Bonnie Franklin, the beloved actress who played single mom Ann Romano on the CBS sitcom One Day at a Time, died at her home today. She was 69 years old.
It was announced that she'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer back in September 2012.
Franklin had a long career and was nominated for a Tony Award in the 1970s for Applause and was nominated for an Emmy and two Golden Globes for her work on One Day at a Time.
In 2011, she was reunited with her One Day at a Time co-star Valerie Bertinelli on Hot in Cleveland, playing the mother of Bertinelli's character's boyfriend.
Franklin was married to playwright Ronald Sossi from 1967 to 1970 and then to film producer Marvin Minoff from 1980 until his death, in November 2009.
It was announced that she'd been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer back in September 2012.
Franklin had a long career and was nominated for a Tony Award in the 1970s for Applause and was nominated for an Emmy and two Golden Globes for her work on One Day at a Time.
In 2011, she was reunited with her One Day at a Time co-star Valerie Bertinelli on Hot in Cleveland, playing the mother of Bertinelli's character's boyfriend.
Franklin was married to playwright Ronald Sossi from 1967 to 1970 and then to film producer Marvin Minoff from 1980 until his death, in November 2009.
- 3/1/2013
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
Bonnie Franklin, the pert, redheaded actress whom millions came to identify with for her role as divorced mom Ann Romano on the long-running sitcom One Day at a Time, has died.
She died Friday at her home in Los Angeles due to complications from pancreatic cancer, family members said. She was 69. Her family had announced she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September.
Franklin was a veteran stage and television performer before One Day At a Time made her a star.
Developed by Norman Lear and co-created by Whitney Blake – herself a former sitcom star and single mother raising future...
She died Friday at her home in Los Angeles due to complications from pancreatic cancer, family members said. She was 69. Her family had announced she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September.
Franklin was a veteran stage and television performer before One Day At a Time made her a star.
Developed by Norman Lear and co-created by Whitney Blake – herself a former sitcom star and single mother raising future...
- 3/1/2013
- by Associated Press
- EW - Inside TV
The ‘One Day At A Time’ actress died on March 1 at her home in La after battling complications with pancreatic cancer — how sad!
Bonnie Franklin was an iconic TV actress. She starred on the CBS show One Day At A Time from 1975-1984. Her family announced that Bonnie had lost her battle to the terrible disease.
Bonnie Dies At Home Surrounded By Her Family
Bonnie was best known for playing Ann Romano, a divorced mom trying to raise two daughters in Indianapolis. Bonnie’s character was one of the first divorced women on TV and she broke misconceptions about being a single mom.
Bonnie also won a Tony nomination for her role in the Broadway musical Applause. She was also up for an Emmy in 1982 and twice for a Golden Globe for One Day At A Time.
Bonnie moved to Beverly Hills when she was 13 and went to Beverly Hills High School.
Bonnie Franklin was an iconic TV actress. She starred on the CBS show One Day At A Time from 1975-1984. Her family announced that Bonnie had lost her battle to the terrible disease.
Bonnie Dies At Home Surrounded By Her Family
Bonnie was best known for playing Ann Romano, a divorced mom trying to raise two daughters in Indianapolis. Bonnie’s character was one of the first divorced women on TV and she broke misconceptions about being a single mom.
Bonnie also won a Tony nomination for her role in the Broadway musical Applause. She was also up for an Emmy in 1982 and twice for a Golden Globe for One Day At A Time.
Bonnie moved to Beverly Hills when she was 13 and went to Beverly Hills High School.
- 3/1/2013
- by Chloe Melas
- HollywoodLife
Bonnie Franklin, best known for her role on the Norman Lear sitcom "One Day at a Time," has died at the age of 69.
In September, 2012, it was announced that Franklin had an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer with a low survival rate. The actress had indicated that she would seek treatment, but her death within six months indicates that this was not successful.
Franklin first appeared on television as a child actress -- her first credit was the part of Susan Cratchit in "Shower of Stars" in 1954. She worked steadily as a guest-starring actress on television shows over the following two decades before getting her big break in "One Day at a Time." From 1975 until 1984, Franklin played single mom Ann Romano for more than 200 episodes of this sitcom about Ann and her two daughters, Barbara and Julie (played by Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips, respectively).
She earned one Emmy and...
In September, 2012, it was announced that Franklin had an aggressive form of pancreatic cancer with a low survival rate. The actress had indicated that she would seek treatment, but her death within six months indicates that this was not successful.
Franklin first appeared on television as a child actress -- her first credit was the part of Susan Cratchit in "Shower of Stars" in 1954. She worked steadily as a guest-starring actress on television shows over the following two decades before getting her big break in "One Day at a Time." From 1975 until 1984, Franklin played single mom Ann Romano for more than 200 episodes of this sitcom about Ann and her two daughters, Barbara and Julie (played by Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips, respectively).
