- "All my best years are behind me"
- ―Marcia, looking at her trophies
- "Marcia Marcia Marcia"
- ―Jan about Marcia
- "I'm a woman!"
- ―Marcia to her brothers and sister
Marcia Denise Brady-Logan (née Martin) is a character in The Brady Bunch. She was played by Maureen McCormick.
Biography[]
She's the eldest of the three Brady girls and like her brother Greg, Marcia Denise Brady is a bit of an overachiever. She is very popular with everyone at her school. Marcia is confident, beautiful, and noble. She is very interested in politics and has a high concern about herself and her appearance.
After Bobby watches a television adaptation of Cinderella, older stepsisters Marcia and Jan tease him about being too short.[1] After Peter had recorded her conversation, as well as Greg's and Bobby's, Greg and Marcia team up to tease Peter, pretending to make him a fake surprise party.[2] To teach Cindy a lesson in reading her diary without permission, Marcia teases her by creating fake entries, with some help from Jan, about a Hollywood agent planning to discover Cindy and make her into the next Shirley Temple.[3] Despite that, Marcia and Cindy remained close, and Marcia joins Greg in teasing Peter and Bobby with a fake UFO, since the younger brothers had told on both of them.[4]
Marcia is a popular girl. She's into school politics but sacrifices her role in student government to her older brother. She risks her own well-being to nominate her new dad for "Father of the Year," and attempts to please her classmates by getting the Monkees' Davy Jones to perform at the junior prom.
Although she has a few bouts with ego problems, like getting a swelled head over a part in the school play or wanting to be accepted so badly she forgets to "be herself", Marcia is a model teenager. She's a cheerleader, Frontier Scout, and Senior Banquet Night co-hostess. She's also a great singer, as she proves on Family Frolics Night. She knows when to make a sacrifice, whether that means giving up her privacy so Greg can have the attic room or going on a date with an unpopular boy like Charley instead of Doug Simpson.
One of Marcia's most famous moments is when she gets hit in the nose with a football, "Oh my nose!" Her nose didn't look good, and it was right before the dance! Seeing her nose, Doug, one of the most popular boys in the school, dumped her with, "Something suddenly came up," but Charlie, her original date to the dance, was happy to be going with Marcia, broken nose or not. Luckily, Marcia's nose healed before the dance, Doug asked her again to go with her, but she turned him down.
Despite Marcia's reputation, she has her share of problems, such as unrequited crushes, having braces, and getting a swollen nose from being hit in the face with a football by Peter. She has a fragile ego, although when she gets one, it goes amok, as in "Juliet is the Sun", when she becomes so hard to get along with, she is dismissed from her star role as Juliet).
Marcia graduates from college, becomes a fashion designer, and marries Wally Logan. She becomes a stay-at-home mother raising her two children, daughter Jessica and son Michael "Mickey".[5] Still unemployed, her ego begins to take such a beating she briefly turns to alcohol for solace.[6] Marcia and her husband, Wally, a toy salesman who is frequently out of work due to being laid off or fired, joins their sisters-in-law, Nora and Tracy, to open a catering business.
Trivia[]
- "What Goes Up..." is the only episode in the entire series where Marcia does not make any appearance.
Casting History[]
- Maureen McCormick in The Brady Bunch, The Brady Brides, The Brady Bunch Hour and A Very Brady Christmas
- Leah Ayres in The Bradys
- Christine Taylor in The Brady Bunch Movie and A Very Brady Sequel
- Autumn Reeser in The Brady Bunch in the White House
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