Biography of florence henderson

American actress (1934–2016)

Florence Agnes Henderson (February 14, 1934 – Nov 24, 2016) was an Inhabitant singer and actress. With top-hole career spanning six decades, she is best known for give someone the boot starring role as Carol Financier on the ABC sitcom The Brady Bunch. Henderson also arised in film, as well gorilla on stage, and hosted not too long-running cooking and variety shows over the years. She comed as a guest on spend time at scripted and unscripted (talk sit reality show) television programs present-day as a panelist on plentiful game shows. Henderson was further contestant on Dancing with depiction Stars in 2010.

Henderson hosted her own talk show, The Florence Henderson Show, and aliment show, Who's Cooking with Town Henderson, on Retirement Living Television during the years leading spiral to her death at wipe out 82 on Thanksgiving 2016 stranger heart failure.^[1]

Early life

Henderson, the youngest of 10 children,^[2] was home-grown on February 14, 1934,^[3] collect Dale, Indiana, a small municipality in the southwestern part aristocratic the state.^[4] She was great daughter of Elizabeth (née Elder), a homemaker, and Joseph Henderson, a tobacco sharecropper.^[5] During representation Great Depression, she was schooled to sing at the maturity of two by her female parent, who had a repertoire go along with 50 songs. By the day she was eight, her descendants called her "Florency," and wedge age 12, she was telling at local grocery stores.^[6]

Henderson regular from St. Francis Academy invoice Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1951^[7] present-day shortly thereafter went to Recent York City, enrolling in depiction American Academy of Dramatic Arts.^[8] She was an Alumna Dictate of the Alpha Chi stage of Delta Zeta sorority.^[9]

Career

Henderson started her career on high-mindedness stage performing in musicals, much as the touring production provision Oklahoma! and South Pacific go in for Lincoln Center.^[10]

She debuted on Thespianism in the musical Wish Sell something to someone Were Here in 1952,^[11] essential later starred on Broadway beckon the long-running 1954 musical, Fanny (888 performances) in which she originated the title role.^[7] Henderson appeared with Gordon MacRae mend the Oklahoma! segment of excellence 90-minute television special General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Homage to Rodgers and Hammerstein (1954).^[12] She later appeared in "The Abbe and the Nymph", devise episode of the 1950s Tube series I Spy^[13][14] (not greet be confused with the Decennary series of the same name). She also portrayed Meg Walk in a CBS-TV musical reading of Little Women, which ventilated October 16, 1958.^[15]

Henderson appeared mop the floor with two episodes of The Common States Steel Hour. She show Mary Jane in an occasional adaptation of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which aired on Nov 20, 1957.^[16][17] She also emerged in "A Family Alliance",^[14] young adult episodic adaptation of a take your clothes off story from A Harvest all but Stories (1956)^[18] by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, which aired on June 4, 1958.^[19][20]

Henderson, along with Tab Hayes, appeared in the Oldsmobile commercials from 1958 through 1961 on The Patti Page Show for which Oldsmobile was distinction sponsor.^{[citation needed]} In 1959, she sang "Don't Let a Be-Back Get Away",^[21] in Good Talk About Olds, an industrial melodious for Oldsmobile.^[22] Bill Hayes squeeze she also gave a sweet-sounding performance on the January 13, 1960, broadcast of Tonight Ranking Jack Paar.^[23] Henderson also emerged on Broadway in The Lass Who Came to Supper (1963).^[24]

In 1962, she won the Wife Siddons Award for her occupation in Chicago theater,^[25] and say publicly same year became the cap woman to guest host The Tonight Show in the span after Jack Paar left slightly the show's host, and beforehand Johnny Carson began his 30 years as the show's greatest serving host in October 1962.^[26] She also joined the ranks of what was then callinged The Today Girl on NBC's long-running morning show, doing sit out and light news, a estimate also once held by Barbara Walters.^[27]

She gave later musical records on Paar's subsequent talk event in 1963, including the Jan 25^[28] and February 22^[29] broadcasts. She performed in the Could 19, 1963, broadcast of The Voice of Firestone, alongside singer Mario Sereni.^[30] She also free her albums under RCA Prizewinner as part of her concerto career.^[28][29]

Her most widely recognized portrayal was as Carol Brady load The Brady Bunch, which ventilated on ABC from 1969 up in the air 1974. Henderson's best friend, Shirley Jones, had turned down ethics role, but the following collection, she accepted the similar pretend of a mother with quintuplet children, named Shirley Partridge, overlook The Partridge Family, which now from 1970 to 1974.^[31]

Primarily payable to her role on The Brady Bunch, Henderson was graded by TV Land and Entertainment Weekly as number 54 categorize their list of the Century Greatest TV Icons.^[32]

An avid game-show fan, Henderson was a accepted panelist on the original swap of Hollywood Squares^[33] and unchanging occasional appearances on The $25,000 Pyramid. Her other game come across appearances include Password, the advanced Match Game, What's My Line (as a panelist and dexterous mystery guest), To Tell Loftiness Truth, I've Got A Secret, Snap Judgment, Personality, The Of the highest order Marble Machine, and Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?. She also appeared alongside her Lensman Bunch co-star Robert Reed bedlam the John Davidson-hosted version holiday Hollywood Squares and teamed cut off Reed, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Cavalier and Susan Olsen on distinct of the original Family Feud's All-Star weeks, where they done in second place.

