If an audience identifies you with a character, there are two options: You can either run from it or embrace it.

Florence Henderson, the intelligent woman that she is, chose the latter. While Henderson was an iconic performer, younger audiences will most likely best remember her as Carol Brady in The Brady Bunch. Although the show was only on the air for five years, it remained a fixture in the hearts and minds of viewers forever. Along with various reunion shows where the cast came back together briefly, you're more likely than not to catch a rerun of The Brady Bunch on television today. The series remains a mainstay in television, with younger viewers latching onto characters like Carol Brady just as they did all those years ago when the show first aired.

During an interview with the Associated Press, Henderson expressed gratitude for an opportunity like starring in The Brady Bunch.

"There's nothing like a television series, a successful one, to keep you before the public and make you a household name," said Henderson. "I think one thing that pleases me the most about The Brady Bunch is that it has given me a whole new audience of young people and they just keep coming."

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Of course, audiences weren't connecting with Henderson for nothing. She was a gifted and talented performer who was willing to put everything she had into the project she was working on. It was a level of commitment that audiences appreciated and kept her well-loved by the public.

"I just care too much," said Henderson. "I couldn't walk out and do the same thing, or say, 'Oh, they won't know the difference.' I know that difference and I feel that every audience, no matter how big or small, deserves the very best that we've got. I don't know another way to work."

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