Posted on 03/01/2013 11:02:42 AM PST by bgill
Actress Bonnie Franklin, known to TV fans as divorced mom Ann Romano on the '70s sitcom "One Day at a Time," has died at age 69. Her family says her death was due to complications from pancreatic cancer, which Franklin revealed she was battling back in September.
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Deborah Walley died in Sedona, AZ in 2001 at age 59. RIP.
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.
Most FReeepers would abhor her politics.
But today is not the day for that.
RIP and Shalom.
At the risk of sounding very mean and judgmental I assume,unless I see compelling proof to the contrary,that a person in showbiz is a worthless,filthy piece of excrement.As a result when I hear of the demise of a showbiz type I don't shed a single tear.Sometimes I think back fondly to one or more pieces of their work but I find it easy to separate a good piece of film/music from the reprobate who created/performed it.
Now there’s a healthy respect for the Arts!
I have the same attitude
Name me some recent (40-50 years) "artists" who've led anything resembling a decent respectable private life.Booze...drugs...affairs...divorces...Marxist politics/causes....etc,etc.
Most artists from the past wouldn’t pass that test either.
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.
Every plot was about the same...men bad...women good...men/society needs to pay more attention to the superior women. I mean I was 15 and picked up on the anti-manness of the show...and that VB was hot!
Baily Quarters! Always liked the Mary Ann over the Ginger.
Same here.
FMCDH(BITS)
+1...throw in the Harry/Linda Bloodworth-Thomason's.
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.
I think that at any given point in time those in showbiz were less likely to be what I call "respectable" (that word being used very broadly) than the typical American.So back in 1950 while 2% of "typical" Americans were doing cocaine 8% of those in showbiz were.If 10% of "typical" Americans had been fooling around 40% of showbiz types were.Today,I'd wager that 20% of "typical" Americans are smoking dope and that 80% (or more) of showbiz types are.
What???!!! What did they have that Mrs. Howell/Lovey didn't have?
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.”
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