![]() ![]() In Georgette, they wrote – and Engel embodied – an entirely new character on the show: an angelic, guileless woman whose lack of savvy seemed less the result of ignorance than of supreme innocence. White's scheming, lustful Sue Ann, a master of mean-spiritedness behind a fake smile, became more of a breakout character, but Engel performed an impressive and perhaps more difficult task with Georgette, who had to fill part of the best-friend void created by the departure of the Harper's beloved Rhoda Morgenstern.įortunately, producers didn't try to make Georgette a carbon copy of the knowing, tart-tongued Rhoda. Their predecessors left big shoes and Engel and White filled them admirably. Remembering those we lost: Celebrity Deaths 2019Įngel and White, who played naughty happy homemaker Sue Ann Nivens, helped the popular comedy, which ran seven seasons from 1970 to 1977, transition supporting players as original cast members Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman went off to their own spinoff comedies on the power of the "Moore" show's success. White is renowned for her commitment to animals. White, 97, offered a concise, sweet tribute to Engel Tuesday on Instagram: "'Friends Forever' says it all." The accompanying picture features the two with an affectionate bear friend in the middle. Younger viewers may know Engel as the mother-in-law of Brad Garrett's Robert on "Everybody Loves Raymond," and she also appeared in recurring roles on "Coach," the soap "Passions," and, more recently, in "Hot in Cleveland," which reunited her with "Moore" castmate and friend Betty White. Quilty said the cause of death was not known because she was a Christian Scientist and did not visit doctors, according to AP. ![]() "Go out in the middle of the intersection and take that tam off and throw it in the air." She couldn't protest because she couldn't form the words.Īs for the hat, which would be Smithsonian-bait, Moore always said it was her own, a gift from her beloved aunt, but that it had been stolen.Mary Tyler Moore may have been the one who turned the world on with her smile, as Moore's sitcom theme has it, but co-star Georgia Engel helped make sure viewers' grins never faded into frowns.Įngel is best known for her role as soft-voiced Georgette Franklin, the sweet, ever-so-innocent girlfriend and later wife of self-important TV anchor Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) on one of the best sitcoms ever, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."Įngel died Friday at age 70 in Princeton, New Jersey, said John Quilty, identified as her friend and executor by the Associated Press. "You know what would be a good idea, Mary?" Moore remembered him saying. ![]() It was the titles director who came up with the idea, which nobody dreamed would be iconic. "It was so cold lips weren't moving," she recalled. Moore graciously brought Frederick onstage at a booksigning when they were finally introduced, telling the crowd she had been her opening-credits co-star! Frederick died not long after, in 1999, in her nineties.īefore her passing in 2017, Moore recalled the opening was shot by a special director on an especially cold winter's day. "I just walked up to this crowd and this woman threw her hat up in the air. "I didn't even know what was going on," she told he paper when she and Moore met up in the mid-'90s. Every purchase you make puts money in an artist’s pocket. Find Mary Tyler Moore-inspired gifts and merchandise printed on quality products one at a time in socially responsible ways. According to a vintage The Minneapolis Star-Tribune piece, Frederick looked surprised in the opening because she well and truly was. T-shirts, stickers, wall art, home decor, and more designed and sold by independent artists.
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