If you go
› What: Gallery showing of work by artist/actress Eve Plumb.› When: Reception 6-8 p.m. Thursday; exhibit through Nov. 4.› Gallery hours: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.› Where: Gallery 1401, 1401 Main St.› Admission: Free.› Phone: 423-265-0015.
As an actress, Eve Plumb will forever be associated with one of the most memorable and oft-repeated phrases in television history. Like it or not, she will always be known as Jan Brady, the cute preteen on “The Brady Bunch” who whined “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia” during the “Her Sister’s Shadow” episode that aired in 1971.
Hollywood is full of actors who have been so typecast by a role that finding work becomes almost impossible. In fact, most of the rest of the show’s cast did find it tough, but Plumb, now 57, continues to find acting jobs. Perhaps it helped that she broke somewhat free of her saccharin-sweet image after the series ended in 1974 by starring as a prostitute in “Dawn: Portrait of a Teenage Runaway” in 1976.
She’s also become of painter who has done gallery showings around the country for the last 15 years. She’ll be in Chattanooga on Thursday for an opening reception for a debut show of her work at Gallery 1401.
One might think launching a second career that garners such public attention and criticism would be the opposite of what someone in her position might do.