{"id":2397,"date":"2017-04-22T19:10:48","date_gmt":"2017-04-23T00:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2017-04-23T19:11:20","modified_gmt":"2017-04-24T00:11:20","slug":"erin-moran-joanie-cunningham-in-happy-days-dies-at-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/22\/erin-moran-joanie-cunningham-in-happy-days-dies-at-56\/","title":{"rendered":"Erin Moran, Joanie Cunningham in Happy Days, dies at 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2391\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran_obit_feat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran_obit_feat.jpg 550w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran_obit_feat-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Erin Moran, the actress who played Joanie Cunningham in the sitcoms <em>Happy Days<\/em> and <em>Joanie Loves Chachi<\/em>, died Saturday at age 56.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the sheriff&#8217;s department in Harrison County, Indiana, said the dispatcher received a 911 call about an unresponsive female. Upon arrival of first responders, it was determined that Erin Moran Fleischmann was deceased. An autopsy is pending.<\/p><div id=\"morty-3015341477\" class=\"morty-content\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Erin Moran who had been married to second husband Steven Fleischmann moved to Harrison County in Southern Indiana in 2011. The couple had been married since 1993 and owned a number of properties together in California, according to online public records.<\/p>\n<p>After losing their California home to foreclosure in 2010, ABC News reports that a rep for Moran confirmed that the couple moved into a trailer park with Fleischmann&#8217;s sick mother.<\/p>\n<p>The rep said that Moran and Fleischmann moved into the trailer to provide care for Fleischmann&#8217;s mother. But in September 2012, the Huffington Post reported that the couple had been kicked out of the trailer because of excessive partying.<\/p>\n<p>After Moran was kicked out of the trailer she was seen living in a Holiday Inn Express in Corydon, about 130 miles south of Indianapolis, apparently after falling into financial difficulty and struggling with homelessness.<\/p><div id=\"morty-515079550\" class=\"morty-content_2\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4937602850188786\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4937602850188786\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5227734695\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>In 2012 Moran,\u00a0and three<em> Happy Days<\/em> co-stars, received a settlement in a breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS. There reports of Moran quickly spending her portion the settlement. Huffington Post reports that the settlement originally asked for $10 million, but the final decision was reported to be $65,000 per person and future royalties.<\/p>\n<p>Erin Marie Moran was born on October 18, 1960 in Burbank, California, and raised in nearby North Hollywood. She was born to Sharon and Edward Moran. Her father was a finance manager. She was the second youngest of six children. Her interest in acting was supported by her mother, who signed her with an agent when she was five years old.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2393\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2393\" style=\"width: 276px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2393 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/young_erin_moran-276x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"276\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/young_erin_moran-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/young_erin_moran.jpg 490w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 276px) 100vw, 276px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2393\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ERIN MORAN is featured as Janie Robinson, daughter of the advertising executive, played by Don Rickles, in &#8220;The Don Rickles Show, the new situation comedy series which will have its premiere Friday, January 24, 1972 10:30PM EST on the CBS Television Network.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the age of six, she was cast as Jenny Jones in the television series <em>Daktari<\/em>, which ran from 1966 to 1969. In 1968, she made her feature-film debut in <em>How Sweet It Is!<\/em> with Debbie Reynolds. She appeared in <em>80 Steps to Jonah<\/em> (1969) and <em>Watermelon Man<\/em> (1970). She made regular appearances on <em>The Don Rickles Show<\/em> in 1972. She made guest appearances in <em>The Courtship of Eddie&#8217;s Father<\/em>, <em>My Three Sons<\/em>, <em>Bearcats!<\/em>, and <em>Family Affair<\/em>. As a young child, she was also on the television series <em>Gunsmoke<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 1974 at the age of 13, Moran was cast to play her best known role, Joanie Cunningham on the sitcom <em>Happy Days<\/em>. She played the feisty younger sister of Richie Cunningham (Ron Howard).<\/p>\n<p>Moran continued the role in 1982 in the short-lived spin-off series <em>Joanie Loves Chachi<\/em>, alongside Scott Baio. She won the Young Artist Award for Best Young Actress in a New Television Series for her role. After Joanie Loves Chachi&#8217;s cancellation in 1983, she returned to <em>Happy Days<\/em> for its final season.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_scott_baio.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2395 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_scott_baio-300x236.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_scott_baio-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_scott_baio.jpg 569w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Moran made several other television guest appearances, including <em>The Love Boat<\/em>, <em>Murder, She Wrote<\/em>, and <em>Diagnosis: Murder<\/em>, and starred opposite Edward Albert in the cult sci-fi horror film <em>Galaxy of Terror<\/em> in 1981. In 2008, she was a contestant on VH1&#8217;s reality show <em>Celebrity Fit Club<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, she made an appearance in the independent comedy feature <em>Not Another B Movie<\/em>. In 2013, despite reports that she would be reunited with <em>Happy Days<\/em> co-stars Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, and Scott Baio in the fourth season of <em>Arrested Development<\/em>, she did not appear in the revamped Netflix series.