Posted on 07/29/2023 4:08:43 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Actress Inga Swenson has passed away at the age of 90.
The screen star died on Saturday, July 22, 2023 of natural causes, according to TMZ.
Inga’s son Mark announced the news on Friday via the outlet.
Her husband Lowell Harris, whom she married in 1953, was by her side at a “board and care facility” when she died, her son said.
Inga became a household name playing the character Gretchen Kraus on the hit ABC sitcom Benson, which aired from 1979 until 1986. …
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She was GREAT!
Never watched Benson but Soap was great. Another favorite was Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.
Burt Campbell was great!
But the UFO sequence was lousy!!!!
At times I felt like Burt Campbell in my life.
So there’s so much dying from *suddenly* that they are telling us when someone dies from natural causes????
Never would have guessed she was that old. RIP.
The Benson from SOAP was completely different than the Benson for the show of the same name.
Wow, married for 70 years.
Rest in peace.
She was great on Benson.
Lol. Stop reaching. She was 90. Go google a 20 year old who died that you obsess about every minute.
At least you had Burt there to counter it. Can't imagine them doing this today.
Should have been nothing to counter in the first place.
I don’t think the show was PUSHING homosexual characters I think it was pushing the absurdity of the characters back in the day when this show was popular gay people were basically unheard of or deep in the closet!! I never saw the show as trying to make being gay NORMAL!!
You clearly missed the whole point.
Not sure if it was deliberate or not.
OMG it is so sad that we can no longer have comedy like this, that clip is hysterical!! How long has it been since we have laughed at a sitcom out loud like I just did at this clip!!
If they featured them, they were pushing them. It was indeed normalization. All the media portrayed the existence of the Jodie Dallas character as “groundbreaking”, thus admitting it was normalization.
Burt thought he was an alien, the major thought he was still at war, JEEZE you are taking everything so seriously IT WAS COMEDY for goodness sakes they were NOT PUSHING being gay the characters ALL represented the absurdity of the characters they played!!
I’m only repeating what I observe. And I never saw that Jodie Dallas was ever presented as a representation of absurdity.
And some things you thought you could take lightly in the past, you discover you should have taken seriously all along. Not to mention, God does not take stuff like this lightly.
Bob had a few good zingers too whenever he met Jodie. Always referred to him as the fruit
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