Actress Valerie Harper of 'Mary Tyler Moore show' dies at 80

- Actress Valerie Harper, who won four Emmy awards playing budding feminist Rhoda Morgenstern on the classic 1970s TV series “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and her own spinoff sitcom, died on Friday at the age of 80.

Harper had revealed to People magazine in March 2013 she had leptomeningeal carcinomatosis - cancer cells in the membrane of her brain. Harper was still relatively inexperienced as an actress in 1970 when she was cast on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” - one of the most honored U.S. television shows of the 1970s - as Rhoda Morgenstern, the best friend and neighbor of Moore’s Mary Richards character in Minneapolis.

Harper won three straight Emmys for best supporting actress in a comedy on Moore’s show - 1971 through 1973 - and in 1974 Time magazine featured the two of them in a cover story titled “TV’s Funny Girls.” Harper had a third try at sitcom stardom in 1986 with the family show “Valerie.” By the show’s second season, Harper and Cacciotti, her husband and business partner, asked NBC for a bigger share of the show’s revenues and threatened to walk off.

“Her brilliance burst through and shined its light upon all of us,” Asner added. “Goodnight beautiful. I’ll see you soon.”

KayBurley RIP Rhoda 💙

Goodbye, sweet Rhoda. 😢

Another part of my childhood dies. RIP Valerie.

🙏🙏

Aww I really liked her

Doctors only gave her a year. SO HAPPY THEY WERE WRONG. How long & precious her last many years must have been ❤️ R. I. P.

KayBurley Really liked that program. RIP Valerie, Amen 🙏

She was sweet

A_Big_Hell_NO Sad to hear this. She fought that cancer hard. 🙏

An icon from the days when TV was at its very best.

vtmoneyobx She fought a good fight. Condolences to the family of Valerie Harper.

I really enjoyed her shows during my younger days.

A_Big_Hell_NO Sad to hear this. 🙏

Dammit Rhoda! You will live forever through your work. RIP.

She'll always be Rhoda to me. RIP

OR - Valerie Harper of 'Rhoda and the Mary Tyler Moore show'...

Loved watching her in Rhoda when I was a kid, sad loss.

That’s when TV was safe to watch. Sad,I liked her.

Loved you

Loved her.

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