She had appeared at the prison several times before, dating from the time she was 11, but last November she was no longer everybody’s sweet little kid sister singing cute little songs. It was probably this new look that helped unravel an audience of inmates at Lehigh County Prison when Lara entertained them over the Thanksgiving holidays last year.
#LARA JILL MILLER PLUS#
To say the series was not admired by television critics would be understating the reception given it by the print medium.īut over the seasons, with the help of a seasoned new director, Hal Cooper, plus growing teen and pre-teen interest in the three young actresses featured as the Kanisky daughters (Lara as Samantha being the tomboy) and a return to the Saturday night “youth” programming slot contrived by NBC, the series has exhibited staying power. When “Gimme a Break” took to the airwaves in October 1981, there seemed scant chance that the hastily thrown-together Nell Carter starrer could become an enduring success, despite the buoyant Carter’s personal popularity. Allentown’s Lara Jill Miller turned 18 on April 20 and will graduate from Allen High School with her senior class on June 12.īut instead of heading for New York University, where she has been accepted for the fall semester, the actress has decided to report back to NBC Burbank for the fifth season of her Saturday night comedy series “Gimme a Break.” The little girl with the big NBC contract has grown into a young lady right there on our television screens.
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