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‘Laverne & Shirley’ actor Cindy Williams dies at 75 : NPR


Cindy Williams arrives for the TV Land Awards 10th Anniversary in New York on April 14, 2012. Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the hit sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” via died on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, in Los Angeles at the age of 75, her family said.

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Cindy Williams arrives for the TV Land Awards 10th Anniversary in New York on April 14, 2012. Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the hit sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” via died on Wednesday, January 25, 2023, in Los Angeles at the age of 75, her family said.

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LOS ANGELES — Cindy Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s character Laverne on the hit sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died, her family said Monday.

Williams died in Los Angeles at the age of 75 on Wednesday after a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in a statement released through family spokeswoman Liza Cranis.

“The passing of our funny, kind mother, Cindy Williams, has brought us an insurmountable and indescribable sadness,” the statement read. “It is our pleasure and privilege to know and love her. She is kind, beautiful, generous, with a great sense of humor and a shining spirit that everyone loves.”

Williams also starred in the 1973 film “American Graffiti” directed by George Lucas and “The Conversation” directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1974.

But by far, she’s best known for “Laverne & Shirley,” the “Happy Days” spin-off that ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983, in its prime, it was one of the shows. most famous on TV.

Williams played the restrained Shirley with Marshall’s more liberal Laverne in the show about a pair of roommates who worked at the Milwaukee bottling plant in the 1950s and 60s.

Marshall, whose brother, Garry Marshall, co-created the series, passed away in 2018.

“Laverne & Shirley” is almost as well known for its opening theme as it is for the show itself. The line “schlemiel, schlimazel” by Williams and Marshall as they danced together has become a cultural phenomenon and an often-talked-about piece of nostalgia.

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