{"id":6305,"date":"2019-08-30T21:12:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-31T02:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2019-08-30T21:22:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-31T02:22:31","slug":"actress-valerie-harper-who-won-fame-as-rhoda-on-mary-tyler-moore-show-dead-at-80","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/30\/actress-valerie-harper-who-won-fame-as-rhoda-on-mary-tyler-moore-show-dead-at-80\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Valerie Harper, Who Won Fame as Rhoda on \u2018Mary Tyler Moore Show,\u2019 dead at 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6311\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6311\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6311\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_harper.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_harper.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_harper-300x171.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_harper-560x318.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_harper-260x148.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_harper-160x91.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6311\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Harper at the Screen Actors Guild Foundation brunch, January 7, 2007. Photo by Maggiejumps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Television icon Valerie Harper, best known as wise-cracking Rhoda on \u201c<em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show,<\/em>\u201d has died after a long bout with cancer, her family confirmed on Friday. She was 80 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The death was confirmed by her daughter, Cristina Cacciotti. She did not say where Ms. Harper died.<\/p><div id=\"morty-2749298193\" 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><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-scarf.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6307 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-scarf-300x238.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-scarf-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-scarf-768x610.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-scarf-1024x813.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-scarf-560x445.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-scarf-260x206.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-scarf-160x127.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-scarf.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Ms. Harper\u2019s husband, Tony Cacciotti, announced on Facebook in July that he had decided not to move Ms. Harper into hospice care, as her doctors had recommended. She had leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, in which cancer cells invade the fluid-filled membrane surrounding the brain.<\/p>\n<p>Valerie Kathryn Harper began her career as a dancer on Broadway, making her debut in the musical Take Me Along in 1959. Harper is best remembered for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on <em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em> and its spin-off <em>Rhoda<\/em> in the 1970s. For her work on <em>Mary Tyler Moore<\/em>, she thrice received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, and later received the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her work on <em>Rhoda<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6317\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6317\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary_Tyler_Moore_Valerie_Harper_Cloris_Leachman_Last_Mary_Tyler_Moore_show_1977.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6317 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary_Tyler_Moore_Valerie_Harper_Cloris_Leachman_Last_Mary_Tyler_Moore_show_1977-1024x795.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary_Tyler_Moore_Valerie_Harper_Cloris_Leachman_Last_Mary_Tyler_Moore_show_1977-1024x795.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary_Tyler_Moore_Valerie_Harper_Cloris_Leachman_Last_Mary_Tyler_Moore_show_1977-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary_Tyler_Moore_Valerie_Harper_Cloris_Leachman_Last_Mary_Tyler_Moore_show_1977-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary_Tyler_Moore_Valerie_Harper_Cloris_Leachman_Last_Mary_Tyler_Moore_show_1977-560x435.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary_Tyler_Moore_Valerie_Harper_Cloris_Leachman_Last_Mary_Tyler_Moore_show_1977-260x202.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary_Tyler_Moore_Valerie_Harper_Cloris_Leachman_Last_Mary_Tyler_Moore_show_1977-160x124.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Mary_Tyler_Moore_Valerie_Harper_Cloris_Leachman_Last_Mary_Tyler_Moore_show_1977.