She earned one Emmy and...
- 3/1/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
One Day at a Time star Bonnie Franklin, who announced last September that she was suffering from pancreatic cancer, died of complications of the disease on Friday, her family told the Los Angeles Times. She was 69. Franklin died at her Los Angeles home, and is survived by her mother, Claire Franklin, and stepchildren Jed Minoff and Julie Minoff, said the paper. On the long-running CBS series, which was developed by Norman Lear and on the air from 1975-1984, Franklin starred as divorced mom Ann Romano, alongside Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli, who played her teenage daughters. Franklin and Bertinelli reunited...
- 3/1/2013
- by Stephen M. Silverman
- PEOPLE.com
Former '70s and '80s sitcom star Bonnie Franklin passed away this morning in Los Angeles after a battle with pancreatic cancer. She was 69.
Pics: Stars on the Set
Franklin's longtime manager, Robert Malcolm, confirmed the news to Et. He says that the star died this morning at home surrounded by her family. Hospice was called in on Saturday, February 23. She had been diagnosed with stage four cancer in August 2012 and they "tried everything they could, but nothing worked." A devoted mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend, Bonnie is survived by her mother, Claire, who is 101.
Private services will be held Monday, March 4 in Los Angeles. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking for donations to be sent to C-c-a-p.org at 11684 Ventura Blvd., Suite 437, Studio City, CA 91604 -- "so Ms. Franklin's legacy and love of the theatre can continue to flourish."
Franklin co-starred with Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips as a divorced mother...
Pics: Stars on the Set
Franklin's longtime manager, Robert Malcolm, confirmed the news to Et. He says that the star died this morning at home surrounded by her family. Hospice was called in on Saturday, February 23. She had been diagnosed with stage four cancer in August 2012 and they "tried everything they could, but nothing worked." A devoted mother, grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend, Bonnie is survived by her mother, Claire, who is 101.
Private services will be held Monday, March 4 in Los Angeles. In lieu of flowers, the family is asking for donations to be sent to C-c-a-p.org at 11684 Ventura Blvd., Suite 437, Studio City, CA 91604 -- "so Ms. Franklin's legacy and love of the theatre can continue to flourish."
Franklin co-starred with Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips as a divorced mother...
- 3/1/2013
- Entertainment Tonight
Bonnie Franklin -- who starred as Ann Romano on the classic TV show "One Day at a Time" -- died today due to complications from pancreatic cancer. She was 69. Franklin had announced she was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in September 2012. Franklin had a long career, but was best known for playing the mother to Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips on "One Day at a Time" from 1975-1984. She was married to playwright Ronald Sossi from...
- 3/1/2013
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Bonnie Franklin, best known for a playing single mom to two teenage daughters on the long-running CBS sitcom One Day At A Time, died this morning. She was 69. The actress and singer, who worked on stage, film and TV (she made her TV debut at age 9 on the Colgate Comedy Hour) and also directed several TV episodes during her career, disclosed last fall that she had pancreatic cancer. Born in Santa Monica, Franklin guest starred on several series and TV movies in the 1970s, and scored a Tony nomination in 1970 for starring in the musical Applause. In 1975 she landed the lead role of Ann Romano on the Norman Lear-developed sitcom One Day At A Time, starring alongside Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips as her daughters and Pat Harrington as their wisecracking super. The series ran from 1975-1984 and tackled several social issues like teen pregnancy as it humorously charted...
- 3/1/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
Former "One Day at a Time" star Bonnie Franklin has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, USA Today reported Monday.
Franklin, 68, once reigned among the top sitcom moms, playing tough but tender divorcee Ann Romano on the CBS hit. The show, which featured Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips as her daughters, ran from 1975 to 1984.
Although Franklin has devoted much of her career recently to regional theater work, according to Biography.com, she recently played parts on TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland" (in a reunion of sorts with Bertinelli) and "The Young & The Restless." Before that, her most recent TV role dated back to 2000 in an episode of "Touched By An Angel," according to IMDb.
Franklin's second husband, producer Marvin Minoff, died in 2009.
The one-year survival rate for all stages of pancreatic cancer combined is 20 percent and drops to 5 percent within five years, according to the American Cancer Society.
Franklin, 68, once reigned among the top sitcom moms, playing tough but tender divorcee Ann Romano on the CBS hit. The show, which featured Valerie Bertinelli and Mackenzie Phillips as her daughters, ran from 1975 to 1984.
Although Franklin has devoted much of her career recently to regional theater work, according to Biography.com, she recently played parts on TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland" (in a reunion of sorts with Bertinelli) and "The Young & The Restless." Before that, her most recent TV role dated back to 2000 in an episode of "Touched By An Angel," according to IMDb.
Franklin's second husband, producer Marvin Minoff, died in 2009.
