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    Actor Cindy Williams, the optimistic Shirley of ‘Laverne & Shirley,’ dies at 75

    by Nardine Saad, Los Angeles Times Jan 30, 2023 6 minutes
    Actress Cindy Williams attends the Los Angeles premiere of Renee Taylor's "My Life On A Diet" Night Two at Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts on April 6, 2019, in Beverly Hills, California.

    LOS ANGELES — Cindy Williams, who played sweet, wide-eyed Shirley Feeney on the “Happy Days” spinoff “Laverne & Shirley,” has died. She was 75.

    Williams died in Los Angeles on Wednesday after a brief illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said in a statement released Monday to the Associated Press through a family spokeswoman.

    “The passing of our kind, hilarious mother, Cindy Williams, has brought us insurmountable sadness that could never truly be expressed,” the statement said. “Knowing and loving her has been our joy and privilege. She was one of a kind, beautiful, generous and possessed a brilliant sense of humor and a glittering spirit that everyone loved.”

    Williams was the optimistic foil to Penny Marshall’s wise-cracking Laverne DeFazio on the iconic sitcom, which starred two 1950s roommates working on the bottle-cap assembly line at Milwaukee’s Shotz Brewery.

    “When you can find those characters with attitudes who are in sync, they are funny and charming to watch. You see aspects of yourself in the characters’ attitudes,” Williams

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