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The last episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Rhoda Gerard (Valerie Harper, left) and Phyllis Lindstrom (Cloris Leachman, center) come to cheer up Mary Richards (Mary Tyler Moore) after hearing the news that WJM-TV has been sold and that she and most of the staff are now unemployed. (1977) CBS TV<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>From 1986 to 1987, Harper appeared as Valerie Hogan on the sitcom <em>Valerie<\/em>. Her most notable film appearances include roles in <em>Freebie and the Bean<\/em> (1974) and <em>Chapter Two<\/em> (1979), both of which garnered her Golden Globe Award nominations. Harper returned to stage work in her later career, appearing in several Broadway productions. In 2010, she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance as Talullah Bankhead in the play <em>Looped<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Harper was born on August 22, 1939 in Suffern, New York, the daughter of Iva Mildred (n\u00e9e McConnell; 1910\u20131988)and Howard Donald Harper (1907\u20131981). Her father was a lighting salesman, and her mother was born in Canada and trained as a nurse. She was the middle child of three siblings. She had an older sister, Leah; a younger brother, Merrill (who later took the name &#8220;Don&#8221;) and a half-sister, Virginia, from her father&#8217;s second marriage.<\/p><div id=\"morty-1933918036\" 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>She stated that her parents were expecting a boy and after her arrival, her first and middle names derived from that year&#8217;s women&#8217;s doubles tennis champions, Valerie Scott and Kay Stammers. She was of French, English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. Harper based her character Rhoda Morgenstern on her Italian stepmother, Angela Posillico, and Penny Ann Green (n\u00e9e Joanna Greenberg), with whom she danced in the Broadway musical Wildcat. She was raised Catholic, although at an early age she &#8220;quit&#8221; the church.<\/p>\n<p>Her family moved every two years due to her father&#8217;s work. Harper attended schools in South Orange, New Jersey; Pasadena, California; Monroe, Michigan; Ashland, Oregon; and Jersey City, New Jersey. When her family returned to Oregon, Harper remained in the New York City area to study ballet. She attended Lincoln High School in Jersey City, graduating from the private Young Professionals School on West 56th Street, where classmates included Sal Mineo, Tuesday Weld, and Carol Lynley.<\/p>\n<h3>Career<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Broadway dancer and improv<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-portrait.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-6309 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-portrait-237x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-portrait-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-portrait-768x971.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-portrait-810x1024.jpg 810w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-portrait-560x708.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-portrait-260x329.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-portrait-160x202.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-portrait.jpg 1266w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 237px) 100vw, 237px\" \/><\/a>Harper began as a dancer and chorus girl on Broadway, and went on to perform in several Broadway shows, some choreographed by Michael Kidd, including Wildcat (starring Lucille Ball), Take Me Along (starring Jackie Gleason), and Subways Are For Sleeping. In-between she was also cast in Destry Rides Again but was forced to leave rehearsals due to illness. Her roommate, actress Arlene Golonka, introduced her to Second City improvisation theater and to improv performer Dick Schaal, whom Harper later married in 1965. Harper was stepmother to Schaal&#8217;s daughter, Wendy, an actress. They lived in Greenwich Village. She returned to Broadway in February 2010, playing Tallulah Bankhead in Matthew Lombardo&#8217;s Looped at the Lyceum Theatre.<\/p>\n<p>Harper appeared in a bit part in the film version of <em>Li&#8217;l Abner<\/em> (1959), playing a Yokumberry Tonic wife. She broke into television on an episode of the soap opera <em>The Doctors<\/em> (&#8220;Zip Guns can Kill&#8221;). She was an extra in<em> Love with the Proper Stranger<\/em>. She was in the ensemble cast of Paul Sill&#8217;s Story Theatre and toured with Second City with Schaal, Linda Lavin and others, later appearing in sketches on <em>Playboy After Dark<\/em>. Harper performed several characters in a comedy LP, <em>When You&#8217;re in Love the Whole World is Jewish<\/em>, which included the popular novelty single, The Ballad of Irving, a recitation by TV announcer Frank Gallop. Harper and Schaal moved to Los Angeles in 1968, and co-wrote an episode of <em>Love, American Style<\/em>.<\/p>\n<h3>Television<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6310\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6310\" style=\"width: 238px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6310 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rhoda-julie-kavner-238x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"238\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rhoda-julie-kavner-238x300.jpg 238w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rhoda-julie-kavner-768x966.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rhoda-julie-kavner-814x1024.jpg 814w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rhoda-julie-kavner-560x705.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rhoda-julie-kavner-260x327.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rhoda-julie-kavner-160x201.