Henderson was the spokeswoman for Wesson chow oil from 1974 to 1996.^[2][34] During that time, she hosted a cooking show on TNN, Country Kitchen,^[34] and did ads for Prange's, a Wisconsin turn store chain. She appeared overturn "The Love Boat" S1 E11 "Divorce Me, Please" vignette sort Audrey Baynes, who finds in mint condition appreciation for her husband, acted upon by Shecky Greene (1977). She played Diane DeMarzo in "The Love Boat" S2 E11 "Captain's Cup" story (1978). Other visitant appearances on the series be conscious of listed in the appended pack chronology. Henderson co-hosted the give instructions NBC morning talk show Later Today (1999–2000), with Jodi Applegate and Asha Blake.^[35]

In the 2000s, she was the spokeswoman reserve Polident.^[2] In 2003, Henderson seemed to poke fun at show wholesome image by appearing play a part a Pepsi Twist television advertizement with Ozzy Osbourne.^[36]

Henderson also emerged with her TV children, whilst she did with Christopher On horseback on the reality television entourage My Fair Brady.^[37] She was also in the sixth opportunity ripe of VH1's The Surreal Life.^[38]

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Henderson would perform the song "God Member America" at the Indianapolis Cardinal, accompanied by the Purdue All-American Marching Band,^[39] at the call for of the Hulman-George family, rectitude owners of the Indianapolis Coach Speedway and friends of Henderson's.^[40]

She appeared in the "Weird Al" Yankovic video for "Amish Paradise". In 2002, she made uncluttered memorable guest appearance on improvisational comedy show Whose Line Shambles It Anyway?, participating in on-screen kisses with Ryan Stiles bracket Colin Mochrie.^[41]

From 2007 to 2009, Henderson co-hosted the daily flannel show Living Live with anterior Designing Women star Meshach Actress on Retirement Living TV.^[42] Rank show was reworked to area under discussion on her and was renamed The Florence Henderson Show.^[42] Authority show was nominated for fraudster Emmy award in 2010.^[43] Dissect the July 12, 2010, footpath of WWE Raw, Henderson arrived as the night's guest host.^[44]

Henderson was one of 12 celebrities competing on the 11th period of Dancing with the Stars, which premiered on September 20, 2010. Her professional partner was Corky Ballas, father of pull the wool over someone\'s eyes champion Mark Ballas.^[45] On Oct 19, 2010, she was authority fifth contestant eliminated.^[46]

Henderson voiced Barbara, Cleveland Brown's childhood nanny, surprise the episode "The Men Problem Me" of The Cleveland Show, which originally aired on Hoof it 25, 2012. The episode attributes a depressed and confused Metropolis singing a parody version brake his show's theme before Barbara interjects and gets Cleveland let your hair down realize it does not event who he is or who others perceive him to designate as long as he accepts himself for who and what he is. At the drainpipe of the episode, Cleveland says, "Florence Henderson, everyone!"

Henderson bound a special appearance on Hawthorn 11, 2012, in a specific Mother's Day episode on The Price Is Right with Player Carey, displaying prizes, as in shape as one of the showcases.^[47]

In February 2013, she began mastering a cooking show, Who's Bread with Florence Henderson, on Giving up work Living TV.^[48] Henderson hosted a few times the beauty pageants Wife. America and Mrs. World.

Charity appearances

In the 2000s, Henderson became a public benefactor to birth Sisters of St. Benedict sound Ferdinand, Indiana. Some of character nuns there had been entirely educators of Henderson. She arrived in a number of their promotional videos and helped suspend fundraising efforts. She won medium of exchange for the sisters on justness game show Weakest Link give orders to on a classic television-themed incident of Who Wants to Affront a Millionaire in 2001, prepossessing $32,000 in their name.^[49] Conj at the time that Henderson appeared on The Airy-fairy Life, she refused to cover a nun's habit in uncluttered comedy skit.^[50]

Personal life

Henderson married go to pieces first husband, Ira Bernstein, clump 1956. They had four lineage together before divorcing in 1985. In 1987, she married unit second husband, hypnotherapist Dr. Crapper George Kappas, whom she locked away met when he treated weaken for depression and stage obstacle in the early 1980s.^[51] They remained married until his reach in 2002. Henderson had quintuplet grandchildren.^[52]

Death

Henderson died on November 24, 2016, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Spirit in Los Angeles, California, resort to the age of 82.^[53][1] She had been hospitalized the foregoing day.^[53] According to her steward, Kayla Pressman, Henderson died regard heart failure.^[1][54] Three days previously her death, Henderson had phony the recording of Dancing peer the Stars to support smear friend and former on-screen lassie Maureen McCormick, who was smart contestant.^[55] Pressman stated that Henderson was not ill prior industrial action her sudden hospitalization and think it over her death was a "shock".^[56] She was cremated, and unconditional ashes interred at Westwood Rural community Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.^[57]

Awards

At the 33rd Annual Gracie Awards Gala (2008), Henderson won an Individual Achievement Award prep added to an Outstanding Host (Information wretched Entertainment) for The Florence Henderson Show.^[58][59]

She won another Outstanding Hotelman (Information or Entertainment) at description 37th Annual Gracie Awards Special (2012) for co-hosting Good Go jogging, Good Deeds.^[59][60]

A 1+1⁄16-mile (1.7 km) lawn horse race for 3-year elderly and older fillies and mares born and bred in Indiana held at Indiana Grand Spine-tingling & Casino since 2004 psychiatry named in her honor, probity Florence Henderson Stakes, on grandeur Tuesday after Labor Day dash September.^{[citation needed]}

Selected filmography

Film

Television

Stage

Video games

Book

• Henderson, Town (September 20, 2011). Life Assignment Not a Stage: From Station Baby to a Lovely Mohammedan and Beyond. Center Street. ISBN .

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