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TV Moms: 1970s
As women were developing roles outside the home for the first time, TV moms also began playing characters that were relatable to real-life moms. Mary Tyler Moore became America's favorite working woman—30, single and living on her own—on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. As laws changed the racial dynamics of the country, Esther Rolle portrayed the hard-working matriarch of an urban black family on Good Times. Some even chose to remarry like Bea Arthur in Maude...who was on her fourth husband.
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Bea Arthur
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- TV Moms: 1970s
- Famous Military Veterans
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Bea Arthur
Animal Rights Activist, Actress / 1922 - 2009
Bea Arthur was an Emmy and Tony Award-winning actress who starred in the television shows Maude and The Golden Girls.
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Bonnie Franklin
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- TV Moms: 1970s
- Famous Capricorns
- Famous Actresses
Bonnie Franklin
Television Actress / 1944 - 2013
Bonnie Franklin is best known for playing Ann Romano, a loving but tough divorced mother on the hit television show One Day at a Time.
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Karen Grassle
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- TV Moms: 1970s
- Famous Pisceans
- Famous Actresses
Karen Grassle
Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1944 -
For close to a decade, actress Karen Grassle was known to TV audiences as pioneer mother, Caroline Ingalls, on the hit show, Little House on the Prairie.
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Shirley Jones
Shirley Jones
Animal Rights Activist, Actress, Singer / 1934 -
Shirley Jones is a singer and actress best known for her parts in movie musicals, and for her role as Mrs. Partridge on the 1970s television show The Partridge Family.
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Esther Rolle
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- TV Moms: 1970s
- Gap-Toothed Grinners
- Famous Scorpios
Esther Rolle
Film Actress, Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1920 - 1998
A stage, film and TV actress, Esther Rolle is best remembered as Florida Evans -- a character she played on two comedy series, Maude and Good Times.
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Michael Learned
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- TV Moms: 1970s
- Famous Arians
- Famous Actresses
Michael Learned
Theater Actress, Television Actress / 1939 -
Michael Learned is an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for her role on the long-running television drama The Waltons.
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