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Valerie Harper
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Actor Born: August 22, 1940 in Suffern, NY Biography:Actress "Valerie Harper"'s fame largely rests on her colorful portrayal of television's "New Yawk-er" Rhoda Morgenstern. After growing up in Oregon, Michigan and Jersey City, Harper became a chorus dancer in the Big Apple, hoofing with the Radio City Rockettes and performing in such Broadway musicals as "Li'l Abner", "Take Me Along", "Wildcat" and Subways Are for Sleeping. Her first film appearance was in the 1959 movie adaptation of "Li'l Abner". While spending her nights on stage, she attended Hunter College and the New School for Social Research, supporting herself between dancing gigs as a telephone canvasser and hat-check girl. During the 1960s, she did comedy-improv work with Second City and Paul Sill's Story Theatre (one of her co-workers during her Sills years was her first husband, comic actor "Richard Schaal"). In the popular mid-1960s comedy record album "When You're in Love, the Whole... Full Biography
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