LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cindy Williams, who played Shirley opposite Penny Marshall’s Laverne on the well-liked sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died, her family explained Monday.
Williams died in Los Angeles at age 75 on Wednesday soon after a short ailment, her kids, Zak and Emily Hudson, mentioned in a assertion produced via family spokeswoman Liza Cranis.
“The passing of our variety, hilarious mother, Cindy Williams, has brought us insurmountable disappointment that could by no means really be expressed,” the assertion mentioned. “Knowing and loving her has been our joy and privilege. She was 1 of a type, gorgeous, generous and possessed a outstanding perception of humor and a glittering spirit that every person cherished.”
Williams also starred in director George Lucas’ 1973 movie “American Graffiti” and director Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” from 1974.
But she was by significantly greatest regarded for “Laverne & Shirley,” the “Happy Days” spinoff that ran on ABC from 1976 to 1983 that in its primary was between the most well known exhibits on Tv.
Williams performed the straitlaced Shirley to Marshall’s much more libertine Laverne on the show about a pair of roommates that labored at a Milwaukee bottling manufacturing unit in the 1950s and 60s.
Marshall, whose brother, Garry Marshall, co-made the sequence, died in 2018.
“Laverne & Shirley” was identified almost as significantly for its opening theme as the display by itself. Williams’ and Marshall’s chant of “schlemiel, schlimazel” as they skipped jointly became a cultural phenomenon and oft-invoked piece of nostalgia.
