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Well, with good SCIENCE and medicine she could afford, she got another 8 or 10 years on the planet. She always seemed like a very nice lady. I thought the MTM show was hoot and she was the perfect foil to Moore.
May she rest in peace.
PS "Lou Grant" was the old news guy of the group for all 10 years on both shows. Asner is still kicking. I saw him in a bit part recently (I guess he still wants to keep his union card up). Go ED.
US actress Valerie Harper dead at 80
Published
4 hours ago on
August 31, 2019
By
Agence France-Presse
Valerie Harper, one of US television’s biggest stars in the 1970s for “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spin-off “Rhoda,” died Friday after a long battle with lung and brain cancer. She was 80.
Harper won four Emmys and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Rhoda Morgenstern, Moore’s brash, wisecracking and neurotic neighbor, eventually earning her own sitcom.
A 1974 episode of “Rhoda” in which her character got married was watched by more than 50 million Americans, which The New York Times described as a cultural phenomenon in which “we got together as a nation, in anticipation and retrospection, to watch a marriage.”
Harper’s husband Tony Cacciotti wrote in a message posted on Twitter by their adopted daughter Cristina: “My beautiful caring wife of nearly 40 years has passed away at 10:06 am, after years of fighting cancer.”
“She will never, ever be forgotten. Rest In Peace, mia Valeria.”
Born in New York state, Harper began her career as a ballet dancer at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall.
She acted on Broadway before moving to television and feature films including “Chapter Two,” “Freebie and the Bean” and “The Last Married Couple in America.”
Harper starred on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” from 1970-74, and “Rhoda” for another four years. Moore died in 2017.
Reacting to Harper’s death, her “Mary Tyler Moore” co-star Ed Asner tweeted: “A beautiful woman, a wonderful actress, a great friend and with balls bigger than mine."
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/us-actress-valerie-harper-dead-at-80/
May she rest in peace.
PS "Lou Grant" was the old news guy of the group for all 10 years on both shows. Asner is still kicking. I saw him in a bit part recently (I guess he still wants to keep his union card up). Go ED.
US actress Valerie Harper dead at 80
Published
4 hours ago on
August 31, 2019
By
Agence France-Presse
Harper won four Emmys and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Rhoda Morgenstern, Moore’s brash, wisecracking and neurotic neighbor, eventually earning her own sitcom.
Harper’s husband Tony Cacciotti wrote in a message posted on Twitter by their adopted daughter Cristina: “My beautiful caring wife of nearly 40 years has passed away at 10:06 am, after years of fighting cancer.”
Born in New York state, Harper began her career as a ballet dancer at Manhattan’s Radio City Music Hall.
Harper starred on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” from 1970-74, and “Rhoda” for another four years. Moore died in 2017.
Reacting to Harper’s death, her “Mary Tyler Moore” co-star Ed Asner tweeted: “A beautiful woman, a wonderful actress, a great friend and with balls bigger than mine."
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/us-actress-valerie-harper-dead-at-80/