The one-year survival rate for all stages of pancreatic cancer combined is 20 percent and drops to 5 percent within five years, according to the American Cancer Society.
- 9/24/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
By the Hollywood Reporter
Marvin Minoff, who produced the famed Richard Nixon interviews with David Frost, numerous telefilms and the 1998 film "Patch Adams," died Nov. 11 at his Los Angeles home with family and friends at his bedside. He was 78.
Minoff, the husband of actress Bonnie Franklin and the longtime business partner of writer-actor Mike Farrell, left the agency business after 15 years to become president of Frost's David Paradine Television in 1974.
Read more in the Hollywood Reporter.
...
Marvin Minoff, who produced the famed Richard Nixon interviews with David Frost, numerous telefilms and the 1998 film "Patch Adams," died Nov. 11 at his Los Angeles home with family and friends at his bedside. He was 78.
Minoff, the husband of actress Bonnie Franklin and the longtime business partner of writer-actor Mike Farrell, left the agency business after 15 years to become president of Frost's David Paradine Television in 1974.
Read more in the Hollywood Reporter.
...
- 11/13/2009
- by Lisa Horowitz
- The Wrap
Marvin Minoff, who produced the famed Richard Nixon interviews with David Frost, numerous telefilms and the 1998 film "Patch Adams," died Nov. 11 at his Los Angeles home with family and friends at his bedside. He was 78.
Minoff, the husband of actress Bonnie Franklin and the longtime business partner of writer-actor Mike Farrell, left the agency business after 15 years to become president of Frost's David Paradine Television in 1974.
There, he executive produced with the talk-show host and John Birt the interviews with Nixon that were broadcast in syndication in 1977, three years after the disgraced U.S. president resigned. The interviews were the basis of "Frost/Nixon," the Broadway play that was adapted into the 2008 film that was a best picture Oscar nominee. Keith MacKechnie played Minoff in the film.
Paradine also did subsequent interview sessions with Nixon's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the Shah of Iran.
A Brooklyn native and the...
Minoff, the husband of actress Bonnie Franklin and the longtime business partner of writer-actor Mike Farrell, left the agency business after 15 years to become president of Frost's David Paradine Television in 1974.
There, he executive produced with the talk-show host and John Birt the interviews with Nixon that were broadcast in syndication in 1977, three years after the disgraced U.S. president resigned. The interviews were the basis of "Frost/Nixon," the Broadway play that was adapted into the 2008 film that was a best picture Oscar nominee. Keith MacKechnie played Minoff in the film.
Paradine also did subsequent interview sessions with Nixon's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the Shah of Iran.
A Brooklyn native and the...
- 11/13/2009
- by By Mike Barnes
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Based on the real story of one Hunter "Patch" Adams, a Virginia Medical University student with unorthodox ideas about the relationship between doctors and patients, Universal Pictures' latest fumble on the goal line stars Robin Williams at his most cuddly cute. But with only routine quarterbacking from hit-maker Tom Shadyac ("The Nutty Professor") and swaddled in broad, obvious sentiments seemingly aimed at engaging children more than adults, "Patch Adams" is blandly medicinal and oppressively sweet to cover up its lack of originality.
A potential winner at the boxoffice, at least in its initial holiday unveiling, but destined to be lanced by critics, "Patch Adams" won't have the most inspiring theatrical legs -- and the worldwide diagnosis is healthy but lacking stamina and endurance.
The cuckoo-bird notion of using humor and clownish antics to relieve suffering and/or stimulate healing is presented as despicable heresy when former mental patient-turned-would-be doctor Adams (Williams) stubbornly breaks the rules to follow a passionate hunch. While skeptical fellow students and the grumpy school dean (Bob Gunton) wait impatiently for distracting, old fool Adams to flake or flunk out, he surprises them all with the best grades in the class.
Rooming with a hereditary doctor Philip Seymour Hoffman) who exudes upper-class snobbery and professional contempt, charismatic Adams wins over chilly young coed Carin (Monica Potter), but thankfully they're not destined for romance. Along with cautious ally and admirer Truman (Daniel London), Adams and his rebels (rules forbid students to interact with patients until the third year of study) continue to visit sick children and make them laugh, infiltrating the hospital attached to the university.
Episodic and repetitive, Adams' story becomes one of a defiant figure risking all to unhorse cynical authoritarians -- and bring a little joy to the world in the process. Of course, he's shocked when someone questions his vaudevillian methods, but he earns the motherly protection of a hospital nurse (Irma P. Hall) and not all of his superiors are as elitist and inflexible as the threatening dean.
With bulbous red nose firmly in place, Oscar winner Williams admirably tries to create an original character, but it's nearly impossible to not recall "Hook", "The Fisher King", "Aladdin", "Jack" and several other movies in the actor's 20-year career. After the so-so response to "What Dreams May Come", a vastly more ambitious project, "Patch Adams" is a respectable resume filler for Williams.
