Connie Brighton, Miss September, 1982
September, 1982
Last Spring, television host Phil Donahue devoted one of his programs to showbiz kids. Among his guests were the singing-and-dancing pip-squeaks in the chorus of the delightful hit musical Annie, plus half a dozen child models and actors in TV commercials. If Donahue had done that show a dozen years ago, Connie Brighton probably would have been on it: ''My mother put me into a performing dance school when I was three, and by the time I was six, I was a trained, professional dancer. In my seventh...