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/rhoda-julie-kavner.jpg 1271w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 238px) 100vw, 238px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6310\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Harper as Rhoda Morganstern and Julie Kavner as Brenda Morgenstern on Rhoda.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While doing theater in Los Angeles in 1970, Harper was spotted by casting agent Ethel Winant, who called her in to audition for the role of Rhoda Morgenstern on <em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show<\/em>. She co-starred from 1970\u20131974 and then starred in the spin-off series, Rhoda (CBS 1974\u20131978) in which her character returned to New York.<\/p>\n<p>She won four Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award for her work as Rhoda Morgenstern throughout this period. In 2000, Harper reunited with Moore in <em>Mary and Rhoda<\/em>, a TV movie that brought their characters together again in later life. The first season of <em>Rhoda<\/em> was released on DVD on April 21, 2009, by Shout! Factory.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6308\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6308\" style=\"width: 860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-nancy-walker.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6308 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-nancy-walker-1024x813.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"860\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-nancy-walker-1024x813.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-nancy-walker-300x238.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-nancy-walker-768x610.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-nancy-walker-560x445.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-nancy-walker-260x206.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-nancy-walker-160x127.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/valerie-harper-nancy-walker.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 860px) 100vw, 860px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6308\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nancy Walker and Valerie Harper in Rhoda. CBS<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"medfordtrails-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"manual\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_design = \"enhanced_links\";\namzn_assoc_asins = \"B001O4KBN2\";\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"42bac0cbf87ebf4eb99c2fa3e1beb3de\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She was nominated for a Golden Globe for &#8220;New Star of the Year&#8221; for her role in <em>Freebie and The Bean<\/em> (1974). Harper was a guest star on <em>The Muppet Show<\/em> in 1976, its first season.<\/p>\n<h3>Harper in 1996<\/h3>\n<p>Harper returned to situation comedy in 1986 when she played family matriarch Valerie Hogan on the NBC series Valerie. Following a salary dispute with NBC and production company Lorimar in 1987, Harper was fired from the series at the end of its second season. Harper sued NBC and Lorimar for breach of contract. Her claims against NBC were dismissed, but the jury found that Lorimar had wrongfully fired her and awarded her $1.4 million plus 12.5 percent of the show&#8217;s profits. The series continued without her with the explanation that her character had died off-screen. In 1987, it was initially renamed <em>Valerie&#8217;s Family<\/em> and then <em>The Hogan Family<\/em>, as Harper was replaced by actress Sandy Duncan, who played her sister-in-law Sandy Hogan. NBC canceled <em>The Hogan Family<\/em> in 1990, but CBS picked up the series for a final season.<\/p>\n<p>Harper appeared in various television movies, including a performance as Maggie in a production of the Michael Cristofer play <em>The Shadow Box<\/em>, directed by Paul Newman, and in guest roles on such series as <em>Melrose Place<\/em> (1998) and <em>Sex and the City<\/em> (1999).<\/p>\n<h3>Later career<\/h3>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6312\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6312\" style=\"width: 209px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_Harper_1996.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6312 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_Harper_1996-209x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"209\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_Harper_1996-209x300.jpg 209w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_Harper_1996-768x1102.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_Harper_1996-713x1024.jpg 713w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_Harper_1996-560x804.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_Harper_1996-260x373.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_Harper_1996-160x230.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Valerie_Harper_1996.jpg 1560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 209px) 100vw, 209px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VALERIE HARPER<br \/>PLAYED IN TV SHOW &#8220;RHODA&#8221;<br \/>1996<br \/>BALTIMORE MARYLAND<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Harper was a member of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and ran for president in the 2001 election, losing to Melissa Gilbert. She served on the Hollywood Board of Directors of SAG.