{"id":138622,"date":"2019-04-17T18:10:09","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138622"},"modified":"2019-04-17T18:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T00:10:09","slug":"rip-georgia-engel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/17\/rip-georgia-engel.html","title":{"rendered":"RIP, Georgia Engel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While she did a lot more in her career than play the lovable, caring, ditzy blonde Georgette Franklin (eventually Georgette Baxter) on\u00a0<em>The Mary Tyler Moore Show,<\/em> that&#8217;s the role I remember her in. Georgette was everyone&#8217;s friend, soft-spoken, gentle, kind, seemingly not too bright, but with a steel core when it came to protecting her friends and values. Georgette was both an object of fun on the show, but also part of its heart, and Engle played her delightfully.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_138623\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-138623\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/georgette-franklin-georgia-engel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-138623\" title=\"georgette franklin - georgia engel\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/georgette-franklin-georgia-engel-650x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/georgette-franklin-georgia-engel-650x340.jpg 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/georgette-franklin-georgia-engel-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/georgette-franklin-georgia-engel-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/georgette-franklin-georgia-engel-768x402.jpg 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/georgette-franklin-georgia-engel.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-138623\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georgia as Georgette<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thanks, ma&#8217;am, for many hours of great entertainment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Do you want to know more?\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/04\/15\/georgia-engel-georgette-mary-tyler-moore-show-dead-dies\/\">Georgia Engel, Georgette From &#8216;Mary Tyler Moore Show,&#8217; Dead at 70 | TMZ.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0257077\/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1\">Georgia Engel &#8211; IMDb<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The actress played Georgette Franklin on &#8220;The Mary Tyler Moore Show&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[75,40],"tags":[1833,552],"class_list":["post-138622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media-performers","category-media-tv","tag-mtm","tag-rip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/georgette-franklin-georgia-engel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33659,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/08\/coverflips.html","url_meta":{"origin":138622,"position":0},"title":"Coverflips","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-May-13 2:25pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This is a brilliant idea (and not just because +Maureen Johnson\u00a0is involved) -- speculating how covers to books by male authors would look if the same books were (openly) written by women.If there is one plus to ebooks being less cover-obvious, it is that potentially-embarrassed men won't be as apprehensive\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132637,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/rip-mary-tyler-moore.html","url_meta":{"origin":138622,"position":1},"title":"RIP, Mary Tyler Moore","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 25-Jan-17 1:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank you, ma'am, for the many, many hours of entertainment you provided me over the decades -- in particular your work both on your eponymous show and on The Dick Van Dyke Show. 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