Great interview! My wife and I are big fans of the show and have probably watched our way through the series eight or ten times (while skipping the unfortunate Season 5). The mysteries were essentially cozy mysteries, only set in the big city. Sad that this style of romantic, humorous mystery is rather uncommon these days. We saw Stephanie onstage back in the aughts, doing a show at Minneapolis's Guthrie Theatre. A fond memory.
Admiro a esta gran actriz desde que la vi, en la serie REMINGTON STEELE. Tengo bastante producciones de televisión de los 80 y 90 en las que hizo buenos papeles. Te admiro mucho aunque me hubiera encantado verte actuar en el teatro, que es donde as desarrollado la mayor parte de tu larga carrera. Un abrazo de un admirador tuyo desde Madrid.
It was only touched upon as a fleeting remark regarding family history, Zimbalist as a name isn't that widespread in Hungary. Her grandfather left for America in 1911, shortly before the inevitable collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which became a massive point of divergence for any Americans who traces their heritage to the monarchy. One giant linchpin was the process of forced Magyarization, assimilation where cultural identity was forged into the majority by way of pressuring non-Hungarians into choosing between keeping their social status and/or land at the price of abandoning identity, or keeping it but losing the former. After the war, the cimbalom returned to the Romani community, and started to be associated with them. Gheorgheni is a city in Transylvania, which is said to be the origin of the name. That said as her grandfather was Jewish Russian who was born at a time when pogroms were still a thing I wouldn't be surprised he adopted the name as a vocation.
Steele was one of the best shows of the 80s and one of my top favorites to this day.
Ours, too!
Great interview! My wife and I are big fans of the show and have probably watched our way through the series eight or ten times (while skipping the unfortunate Season 5). The mysteries were essentially cozy mysteries, only set in the big city. Sad that this style of romantic, humorous mystery is rather uncommon these days. We saw Stephanie onstage back in the aughts, doing a show at Minneapolis's Guthrie Theatre. A fond memory.
So glad you enjoyed the show! Thank you for sharing!
Admiro a esta gran actriz desde que la vi, en la serie REMINGTON STEELE. Tengo bastante producciones de televisión de los 80 y 90 en las que hizo buenos papeles. Te admiro mucho aunque me hubiera encantado verte actuar en el teatro, que es donde as desarrollado la mayor parte de tu larga carrera. Un abrazo de un admirador tuyo desde Madrid.
¡Gracias por escuchar y compartir tus pensamientos! ¡Las 80s TV Ladies se alegran de tenerte como fan!
I love Remington Steele. It's too bad we never saw Zimbalist in any other big roles.
I loved this show. She was the best part about it.
It was only touched upon as a fleeting remark regarding family history, Zimbalist as a name isn't that widespread in Hungary. Her grandfather left for America in 1911, shortly before the inevitable collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, which became a massive point of divergence for any Americans who traces their heritage to the monarchy.
One giant linchpin was the process of forced Magyarization, assimilation where cultural identity was forged into the majority by way of pressuring non-Hungarians into choosing between keeping their social status and/or land at the price of abandoning identity, or keeping it but losing the former. After the war, the cimbalom returned to the Romani community, and started to be associated with them. Gheorgheni is a city in Transylvania, which is said to be the origin of the name.
That said as her grandfather was Jewish Russian who was born at a time when pogroms were still a thing I wouldn't be surprised he adopted the name as a vocation.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge!
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