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005 through 2006, Harper portrayed Golda Meir in a US National tour of the one-woman drama Golda&#8217;s Balcony. A film of this production was released in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"medfordtrails-20\";\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"manual\";\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\namzn_assoc_design = \"enhanced_links\";\namzn_assoc_asins = \"1451699468\";\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit\";\namzn_assoc_linkid = \"205476abb6948f0a0077a8ca5fa54162\";\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>She played Tallulah Bankhead in the world-premiere production of Matthew Lombardo&#8217;s Looped at the Pasadena Playhouse from June 27 to August 3, 2008.The production moved to Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., in 2009. It then briefly ran on Broadway at the Lyceum Theatre, from February 2010 (previews) through April 2010, for which she received a Tony Award nomination. Harper was to continue in the role on a national tour beginning January 2013, but withdrew from the production due to her health.<\/p>\n<p>She played Claire Bremmer, aunt of Susan Delfino (Teri Hatcher), on ABC&#8217;s <em>Desperate Housewives<\/em> in 2011.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6313\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6313\" style=\"width: 202px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/800px-Valerie_Harper_in_Red_Dress_Collection_2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6313 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/800px-Valerie_Harper_in_Red_Dress_Collection_2010-202x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/800px-Valerie_Harper_in_Red_Dress_Collection_2010-202x300.jpg 202w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/800px-Valerie_Harper_in_Red_Dress_Collection_2010-768x1142.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/800px-Valerie_Harper_in_Red_Dress_Collection_2010-688x1024.jpg 688w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/800px-Valerie_Harper_in_Red_Dress_Collection_2010-560x833.jpg 560w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/800px-Valerie_Harper_in_Red_Dress_Collection_2010-260x387.jpg 260w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/800px-Valerie_Harper_in_Red_Dress_Collection_2010-160x238.jpg 160w, https:\/\/mortystv.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/800px-Valerie_Harper_in_Red_Dress_Collection_2010.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Harper in Pamella Roland at The Heart Truth&#8217;s Red Dress Collection 2010<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On September 4, 2013, Harper was announced as a contestant for the 17th season of <em>Dancing with the Stars<\/em>. She was partnered with professional dancer Tristan MacManus. Harper and MacManus were voted off the show on October 7, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Harper appeared as the character Wanda, on the American comedy web television series <em>Liza on Demand<\/em>, in the July 11, 2018 episode: &#8220;Valentine&#8217;s Day&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h3>Activism and charity work<\/h3>\n<p>In the 1970s\/80s, Harper was involved in the Women&#8217;s Liberation Movement and was an advocate of the Equal Rights Amendment. With Dennis Weaver she co-founded L.I.F.E. in 1983, a charity that fed thousands of needy in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<h3>Personal life<\/h3>\n<p>Harper married actor Richard Schaal in 1964. They divorced in 1978. Harper married Tony Cacciotti in 1987. The couple shortly afterward adopted a daughter.<\/p>\n<h3>Illness and death<\/h3>\n<p>In 2009, Harper was diagnosed with lung cancer. She announced on March 6, 2013, that tests from a January hospital stay revealed she has leptomeningeal carcinomatosis, a rare condition in which cancer cells spread into the meninges, the membranes surrounding the brain. She said her doctors had given her as little as three months of life expectancy. Although the disease was reported to be incurable, her doctors said they were treating her with chemotherapy in an effort to slow its progress.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2014, Harper said she was responding well to the treatment. On July 30, 2015, Harper was hospitalized in Maine after falling unconscious, and taken via medevac to a larger hospital for further treatment. She was later discharged.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Harper continued battling cancer with treatment at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center but was well enough to appear in a short film, My Mom and the Girl, based on the experiences of director\/writer Susie Singer Carter, whose mother has Alzheimer\u2019s disease. In September 2017, she made this comment: &#8220;People are saying, &#8216;She\u2019s on her way to death and quickly&#8217;. Now it\u2019s five years instead of three months &#8230; I\u2019m going to fight this. I\u2019m going to see a way.&#8221; At the time, Harper was developing a TV series with Carter. 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