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Leigh French

 
Actor: Leigh French
  • Born: Jul 14, 1945 in Ashland, Kentucky
  • Occupation: Actor
  • Active: '70s-'80s, 2000s
  • Major Genres: Comedy, Drama
  • Career Highlights: Aloha, Bobby and Rose, Bee Movie, Shrek the Third
  • First Major Screen Credit: The All-American Boy (1973)

Biography

The peak popularity of American actress Leigh French came and went with the Psychedelic '60s. French rose to prominence in the "Share a Little Tea with Goldie" segment on the 1967-68 season of TV's The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. As Goldie, a laid-back hippie type, French delivered a weekly monologue laced with references to sex and drugs and drugs and drugs. While this routine got loud and knowing laughter in the '60s, it's a bit on the politically incorrect side nowadays, thus many of French's sequences were carefully pruned when the E! cable channel reran Smothers Brothers in 1993. Nonetheless, French, looking none the worse for the passing years, gracefully appeared on E! to recall her participation on the series. As for her post-Smothers Brothers performing career, Leigh French could be seen in funny-funky roles in such films as WUSA (1970), Norwood (1970), The Drowning Pool (1975) and Hollywood Knights (1980); she was also a TV regular on the 1975 edition of The Dick Cavett Show. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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Leigh French (born July 14, 1945) is an American actress.

In her early career as a regular on the Smothers Brothers variety show of the late-1960s, she would portray a somewhat spaced-out or ditzy hippie named Goldie. Her segment of the show was called "Share a Little Tea with Goldie." At the time, "sharing tea" was a popular euphemism for getting high on marijuana. Following suit, her segment consisted largely of "helpful" household advice loaded with sex and drug-related double-entendres.

She played a similar character, a San Francisco hippie type, in a 1968 episode of the I Spy series ("Tag, You're It"). She and Rob Reiner also played hippies in the 1969 "Flower Power" episode of Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. French can also be seen in such films as WUSA (1970), The Drowning Pool (1975) and The Hollywood Knights (1980).

She has worked steadily if quietly over the years, primarily behind the scenes and doing voiceover roles in animated features.

Her first name is pronounced "Lee".

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The All-American Boy (1973 Drama Film)
Tag, You're It: I Spy (TV Episode) (1968 Action TV Episode)
Homegrown (film)

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