Williams died in Los Angeles at age 75 on Wednesday after a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in a statement.
turned to Roos and said, “I like her. She’s like a pudgy Barbara Harris,” the Tony-winning Broadway comic. They brought her on to their newly formed company, Compass Management. then, on her first audition, she booked the part of student Rhoda Zagor on James L. Brooks’ popular high-school comedyShe then became friends with Garry Marshall’s younger sister, Penny Marshall, whom she met through mutual friends.
They had been writing together for a few months when Garry Marshall called to ask if they would like to guest on his ABC series“Penny said yes and I said yes and we went and did it. The rest is kind of history,” she toldThe women became household names after 1975, when their characters — two girls from the other side of the tracks — appeared on Marshall’s sitcom for a double date with Richie and Fonzie .
Williams learned the genre on the job: The broad physical comedy was reminiscent of Lucy Ricardo and Ethel Mertz’ high jinks onand aired until 1983. But Williams, who directed one episode, only stayed on the sitcom through 1982, when its final season began.in 2012 that “it was a tough show,” the opposite of the carefree set ofAmid some tension between the stars and her own pregnancy, Williams left the series before giving birth to her daughter Emily with then-husband, Bill Hudson.
After she left, Williams sued Paramount TV and producer Garry Marshall for $20 million, claiming that they “welshed” on a promise to accommodate her pregnancy and still pay her $75,000 per episode plus a piece of the profits.She and Penny Marshall, who died in 2018, also reconciled after the show went off the air. Appearing in a cast reunion on“It’s like an Italian family at a dinner table on Sunday and somebody doesn’t pass the celery properly,” Williams said.
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