Katherine Helmond, the Man-Crazy Mother on 'Who's the Boss?' Dies at 89

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Source: Hollywood Reporter

Katherine Helmond, the Man-Crazy Mother on 'Who's the Boss?' Dies at 89
10:24 AM PST 3/1/2019 by Mike Barnes

She also starred in 'Soap' and played a cosmetic surgery-addicted mother in 'Brazil,' one of three movies she did for Terry Gilliam.
Katherine Helmond, the seven-time Emmy-nominated Texas actress who played the feisty, man-crazy mother Mona Robinson on the long-running ABC sitcom Who's the Boss?, has died. She was 89.

Helmond, who earlier starred as the wide-eyed socialite sister Jessica Tate on another popular ABC comedy, Susan Harris' daytime-serial spoof Soap, died Feb. 23 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at her home in Los Angeles, her talent agency, APA, announced.

The shapely, blue-eyed Helmond also portrayed Doris Sherman, the widowed owner of the fictional NFL team the Orlando Breakers, on ABC's Coach, and she was Lois Whelan, the upper-class mother of Patricia Heaton's character, on CBS' Everybody Loves Raymond.

On the big screen, Helmond appeared in three Terry Gilliam movies -- as the seafaring cannibal Mrs. Ogre in Time Bandits (1981), as Jonathan Pryce's rich, cosmetic surgery-addicted mother in Brazil (1985) and as a hotel clerk in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998). And she provided the voice of Lizzie, a 1923 Ford Model T, in the three Cars movies.
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Hat tip, Lazycrockett, at Joe.My.God:

https://www.joemygod.com/2019/03/conway-trump-has-the-absolute-right-to-order-security-clearances-over-objections-of-intelligence-officials/

From the great "Brazil" (as it's correctly spelled):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_(1985_film)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?vBnx95KyQEAA

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[Solly Mack]

1. Forever Jessica Tate.

RI Splendor.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. Jessica Tate!

Cross gently, Katherine...

[Soxfan58]

7. That's how I remember her

RIP to a lovely lady

[Mrs. Overall]

11. Yes!

Loved her. RIP

[PoliticAverse]

15. 4 emmy nominations in that role. n/t

[OnlinePoker]

17. My favorite of her from Soap

[Zoonart]

3. RIP to a wonderful actress

BRAZIL

[The Truth Is Here]

4. Someone posted this earlier today..

and I was wondering, whatever happened to her. RIP K. Helmond.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

5. LBN? I'll have to delete this.

Link?

[The Truth Is Here]

8. No no no. the photo of the stretchy lady was posted earlier

I was wondering what happened to her. You just posted it. You are the original post

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. That image gets used as an avatar all over the interwebz. NT

[demmiblue]

6. Alyssa Milano:

Link to tweet

[pecosbob]

9. Loved everything I ever saw her in...

Not to forget Time Bandits...

[niyad]

12. requiescat in pace, Katherine

[tymorial]

22. Did you know she spent a few years performing at Trinity Rep in the 60s?

My parents saw her perform as Lady MacBeth. They only realized it was her when she was on Who's The Boss and the Providence Journal produced an article about her connection to Rhode Island. I saw her perform in "Love Letters" at Rhode Island College when I was working towards my nursing degree.

[niyad]

24. she was an amazingly talented performer. It is wonderful that you and your parents got

to see her in such roles.

[area51]

13. RIP

[Fullduplexxx]

14. Oh no ...

[BumRushDaShow]

16. Oh wow. Just saw a CNN breaking

What a loss!!! Loved her in Soap.

So sorry to see this.

R.I.P., thank you for your wonderful performances, and condolences to the family!

[unblock]

18. "i slept like a hog" "don't you mean you slept like a log?" "no, silly, logs don't sleep!"

aw, man, she was so funny!

[TexasBushwhacker]

19. She and her husband, David Christian, were married 57 years

She was 10 years older. They said it would never last - LOL. What a wonderful career and life.

[Dem2theMax]

20. She was fabulous!

This hurts my heart. Whenever she was on the screen, I couldn't take my eyes off of her. She was so good.

I am so sorry she had to suffer through Alzheimer's.
May she have eternal peace.

[lordsummerisle]

21. Soap was one of my all-time favorite shows

she was great in that and the other endeavors mentioned...

[Raine]

23. I loved her on "Who's the Boss"

R-I-P Katherine

[smirkymonkey]

25. How sad!

She was wonderful! RIP Katherine.