Actress Cindy Williams, known for her role as Shirley Feeney on the cult sitcom laverne and shirley in the 1970s, he died at the age of 75. She succumbed to an illness in a matter of months, US media reports.
“The loss of our good and hilarious mother Cindy Williams overwhelms us with insurmountable grief that we can never express,” her children Zak and Emily Hudson said in a statement. “Having known and loved him has been our joy and our privilege.”
After starting his career at travel with my aunt1972), a comedy with Maggie Smith, Cindy Williams found success playing the girlfriend of Ron Howard’s character in american graffiti (1973) by George Lucas.
Eight seasons of “Laverne and Shirley”
Later, the actress starred in secret talk (1974) by Francis Ford Coppola before appearing in an episode of the sitcom Happy Days with Penny Marshall. Their alchemy is such in this episode that director Garry Marshall imagines a series for them: laverne and shirleywhich was successful for eight seasons.
Cindy Williams left the series before the end, in the midst of conflicts with the Paramount studio, which wanted to force her to work until the day of her delivery. Her character was written out of the series after an amicable agreement between the actress and the studio.
Little active in the cinema, she had spent the following years multiplying her appearances in comedy series, without recovering her success from the 70s. She had also tried to make a career on Broadway.
Source: BFM TV
