PAMELA SUE MARTIN Why I Left HOLLYWOOD

The Dynasty and Nancy Drew alum shares what she's learned about finding happiness

—William Keck

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW At 19, Pamela Sue Martin joined an all-star cast fighting to stay alive in an overturned ship in the popular disaster film The Poseidon Adventure. A few years later, she starred as young sleuth Nancy Drew on The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries. By the 1980s, the actress found herself portraying spoiled rich girl Fallon Carrington Colby on the ratings sensation Dynasty. “It started out with a sort of satirical quality — a cut above intellectually,” Pamela, 70, recalls to Closer. “Then writers were replaced by more traditional soap writers.” Unhappy with the change in tone, she quit show in 1984 and walked away from Hollywood a few years later. “Some of the decisions I made seemed wrong to other people at the time, but I’d had my fill and…

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Closer Weekly (Digital) - 1 Issue, November 13, 2023

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