Hollywood is mourning the loss of Cindy Williams, the optimistic foil to Penny Marshall’s Laverne in the hit 1970s sitcom Laverne & Shirley.
Williams died in Los Angeles on Wednesday after a brief illness, her family told The Associated Press. “The passing of our kind, hilarious mother, Cindy Williams, has brought us insurmountable sadness that could never truly be expressed,” reads the statement from her children, Emily and Zak Hudson.
After news of Williams’ death, Hollywood shared their thoughts on social media remembering the star. Larry Karaszewski reacted on Twitter pointing out that although Williams was best known in comedic roles on TV, she had range. “A few years back at the Cinematheque we celebrated her feature work in two Best Picture nominees American Graffiti and The Conversation,” Karaszewski tweeted. “Cindy’s great first ‘Conversation’: ‘Every time I see one of those old guys, I always think that he was once somebody’s baby boy.
He had a mother and a father who loved him and now there he is, half dead on a park bench, and where are his mother, his father, all his uncles now?'”Cindy’s great first “Conversation”: “Every time I see one of those old guys, I always think that he was once somebody's baby boy.
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