LOS ANGELES—Georgia Engel, who played the charmingly innocent, small-voiced Georgette on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and amassed a string of other TV and stage credits, has died. Engel was best known for her role as Georgette on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, the character who was improbably destined to marry pompous anchorman Ted Baxter, played by Ted Knight. Her Hot in Cleveland role reunited her with Betty White, her co-star in The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1972-77) and The Betty White Show (1977-78). In 2007, Engel told the Star’s Richard Ouzounian about how she got the job on Mary Tyler Moore after Moore saw her perform in the play The House of Blue Leaves in Los Angeles. Funeral services for Engel, whose survivors include her sisters Robin Engel and Penny Lusk, will be private, Quilty said.

Source: thestar April 16, 2019 16:07 UTC