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For Video Edition, Please Click and Subscribe Here:  https://youtu.be/f3tlzFKrbVw Richard Skipper sits down and chats with Fredrick Tucker on his new book, Sweet Oddball - The Story of Alice Pearce. Now available for purchase on Amazon. They will discuss Bewitched and the road that led to her iconic as the first Mrs. Kravitz. Alice Pearce, once called "the adenoidal lass with the most beautiful, homely face on Broadway," carved a unique career playing wallflowers, nitwits, nags, and other oddball characters, all of whom contrasted sharply with their portrayer. As the shy daughter of an international banker, she experienced a privileged upbringing, attending exclusive schools in both Europe and the United States. Against her parents' wishes, she pursued acting, eventually enlivening thirteen Broadway productions and winning acclaim for her smash act at New York's chicest nightclub, the Blue Angel. Although Alice's Hollywood career was comparatively fleeting, the Emmy-winning actress was featured in fourteen films and in dozens of top television series. She achieved her greatest fame-ironically, at the very end of her brief life-for playing Gladys Kravitz, the snoopy neighbor on the TV sitcom Bewitched. Sweet Oddball, exhaustively researched and illustrated with 225 rare photos, chronicles the public and private lives of a lady much beloved by her fellow actors and fans. Fredrick Tucker is a native South Carolinian. Like many children of the 1960s, he grew up watching first runs and reruns of classic sitcoms from that decade and the previous one, including I LOVE LUCY, DECEMBER BRIDE, DENNIS THE MENACE, THE DANNY THOMAS SHOW, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, BEWITCHED, etc.  Order HERE: https://www.amazon.com/Sweet-Oddball-Story-Alice-Pearce/dp/1629337366