RIP.
RIP Ms. Franklin. You and the others in "One day at a Time" were an inspiration to millions of single parent families
Honestly, I always thought that Ms. Phillips would be the first to go.
I did like Bonnie, but I watched that show for VALERIE BERTINELLI! WOW!
Valerie Bertinelli was more my age. :)
dates me too. i had a crush on deborah walley from BEACH BLANKET BINGO days
I liked Bonnie.
RIP
Hey I had one even though I was a pup at the time. She was a prototype of the yummy mummy and I think is partially responsible for my partiality to pixie cuts on women. I also remember CBS gave her and her family a one-off song-and-dance variety show - one of those odd 70s programming decisions.
Considering what went on in the real lives of Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli, a sitcom about a divorced mother with two daughters in tow seems almost quaint now.
She seemed a decent sort. RIP.
These Norman Lear shows really kicked off the downward slide we are in by changing what people thought of as normal.
dates me too. i had a crush on deborah walley from BEACH BLANKET BINGO days
Don’t wanna put further rain on the funeral, but when I see her name, it reminds me that she played Margaret Sanger in a TV movie, who I’m sure was presented uncritically as a feminist icon, with no mention of her eugenics darkside.
Still, sad to see her die so young of an awful disease.
Pancreatic cancer is a bicth. My boss died this morning from pancreatic cancer. He was 64.
RIP
Hated that show. And Too Close for Comfort too! Looking at Valerie Bertinelli and not her braless mother was the only reason to watch.
I remember her well, often wonder what happened to her after the show ended.
I thought the show was disgusting, though....it was one of those “women don’t need men” shows that seemed to applaud a fatherless home.
She was in a US Army training film from the early 70s.
I saw that show as one of the more ugly tools of the left, knowing how it was front and center in millions of homes, with millions of youth mesmerized by it’s messages.
She was in a US Army training film from the early 70s.
This Wiki summary reminds me why I hated the show and refused to watch it, even as a kid:
“The show stars Broadway character and former child actress Bonnie Franklin as Ann Romano, a woman who, echoing sentiments common to the 1970s, felt that she had always been either someone’s daughter, wife, or mother and wanted to “find herself.” She divorces her husband (played occasionally by veteran actor Joseph Campanella) and moves from Logansport to Indianapolis with her two daughters, seventeen-year-old Julie (Mackenzie Phillips), the older, more rebellious one, and the more mature fifteen-year-old Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli). The theme of the series rests on Ann’s desire to prove that she can live and raise her children independently.”
One of the original TV MILFs.
Saw her recently playing a nun on “The Young And The Restless” and thought she didn’t look well. RIP.
She played Margaret Sanger in a made-for-TV film in the 80s. SAINT Margaret Sanger, that is.