15 Big Stars You Never Knew Set Sail On ‘The Love Boat’

13. Marie Osmond

Marie Osmond was on The Love Boat in 1982, after she had already become a successful country music artist as well as hosted the TV variety show Donny & Marie. She put her music career on hold to pursue an acting career in the early 1980s and interestingly turned down the role of Sandy in Grease because she didn’t believe in the moral content. We gather her romantic plot on the Pacific Princess was relatively tame. She returned to music in the mid 1980s and did a couple Broadway musicals in the mid 1990s before teaming up with brother Donny again in their own Vegas show.

14. Doris Roberts

Doris Roberts started acting in the 1950s and made an appearance on The Love Boat in 1983, playing a bickering wife. She had a recurring role as Mildred on Remington Steele, and is best known for her longstanding role on Everybody Loves Raymond, where she played Raymond’s overbearing mother and, yet again, a bickering wife to Frank. Over the course of her career, the actress received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award. She also had a pretty successful career on Broadway before she passed away in April 2016.

15. Kim Richards

These days Kim Richards is most known for her addiction troubles on the reality show The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but at one point she was doing the acting thing like everyone else. Kim actually started acting as a baby, and had a very successful career as a child actress (remember Escape from Witch Mountain?) As an adult, she’s had some acting appearances here and there, but has mostly been doing the reality TV thing since 2010.