2012, but I suppose I'll put in my two cents.
Shelley Long did 4 films while on Cheers. None of which did well, or at least give her any confidence that she was a profitable movie star.
What she had was Cheers and she squandered it due to ego. She can use the excuse of wanting to spend more time with her daughter but if she was able to co-star on a hit TV show and make 4 movies in 5 years, then she would have had more free time had she stayed on the show but didn't do any movies or fewer of them.
