"Ten Things You Didn't Know About...Bonnie Franklin?"

Her first victim, of course, was David. Because when she blurted out "Hold me David I'm scared!" he didn't.

Before DL I didn't know:

Who she was

Why she was famous

Who David was

That she worked with Valerie Bertandernie

That her TV show in the 70s was popular

That a woman that ugly could survive as a working actress

That people still find her worthy of discussion

That she feuded with a bunch of other nobodies

She's not dead yet

She had a nasally voice and weird hairstyle during her prime

[quote] That a woman that ugly could survive as a working actress

LOL!

That was the 70s, love.

everything you'll ever need, courtesy of imdb.com:

Began acting as a child.

She once said that because of her red hair and freckles, fans have a hard time believing that she is Jewish.

She won a Theatre World Award and a Tony Award nomination in 1970 for the Broadway musical, "Applause".

She attended Beverly Hills High School, whose famous alumni include Michael Lembeck, Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, Corben Bernsen, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, and Richard Dreyfuss.

Best remembered by the public for her starring role as Ann Romano in One day at a Time (1975).

Her series "One Day at a Time" (1975) was canceled at the end of the ninth season, because of low ratings and Franklin decided to leave the show.

Was the understudy for Sandy Duncan in the 1968 off Broadway show "Your Own Thing". She was often mistaken for Duncan at the time.

She hates to exercise...

But she loves to TAP!

I hate to exercise, but I love to kill and kill again.

There are ten things to know about Bonnie Franklin? Hmmm...who knew?

An Icon!

Never wore a bra on ODAAT.

Dammit, victim! Dammit!

I was very surprised to learn she won the U.S. Open in tennis back in '85. Beat Martina in the final, she did. I can't wait to spring that little nugget on my fellow commentators during my next telecast!

I can't imagine there being ten things I want to know about Bonnie Franklin.

I feel sorry for the poor victim who dares address her as "Mrs." instead of "Ms."

I was surprised to find out that genetic tests have offered conclusive evidence that Bonnie Franklin is a female.

Ever the style icon, here's the Bonnster, channeling a Stevie Nicks/Renaissance Faire vibe...

Toni Tennille threatened to sue Miss Franklin over the rights to this hair.

She could eat an apple through a chain link fence.

Bonnie Tyler, Bonnie Franklin!

Don't even THINK about so much as touching my plant, motherfuckers!

Was at a party with her. Talked to her and the whole time she insisted she wasn't Bopnie Franklin- "I am NOT Bonnie Franklin!!"

She smelled like old, filthy pantyhose.

tapping her troubles away at about 6:38 (actually, this is a pretty good number).

She and Barbara Hershey played two of Sally Field's high school friends on Gidget.

Isn't it a little negligent for a woman of Bonnie's size to test the structural fidelity of ANY floor by tapping on it?

She often talked about how much she hated LA and television and the only reason she was doing ODAAT was so she could get back to Broadway. Well, Broadway is still waiting, I guess the audiences weren't.

OMG R22 that had me in tears. Ginger Rogers….sob…..

Her serial killer m.o. was she slapped 18-22 year old women to death, then left them dead and bra-less alongside Indianapolis freeways.

She had a facial expression I've never seen anyone else employ: chin tilted back, wincing, closed eyes.

She's auditioning for the latest Broadway production of "The Tap Dance Kid".

She's about forty years too late.

Even what's-his-name, the only straight guy from "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" says, "Bonnie, I hate to diss you, but I love to tap!"

I'm his publicist. I'm supposed to tell you he's straight.

Thanks.

She was actually the one who raped Mackenzie Phillips.

[quote]Her serial killer m.o. was she slapped 18-22 year old women to death, then left them dead and bra-less alongside Indianapolis freeways.

And there was the stickpins found jammed into the necks of the victims and the tell-tale cowl neck sweater fibers left at each and every scene of crime.

Bonnie must've made a shit-ton of $$$ off of ODAAT because she hasn't worked a fucking day since 1984.

She directed several episodes of the Munsters update, the one with John Schuck and Lee Meriwether.

r32 she is a TV director now.

Before her gender reassignment surgery, she was known as Bruce Feinstein.

Remember the episode of ODAAT where Ann says: "What estate? Your bus pass and loofah sponge?"

Bumping this thread because it is hysterical.

I need to point out that the Bonnie lookalike in R11 is Hana Mandlikova. lol

Lol. Bonnie/Ann's bralessness in the 70s was appropriate.

Flatchested and natural was the style back then, though it may look ridiculous now.

"Dammit Schneider!"

"Dammit Julie!"

'Dammit Barbara!"

This language seems mild to us, and it did to me also as a child in the 1970s. But some folks are offended by the word "damn."

Mr. Lear was a trailblazer, he was!

Why would anyone want to know ten things about Bonnie Franklin?!

She used to leave baggies of blow on Mackenzie's make-up table.

She turned down an offer to become a Mouseketeer on The Mickey Mouse Club

Bonnie was the serial killer known to the public as “The Fascist in Pantyhose”. She strangled each of her victims using a pair of pantyhose she’d worn the day (the toxic odor helped to discombobulate her victims).

She invented post its.

She was a bottle red head!

She put the “broad” in Broadway.

I saw her on a daytime show talking about her fear of talking on the phone.

Her face is actually the fist of an elderly Spanish ventriloquist.

She pretty much murdered the TONY awards that year she "hosted" from her orchestra seat.

Schneider helped her get rid of the bodies in the building’s furnace.