Ann B Davis (). (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) In Davis told the Archive of American Television, "Well, in , I'd been doing nightclub work, which I was very unhappy in. But I was doing it because I had to eat," she said. "The act consisted, Davis added, of "a few songs, some jokes that a friend of mine wrote. That's what I was doing at the time." The actress said "The Brady Bunch.