‘Laverne & Shirley’ star, Cindy Williams, dies at 75(Jan. 25)
‘Laverne & Shirley’ star, Cindy Williams, dies at 75(Jan. 25)
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Cindy Williams, an actress best remembered for her long-running TV role as Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” died Jan. 25 in Los Angeles. She was 75.
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Her family announced the death but did not disclose a specific cause.
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Cynthia Williams was born one of two sisters in the Van Nuys area of Los Angeles on Aug. 22, 1947.
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Her mother was a waitress, and her father was an electronics technician who uprooted the family to Texas for several years to try farming before returning to Southern California.
Her mother was a waitress, and her father was an electronics technician who uprooted the family to Texas for several years to try farming before returning to Southern California.
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“I was a kid with an alcoholic father whose parents would get in violent fights,” she told the Waterloo Region Record. “And I’d be watching ‘My Little Margie’ or ‘Your Show of Shows,’ and they would take me away. It was ‘forget your troubles — come on, get happy.’”
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Last year, Ms. Williams appeared in a one-woman stage show full of stories from her career, “Me, Myself and Shirley,” at a theater in Palm Springs, Calif., near her home in Desert Hot Springs.
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Her marriage to singer Bill Hudson of musical group the Hudson Brothers ended in divorce. He was previously married to Goldie Hawn and is also the father of actor Kate Hudson. Ms. Williams had two children, but a complete list of survivors was not immediately available.