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Bonnie Gail Franklin (January 6, 1944 – March 1, 2013) was an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Ann Romano in the television series One Day at a Time (1975–1984). She was nominated for Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards.
Franklin was born January 6, 1944, in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Claire (née Hersch) (1911-2014) and Samuel Benjamin Franklin (1903-1997), an investment banker who founded the Beverly Hills, California chapter of B'nai B'rith. Her parents were both Jewish immigrants; her father from Russia and her mother from Romania; they married in Montreal before moving to the US.
Her family moved to Beverly Hills when she was 13 years old. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1961. She attended Smith College in Massachusetts, performing in an Amherst College production of Good News as a freshman, but she returned to California, enrolling at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and earning her bachelor's degree in English in 1966.
Franklin first appeared on television at age 9 in The Colgate Comedy Hour. and in 1954 played the role of Martha Cratchit in the Shower of Stars television show version of “A Christmas Carol”. At age 11, she appeared in a non-credited role in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man (1956). She and Tuesday Weld are the two giggling girls in the doorway of an apartment.
In the 1960s, she portrayed a teenage feature character in "You're the Judge," a short educational film about baking sponsored by Procter & Gamble and featuring the use of Crisco. She debuted on Broadway in 1970 in the musical Applause, earning a Tony Award nomination. Her recording of "Applause", the show's title track, was the most successful Broadway song of the season, vocally upstaging the star of the show, Lauren Bacall. Although she was on stage for only a fraction of the running time of that show, Franklin attracted a lot of attention. In its July 1970 edition, for example, Vogue published a photo spread in which the magazine predicted big careers for three young women: Melba Moore, Sandy Duncan, and Franklin.
Franklin appeared at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey in both George M! and A Thousand Clowns. From June 22 through September 2, 1973, she appeared as Carrie Pipperidge in a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel at the Jones Beach Theater on Long Island in New York in a cast that included John Cullum and Barbara Meister.
She guest-starred on several television series, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ("The Gazebo in the Maze Affair" from 1965) and Hazel ("Hazel Sits It Out" from 1965). She had a semi-regular role in the ABC series Gidget. She directed several episodes of the 1980s sitcom Charles in Charge and the syndicated comedy series The Munsters Today.
Franklin was best known for her portrayal of divorced mother Ann Romano on the television situation comedy One Day at a Time (1975–1984). In April 2011, Franklin and other cast members from One Day at a Time accepted the "Innovators Award" from the TV Land cable channel—one of several awards in the annual event. The citation on the TV Land web site reads:
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Bonnie Franklin
Bonnie Gail Franklin (January 6, 1944 – March 1, 2013) was an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Ann Romano in the television series One Day at a Time (1975–1984). She was nominated for Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards.
Franklin was born January 6, 1944, in Santa Monica, California, the daughter of Claire (née Hersch) (1911-2014) and Samuel Benjamin Franklin (1903-1997), an investment banker who founded the Beverly Hills, California chapter of B'nai B'rith. Her parents were both Jewish immigrants; her father from Russia and her mother from Romania; they married in Montreal before moving to the US.
Her family moved to Beverly Hills when she was 13 years old. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1961. She attended Smith College in Massachusetts, performing in an Amherst College production of Good News as a freshman, but she returned to California, enrolling at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and earning her bachelor's degree in English in 1966.
Franklin first appeared on television at age 9 in The Colgate Comedy Hour. and in 1954 played the role of Martha Cratchit in the Shower of Stars television show version of “A Christmas Carol”. At age 11, she appeared in a non-credited role in the Alfred Hitchcock film The Wrong Man (1956). She and Tuesday Weld are the two giggling girls in the doorway of an apartment.
In the 1960s, she portrayed a teenage feature character in "You're the Judge," a short educational film about baking sponsored by Procter & Gamble and featuring the use of Crisco. She debuted on Broadway in 1970 in the musical Applause, earning a Tony Award nomination. Her recording of "Applause", the show's title track, was the most successful Broadway song of the season, vocally upstaging the star of the show, Lauren Bacall. Although she was on stage for only a fraction of the running time of that show, Franklin attracted a lot of attention. In its July 1970 edition, for example, Vogue published a photo spread in which the magazine predicted big careers for three young women: Melba Moore, Sandy Duncan, and Franklin.
Franklin appeared at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, New Jersey in both George M! and A Thousand Clowns. From June 22 through September 2, 1973, she appeared as Carrie Pipperidge in a production of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel at the Jones Beach Theater on Long Island in New York in a cast that included John Cullum and Barbara Meister.
She guest-starred on several television series, including The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ("The Gazebo in the Maze Affair" from 1965) and Hazel ("Hazel Sits It Out" from 1965). She had a semi-regular role in the ABC series Gidget. She directed several episodes of the 1980s sitcom Charles in Charge and the syndicated comedy series The Munsters Today.
Franklin was best known for her portrayal of divorced mother Ann Romano on the television situation comedy One Day at a Time (1975–1984). In April 2011, Franklin and other cast members from One Day at a Time accepted the "Innovators Award" from the TV Land cable channel—one of several awards in the annual event. The citation on the TV Land web site reads:
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