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2392\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2392\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin-marion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2392 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin-marion-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin-marion-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin-marion.jpg 680w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joanie Cunningham (Erin Moran) talk to her mom (Marion Ross) on HAPPY DAYS (Paramount Television)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On April 19, 2011, Moran and three of her <em>Happy Days<\/em> co-stars, Don Most, Anson Williams, and Marion Ross, and the estate of Tom Bosley, who died in 2010, filed a $10 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS, which owns the show. The suit claimed that cast members had not been paid for merchandising revenues owed under their contracts. Revenues included those from show-related items such as comic books, T-shirts, scrapbooks, trading cards, games, lunch boxes, dolls, toy cars, magnets, greeting cards, and DVDs where cast members&#8217; images appear on the box covers.<\/p>\n<p>Under the actors&#8217; contracts, they were supposed to be paid five percent from the net proceeds of merchandising if a single actor&#8217;s image was used, and half that amount if the cast members were pictured in a group. CBS said it owed the actors between $8,500 and $9,000 each, most of it from slot machine revenues, but the group said they were owed millions. The lawsuit was initiated after Ross was informed by a friend playing slots at a casino of a <em>&#8220;Happy Days&#8221;<\/em> machine on which players won the jackpot when five Marion Rosses were rolled.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2394\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2394\" style=\"width: 249px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_scott_ancestors.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2394 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_scott_ancestors-249x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"249\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_scott_ancestors-249x300.jpg 249w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_scott_ancestors-768x927.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_scott_ancestors-848x1024.jpg 848w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_scott_ancestors.jpg 908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 249px) 100vw, 249px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2394\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Struggling to write a school essay on America&#8217;s immigrant history, Chachi is inspired by Fonzie&#8217;s colorful story told to the tune of an imagined melting pot melody. Scott Baio and Erin Moran star in the HAPPY DAYS episode &#8220;American Musical&#8221; May 26,1981 on ABC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In October 2011, a judge rejected the group&#8217;s fraud claim, which eliminated the possibility of millions of dollars in damages. On June 5, 2012, a judge denied a motion to dismiss filed by CBS, which meant the case would go to trial on July 17 if it was not settled by then.In July 2012, the actors settled their lawsuit with CBS. Each received a payment of $65,000 and a promise by CBS to continue honoring the terms of their contracts.<\/p>\n<p>After<em> Happy Days<\/em> and<em> Joanie Loves Chachi<\/em> were canceled, Moran moved from Los Angeles to the California mountains and revealed in a 1988 interview that she suffered from depression and was unable to gain acting roles.<\/p>\n<p>In 1987, Moran married Rocky Ferguson; they divorced in 1993. Moran confirmed news reports that her California home was foreclosed on in 2010, following media claims that she was also served eviction papers and moved into her mother-in-law&#8217;s trailer home in Indiana.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran-color.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2396 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran-color-239x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"239\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran-color-239x300.jpg 239w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran-color-768x963.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran-color-816x1024.jpg 816w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran-color.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 239px) 100vw, 239px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2390\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2390\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2390 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran-243x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran-243x300.jpg 243w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran-768x948.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/erin_moran.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 243px) 100vw, 243px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2390\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American actress Erin Moran, best known for her turn on the legendary TV series, Happy Days signs autographs on the red carpet at the 62nd Annual Mother Goose Parade in San Diego County. Photograph by Mother Goose Parade \/ Popular Press Media Group (PPMG) &#8211; media@ppmg.info.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Erin Moran, the actress who played Joanie Cunningham in the sitcoms Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi, died Saturday at age 56. A statement from the sheriff&#8217;s department in Harrison County, Indiana, said the dispatcher received a 911 call about an unresponsive female. 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