actress who played georgette on the mary tyler moore show
Valerie Harper (top left) starred alongside (clockwise) Ed Asner, Cloris Leachman, Ted Knight, Mary Tyler Moore and Gavin McLeod on 'Mary Tyler Moore.'. Her speech started to slur one day. With that, everyone agreed it was probably best she go to the hospital, he recalled. We were maybe in denial before that. Georgia Engel who played Georgette Franklin on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Georgia Engel was born in Washington, D. C. in July 1948. She is best known for playing the role of Georgette Franklin on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. She is also known more recently for playing Pat Macdougall on Everybody Loves Raymond. Engel appeared as Georgette Franklin Baxter on The Mary Tyler Moore Show from 1972 until the show ended in 1977. The role won her two Emmy nominations. After that series ended, she teamed up with former Mary Tyler Moore Show co-star Betty White for The Betty White Show during its first and only (1977–1978) season. Engel had a recurring role on Coach as Shirley Burleigh and starred as the voice of Love-a-Lot Bear in The Care Bears Movie (1985). She played a good witch in a 2007 recurring role of Esmeralda on the now-defunct NBC soap opera Passions. In the days before her shocking diagnosis of terminal brain cancer, Valerie Harper was struggling with lines she'd spoken countless times before. It was early January, and the beloved sitcom star who played wise-cracking Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show was in rehearsals for the national tour of Looped. That same year she began playing Georgette Franklin on The Mary Tyler Moore Show co-starring Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Knight, Edward Asner, Gavin MacLeod, Cloris Leachman, Betty White, and Valerie Harper. A short time later, Georgia landed the role of Georgette on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Georgia had another film credit in The Outside Man (1972) starring Jean-Louis Trintignant, Ann-Margret, Roy Scheider, and Angie Dickinson. Harper played Mary Tyler Moore's best friend on-screen. Still, the actress took some time to privately process the news. When she appeared on ABC's Good Morning America. Jan. 21 to promote her new memoir I, Rhoda, she discussed her hospitalization in New York but kept her inoperable cancer a secret. Harper starred in the 'Mary Tyler Moore Show' spin-off 'Rhoda.'. On GMA, she wasn't ready to talk about it yet. There was still hope for treatment, he said. She thought she might be able to go back to Los Angeles and get some treatment to prolong her life. Georgia Engel played Georgette Franklin on . The Mary Tyler Moore Show . Cast of  The Mary Tyler Moore Show  Front: Betty White (), Georgia Engel (Georgette Franklin), Mary Tyler Moore (Mary Richards) Back: Ted Knight (Ted Baxter), Gavin MacCleod (Murray Slaughter), Ed Asner (Lou Grant).
Georgia Engel