Thanks for the memories Jean.
Posted on 06/02/2013 6:21:21 AM PDT by TexasCajun
NEW YORK (TheBlaze/AP) — Jean Stapleton, the stage-trained character actress who played Archie Bunker’s far better half, the sweetly naive Edith, in TV’s groundbreaking 1970s comedy “All in the Family,” has died. She was 90.
Stapleton died Friday of natural causes at her New York City home surrounded by friends and family, her children said Saturday.
Little known to the public before “All In the Family,” she co-starred with Carroll O’Connor in the top-rated CBS sitcom about an unrepentant bigot, the wife he churlishly but fondly called “Dingbat,” their daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers) and liberal son-in-law Mike, aka Meathead (Rob Reiner).
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Thanks for the memories Jean.
I loved the show, all the characters. Jean was much like my mother although my father was not like O’Connor.
Both were awesome for their time.
She won’t be going to Disney Woild...She’ll be goin’ to Scranton.
RIP Sweet Lady
Aw, dang.
She did such a marvelous job with Edith Bunker. Portrayed her as a sweet and somewhat eccentric lady (much like my grandmother, whom I miss dearly).
RIP, Jean Stapleton.
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Lefty Lear created characters who’s purpose was to convey the stupidity of ‘all’ conservatives.
He failed as the message was misinterpreted and the conservative characters were loved and the meathead liberal characters(for the most part) were reviled.
Even when Archie appeared real stupid, the conservative message got through and people felt sorry for the character for not being able to voice it with a smooth cogent argument.
Good analysis.
I can’t tell you how many hundreds of times I’ve seen the “Archie Bunker for President” slogan in society. And always proclaimed proudly.
Lasting memories. 
(How'd I miss those yesterday?)
Lear was smart...
he clearly understood, conservatism and the constitution but hated them.
he took the conservative theory for each issue and twisted it to make it look stupid. But the constitution and the conservative mindset are so strong, that the message came through as did the inherent destructive socialist mindset that Lear was trying to champion.
RIP Dingbat
I remember one scene when two black guys broke into Archie’s house and then decided to stay while the police left the neighborhood. The scene was the four members of the house in addition to the two thieves. The conversation of course was about race and Archie was portrayed in the typical method of the show. However, Mike (Meathead) sided with the black guys (one was played by Fred Sanford’s son as I recall) and told them that he understood their plight since he studied it in his sociology class. They both mocked him as a “lib-er-AL.” If anything, that is the ideal definition of liberal thinking and can be equated to many issues today. Liberal are naive.
I think that when I search, it initially puts an '*' in front and I need to remove that and search keywords.
You'd think I'd have learned by now.
Day late & a dollar short, that's me.
Duplicate subjects are not necessarily bad if more or different information is in the article.
What I don’t get is posting a popular site article (like Drudge) that’s been on that site for three days. Really? None of FR’s 200,000 users posted it before?
Search feature works best using the least amount of practical information. Searching ‘titles’ for ‘jean’ works better than ‘jean stapleton dies’.
I’ve always thought that she got done dirty by the way she left that show. Stopped watching it then, even the reruns.
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