{"id":278987,"date":"2019-08-30T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T22:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/valerie-harper-dead-at-80\/"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T22:52:00","slug":"valerie-harper-dead-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/valerie-harper-dead-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Harper Dead at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-meta\" readability=\"7.9615384615385\"><span class=\"article__banner article__banner--breaking\">BREAKING!<\/span> <\/p>\n<p class=\"entry-meta\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><span class=\"entry-meta__author\"><span class=\"u-lc\">by<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/authors\/natalie-finn\">Natalie Finn<\/a><\/span> | <span class=\"entry-meta__time\">Fri., Aug. 30, 2019 3:52 PM<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-detail-social-icons\" class=\"cs-container\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" data-omniture-info=\"{ &quot;pagename&quot; : &quot;news:news:top-stories:articles:681960:valerie-harper-dead-at-80&quot;, &quot;widgetType&quot; : &quot;share:social&quot;, &quot;pageType&quot; : &quot;text-blocks&quot; }\">\n<ul class=\"cs-list clear\">\n<li class=\"cs-fb cs-item\">\n<p><span class=\"cs-sharetext\">Share<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"cs-ts cs-item\">\n<p><span class=\"cs-sharetext\">Tweet<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"email-bttn-article-detail-social-icons\" class=\"cs-email cs-item\">\n<p><span class=\"cs-sharetext\">Email<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" class=\"post-content text-block clearfix post-content--groupedn-txt\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38.385416666667\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019730\/rs_634x1024-190830154850-634.valerie-harper.ct.083019.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Valerie Harper\" alt=\"Valerie Harper\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Frederick M. Brown\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"17.241847826087\">\n<p>Mary was always going to make it after all\u2014but she did usually have Rhoda by her side.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/valerie_harper\">Valerie Harper<\/a><\/strong> died Friday morning, her family confirmed to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc7.com\/entertainment\/actress-valerie-harper-dies-at-80-family-says\/5503817\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC 7 Los Angeles<\/a>. The cause of death was not immediately disclosed.<\/p>\n<p>The actress, best known for her iconic role as fierce best friend and neighbor Rhoda Morganstern on <em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em> and later her own spinoff, was 80.<\/p>\n<p>She revealed in 2013 that she had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer, but she seemingly didn&#8217;t let the grim prognosis slow her down for a minute. The vivacious entertainer competed on <em>Dancing With the Stars<\/em> that fall, continued to appear on TV and in plays and was actually performing in a production of <em>Nice Work if You Can Get It<\/em> when she fell ill.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cta-1\" class=\"post-content cta clearfix\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4.9318181818182\">\n<div class=\"column cta__thumb\" data-url=\"\/photos\/26537\/celebrity-deaths-2019-s-fallen-stars\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019730\/rs_600x600-190830154850-600.valerie-harper.ct.083019.jpg?fit=inside|192:192&amp;output-quality=90\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"column cta__text\" data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-cta\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.0909090909091\">\n<h2 class=\"cta__title\">Photos<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/photos\/26537\/celebrity-deaths-2019-s-fallen-stars\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celebrity Deaths: 2019&#8217;s Fallen Stars<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-2\" class=\"post-content text-block clearfix post-content--groupedn-txt\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.779126213592\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2015630\/rs_634x1024-150730190533-634.DWTS-Valerie-Harper.ms.073015.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Dancing With The Stars, DWTS, Valerie Harper\" alt=\"Dancing With The Stars, DWTS, Valerie Harper\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kelsey McNeal\/ABC via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"18.641509433962\">\n<p>In May 2015, Harper <a href=\"http:\/\/www.people.com\/article\/valerie-harper-cancer-update-ready-go\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told <em>People<\/em><\/a> that she sometimes felt &#8220;icky,&#8221; but was happy and proud to be using her own experience to help others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe because I&#8217;m working or I&#8217;m talking about cancer in a positive way\u2014I think that might have something to do with it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Harper added, &#8220;When I wake up in the morning I don&#8217;t say &#8216;Oh, I have cancer. I say &#8216;Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good. And when I do have little twinges of something I go, &#8216;Oh my god, is that a headache? What is that?&#8217; And I say wait a day or two, it might just be a headache and usually it is \u2026 so far.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" class=\"post-content text-block clearfix post-content--groupedn-txt\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"13\">\n<p>The brunette beauty scored what would be her career-defining role\u2014quick-witted window dresser Rhoda Morganstern\u2014in 1970 on <em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em>. She won three Emmys for Best Supporting Actress and then, in 1974, Rhoda packed up her array of signature head scarves, moved back to her native New York and got her own self-titled spin-off.<\/p>\n<p>Harper won her fourth Emmy (and a Golden Globe) in 1975, for Lead Actress in a Comedy Series, and was nominated three more times before <em>Rhoda<\/em> was canceled in 1979.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-4-img\" class=\"post-content post-content--grouped\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201326\/reg_1024.rhoda.ls.3613.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Rhoda\" alt=\"Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Rhoda\" data-width=\"560\" data-height=\"415\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">CBS<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-4\" class=\"post-content text-block clearfix post-content--groupedn-txt\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36.348949919225\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"14.53957996769\">\n<p>The New Yorker got her start as a dancer and chorus girl on Broadway, appearing in the 1959 musical &nbsp;<em>Li&#8217;l Abner<\/em> when she was 20; she moved on to roles on stage in <em>Wildcat<\/em>, <em>Take Me Along<\/em> and <em>Subways Are for Sleeping<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>While doing theater in Los Angeles, she was approached by a casting agent about auditioning for the role of Rhoda.