Florence Agnes Henderson was an American actress and singer.
42 Facts About Florence Henderson
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Florence Henderson appeared as a guest on many scripted and unscripted television programs and as a panelist on numerous game shows.
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Florence Henderson was a contestant on Dancing with the Stars in 2010.
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Henderson hosted her own talk show, The Florence Henderson Show, and cooking show, Who's Cooking with Florence Henderson, on Retirement Living TV during the years leading up to her death at age 82 on Thanksgiving 2016 from heart failure.
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Florence Henderson, the youngest of 10 children, was born on February 14,1934, in Dale, Indiana, a small town in the southwestern part of the state.
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Florence Henderson was a daughter of Elizabeth, a homemaker, and Joseph Henderson, a tobacco sharecropper.
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Florence Henderson graduated from St Francis Academy in Owensboro, Kentucky, in 1951 and shortly thereafter went to New York City, enrolling in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.
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Florence Henderson was an Alumna Initiate of the Alpha Chi chapter of Delta Zeta sorority.
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Florence Henderson debuted on Broadway in the musical Wish You Were Here in 1952, and later starred on Broadway in the long-running 1954 musical, Fanny in which she originated the title role.
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Florence Henderson later appeared in "The Abbe and the Nymph", an episode of the 1950s TV series I Spy.
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Florence Henderson portrayed Meg March in a CBS-TV musical adaptation of Little Women, which aired October 16,1958.
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Florence Henderson appeared in two episodes of The United States Steel Hour.
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Florence Henderson portrayed Mary Jane in an episodic adaptation of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, which aired on November 20,1957.
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Florence Henderson appeared in "A Family Alliance", an episodic adaptation of a short story from A Harvest of Stories by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, which aired on June 4,1958.
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Florence Henderson appeared on Broadway in The Girl Who Came to Supper.
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Florence Henderson joined the ranks of what was then called The Today Girl on NBC's long-running morning show, doing weather and light news, a position once held by Barbara Walters.
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Florence Henderson gave later musical performances on Paar's subsequent talk show in 1963, including the January 25 and February 22 broadcasts.
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Florence Henderson performed in the May 19,1963, broadcast of The Voice of Firestone, alongside baritone Mario Sereni.
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Florence Henderson released her albums under RCA Victor as part of her music career.
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Primarily owing to her role on The Brady Bunch, Florence Henderson was ranked by TV Land and Entertainment Weekly as number 54 on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Icons.
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An avid game-show fan, Florence Henderson was a frequent panelist on the original version of Hollywood Squares and made occasional appearances on The $25,000 Pyramid.
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Florence Henderson appeared alongside her Brady Bunch co-star Robert Reed on the John Davidson-hosted version of Hollywood Squares and teamed with Reed, Maureen McCormick, Christopher Knight and Susan Olsen on one of the original Family Feud's All-Star weeks, where they finished in second place.
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Florence Henderson was the spokeswoman for Wesson cooking oil from 1974 to 1996.
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Florence Henderson co-hosted the short-lived NBC morning talk show Later Today, with Jodi Applegate and Asha Blake.
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In 2003, Florence Henderson seemed to poke fun at her wholesome image by appearing in a Pepsi Twist television commercial with Ozzy Osbourne.
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Florence Henderson appeared with her TV children, as she did with Christopher Knight on the reality television series My Fair Brady.
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Florence Henderson was in the sixth season of VH1's The Surreal Life.
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Florence Henderson appeared in the "Weird Al" Yankovic video for "Amish Paradise".
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From 2007 to 2009, Florence Henderson co-hosted the daily talk show Living Live with former Designing Women star Meshach Taylor on Retirement Living TV.
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In May 2010, Florence Henderson did a series of promotional radio ads for Fox.
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Florence Henderson was one of 12 celebrities competing on the 11th season of Dancing with the Stars, which premiered on September 20,2010.
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Florence Henderson voiced Barbara, Cleveland Brown's childhood nanny, in the episode "The Men In Me" of The Cleveland Show, which originally aired on March 25,2012.
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Florence Henderson made a special appearance on May 11,2012, in a special Mother's Day episode on The Price Is Right with Drew Carey, displaying prizes, as well as one of the showcases.
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Florence Henderson hosted several times the beauty pageants Mrs America and Mrs World.
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Florence Henderson appeared in a number of their promotional videos and helped in fundraising efforts.
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Florence Henderson won money for the sisters on the game show Weakest Link and on a classic television-themed episode of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire in 2001, winning $32,000 in their name.
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When Florence Henderson appeared on The Surreal Life, she refused to wear a nun's habit in a comedy skit.
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Florence Henderson died on November 24,2016, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 82.
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Three days before her death, Florence Henderson had attended the recording of Dancing with the Stars to support her friend and former on-screen daughter Maureen McCormick, who was a contestant.
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Pressman stated that Florence Henderson was not ill prior to her sudden hospitalization and that her death was a "shock".
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Florence Henderson was cremated, and her ashes interred at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles.
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Florence Henderson won another Outstanding Host at the 37th Annual Gracie Awards Gala for co-hosting Good Food, Good Deeds.