(August 30, 2021 at 1:37 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(August 30, 2021 at 10:56 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: I think you’ll find that Lucille Ball paved that particular way. And Donna Reed. And Cicely Tyson. And Marlo Thomas. And Diahann Carroll.
Boru
If we are going to be pedantic outside of TV we could say Rosa Parks and Susan B Anthony. But regardless, nobody fucks with Betty White.
Lou, the character started out on a show staring a female lead in MTM. So if anything, SHE made his career.
What do Rosa Parks and Susan B. Anthony have to do with this? I was pointing out that there were plenty of female leads in American television before Mary Tyler Moore.
Ed Asner had a substantial career prior to his Lou Grant character.
Boru
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