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Florence Agnes Henderson (February 14, 1934 – November 24, 2016) was an American actress. With a career spanning six decades, she is best known for her starring role as Carol Brady on the
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''. Henderson also appeared in film, as well as on stage, and hosted several long-running cooking and
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s over the years. She appeared as a guest on many scripted and unscripted (talk and reality show) television programs and as a panelist on numerous game shows. She was a contestant on '' Dancing with the Stars'' in 2010. Henderson hosted her own talk show, ''The Florence Henderson Show'', and cooking show, ''Who's Cooking with Florence Henderson'', on
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during the years leading up to her death at age 82 on
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2016 from heart failure.


Early life

Henderson, the youngest of 10 children, was born on February 14, 1934, in
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, a small town in the southwestern part of the state. She was a daughter of Elizabeth (née Elder), a homemaker, and Joseph Henderson, a tobacco sharecropper. During the Great Depression, she was taught to sing at the age of two by her mother, who had a repertoire of 50 songs. By the time she was eight, her family called her "Florency", and by age 12, she was singing at local grocery stores. Henderson graduated from
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in Owensboro, Kentucky in 1951 and shortly thereafter went to New York City, enrolling in the American Academy of Dramatic Arts. She was an Alumna Initiate of the Alpha Chi chapter of
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sorority.


Career

Henderson started her career on the stage performing in musicals, such as the touring production of ''
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'' and '' South Pacific'' at
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.She debuted on Broadway in the musical ''
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'' in 1952, and later starred on Broadway in the long-running 1954 musical, '' Fanny'' (888 performances) in which she originated the title role. Henderson appeared with
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in the ''Oklahoma!'' segment of the 90-minute television special '' General Foods 25th Anniversary Show: A Salute to Rodgers and Hammerstein'' (1954). She later appeared in "The Abbe and the Nymph", an episode of the 1950s TV series ''
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'' (not to be confused with the 1960s series of the same name). She also portrayed Meg March in a CBS-TV musical adaptation of '' Little Women'', which aired October 16, 1958. Henderson appeared in two episodes of ''
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''. She portrayed Mary Jane in an episodic adaptation of ''
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'', which aired on November 20, 1957. She also appeared in "A Family Alliance", an episodic adaptation of a short story from ''A Harvest of Stories'' (1956) by
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, which aired on June 4, 1958. Henderson, along with Bill Hayes, appeared in the Oldsmobile commercials from 1958 through 1961 on ''
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'' for which Oldsmobile was the sponsor. In 1959, she sang "Don't Let a Be-Back Get Away", in ''Good News About Olds'', an industrial musical for Oldsmobile. Bill Hayes and she also gave a musical performance on the January 13, 1960, broadcast of ''
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''. Henderson also appeared on Broadway in ''
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'' (1963). In 1962, she won the Sarah Siddons Award for her work in Chicago theatre, and the same year became the first woman to guest host ''
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'' in the period after Jack Paar left as the show's host, and before Johnny Carson began his 30 years as the show's longest serving host in October 1962. She also joined the ranks of what was then called '' The Today Girl'' on
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's long-running morning show, doing weather and light news, a position also once held by Barbara Walters. She gave later musical performances on Paar's subsequent talk show in 1963, including the January 25 and February 22 broadcasts. She performed in the May 19, 1963, broadcast of ''
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'', alongside baritone
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. She also released her albums under RCA Victor as part of her music career. Her most widely recognized role was as Carol Brady in ''The Brady Bunch'' which aired on
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from 1969 until 1974. Henderson's best friend,
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, had turned down the role, but the following year, she accepted the similar role of a mother with five children, named Shirley Partridge, in ''
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'', which aired from 1970 to 1974. Primarily owing to her role on ''The Brady Bunch'', Henderson was ranked by
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and ''
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'' as number 54 on their list of the 100 Greatest TV Icons. An avid game-show fan, Henderson was a frequent panelist on the original version of ''
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'' and made occasional appearances on ''
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''. Her other game show appearances include ''
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'', the original ''
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'', ''
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'' (as a panelist and a mystery guest), '' To Tell The Truth'', ''
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'', '' Snap Judgment'', ''
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'', '' The Magnificent Marble Machine'', and ''
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''. She also appeared alongside her Brady Bunch co-star
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on the John Davidson-hosted version of ''Hollywood Squares'' and teamed with Reed,
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, Christopher Knight and Susan Olsen on one of the original '' Family Feud's'' All-Star weeks, where they finished in second place. Henderson was the spokeswoman for
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from 1974 to 1996. During that time, she hosted a cooking show on TNN, ''Country Kitchen'', and did ads for Prange's, a
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department store chain. Henderson co-hosted the short-lived NBC morning talk show ''
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'' (1999–2000), with
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and
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. In the 2000s, she was the spokeswoman for
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. In 2003, Henderson seemed to poke fun at her wholesome image by appearing in a
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television commercial with
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. Henderson also appeared with her TV children, as she did with Christopher Knight on the reality television series ''
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''. She was also in the sixth season of VH1's ''
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''. Beginning in the mid-1990s, Henderson would perform the song "
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" at the
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, accompanied by the
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, at the request of the Hulman-George family, the owners of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and friends of Henderson's. She appeared in the "Weird Al" Yankovic video for "
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". In 2002, she made a memorable guest appearance on
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show ''
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'', participating in on-screen kisses with
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and Colin Mochrie. From 2007 to 2009, Henderson co-hosted the daily talk show ''Living Live'' with former ''
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'' star
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on Retirement Living TV. The show was reworked to focus on her and was renamed ''The Florence Henderson Show''. The show was nominated for an Emmy award in 2010. In May 2010, Henderson did a series of promotional radio ads for
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. On the July 12, 2010, edition of ''
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'', Henderson appeared as the night's guest host. Henderson was one of 12 celebrities competing on the 11th season of ''Dancing with the Stars'', which premiered on September 20, 2010. Her professional partner was
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, father of two-time champion
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. On October 19, 2010, she was the fifth contestant eliminated. Henderson voiced Barbara, Cleveland Brown's childhood nanny, in the episode "The Men In Me" of ''
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'', which originally aired on March 25, 2012. The episode features a depressed and confused Cleveland singing a parody version of his show's theme before Barbara interjects and gets Cleveland to realize it does not matter who he is or who others perceive him to be as long as he accepts himself for who and what he is. At the end of the episode, Cleveland says, "Florence Henderson, everyone!" Henderson made a special appearance on May 11, 2012, in a special Mother's Day episode on ''
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'' with
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, displaying prizes, as well as one of the showcases. In February 2013, she began hosting a cooking show, ''Who's Cooking with Florence Henderson'', on
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. Henderson hosted several times the beauty pageants
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and Mrs. World.


