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Subject: Samantha Smith (1972-1985)
Written By: andersenb11775 on 06/16/15 at 5:04 am
Samantha Smith, the girl who went to Russia as a guest of Yuri Andropov.
this year it's 30 years since she and her father were killed in a plane crash.
Anyone here remember her?
Subject: Re: Samantha Smith (1972-1985)
Written By: snozberries on 06/16/15 at 9:52 am
True story...
Samantha Smith's death was headline news. I lived in Salinas California at the time and one of my best friend''s in High School was also named Samantha Smith. Our biology teacher, who apparently read the headline but not the article, came into class in tears...real tears... and then when she saw Samantha walk in the room she ran up and hugged screaming about how she thought she had died! ;D
Subject: Re: Samantha Smith (1972-1985)
Written By: Class of 84 on 06/16/15 at 8:05 pm
Samantha Smith, the girl who went to Russia as a guest of Yuri Andropov.
this year it's 30 years since she and her father were killed in a plane crash.
Anyone here remember her?
I do remember that sad event. Wasn't she either gonna be,or already was, in a sit com?
Subject: Re: Samantha Smith (1972-1985)
Written By: andersenb11775 on 06/17/15 at 12:18 am
It was a drama called Lime Street. Samantha played "Elizabeth Culver", the teenage daughter of Robert Wagner's character. Maia Brewton ("Adventures in Babysitting") played the younger daughter "Margaret Ann Culver".
Subject: Re: Samantha Smith (1972-1985)
Written By: nally on 06/29/15 at 10:37 pm
Today would have been her 43rd birthday. :\'(
Subject: Re: Samantha Smith (1972-1985)
Written By: andersenb11775 on 06/30/15 at 8:09 am
Lime Street might have had a chance of a decent run if (A) Samantha had lived and (B) ABC had agreed to move it to a timeslot that didn't compete with The Golden Girls.
Subject: Re: Samantha Smith (1972-1985)
Written By: andersenb11775 on 07/01/15 at 5:12 am
There's a really wonderful moment in one of the Lime Street episodes where Samantha's character Elizabeth has prettied herself up for a dinner-dance which doubles as her first date and the viewer can really see that the adorable little girl who wrote to Andropov is now a young woman. The prettiness of the dress is decreased slightly by the shoulder pads or puffed shoulders, but it was the mid-eighties.