Louise Carroll: Facebook connects people from many orbits

By Louise Carroll  |  For The Ledger My son Michael is friends with a movie star that he had a crush on when he was a young lad. He says he doesn’t know how this happened. Sounds like a likely story, but he is friends with Pamelyn Ferdin.So, you don’t recognize the name? Neither did I but you would recognize the face. Pamelyn was in a dozen movies and dozens of TV shows in the 1960s and ’70s. I’ll mention a few and it will take you on a fast trip down TV memory lane: “Andy Griffith Show,” “My Three Sons,” “The Flying Nun,” “Star Trek,” “Brady Bunch,” “Night Gallery” and a whole bunch more.And because she has a distinctive voice, Pamelyn was the voice of Lucy Van Pelt in a couple of the “Peanuts” television specials and others.Pamelyn was considered for the role of Regan MacNeil, the demon-possessed girl in the 1973 William Friedkin film “The Exorcist,” but casting directors decided she was too well-known and cast the less familiar actress Linda Blair. That gives you some idea of how familiar her face was to the public.In the 1990s after leaving her job as a public relations director,  » Read More