Photos: Valerie Harper - a look back
Valerie Harper, who played Rhoda Morgenstern on the 1970s sitcoms “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spinoff “Rhoda,” has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. Here is a look back in photos at her life and career.
A look back at some earlier Emmy Awards
Actress Valerie Harper, left, and actor Ed Asner pose with their Emmy statuettes at the annual Primetime Emmy Awards presentation in Los Angeles, Ca., May 9, 1971. Harper won best supporting actress and Asner won best supporting actor for their role in a comedy performance for "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Harper won Emmys in 1971, 1972, 1973 and 1975. Asner won Emmys in 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1980. (AP Photo)
Harper Asner Struthers
Valerie Harper, left, Ed Asner, center, and Sally Struthers hold their Emmys at the 24th annual Primetime Emmy Awards presentation in Hollywood, Ca., Sunday night, May 14, 1972. Harper and Asner won best supporting actress and actor, respectively, in "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Struthers won for her role in "All in the Family." (AP Photo)
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Valerie Harper poses in New York, Aug. 31, 2001. Harper is a W.O.A.C.A. and not terribly shy about it. The acronym _ which stands for A Woman of a Certain Age _ has been adopted as a battle cry by the former star of "Rhoda" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" as she enters her 60s. These days, this W.O.A.C.A. has enough projects on her plate to make a woman half her age wheeze, including a stint on Broadway for at least the next six months, replacing LindaLavin in"The Tale of the Allergist's Wife." (AP Photo/Jim Cooper)
CLOSE, PHILBIN, HARPER, DE NIRO
Listening, from left at a news conference in New York, are actress Glenn Close; television game and talk host Regis Philbin, third from left; actress Valerie Harper; and actor Robert De Niro, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2001. Prominent New Yorkers joined together at the announcement by Gov. George Pataki that a $40 million advertising campaign was in the works to lure tourism back to New York City. (AP Photo/Suzanne Plunkett)
HARPER PALMER BALDWIN
Actress Valerie Harper, at podium, addresses a rally outside the Statehouse in Trenton, N.J. Thursday, March 7, 2002. Harper along with other actors were visiting the area to support proposed state legislation that would attract more film and television business to the area. Behind Harper on viewers right is Trenton Mayor Douglass Palmer and actor Willaim Baldwin.(AP Photo/Daniel Hulshizer)
HARPER KIRKLAND
Actresses Valerie Harper, front, and Sally Kirkland await results of a vote on whether the Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Radio and Television Artists should consolidate, Tuesday night, July 1, 2003, in Los Angeles. Bother Harper and Kirkland opposed the consolidation. The proposal was narrowly defeated when members of both organizations voted in favor of consolidating but not by the 60 percent yes vote required. (AP Photo/Rene Macura)
HARPER, MALTZ
Actress Valerie Harper, left, embraces Tamar Maltz as they celebrate with her husband Milton Maltz, right, and others at the grand opening of the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood, Ohio, Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2005. The museum tells the story of the history, hardships and accomplishments of the Jewish community of Cleveland and the United States. (AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)
Valeria Harper, Betty White
Valerie Harper, left, and Betty White arrive at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show"
US actresses Mary Tyler Moore, left, Cloris Leachman, center, and Valerie Harper are not only talented cast members of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", they also contributed to the successful breakthrough of a new style of series in which the old situation comedy hang-ups about women are gone. (AP Photo)
Cesar Chavez
Surrounded by two actresses, Valerie Harper, left, and Louise Fletcher, United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez arrives at a fundraising benefit for Proposition 14 in Los Angeles, Oct. 10, 1976. The Proposition would allow union organizers to enter private property to recruit membership and put into law the Agriculture Labor Relations Board. (AP Photo/George Brich)
Jerry brown, Edmund Brown
California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., gets a replica of the Susan B. Anthony coin fixed to his lapel on Monday by actress Valerie Harper, right, as he attends an ERA Campaign Fund Luncheon in Los Angeles, Nov. 12, 1979. Center is actress Polly Bergen. Brown, returning from a campaign trip in which he told of his presidential ambitions announced before the luncheon he intends to impose the odd-even gasoline sales beginning on Sunday. Announcement cam after President Carter told of banning Iran oil. (AP Photo/Fong)
Jane Fonda 1982
Actress Jane Fonda speaks at an ERA press conference at the Greater L.A. Press Club, April 23, 1982. Seated next to her is actress Valerie Harper, who also spoke. (AP Photo/Lennox McLendon)
Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman, Betty White, Ed Asner
Former cast members of the Mary Tyler Moore Show, sans Mary Tyler Moore, are reunited for the Museum of Television and Radio's 9th annual Television Festival in Los Angeles Saturday, March 21, 1992. From left are Gavin MacLeod, Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman, Betty White and Ed Asner. (AP Photo/Craig Fujii)
Mary Tyler Moore, Edward Asner, Georgia Engel, Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman, Gavin MacLeod and GEORGIA ENGEL
The cast of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," from left, Gavin MacLeod, Cloris Leachman, Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Georgia Engel and Ed Asner, present the award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series at the 13th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards on Sunday, Jan. 28, 2007, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Alan Rosenberg, Valerie Harper
Screen Actors Guild (SAG) president Alan Rosenberg and actress Valerie Harper join thousands of Writers Guild of America (WGA) writers and others in the fifth day of their strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) in a rally at Fox Plaza in Los Angeles' Century City district Friday, Nov. 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
Valerie Harper
** FILE ** In this Nov. 9, 2007, file photo, actress and Screen Actors Guild member Valerie Harper shows her support of thousands of members of the Writers Guild of America during the fifth day of the writers strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) at Fox Plaza in Los Angeles. The contract between the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expires Monday, June 30, 2008, and negotiations have dragged on for weeks with no apparent headway. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
HARPER
Actress Valerie Harper is seen in this July 28, 1995 photo. Harper, best-known for her TV roles as Rhoda, will play author Pearl S. Buck in a new one-person play that will premiere in Hartford, CT. The four-time Emmy-winning actress will star in the Marty Martin play, ``The Dragon and the Pearl,'' premiering July 25 at TheaterWorks, the theater announced Tuesday, June 24, 1997. (AP Photo/Marty Reichenthal, File)
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Actress Valerie Harper appears at the unveiling of a billboard featuring her and others in New York's Times Square, Thursday, Aug. 5, 1999, promoting Healty Woman, a new, natural over-the-counter soy supplement that claims to help relieve hot flashes throughout menopause. (AP Photo/Tina Fineberg)
Valerie Harper, Pamella Roland
Actress Valerie Harper and designer Pamella Roland attend 'The Heart Truth's' Red Dress Collection 2010 fashion show on Thursday, Feb. 11, 2010 in New York. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini)