RIP TV Legend And America’s Favorite TV Mom Florence Henderson
Sad news this morning on Florence Henderson….and this beautiful tv legend was just at Dancing With The Stars this past Monday night. What hours and hours of entertainment she’s given us all. *RIP Carol!! Thanks for being a second Mom to America.* From Fox News…..
LOS ANGELES – Florence Henderson, the wholesome actress who went from Broadway star to television icon when she became Carol Brady, the ever-cheerful matriarch of “The Brady Bunch,” has died, her manager and her publicist said. She was 82.
Henderson died Thursday night at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, after being hospitalized the day before, said her publicist, David Brokaw. Henderson had suffered heart failure, her manager Kayla Pressman said in a statement.
Family and friends had surrounded Henderson’s hospital bedside, Pressman said.
On the surface, “The Brady Bunch” resembled just another innocuous TV sitcom about a family living in suburban America and getting into a different wacky situation each week.
But well after it ended its initial run, in 1974, the show resonated with audiences, and it returned to television in various forms again and again, including “The Brady Bunch Hour” in 1977, “The Brady Brides” in 1981 and “The Bradys” in 1990. It was also seen endlessly in reruns.
“It represents what people always wanted: a loving family. It’s such a gentle, innocent, sweet show, and I guess it proved there’s always an audience for that,” Henderson said in 1999.
ETA: Below Tom Bergeron Tom talks on Florence and her passing….
"I can't really wrap my head around it" — @Tom_Bergeron talks about the loss of Florence Henderson https://t.co/07heXdllcE
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) November 25, 2016
Florence Henderson was in the audience at #DWTS just four days before she died: https://t.co/qkfkm6ev6m pic.twitter.com/WE3XB1v8Ae
— JustJared.com (@JustJared) November 25, 2016
Maureen McCormick Dances With TV Mom Florence Henderson on 'DWTS' This was SEPTEMBER https://t.co/1RmqHMNPbK via @UsWeekly
— Wendy (@Wendys_Garden) November 25, 2016