![]() ![]() The spinoff series featured newcomers including Kim Fields as "Tootie" and Lisa Whelchel as rich spoiled brat "Blair Warner". ![]() Between Norman Lear and NBC, they gave her the green-light to star in her own show, which focused primarily on the housekeeper of an all-girls school. Within a year, she gained popularity with her character, which eventually led her to having her own series, The Facts of Life (1979). After guest-starring on numerous shows, including Norman Lear's All in the Family (1971) and Good Times (1974), Lear hired her old friend to co-star on Diff'rent Strokes (1978) as Gary Coleman's housekeeper, "Edna Garrett". She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her supporting role in Queen of the Stardust Ballroom (1975). She would live there until 1974 when she moved to Southern California. She co-starred with Fred Gwynne and Al Lewis in Car 54, Where Are You? (1961). She dropped out of college and moved to New York City, and began a career as a stage actress, performing in such plays as "Pickwick", for which she was nominated in 1966 for Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and, in 1969, for Best Actress in a Play for "Morning, Noon and Night". After graduating from Shorewood High School, she attended Northwestern University, where she met future actress Cloris Leachman the two would be lifelong friends. ![]() Her family moved to the village of Shorewood, Wisconsin (Milwaukee County) in 1936. Rae wanted to be a dramatic actress, but eventually wound up being a comedienne, all because of her stand-up comedy routines. Her mother had been a childhood friend of Milwaukee-reared Golda Meir, future Prime Minister of Israel. Her father owned an automobile tire business. Her parents, Esther (nee Ottenstein) and Meyer Lubotsky, were Russian Jewish immigrants. She added that an ice-skating rink in the film was named after Charlotte Rae, who played Edna in the show and passed away last year, the outlet reported.Charlotte Rae was born Charlotte Rae Lubotsky in 1926, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the middle daughter of three sisters, between Beverly and Mimi. “It’s been amazing to work together again and have the ladies’ input on their characters from their wardrobe to names, as well as provide fun inside jokes for fans,” Fields, 50, told PEOPLE in a statement. Fields was the one who reached out to bring the rest together after all these years. But while the movie will feature the old cast, it tells a new story.įields plays Emma, who returns to her hometown two weeks before Christmas and connects with an old love interest to bring holiday festivity back to the town, according to Lifetime.įields not only stars but is an executive producer of the movie that will air as part of Lifetime’s “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” programming, PEOPLE reported. Yes, that’s right, the actresses who played Tootie, Blair, Natalie and Jo in the series that ran from 1979 to 1988. “You Light Up My Christmas” will premier on Lifetime on December 1, and it will star Kim Fields, Lisa Whelchel, Mindy Cohn and Nancy McKeon, according to PEOPLE. If getting the cast of “The Facts of Life” is on your Christmas list, you’re in luck. ![]()
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