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Erin Moran. RIP

















Motogull

Todd Warrior
Sep 16, 2005
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Very sad. She really played the role well. You'd have thought she had the world at her feet at the time, so how she ended up evicted from a caravan is a shocker.
 


Albion my Albion

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She died after getting kicked out of her home and was living in a mobile trailer which is parked in a trailer park in a very small town in southern Indiana near Louisville Kentucky. She had nothing of the money she had earned as an actress during her years on Happy Days. Erin had gone through many turmoils recently that had turned her life upside down. She was living a hard life of heavy drinking and low monetary funds. It seems a TV movie about Erin's life would seem like a good cautionary tale for people in general and those that experience some fame in their lives. I wonder how Henry Winkler, Ron Howard, etc feel about reading about Erin's life.
 




whitelion

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Dec 16, 2003
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I'm surprised there's not some kind of support network for 'down-at-heel' actors - unless of course there is.
 








Bwian

Kiss my (_!_)
Jul 14, 2003
15,898
Very sad.
 




Albion my Albion

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Erin Moran, best known for playing Joanie Cunningham on the 1970s sitcom "Happy Days," has died. She was 56.

According to TMZ, Moran's body was found unresponsive Saturday afternoon by authorities in Indiana. The cause of death is unknown.

The California-born actress, who also starred in the "Happy Days" spinoff "Joanie Loves Chachi," had fallen on hard times in recent years. She was reportedly kicked out of her trailer park home in Indiana because of her hard-partying ways.

Henry Winkler, who starred opposite Moran as The Fonz in ABC's iconic series, tweeted: "OH Erin…now you will finally have the peace you wanted so badly here on earth. Rest In It serenely now…too soon."

Moran was just 14 when she signed on to play Ron Howard's sister in the family comedy, which aired from 1974 to 1984.

Howard tweeted, "Such sad sad news. RIP Erin. I'll always choose to remember you on our show making scenes better, getting laughs and lighting up tv screens."

"What happened with all of us was like we were this family," Moran said in a 2009 interview with Xfinity. "It was so surreal with all the cast members…They were my family, get it?"

The actress, however, apparently wasn't as happy about appearing in "Joanie Loves Chachi," the short-lived sitcom spin-off which co-starred Scott Baio.

"I liked working with the people. But I didn't even want to do it. I was talked into it," she said. "I wanted to stay on 'Happy Days.' They were running them at the same time."

"Joanie Loves Chachi" only lasted one season (1982-83) before it was pulled off the air.

Moran's TV credits also included "The Love Boat," "Murder, She Wrote" and "The Bold and the Beautiful."

She most recently appeared on VH1's reality show "Celebrity Fit Club" in 2008 and low-budget film "Not Another B Movie" 2010.

In 2012, Moran and some of her "Happy Days" co-stars - Anson Williams, Marion Ross, Don Most and the widow of Tom Bosley - filed a $10 million lawsuit against CBS and Paramount, claiming they never received merchandise royalties they were owed under their contracts. The case was later settled out of court. Neither Winkler nor Howard were part of the lawsuit.

Most said in a statement, "I am so incredibly sad to hear about Erin. She was a wonderful, sweet, caring, talented woman. As I write this I can't really comprehend this right now. A very painful loss. It gives me some comfort to know that she's with Tom, Al, Pat and Garry. Rest In Peace, sweet Erin."

Williams, who played Potsie in "Happy Days," said, "Erin was a person who made everyone around her feel better. She truly cared about others first, a true angel. I will miss her so much, but know that she is in God's hands. RIP sweet angel."


http://www.dailymagazine.news/dmnl/....eu&utm_term=readMore0&src=hollina.eu&sredr=D

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Erin Moran was about 1 year older than President Obama.
 




NooBHA

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Jan 13, 2015
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I'm surprised there's not some kind of support network for 'down-at-heel' actors - unless of course there is.

I am a big supporter of helping the ''less fortunate'' who have perhaps not had a good start or decent opportunities in life. I am not unsympathetic but I tend to be less sympathetic to those who have had good starts or good opportunities given to them and they squander them. Although I do concede that sometimes unforeseen circumstances come into play in some peoples lives.
 


Albion my Albion

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The real story here seems to be excessive drinking and partying. Erin and her husband had chased her mother-in-law to Indiana for financial help and a place to live.
 


Albion my Albion

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The real story here seems to be excessive drinking and partying. Erin and her husband had chased her mother-in-law to Indiana for financial help and a place to live.

It appears Erin and her husband were very much drinkers and partiers and that they had squandered their money.

I was very wrong though about the cause of death. Erin Moran, 56, died of cancer.


http://www.dailymagazine.news/happy...attling-stage-4-cancer-source-nid-426844.html


Happy Days' Erin Moran was fed through a GI tube at home with her mother-in-law, according to the coroner's examination

Moran was receiving treatment for Stage 4 cancer, including a gastrointestinal tube in her throat to keep her alive during her final days, a law enforcement source tells PEOPLE.

The source, who asked to remain anonymous pending further details to be released by the Harrison County Sheriff's Dept., said the coroner found a gastrointestinal tube during the examination, as well as "ample" evidence that the actress succumbed to Stage 4 cancer. The type of cancer was not immediately clear.

"It was indicative when they did the autopsy that she was receiving medical care," the source tells PEOPLE. "There were no illicit substances or anything to suggest foul play."

A GI tube is usually inserted into the stomach by a physician to give nutrients to patients who cannot feed themselves. It can also be used to remove fluids from the body.

Moran was pronounced dead on Saturday at the trailer Moran shared in rural New Salisbury, IN, with her husband's mother, Donna Woods.

"To my knowledge, they had their own room," the source tells PEOPLE.

Both Woods and Moran's husband, Steven Fleischmann, have remained out of the public eye.
 








sydney

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Jul 11, 2003
17,737
town full of eejits
I use to fancy her as a kid watching happy days[emoji53]

if it wasn't for her i might still have my sheepskin rug that was on my bedroom floor when i was about 13 .....as it turned out , between her , sally james and that bird out of robin's nest ( tessa wyatt ) that poor rug never stood a chance...i can still remember the look of utter disgust on my mum's face when she snapped into quarters and threw it in the dustbin....:down:
 



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