‘Brady Bunch’ Star Susan Olsen Pays Tribute to Danielle Spencer of ‘What’s Happening??’: ‘She Endured a Lot of Pain’

It’s a heartfelt message coming from one classic TV child star to another: Susan Olsen, who played Cindy Brady, the youngest of the six children on The Brady Bunch, paid tribute to Danielle Spencer on Aug. 12, a day after Spencer, who portrayed Dee Thomas on What’s Happening!!, died at age 60.

“Danielle will be very missed,” wrote Olsen, 63, in a message she posted on Facebook. “She was brilliant in so many ways. Having her, Fred [Berry], Ernest [Thomas] and Haywood [Nelson] do our Variety hour was one of the best times!”