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was in a fog of my own just learning my lines and understanding what all these men were doing there behind cameras,&#8221; Harper recalled shooting the <em>MTM<\/em> pilot <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emmytvlegends.org\/interviews\/people\/valerie-harper\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in a 2009 interview<\/a> for the Archive of American Television. &#8220;It was a massive amount of people. I&#8217;d only worked in the theater.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"cta-5\" class=\"post-content cta clearfix\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">\n<div class=\"column cta__thumb\" data-url=\"\/photos\/3882\/celeb-cancer-survivors\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2013824\/rs_300x300-130924122935-600.dr-drew-pinsky-cancer-survivor-092413.jpg?fit=inside|192:192&amp;output-quality=90\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"column cta__text\" data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-cta\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">\n<h2 class=\"cta__title\">Photos<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/photos\/3882\/celeb-cancer-survivors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Celeb Cancer Survivors<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-6\" class=\"post-content text-block clearfix post-content--groupedn-txt\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"53.083510261854\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201326\/634.ValerieHarper.1975.jc.jpeg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Valerie Harper \" alt=\"Valerie Harper \"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">CBS Photo Archive\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"44.641823444284\">\n<p>&nbsp;&#8220;I found out in retrospect that they hated the first show\u2026I was told that they didn&#8217;t understand Rhoda, they didn&#8217;t like her&#8230;&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;&#8216;Who was this brash, horrible New York broad?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Harper also recalled not being quite onboard with Rhoda getting her own show when the idea was first presented to her.<\/p>\n<p>From the first year, Freddy Silverman, who was then head of the network was saying, \u2018we&#8217;re going to spin you off,&#8217; and I thought I was being fired until I asked somebody what the term meant\u2026Then finally, the fourth year [of <em>MTM<\/em>], I said, \u2018I don&#8217;t want to go, I don&#8217;t want to.&#8217; [Tyler Moore] said, \u2018You don&#8217;t want to be my sidekick all your life.&#8221; I said, \u2018Yes! Yes, I do!&#8217; I said, \u2018What if it fails?&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She said, \u2018If it fails, you&#8217;ll move back to Minneapolis and I&#8217;ll have you back in my life again.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mary Richards would reunite with Rhoda Morgenstern, who married and divorced <strong>David Groh<\/strong>&#8216;s Joe Gerard over the course of the spin-off, a few more times on <em>MTM<\/em>, including during the iconic series finale. Then the besties went their separate ways until the 2000 TV movie <em>Mary and Rhoda<\/em>, where they picked up right where they left off in spirit.<\/p>\n<p>They longtime friends on screen and off also appeared in an episode of <em>Hot in Cleveland<\/em> together in 2013, which also marked an <em>MTM<\/em> reunion with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/betty_white\">Betty White<\/a><\/strong>, who played man-eater Sue Ann Nivens back in the day.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-7\" class=\"post-content text-block clearfix post-content--groupedn-txt\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"40.219565217391\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201326\/634.moore.harper.ls.3613.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Famous Friends\" alt=\"Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Famous Friends\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Kevin Winter\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"21.040268456376\">\n<p>After the mega-success that was her original run as Rhoda, Harper starred as the titular mom to three boys, including <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jason_bateman\">Jason Bateman<\/a><\/strong>, on the 1980s NBC sitcom <em>Valerie<\/em>. She left following a contract dispute at the end of season two, after which the family was all of a sudden being looked after by their aunt and the show was called <em>The Hogan Family<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Other notable TV roles in more recent years included the wise psychologist mother of one of Carrie&#8217;s suitors (played by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/justin_theroux\">Justin Theroux<\/a><\/strong>) in <em>Sex and the City<\/em> and Aunt Claire to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/teri_hatcher\">Teri Hatcher<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s Susan on <em>Desperate Housewives<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Harper also returned to the stage in 2005 as Israeli Prime Minister <strong>Golda Meir<\/strong> in the one-woman drama <em>Golda&#8217;s Balcony<\/em> and she played <strong>Tallulah Bankhead<\/strong> in <em>Looped<\/em>, which premiered at the Pasadena Playhouse in 2008 before having a brief Broadway run.<\/p>\n<p>Harper is survived by her second husband, <strong>Tony Cacciotti<\/strong>, and their daughter.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div id=\"social-bar--bottom-centered\" class=\"cs-container\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" data-omniture-info=\"{ &quot;pagename&quot; : &quot;news:news:top-stories:articles:681960:valerie-harper-dead-at-80&quot;, &quot;widgetType&quot; : &quot;share:social&quot;, &quot;pageType&quot; : &quot;text-blocks&quot; }\">\n<ul class=\"cs-list clear\">\n<li class=\"cs-fb cs-item\">\n<p><span class=\"cs-sharetext\">Share<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"cs-ts cs-item\">\n<p><span class=\"cs-sharetext\">Tweet<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"email-bttn-social-bar--bottom-centered\" class=\"cs-email cs-item\">\n<p><span class=\"cs-sharetext\">Email<\/span><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/681960\/valerie-harper-dead-at-80?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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