In the 1960s, Kathy Garver became a familiar face on television as Cissy Davis, the wise and stylish teen sister of twins Buffy and Jody (Anissa Jones, Johnny Whitaker) on the classic CBSsitcomFamily Affair. The popular series aired from 1966 to 1971 and made Garver a sitcom star.
Six decades later, she’s recognized for something else—and it's completely unexpected.
In a new interview, Garver, now 80, revealed that when she’s out in public, fans recognize her from TV commercials for ClearCaptions, a telephone captioning service for people who suffer from hearing loss.
Speaking with Entertainment Weekly, Garver shared of the TV ads, “I get more recognition than from Family Affair. I’m in the grocery store and I get these double takes of people coming up and saying, ‘You do that phone commercial! I recognized you right away!’ [and] ‘I had a bet with my wife of who that was, but we figured it out!’”
Garver has been doing ClearCaptions commercials for several years. In January, she told KGET the ads are in constant rotation on TV.
"I have this commercial that I did called Clear Captions, and this commercial has been showing the last three years,” the actress said earlier this year. “It shows like five times a day on four different channels. And so, I'm known now more for that commercial.”
In some of the ads, Garver appears with a husband, played by Patrick Finery, as they use the captioning device while on a call with their “grandson.”
A post to Garver’s website newsletter also pays homage to her newfound status as a commercial queen. “One of Kathy’s sleeper hits of the past several years is her appearance on the popular series of ClearCaptions telephone commercials,” one post reads, noting that Garver also reunited with her TV husband, Finerty, at a movie premiere.
Garver also posted to Facebook to ask fans, “Have you seen my ClearCaptions commercial? We filmed a new one yesterday with my same faux husband Patrick. And our grandson now graduating!”
Sixty years after Family Affair, Garver remains grateful for her long and winding career, which has included everything from a role in The Ten Commandments film to voice work in an animated Spider-Man series to music, books and more.
During a recent appearance on Jeff Dwoskin’s Classic Conversations, Garver said, “I'm very proud of the classic things that I've done that have resonated… and that people still like Ten Commandments and Night of the Hunter and Family Affair, and it's the 45th anniversary of Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends.”
“When I was younger, [people would say]. ‘What do you want to do in life?’ ‘I want to be a working actress.’ ‘Okay, well, that's go on, go do that,’” she recalled. I should have said, ‘I think I want to be a star.’ If I had made that more clear to the powers that be, I probably would have had a more straight direction. But when I looked back, it just suits my personality to be Sagittarian, that I like to do a lot of things. So I love being on the stage, and doing My Fair Lady, and I love winning an award.”
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