Cindy Williams latest TV project, Sami, got a premiere date on Prime Video. The 10-part comedy/musical short series premieres April 23 on the Amazon streaming service.
The series ended just two months before Williams died at the age of 75 after a brief illness.
Created by Williams’ longtime friend, Grammy-nominated music producer Bruce Kimmel, Kerry O’Malley (Why kill women, Snowpiercer) and newcomer Sami Staitman.
Sami follows the adventures of Sami Sherman (Staitman), a young girl trying to make it as an aspiring Broadway actress/singer in New York. O’Malley plays her mother and Williams plays her grandmother. Watch a clip from Williams above.
Kimmel said Williams was looking forward to moving forward with the project before her untimely death. On the day of her death, he wrote a memoir.
“I’ve known her since we started LACC in 1965, loved her since I saw her and had so many incredible adventures with her,” Kimmel wrote. “We were as close as possible from then until now. And I watched them all the time while we were editing the web series that we just shot and finished two months ago. I am so grateful that she has been such an important part of my life for almost sixty years. I will miss her dearly, but I’m just so glad we worked together for the last time and can’t wait for the show to air – it was funny, charming and brilliant until the end. I have never known anyone like her.”
Williams is best known for his leading role Happy Days turnoff, Laverne and Shirley. She has also appeared in Oscar-nominated films American graffiti And the conversation, and in Broadway The sleepy companion and Off Broadway The divorced couple. Before her death, she toured the country with her one-woman show. Me, me and Shirley.
Sami is produced by Kimmels Kritzerland Entertainment and Purple Porcupine Media.
Source: Deadline
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