ACTRESS Valerie Harper who shot to fame in The Mary Tyler Moore Show has died aged 80. The TV star had been battling cancer for years and her husband said recently he had been advised to put her in…
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But she refused to despair. “I’m not dying until I do,” Valerie said in an interview on NBC’s “Today” show.Ed Asner, Cloris Leachman and Betty White are among the former cast members who survive her. In recent years, Harper’s other appearances included “American Dad!” ″The Simpsons” and “Two Broke Girls.”In 1970, she auditioned for the part of a Bronx-born Jewish girl who would be a neighbour and pal of Minneapolis news producer Mary Richards on a new sitcom for CBS.As she recalled, “I’m not Jewish, not from New York, and I have a small shiksa nose.” And she had almost no TV experience.
But Harper, who arrived for her audition some 20 pounds overweight, may have clinched the role when she blurted out in admiration to the show’s tall, slender star: “Look at you in white pants without a long jacket to cover your behind!”Credit: Rex Features
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