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Loni Anderson, ‘WKRP in Cincinnati’
Star, Dies at 79

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 8/3/2025 7:06:54 PM

Loni Anderson, who starred as the shrewd radio station receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati before her fairy-tale marriage to and acrimonious divorce from Burt Reynolds kept her uncomfortably in the tabloids, died Sunday. She was 79. A two-time Emmy nominee, Anderson died in Los Angeles following “an acute prolonged illness,” publicist Cheryl J. Kagan announced. The Minnesota native also portrayed doomed Hollywood sex sirens in two telefilms: 1980’s The Jayne Mansfield Story — alongside an untested Arnold Schwarzenegger as her second husband, Mickey Hargitay — and 1991’s White Hot: The Mysterious Murder of Thelma Todd. And from 1988-90

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I'm sorry to hear she passed away. May she rest in peace.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Readaholic 8/3/2025 7:33:43 PM (No. 1986188)
Is “acute and prolonged” the new “sudden and unexpected”? On the heels, of course, of “safe and effective,”
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Reply 2 - Posted by: thefield 8/3/2025 7:46:28 PM (No. 1986194)
Sigh! another TV girlfriend gone.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: konocti95 8/3/2025 8:19:57 PM (No. 1986210)
RIP Lonnie. She was just 79. I'm approaching middle 60s. I'll stop asking for whom the bell tolls.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: earlybird 8/3/2025 8:22:40 PM (No. 1986212)
Acute illness as opposed to chronic. Cancer would be one And it can be prolonged. But there are so any others.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Catherine 8/3/2025 8:27:27 PM (No. 1986214)
Aw, I liked her. I was surprised when she and Burt broke up but always thought it was his fault. Oh well, both are gone now. It is sad because I did love Reynolds, too. May they both rest in peace.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: chance_232 8/3/2025 9:03:57 PM (No. 1986219)
I had three posters on my bedroom walls. Lonnie Anderson, Jacqueline Smith and Bo Derrick. Lonnie Anderson and Howard Hesseman made WKRP In Cincinnati. And he passed in 2022.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: bpl40 8/3/2025 9:05:38 PM (No. 1986220)
Sorry to hear that. RIP! She was the reason I watched WKRP.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 8/4/2025 1:15:38 AM (No. 1986262)
Even in relatively recent photos, she looked amazingly young and beautiful. She was great on WKRP in Cincinnati", along with the rest of the superbly selected cast. I still think the best episode was the one where Les Nessman was dropping live turkeys to people below for Thanksgiving. "As God is my witness, I thought they could fly."...... ..."Landing like bags of wet cement"
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Reply 9 - Posted by: Strike3 8/4/2025 5:10:37 AM (No. 1986277)
A gracious and beautiful woman. I met her once and almost melted on the spot.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: Mind the Gap Jeeves 8/4/2025 9:32:35 AM (No. 1986384)
#8, it was one of the best episodes ever on tv. But Les Nessman was the on-the-ground reporter ("oh, the humanity!" The Hindenburg disaster) and it was Arthur Carlson, aka "The Big Guy" and Herb dropping live turkeys from the helicopter.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: RedWhiteBlue 8/4/2025 10:58:08 AM (No. 1986415)
I liked her in WKRP In Cincinnati but I didn't see her in much of anything else. R.I.P.
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Reply 12 - Posted by: MickTurn 8/4/2025 11:30:21 AM (No. 1986443)
RIP Loni!
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Reply 13 - Posted by: dbdiva 8/4/2025 12:53:08 PM (No. 1986497)
#s 8 and 10 --- for the memories (especially "Johnny Fever") Best. WKRP. Ever https://youtu.be/BGFtV6-ALoQ?si=U0yA1VxK47T_ZXVd
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Reply 14 - Posted by: franco 8/4/2025 1:12:29 PM (No. 1986506)
What I always liked about Anderson's character in WKRP was how the writers overtly portrayed her as the typical "dumb blonde" of pop culture at the time, but then repeatedly had her involved in schemes taking advantage of those traits to disarm her adversaries. It was sort of like "Charlie's Angels" on a smaller scale and woven in with other plot themes, but it worked.
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