Charity appearances

In the 2000s, Henderson became a public benefactor to the Sisters of St. Benedict in
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. Some of the nuns there had been early educators of Henderson. She appeared in a number of their promotional videos and helped in fundraising efforts. She won money for the sisters on the game show ''
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'' and on a classic television-themed episode of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire'' in 2001, winning $32,000 in their name. When Henderson appeared on ''The Surreal Life'', she refused to wear a nun's habit in a comedy skit.


Personal life

Henderson married her first husband, Ira Bernstein, in 1956. They had four children together before divorcing in 1985. In 1987, she married her second husband, hypnotherapist Dr. John George Kappas, whom she had met when he treated her for depression and stage fright in the early 1980s. They remained married until his death in 2002. Henderson had five grandchildren.


Death

Henderson died on November 24, 2016, at
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in Los Angeles, California, at the age of 82. She had been hospitalized the previous day. According to her manager, Kayla Pressman, Henderson died of heart failure. Three days before her death, Henderson had attended the recording of ''Dancing with the Stars'' to support her friend and former on-screen daughter
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, who was a contestant. Pressman stated that Henderson was not ill prior to her sudden hospitalization and that her death was a "shock". She was cremated, and her ashes interred at
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in Los Angeles.


Awards

At the 33rd Annual
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Gala (2008), Henderson won an Individual Achievement Award and an Outstanding Host (Information or Entertainment) for ''The Florence Henderson Show''. She won another Outstanding Host (Information or Entertainment) at the 37th Annual Gracie Awards Gala (2012) for co-hosting ''Good Food, Good Deeds''. A turf horse race for 3-year old and older fillies and mares born and bred in Indiana held at Indiana Grand Racing & Casino since 2004 is named in her honor, the Florence Henderson Stakes, on the Tuesday after Labor Day in September.


Selected filmography


Film


Television


Stage


References


External links

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