Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern, the brash, Bronx-accented sidekick to the Mary Richards character on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and went on to topline spinoff “Rhoda,” died Friday after being diagnosed with lung and brain cancer in 2009. She was 80.
Her daughter Christina tweeted the news.
My dad has asked me to pass on this message: “My beautiful caring wife of nearly 40 years has passed away at 10:06am, after years of fighting cancer.
She will never, ever be forgotten. Rest In Peace, mia Valeria. -Anthony.”
— Cris (@cristicacci) August 30, 2019
ABC7 first announced the news.
On July 23, her husband Tony Cacciotti posted a message saying he would be “where I belong right beside her” for as long as possible.
Harper won four Emmys for the two hugely popular 1970s shows and performed on the stage and bigscreen as well on appearing on dozens of other series. Through she was diagnosed with cancer 10 years ago,...
Her daughter Christina tweeted the news.
My dad has asked me to pass on this message: “My beautiful caring wife of nearly 40 years has passed away at 10:06am, after years of fighting cancer.
She will never, ever be forgotten. Rest In Peace, mia Valeria. -Anthony.”
— Cris (@cristicacci) August 30, 2019
ABC7 first announced the news.
On July 23, her husband Tony Cacciotti posted a message saying he would be “where I belong right beside her” for as long as possible.
Harper won four Emmys for the two hugely popular 1970s shows and performed on the stage and bigscreen as well on appearing on dozens of other series. Through she was diagnosed with cancer 10 years ago,...
- 8/30/2019
- by Pat Saperstein
- Variety Film + TV
Over the weekend, Richard Skipper kicked off a yearlong celebration of the 50th anniversary of Hello, Dolly with members of the original Broadway cast In attendence for the special reunion were Nicole Barth Original cast, Paul Berne dancer, Original Company, Carleton Carpenter and Johnny Beecher Sheridan Cornelius Hackl and Barnaby Tucker Mary Martin International Company, Wayne Clark first National Company with Carol Channing, John Anthony Gilvey, David Hartman Rudolph and Stage Manager Original Company, Charles Karel Original cast, Jan Laprad Original Company dancer, Joan 'Buttons' Leonard original company, Bob Lydiard Cornelius Hackl, Carol's first Broadway Revival, Lee Roy Reams Cornelius Hackl 1977 tour and Broadway Revival, director 1996 Broadway tour and Revival,Megan Thomas Carol's last tour, Andrea Bell started with Carol Channing, as Ermengarde at the age of seventeen, in Carol's First national tour as well as other productions. Ron Young dancer original cast.BroadwayWorld was there for the special event...
- 1/21/2014
- by Stephen Sorokoff
- BroadwayWorld.com
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- 1/20/2014
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
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