Leachman died in her sleep of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, California, publicist Monique Moss said Wednesday. In 1989, Leachman toured in “Grandma Moses,” a play in which she aged from 45 to 101. Phyllis was so unexpectedly engaging that Leachman starred in a spinoff series of her own, “Phyllis,” which ran on CBS from 1975 to 1977. Cloris Leachman grew up on the outskirts of Des Moines, Iowa, where she was born in 1926. She arranged for Cloris to ride on a coal truck to Des Moines for an audition for a Drake University student play.

Source: thestar January 28, 2021 01:07 UTC