Posted on 06/01/2013 1:21:54 PM PDT by Monty22002
Jean Stapleton, who played Archie Bunker’s long-suffering wife Edith in the long-running 1970s television series “All in the Family,” died Friday at her New York City home. She was 90.
Stapleton died of natural causes, her family announced Saturday.
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I despised that series as a young man, it was pure, heavy handed propaganda and effective for the left as they introduced many such forms of reality reshaping media to change the image of the American man, the American home, the American family, the American mother and father, to the public.
I must have mixed up the actress with her character because I thought she died a long time ago.
RIP madam.
They played up Archie as the evil conservative bigot. Some how, a lot of his less inflammatory comments resonated with a lot of people. I bet the character’s popularity really pissed of the lefty writers.
He wasn’t played as evil at all. He was a hard working family man who the audience had to identify with at some level.
Terrific actress.
I liked that TV movie she made where she managed an inner-city kids baseball team.
RIP
Do you like it now?
Enjoyed her work. RIP.
Of course not, I used the phrase ‘young man’ to make it clear that I despised it from the beginning, propaganda and manipulation of the arts and of writing has always interested me, so for me, seeing what was being presented in All in the Family, was old hat.
It was based on a British series with the same premise. The character in the original series was much more severe. Norman Lear based Archie on his father. It was certainly great comedy.
RIP Jean Stapleton. I never knew she played so many big roles.
Edith!
Yuh dontz neid to getz meh uh baer no morz....
Rest in Peace..
Cool! Thanks.
I remember kids in my elementary school wearing this t-shirt, which was very popular at the time.
LOL, please don’t let every thread about movies and TV always involve you coming at me to defend the left and liberalism.
I don’t think there is any doubt about what Norman Lear’s goals were and what All in the Family was meant to do.
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