Marlena Laird Movies
- 1981
Vicki Lawrence makes her third series appearance as Alvinia Plout, the overbearing WAC sergeant who made life a Living Heck for Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) during the girls' brief Army hitch. Having gone AWOL, Sgt. Plout takes refuge in the girls' Burbank apartment. When it becomes obvious that Alvinia is an even bigger pain in the posterior as a "civilian" than she'd been in uniform, L&S try to cook up a scheme to get rid of the woman without getting in trouble with the authorities themselves. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
- 1979
Based on Babs H. Deal's novel The Walls Came Tumbling Down, Friendships, Secrets and Lies is about...just what the title says it's about. An old college building is bulldozed, revealing the skeleton of a newborn baby stuffed in the air shaft. Forensic tests prove that the infant died twenty years earlier, at which time the building had served as a girl's sorority house. Seven students were living in the house at the time of the death, and all currently live in the same city; at least six of these ladies had opportunity, and possibly motive, for the baby's murder. With the notable exception of the director of photography, virtually the entire cast and crew of Friendships, Secrets and Lies was female. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
