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RIP Mama Carlson
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:05 am
by starfish1113
Carol Bruce, the woman who played "Big Guy" Carlson's mother on WKRP, has died. She was 87. She took over after Year 1 from another actress who played Mama Carlson but then died before Year 2. Bruce outlived her fictional son by a number of years.
Re: RIP Mama Carlson
Posted: Tue Oct 16, 2007 11:25 am
by earendel
starfish1113 wrote:Carol Bruce, the woman who played "Big Guy" Carlson's mother on WKRP, has died. She was 87. She took over after Year 1 from another actress who played Mama Carlson but then died before Year 2. Bruce outlived her fictional son by a number of years.
Originally the part of Mama Carlson was played by Sylvia Sydney; some of the scenes in the first few episodes had to be reshot when the show did a "retrospective" at the end of the first season (allegedly Mama Carlson demanded an accounting, allowing for flashbacks from several episodes including the Thanksgiving "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly" show.