Posted on 06/01/2013 8:30:48 PM PDT by Morgana
Jean Stapleton, who was famous for her iconic role of Edith Bunker on All in the Family, passed away on Friday in her New York City home at the age of 90.
Family members have reportedly told the website the actress passed away of natural causes.
Scroll down for video 'It is with great love and heavy hearts that we say farewell to our collective Mother, with a capital M,' said her son and daughter, John Putch and Pamela Putch, in a statement. 'Her devotion to her craft and her family taught us all great life lessons.'
Stapleton won three Emmys for her role opposite Carroll O'Connor's Archie Bunker on the CBS sitcom.
Little known to the public before All In the Family, Stapleton co-starred with Carroll O'Connor in the top-rated CBS sitcom about an unrepentant bigot, the wife he churlishly but fondly called 'Dingbat,' their daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and liberal son-in-law Mike, aka Meathead (Rob Reiner).
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The show that started in earnest the undermining of American culture.
“”Stifle yourself Edith””
Sorry, but I couldn’t disagree more. It was the first realistic depiction of the American Family. I swear, sometimes my father IS Archie Bunker.
“The show that started in earnest the undermining of American culture.”
If not right on you’re pretty close. A lot of meatheads infested our institutions since then.
All in the Family episode “Too Good Edith” as aired on April 9, 1979
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcTVvK3_jB4
The show was designed to make conservatives look like a-holes.
My mother could have been Edith Bunker.
I remember Mom used to stay up late to see the weather report on TV. Most of the time she was asleep before the weather report came on. One time she actually made it through the weather report. The forcaster said to expect a lot of precipitation tomorrow morning. Sure enough it was pouring down rain in the morning. Mom looked out the window and said, “It sure is participating out there.”
Another time my aunt and uncle came to visit whit their “free spirit” daughter in tow. Sunday morning, Mom asked my cousin if she’d like to go to Church with all of us. We were Baptists. She politelitely refused. My aunt told my Mon on the way to Church her daughter was an agnostic. Mom asked, “Is that one of those Methodist groups?”
And it really doesn't bother me too much.
It was the beginning of the stupid white guy shows.
I agree. I saw through it right away. It was politically left, no question, and it helped to usher in much of the behavior that has helped to encourage the coarsening of the American culture that we see today.
I always thought it made Meathead look more like a jerk....always freeloading off of Archie.
No, not at all, I disagree hugely with that statement.
It was unlike most families-—it was a promotion of Marxist ideology-—where children “know” better than anyone over 30 when they are ignorant as sh*t and no nothing. Adults are stupid. Çhristians are bigots and haters. Mothers are slavic-—and just used by the “father” as a house boy.
It was the opposite of my family and my husband’s and all my friend’s families. The Fathers had respect for their wives and children and we never talked back to our parents. We had total respect for our fathers—who deserved it.
Didn’t they have the kids living with the parents?????????after getting married. NONE of my brothers and sisters EVER lived with my parents after they were married-—in fact, it was rare then——it became common, since TV forms perceptions (Normalizes anything it shows—especially to children who watch). It was important for children to think adults are dumb so they remain dumb and resistant to their advice—so the kids become immersed in drugs/sex/addictions so the State has slaves/dependents/useful idiots.
The deconstruction of the Natural Family began with All in the Family. Pitting group against group-—discrediting parents. Elevating utopianism/ignorance.
With the destruction of the Natural Family, children are warped and emotional cripples, easily addicted, followers, and made into useful idiots-—not being raised in the way God Designed for optimum mental and physical health which gives strength and character which leads to men like Lincoln and Patton.
Wasn’t she and Carroll O’Connor both hard-core socialists?
I agree with so many posts on here, but this thread should really be about Jean Stapleton. As an actress, I thought she was truly magnificent.
I don’t know, but being actors, you’re probably right. This show was actually the American version of a British show. Cherie Blair’s father played the Archie Bunker role. She is Tony Blair’s wife.
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