The rest of the cast is solid but not always well employed. Starting with the self-institutionalized Adams' experiences among the mentally ill and an epiphanic moment helping out a patient haunted by invisible squirrels, Shadyac and screenwriter Steve Oedekerk seem determined to indulge in cliches of messianic malcontents leading the faithful to mundane revelations about the goodness of being tolerant, charitable and tenacious when it comes to upholding higher principles.
Alas, the "Patch Adams" saga long-windedly continues after exceeding a comfortable length -- and after all points about humanizing the medical profession have been made thrice -- with Adams founding the patient-friendly Gesundheit Institute and eventually having to defend himself in a poorly explicated court sequence.
PATCH ADAMS
Universal Pictures
A Blue Wolf, Farrell/Minoff,
Bungalow 78 production
Director: Tom Shadyac
Screenwriter: Steve Oedekerk
Producers: Barry Kemp, Mike Farrell, Marvin Minoff, Charles Newirth
Executive producers: Marsha Garces Williams, Tom Shadyac
Director of photography: Phedon Papamichael
Production designer: Linda Descenna
Editor: Don Zimmerman
Music: Marc Shaiman
Costume designer: Judy Ruskin-Howell
Color/stereo
Cast:
Patch Adams: Robin Williams
Truman: Daniel London
Carin: Monica Potter
Mitch: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Dean Walcott: Bob Gunton
Joletta: Irma P. Hall
Running time -- 116 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
A potential winner at the boxoffice, at least in its initial holiday unveiling, but destined to be lanced by critics, "Patch Adams" won't have the most inspiring theatrical legs -- and the worldwide diagnosis is healthy but lacking stamina and endurance.
The cuckoo-bird notion of using humor and clownish antics to relieve suffering and/or stimulate healing is presented as despicable heresy when former mental patient-turned-would-be doctor Adams (Williams) stubbornly breaks the rules to follow a passionate hunch. While skeptical fellow students and the grumpy school dean (Bob Gunton) wait impatiently for distracting, old fool Adams to flake or flunk out, he surprises them all with the best grades in the class.
Rooming with a hereditary doctor Philip Seymour Hoffman) who exudes upper-class snobbery and professional contempt, charismatic Adams wins over chilly young coed Carin (Monica Potter), but thankfully they're not destined for romance. Along with cautious ally and admirer Truman (Daniel London), Adams and his rebels (rules forbid students to interact with patients until the third year of study) continue to visit sick children and make them laugh, infiltrating the hospital attached to the university.
Episodic and repetitive, Adams' story becomes one of a defiant figure risking all to unhorse cynical authoritarians -- and bring a little joy to the world in the process. Of course, he's shocked when someone questions his vaudevillian methods, but he earns the motherly protection of a hospital nurse (Irma P. Hall) and not all of his superiors are as elitist and inflexible as the threatening dean.
With bulbous red nose firmly in place, Oscar winner Williams admirably tries to create an original character, but it's nearly impossible to not recall "Hook", "The Fisher King", "Aladdin", "Jack" and several other movies in the actor's 20-year career. After the so-so response to "What Dreams May Come", a vastly more ambitious project, "Patch Adams" is a respectable resume filler for Williams.
The rest of the cast is solid but not always well employed. Starting with the self-institutionalized Adams' experiences among the mentally ill and an epiphanic moment helping out a patient haunted by invisible squirrels, Shadyac and screenwriter Steve Oedekerk seem determined to indulge in cliches of messianic malcontents leading the faithful to mundane revelations about the goodness of being tolerant, charitable and tenacious when it comes to upholding higher principles.
Alas, the "Patch Adams" saga long-windedly continues after exceeding a comfortable length -- and after all points about humanizing the medical profession have been made thrice -- with Adams founding the patient-friendly Gesundheit Institute and eventually having to defend himself in a poorly explicated court sequence.
PATCH ADAMS
Universal Pictures
A Blue Wolf, Farrell/Minoff,
Bungalow 78 production
Director: Tom Shadyac
Screenwriter: Steve Oedekerk
Producers: Barry Kemp, Mike Farrell, Marvin Minoff, Charles Newirth
Executive producers: Marsha Garces Williams, Tom Shadyac
Director of photography: Phedon Papamichael
Production designer: Linda Descenna
Editor: Don Zimmerman
Music: Marc Shaiman
Costume designer: Judy Ruskin-Howell
Color/stereo
Cast:
Patch Adams: Robin Williams
Truman: Daniel London
Carin: Monica Potter
Mitch: Philip Seymour Hoffman
Dean Walcott: Bob Gunton
Joletta: Irma P. Hall
Running time -- 116 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13...
- 12/14/1998
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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