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January 2013
On Sale: January 15, 2013
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ISBN: 1451699468
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Non-Fiction Memoir
As Mary Richards’s lovable and self-deprecating best friend
Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Valerie
Harper, too, turned the world on with her smile. Viewers
could relate to Rhoda, native New Yorker and struggling
working girl, who was unlucky in love and insecure about her
weight but who always kept her sense of humor. Valerie was an unknown actress when she won the part that
made her famous, and by the time Rhoda, her popular spin-off
show, ended, she had won four Emmys and a Golden Globe. The
role was groundbreaking. On-screen, she represented a
self-reliant new identity for women of the 1970s while
off-screen she fought alongside feminists Gloria Steinem and
Bella Abzug for equal rights, among other issues that were
important to her. Valerie’s showbiz journey has taken her from Broadway, where
she performed as a dancer and eventually found herself
onstage with Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason, to Hollywood,
where she went down in history as one of television’s
best-loved characters, and back to the Great White Way,
where she recently won a Tony Award nomination for her
critically acclaimed role as Tallulah Bankhead. Her
inspiring story is laced with triumphs and a few
transformative obstacles along the way, but she remains
upbeat and funny throughout, always confident that no matter
what, she’s going to make it after all.
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