Starring in over 200 TV Shows, 10 films, thousands of stage performances and over a decade of directing and writing
Join us this Mother’s Day for one day only!
Misty Rowe is celebrating a landmark 50+ year career of music and laughter. She was a Hee Haw Honey for 19 years and the first actress to portray Marilyn Monroe in a film and a favorite Carhop on Happy Days.
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What do Minnie Pearl and Marilyn Monroe have in common?
They’ve both been portrayed by actress Misty Rowe.
Once the curtain went up on Misty’s career, the show has never stopped.
She was discovered by the famous voice actor and lecturer Noel Blanc, they remain close friends to this day. Together they are collaborating on her latest project, a children’s program, Misty’s Magical Mountaintop.
Misty is enjoying a diverse career that has spanned over 50 years with more than two hundred T.V. shows, thousands of stage performances, five series, ten films, and over a decade of directing and writing. She is a truly an accomplished and multitalented artist.
Some of her great memories include the year she spent on Happy Days as Wendy, the car hop, where Ron Howard made his directing debut as well as auditioning for Mel Brooks and winning the role of Maid Marion, on the series, When Things Were Rotten, where she would play opposite Sid Caesar one week and Dudley Moore the next.
Another of her favorite memories was starring opposite Joe Namath in L’il Abner on a Nationwide tour. The shorts she wore as Daisy Mae in that production, she also wore on a poster that would sell over one million copies.
The hit of the Cannes Film Festival for three different years, and on the cover of numerous European magazines, she would meet Robin Leach, who guest starred twelve years later on Hee Haw, and sent her to Quebec to stay in a castle on Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous. Oh yes, by the way, she was a regular on Hee Haw for nineteen years
Her last year on Hee Haw, tragedy struck, and Misty lost a child, followed by the death of her beloved drama coach, Stella Adler. A move to the East Coast to be with her husband and new baby girl, Dreama, ended in divorce.
Shortly thereafter, her strong foundation in comedy and talent, landed her the part of Louise in the National hit, Always…Patsy Cline, which she performed in Branson, Missouri, Albany, New York, Morgantown, West Virginia, and La Mirada, California, her home state and Bridgeport Downtown Cabaret, breaking all box offices records in their twenty year history.
As a result of her comedic work in Always…Patsy Cline, she has written a stand-up comedy act which she has performed at numerous clubs in New York City, including the world famous Caroline’s, Don’t Tell Mama and Stand-Up New York. She also made her Off-Broadway debut at the Tribeca Playhouse in the acclaimed (by the New York Times) play, Imagining Brad, co-starring in a gut-wrenching role wowing critics and fans alike. And if that’s not enough, she has put together her own one woman show, “A Misty Christmas…Finally, A Fruitcake You’ll Like“, which premiered at the Claridge Casino Hotel in Atlantic City.
Misty Rowe’s Resume
Television
Hee Haw
Regular – 19 years
Gaylord Productions
Hee Haw Honeys
Regular
Yongstreet Productions
Joe’s World
Guest Star
NBC
Misty’s Magic Mootown
Star, Author
Children’s TV Pilot
Happy Days
Wendy the Car Hop
ABC
Mel Brooks’ When Things Were Rotten
Maid Marion
ABC
MacGyver
Co-Star
Henry Winkler-John Rich Productions
Airwolf
Guest Star
Don Belasario Productions
Silver Spoons
Guest Star
NBC
Fantasy Island
Guest Star – 4 episodes
ABC
Love Boat
Guest Star – 2 episodes
ABC
S.S.T. Death Flight
Co-Star with Billy Crystal
Movie Of The Week
Matt Houston
Guest Star with Sid Caesar
ABC
Last Precinct
Guest Star
Stephen J. Cannell Productions
Pretty Boy Floyd
Guest Star
Movie Of The Week
Misty’s Magical Mountaintop
Star, Author, Director
DVD
Kojak
Guest Star
CBS
Love American Style
Guest Star
ABC
FILM
Goodbye Norma Jean
Lead
Filmways
The Man with Bogart’s Face
Lead
20th Century Fox
National Lampoon’s Class Reunion
Co-star
20th Century Fox
A Pleasure Doing Business
Lead
20th Century Fox
Double Exposure
Co-Star
Grey Hill Productions
Meatballs II
Co-Star with John Laroquette
Tri-Star Productions
The Hitchhikers
Lead
Sebastion Films
My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys
Cameo
E.K. Gaylord & Martin Poll Productions
Stage
Always . . . Patsy Cline
Co-Star, Director
- American Music Theater, Lancaster, PA – 2019
- Tobin Center, San Antonio, Texas – 2018
- Historic Savannah Theater, Georgia – 2018
- Sun City, Palm Desert, CA ~ 2008
- Surflight Theatre, NJ ~ 2005
- Franklin Southampton Concert Association ~ 2005
- Tropicana Showroom-Largest Proscenium Theater in Atlantic City ~ 2003
- The Majestic Theater at Dallas Performing Arts Center ~ 2001
- Blowing Rock Theater NC ~ 2001
- Hampton Summer Theater, NH ~ 2001
- Fullerton Civic Light Opera, CA ~ 2000
- Fullerton Civic Light Opera, CA ~ 2000
- DOWNTOWN CABARET THEATER, Bridgeport, CT, ~ 1999 – 3 month run breaking Box Office Record for 20 years!
- CAPITOL REP, ALBANY, NY. ~ 1997
- West Virginia Performing Arts Center ~ 1998
- YELLOW RIBBON THEATER, Branson, MO ~ 1996 – 3 month run
Imagining Brad
Lead
Tribecca Playhouse off Broadway
Groucho: A Life In Review
Lead with Gabe Kaplan
Sid Caesar Dinner Theater, NY
Lil’ Abner
Co-Star with Joe Namath
National Tour & St. Louis Muny
Pump Boys & Dinettes
Rhetta
Melody Top Theater
Damn Yankees
Lola
Granny’s Dinner Theater, Dallas TX
Lovers and Other Strangers
Lead
Hayloft Dinner Theater, TX
Glass Menagerie
Amanda
Fairmont Sate College,West Virginia
Chicago
Roxie Hart
Musical Showcase, NYC
A Misty Christmas
Lead, Author, Director
Claridge Casino Hotel, Atlantic City
Just Another Blonde
Star & Playwright
The Callboard Theater,
Beverly Hills, CA
Hee Haw Honey Reunion
Author, Director
- Palm Desert, California
- Big Bear Lake Performing Art Center, California
- Magnolia Hall, SC
Donny Most and the Mostly Swing Orchestra
Special Guest
Sunrise Theater,
Southern Pines, NC
Commercials
Florigold Grapefruit
10 year run
Lincoln Mercury Bobcat
National
Rose Milk
National
Aurora Toys
National
Yellow Pages
National
Training
Stella Adler
20 years acting, script analysis
Great American Playwrights
Estelle Harmon
4 Years The Actors’ Workshop
Dance
Tap, Ballet, Jazz