About Karen Valentine
Karen Valentine (born May 25, 1947) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as young idealistic schoolteacher Alice Johnson in the ABC comedy drama series Room 222 from 1969 to 1974, for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1970, and received a Golden Globe Award nomination in 1971. She later starred in her own short-lived sitcom Karen (1975), and played leading roles in the Disney films Hot Lead and Cold Feet (1978) and The North Avenue Irregulars (1979). == Early life == Valentine was born in Sebastopol, California, on May 25, 1947. She is of Portuguese heritage, and her grandfather changed the family name to Valentin before her birth. She attended Birmingham High School and Analy High School, graduating with the class of 1965. Valentine was crowned 1964 Miss Sonoma County. == Career == Valentine performed "Blame It on the Bossa Nova" on The Ed Sullivan Show on November 10, 1963. This lip-sync performance to Eydie Gormé's hit song was a reprise of her talent performance from the Miss Teenage America pageant. In 1966–1967, she started her television career as "The Resident Dream Girl" on Chuck Barris's The Dream Girl of 1967, replacing Beverly Adams from the first weekday broadcast opposite hosts Dick Stewart and Wink Martindale, and during that time, she appeared on another Chuck Barris show, The Dating Game.
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