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  • "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" L to R: standing: Valerie Harper, Ed Asner and Cloris Leachman. Seated: Gavin MacLeod, Mary Tyler Moore, Ted Knight
  • Valerie Harper, Cloris Leachman, and Mary Tyler Moore in a scene from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."
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    James Burrows' first TV directing job was with "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," starring Ed Asner, left, Valerie Harper and Mary Tyler Moore. CBS
  • Valerie Harper
    Actress Valerie Harper, photographed in New York on July 28, 1995, replaces Linda Lavin in one-act plays by Elaine May and Woody Allen, in "Death Defying Acts" at New York's Variety Arts Theater. She is well known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" and its spinoff "Rhoda." Harper hasn't always been a TV actress. As a child, she studied to become a ballerina and her career started on the New York stage.
    Marty Reichenthal | Associated Press
  • MARY AND RHODA
    Mary Tyler Moore and Valerie Harper return together as their popular alter egos, Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern - to start their lives over again. Now, both with single, college-age daughters, they reestablish their wonderfully warm friendship. They're taking on New York City and the daunting challenges of motherhood and finding new careers at a difficult time to be on their own. Pictured here (l-r): Joie Lenz, Mary Tyler Moore, Valerie Harper, Marisa Ryan.
    TIMOTHY WHITE | ABC
  • MARY AND RHODA
    Mary Tyler Moore (left) and Valerie Harper return together as their popular alter egos, Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern - to start their lives over again, in "MARY AND RHODA" airing as an "ABC Original," in 2000. Now, both with single, college-age daughters, they reestablish their wonderfully warm friendship. They're taking on New York City and the daunting challenges of motherhood and finding new careers at a difficult time to be on their own.
    TIMOTHY WHITE | ABC
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    Mary Tyler Moore (left) and Valerie Harper return together as their popular alter egos, Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern - to start their lives over again, in "MARY AND RHODA" in early 2000.
    ERIC LIEBOWITZ | © 1999 ABC, INC.
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    In this Nov. 9, 2007, file photo, actress and Screen Actors Guild member Valerie Harper shows her support of thousands of members of the Writers Guild of America during the fifth day of the writers strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) at Fox Plaza in Los Angeles. The contract between the Screen Actors Guild and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expires Monday, June 30, 2008, and negotiations have dragged on for weeks with no apparent headway.
    Reed Saxon | AP
  • PEOPLE MOORE HARPER
    "Mary Tyler Moore Show" co-stars Valerie Harper, left, and Mary Tyler Moore hug backstage at the Variety Arts Theatre in New York, Wednesday, Oct. 4, 1995. Moore went backstage to visit her old sitcom housemate, currently starring in the off-Broadway production of "Death Defying Acts."
    AUBREY REUBEN | AP
  • Valerie Harper, center, participated in a rally in support of the Equal Rights Amendment in 1978 in Seattle. She is flanked by her sister, Leah Windward, right, and Diane Narasaki.
  • PEOPLE HARPER
    Actress Valerie Harper appears at the unveiling of a billboard featuring her and others in New York's Times Square, Thursday, Aug. 5, 1999, promoting Healthy Woman, a new, natural over-the-counter soy supplement that claims to help relieve hot flashes throughout menopause.
    TINA FINEBERG | AP
  • MELROSE PLACE
    It's a family affair: Jennifer Mancini (Alyssa Milano, L) anxiously looks on as Michael (Thomas Calabro, C) tries to convince their mother, Mia Mancini (guest star Valerie Harper, R), to invest in his latest business venture on a "Melrose Place" special episode in 1998.
    LARRY WATSON | FOX
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    The Mancini family portrait: mother Mia (guest star Valerie Harper, C), with her children, Dr. Michael (Thomas Calabro, L) and sister Jennifer (Alyssa Milano, R), characters in the popular TV series "Melrose Place."
    GREGORY SCHWARTZ | FOX

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