Posted on 11/25/2016 9:39:32 AM PST by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Brady Bunch 'mom' Florence Henderson dies aged 82: Beloved actress who played Carol Brady passes away on Thanksgiving
The Brady Bunch's Florence Henderson has died from heart failure late on Thanksgiving Day, aged 82.
Henderson, who spent decades in the iconic role of Carol Brady, died surrounded by family and friends at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, her manager Kayla Pressman said. She was admitted to hospital on Wednesday.
TV's favorite sitcom mom, the actress was best known for The Brady Bunch which first aired in 1969 and continued in one form or another right up to the 1990s.
Maureen McCormick, who played the role of Marcia Brady on the show, has led tributes to the star.
She reacted to the death of her TV mom via Twitter, writing: 'Florence Henderson was a dear friend for so very many years and in my heart forever. Love and hugs to her family. I'll miss you dearly.'
Henderson had been in the audience of Dancing With the Stars just this past Monday to watch McCormick perform.
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We watch a lot of programs like Queen for a Day, Groucho Marx, What’s My Line, Jackie Gleason, Amos and Andy, etc. Didn’t even have a TV until the middle 1950’s and even then my mom would only allow us to watch Lawrence Welk on Saturday night.
We were too busy working, cooking, raising children, paying bills, going to church and going about daily life. Don’t remember anyone in our family or anyone we knew even talking about politics until the day President Kennedy was killed. Life was focused on an entirely different set of issues back then and everybody was busy doing more productive things.
“She was on Mark Simones show just last week - sounding fine. It must have been a sudden fatal heart attack”
She was at the Indy 500 this year in some official capacity, Grand Marshall, taking on the old Jim Nobors roll of singing “Back home in Indiana? Not sure. Anyway, she looked great.
Rest in peace...think about TV moms of the 60s and 70s compared to today’s TV moms... Mrs. Brady, Mrs. Cleaver or Mrs. Partridge are much more mothering... But both aren’t realistic of moms or dads...
Hysterical commercial.
Barbara Eden is 85
Brady Bunch Variety Hour - Season 1, Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhObKKvzijc
fake Jan !
The first time I saw it, the sound was down and I only caught the first couple seconds out of the corner of my eye. I was like WTF is THAT? All of those Snickers commercials are terrific.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UO2A2p-19A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtjr8LrTAJE
In interviews, Florence Henderson said that her character was the first divorced woman on television. They never came out and said it on the program, they let viewers assume she was a widow. But behind the scenes, they all knew Carol Brady was a divorcee.
‘Brady Bunch’ mom Florence Henderson admits ex-mayor John Lindsay gave her crabs in one-night-stand
BY Rich Schapiro
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Sunday, June 26, 2011, 4:00 AM
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Former New York mayor John Lindsay (r.) gave Florence Henderson (l.) crabs during a one-night-stand while the actress was married, she admits in her memoir.
Former New York mayor John Lindsay (r.) gave Florence Henderson (l.) crabs during a one-night-stand while the actress was married, she admits in her memoir.
Here’s the story of a lovely lady ... who had a one-night-stand with former New York mayor John Lindsay that left her with a bad case of crabs.
Florence Henderson, the golden haired actress who played Carol Brady in “The Brady Bunch,” reveals in her upcoming memoir that she had a skeevy encounter with the career pol in the 1960s.
Henderson, now 77, says she hopped in the sack with Lindsay after he put the moves on her over drinks at the Beverly Hills Hotel, Reuters reported Saturday.
“I was lonely. I knew it wasn’t the right thing to do,” writes Henderson, who was married at the time.
Henderson returned home after the romp. When she awoke the next morning, she spotted “little black things” crawling over her body.
Henderson immediately called a doctor who helped her get rid of the tiny parasitic insects also known as pubic lice.
Lindsay, ever the politician, sent Henderson flowers and an apology letter.
“Guess I learned the hard way that crabs do not discriminate but cross over all socioeconomic strata,” Henderson writes in “Life is Not a Stage,” set for publication in September.
“He must have had quite the active life. What a way to put the kibosh on a relationship.”
Lindsay, who died in 2000, was the mayor of New York from 1966 to 1973.
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