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'Happy Days' Star Erin Moran Dead At 56
TMZ ^ | 4/22/2017 | TMZ

Posted on 04/22/2017 6:38:34 PM PDT by Steven Scharf

Erin Moran who famously played Joanie Cunningham on "Happy Days" and its spinoff "Joanie Loves Chachi" has died ... TMZ has learned.

We're told authorities in Indiana got a call just after 4 PM ET Saturday from someone reporting an "unresponsive female."  EMT's arrived and found Erin Moran's body ... she was already dead.  

Moran shot to spotlight in the early 70s when she was cast on "Happy Days" as Joanie, the younger sister of Ron Howard's character. She continued the role in 1982 alongside Scott Baio in "Joanie Loves Chachi" but the show only lasted one season.

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To: utahagen

try this:

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41 posted on 04/22/2017 7:37:04 PM PDT by poinq
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To: JennysCool

sorry to hear....we watched that show faithfully back in the days...prayers for her and her family...


42 posted on 04/22/2017 7:38:32 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Steven Scharf
RE:”Erin had a tough time after her “Happy Days” stardom ... a combination of drinking and bizarre behavior that eventually landed her in a trailer park in Indiana. She had run out of money and was reportedly kicked out of the mobile home she shared with husband Steve Fleischmann.”

And I recall her attacking Scott Baio (who had some success) on Howard Stern's TV show because of frustration with her own life.

Not pretty, not even a good actress.
No planning.

Just another sad story.

43 posted on 04/22/2017 7:39:40 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Trump "I will put America First!")
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To: Southnsoul
I remember in one episode of Happy Days, Joanie has a crush on Potsie

The episode is from season 3 and is called They Call It Potsie Love.

44 posted on 04/22/2017 7:39:59 PM PDT by Repeal 16-17 (Let me know when the Shooting starts.)
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To: BeadCounter

I’m considering right now going and getting TWO aleve because my back is killing me.....so I don’t understand the heroin and meth stuff....


45 posted on 04/22/2017 7:40:43 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

she looks strikingly like Andrea Barbeau (from Maud)...


46 posted on 04/22/2017 7:42:12 PM PDT by cherry
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To: cherry

as someone said above....:)


47 posted on 04/22/2017 7:44:09 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Steven Scharf
I was afraid that she might end up like this.

Prayers for Erin.

Life can be brutal.

There is only one solution...(Yeshua).

48 posted on 04/22/2017 7:48:53 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: wally_bert
Anson Williams (Potsie), Erin Moran (Joanie), Don Most (Ralph) in 2006.
49 posted on 04/22/2017 7:49:08 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94))
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To: cherry

Adrienne.


50 posted on 04/22/2017 7:50:50 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: poinq
She was a fairly ugly child on happy days who started to become sneaky hot.

As a teen, I kind of had a crush on "Joanie" during the Happy Days era. The timing was right, I guess...

51 posted on 04/22/2017 7:53:22 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: Steven Scharf

Dayum! RIP.


52 posted on 04/22/2017 7:54:09 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (April 2006 Message from Dan: http://www.dansimmons.com/news/message/2006_04.htm)
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To: yarddog

Hold on. I’m Irish, and these hateful stereotypes get a little old. Nobody in my family even knows what liquor tastes like, not even wine. We don’t drink and we never will.

Erin Moran had her own problems, which had nothing to do with her heritage. There’s no need to drag an entire ethnicity of people through the mud while commenting on her poor choices.


53 posted on 04/22/2017 7:56:44 PM PDT by lbtbell
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To: lbtbell

I find it disappointing that Howard and Winkler, with their millions, couldn’t help her out any?

Where was the love liberals? Oh taxpayers are only on the hook for that.


54 posted on 04/22/2017 8:04:42 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (MAGA - DRAIN THE SWAMP ! - I love my online family of FReepers.)
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To: Steven Scharf

I can’t say I knew much about Erin the actress outside of the occasional tabloid stories, but I did like the character she played in Happy Days.


55 posted on 04/22/2017 8:04:49 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: yarddog; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; pax_et_bonum
Erin Moran, 56, was born in Burbank, California, and is of Irish descent. She was living in a trailer park in Indiana with her husband, Steve Fleischmann, who was around 8 years her junior. Her net worth at death is an estimated $100 thousand in the negative. Her husband had been working at the local WalMart to try to make ends meet.

She was haggard and looked aged beyond her years, and along with her history of drugs and alcoholism, she couldn't get work in show biz.

She had a very sad life after her acting gigs dried up, and it's really TOO sad to delve into.

May this troubled soul rest in peace. We will remember her always as the bouncy, bubbly, smiling little gal in "Happy Days", which were, in effect, her Happier Days.

Leni

56 posted on 04/22/2017 8:05:38 PM PDT by MinuteGal (GO TRUMP !!!.....GO PENCE !!!.....GO USA !!!)
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To: bicyclerepair

much for you to learn.


57 posted on 04/22/2017 8:07:15 PM PDT by b4me (If Jesus came to set us free, why are so many professed Believers still in chains?)
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To: Steven Scharf

Alcoholism?


58 posted on 04/22/2017 8:09:04 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: lbtbell

“Nobody in my family even knows what liquor tastes like, not even wine. We don’t drink and we never will.”

Um...


59 posted on 04/22/2017 8:10:01 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: bicyclerepair

Maybe they tried. Maybe she was too embarrassed to let them know how bad off she was.


60 posted on 04/22/2017 8:12:36 PM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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