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Television and stage star Bonnie Franklin has been tap dancing since she was nine years old, appearing with Donald O'Connor on the Colgate Comedy Hour. She began teaching at the age of 12 and went on to a versatile dance and acting career which includes many stage and screen roles, the most notable being the national hit TV series One Day at a Time, which ran for nine years on network television.
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In this groundbreaking 1970s sitcom, recent divorcee Ann Romano (Bonnie Franklin) and her teenage daughters Julie (Mackenzie Phillips) and Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli) move to Indianapolis to start a new life. They pull together as they deal with Ann's budding career and the girls' adolescent problems. Produced by Norman Lear, the series tackles controversial topics such as teen sex, suicide and sexual discrimination. Pat Harrington Jr. co-stars.
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Newly divorced Ann Romano (Bonnie Franklin) moves her two teenaged daughters, Julie (Mackenzie Phillips) and Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli), to Indianapolis in this Norman Lear sitcom. A newly single woman determined to make it on her own, the series serves as a shining example of how not to raise kids (although, through the writers, the kids turn out just fine.)
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Bonnie Franklin is best known as Ann Romano, the divorced mother on One Day at a Time, a long-running comedy-drama of the 1970s and 80s. Mackenzie Phillips and Valerie Bertinelli played her teenaged daughters, and the series dealt with "real life" issues so often, almost every episode was a "very special episode". In One Day's nine-year run, Franklin's character dealt with her girls' growing up and her own impending middle age. She broke up with her divorce lawyer boyfriend Richard Masur, argued with building super Pat Harrington, and struggled financially when ex-husband Joseph Campanella stopped paying alimony and child support. Later, her character fell in love but her fiancé was killed by a drunk driver, and later still she fell for her daughter's husband's father, played by WKRP's Howard Hesseman.
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Ann Romano (Bonnie Franklin) is divorced, and in 1975 that's a big thing. She's now considered to be a wicked woman; a lonely, crazy soul who's bound to fail without the support of a man. She does have the support of her two daughters—the wild and untamable Julie (Mackenzie Phillips) and the tomboyish, innocent Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli); her apartment super, Schneider (Pat Harrington); and her lawyer/boyfriend, David (Richard Mauser). But is it enough? How will Ann survive without a husband? By living One Day at a Time.
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Survivors include a son, Frank Franklin, of Portland, Ore.; two daughters, Mary Carniglia of Montara, Calif., and Dr. Bonnie Franklin-Braastad of Santa Barbara and Santa Ynez, Calif.; seven grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by two brothers, John Lawton and Dr. Jim Lawton; and three sisters, Kay Martin, Ann Mullin and Margie McManus.
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