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Meredith Rousseau (daughter) Donny Gerard (stepson) Rhoda Faye Morgenstern, portrayed by Valerie Harper, is a fictional character on the television sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The character was spun off to the show Rhoda, in which she was the protagonist.
Her father was of English and French ancestry and her mother was of French-Canadian, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh ancestry. Harper based her character Rhoda Morgenstern on her Italian-American stepmother and Penny Ann Green (née Joanna Greenberg), with whom she danced in the Broadway musical Wildcat.
The episode opens with Rhoda Morgenstern traveling from her home in Minneapolis to New York City, where she was born and raised, for a two-week vacation, staying with her younger sister, Brenda (Julie Kavner), who works as a bank teller and suffers from low self-esteem exacerbated by dating problems, similar to how Rhoda herself had experienced ...
Aug 30, 2019 · Valerie Harper, best known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, died Friday in Los Angeles. She was 80. As the blunt, self-deprecating Rhoda, Harper created one of the...
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Sep 14, 2010 · In the 1970s, on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and later on its spinoff, “Rhoda,” he played Martin Morgenstern, the father of Rhoda Morgenstern (Valerie Harper), the best friend of Mary Richards...
Sep 14, 2010 · A prolific character actor who played Rhoda Morgenstern’s father on the 1970s comedies "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff "Rhoda," has died, reports the New York Times. Harold Gould...
Valerie Harper. Born: August 22nd, 1939. Died: August 30th, 2019. "My name is Rhoda Morgenstern. I was born in the Bronx, New York, in December 1941. I've always felt responsible for World War...
