'Laverne & Shirley' actor Cindy Williams dies at 75 - The Associated Press - en Español

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Cindy Williams, who played Shirley other Penny Marshall’s Laverne connected the fashionable sitcom “Laverne & Shirley,” has died, her household said Monday.

Williams died successful Los Angeles astatine property 75 connected Wednesday aft a little illness, her children, Zak and Emily Hudson, said successful a connection released done household spokeswoman Liza Cranis.

“The passing of our kind, hilarious mother, Cindy Williams, has brought america insurmountable sadness that could ne'er genuinely beryllium expressed,” the connection said. “Knowing and loving her has been our joyousness and privilege. She was 1 of a kind, beautiful, generous and possessed a superb consciousness of wit and a glittering tone that everyone loved.”

Williams besides starred successful manager George Lucas’ 1973 movie “American Graffiti” and manager Francis Ford Coppola’s “The Conversation” from 1974.

But she was by acold champion known for “Laverne & Shirley,” the “Happy Days” spinoff that ran connected ABC from 1976 to 1983 that successful its premier was among the astir fashionable shows connected TV.

Williams played the straitlaced Shirley to Marshall’s much libertine Laverne connected the amusement astir a brace of roommates that worked astatine a Milwaukee bottling mill successful the 1950s and 60s.

Marshall, whose brother, Garry Marshall, co-created the series, died successful 2018.

“Laverne & Shirley” was known astir arsenic overmuch for its opening taxable arsenic the amusement itself. Williams’ and Marshall’s chant of “schlemiel, schlimazel” arsenic they skipped unneurotic became a taste improvement and oft-invoked portion of nostalgia.