[1] Canova made her television acting debut in a 1974 episode of Happy Days portraying a considerably taller date of Richie; in reality both she and Ron Howard are the same height at 5'9".

The show was filmed in Williamsburg, Virginia, featured John Wayne, and had musical numbers interwoven with storytelling.

In 1980, ABC executives offered Canova her own television series starring alongside Danny Thomas in I'm a Big Girl Now.

From 2015 to 2023, Canova was an adjunct professor of voice at Manhattanville College in Purchase, New York,[2][3] and teaches private lessons.

Under her leadership, Joel Barlow High School's theater program has won several awards from the Connecticut Drama Association and has set the record for winning first place two years in a row in multiple categories.

She also criticized the Church's counseling practice, called auditing, when she said, "They're telling you, 'Don't spend $100 an hour on a shrink's couch, it'll ruin your mind.'