Katherine Helmond is DEAD to me

She was nominated for 7 Emmys but never won? It’s a fucking epidemic of underappreciation!

Love her.

Who was her bf?

Here r3

Wow, and I thought it was only on "Who's the Boss?" that she got hot guys.

I will be devastated if they don't use her stretched out face from "Brazil" in the next Oscar In Memorium.

I always thought that she was a good actress, but homely.

Hats off to her. She was great. I hope she went on her own terms and without pain.

I thought she was always 89.

That's sad, I loved her. Mona WAS the boss.

She was the best thing about Who's The Boss, in my opinion.

Everything I've ever heard about her was that she's a very sweet person. Someone who worked in the office for the talent agency that Helmond was represented by recounted a story on here about how Helmond comforted him after his mothers death and that she sent flowers to the funeral. Says a lot about her.

That guy was her husband. They were married for 50 years.

And yes, he was hot af.

My straight brothers called her "that cool old chick with the big tits"

Is there a Death Race going on that no one thought to announce?

Sad..I loved her as Peg Bundy on Married with Children.....

I was a realtor in the early 90s in NYC and Katherine was a client. She had a wonderful rent controlled unit in London Terrace (Chelsea) but would give it up for the right coop if it had a walk in shower and separate tub in the master bath and be in a prewar building. At the time it was a tough order to find so she never purchased and I never made a commission working with her; however, she was so lovely it did not matter. In fact, she referred me 3 other clients who DID purchase over the next few years. Her kind spirit was special. RIP Katherine and thank you.

Darling if you have a baby, you wont be the baby anymore!

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So! Are there others who thought that her much younger (15 years) "husband" was gay as the days are long?

I found this:

"That was the play Helmond was doing in New Hampshire summer stock when she met David, a 19-year-old assistant set designer and high school dropout from Dallas, where his father was an engineer in the aerospace industry. “Usually, summer stock is the end of a relationship,” Helmond cracks. “But David was not a child when I met him. He’d been out on his own some time.” “The leading lady and the assistant set designer,” Christian sighs. “Ah, the great love affair.” He lurked around her performances until, Helmond says, “his hot looks began to make headway.” Soon they moved in together."

[quote] That guy was her husband. They were married for 50 years.

David Christian, seen here in 1978

She was Bananas, the crazy wife in the original production of "The House of Blue Leaves" in 1971. Love that play.

I've NEVER seen his artwork!

on SOAP ,wasn't it one of Jessica Tate's pregnant and nauseous daughters screaming "bring me a calendar!" and Katherine's character shows up with this?

She was the original cougar. Got her man when he was 19 and she was 32.

OH! Hubby was short!

This was taken at the 41st Emmy awards. So, how many years ago was that--I don't watch the Emmys

She was only 5' 2"!

She died died Saturday of complications from Alzheimer’s disease at her home in Los Angeles.

Survivors include her husband of 57 years, David Christian. She met him at The Hampton Playhouse Summer Stock Theater, where he was the set designer and she the leading lady.

"She was the love of my life," Christian said. "We spent 57 beautiful, wonderful, loving years together, which I will treasure forever. I've been with Katherine since I was 19 years old. The night she died, I saw that the moon was exactly half-full, just as I am now … half of what I’ve been my entire adult life."

Brazil is one of my favorite films.

She was awesome in it.

Hated Who's the Boss.

She'll get used to it.

Short men = big cock!

I loved her. She was hilarious. Impeccable comedic timing. She could deliver a line. Here's to hoping she had a great life.

Got to meet her at teh Broadway Cares Equity Fights AIDS Annual Fklea Market. I have "Soap" Season 1 signed by her. She was lovely.

[quote]Short men = big cock!

Oh? Hmm... so that explains why my tallish friend only dates short guys.

Has Tiny Dancer issued a statement?

Has Billy Crystal said anything?

At Ms. Helmond's request, the coffin will rest on its feet with the top half open.

The motor-boat line forms to the left.

The Who's The Boss? curse strikes again.

I stand corrected re hubby.

Loved her on Everybody Loves Raymond.

Oh...now this made me tear up a little.

[quote] The Who's The Boss? curse strikes again.

You mean because this fucking show was so goddamn awful and because she was wasted in it?

Has Susan Dey commented yet?

Tony Danza’s comments about her are absolutely lovely. He really respected her as a person and a co-worker, you can tell he’s crushed by the news.

What was he supposed to say, "thanks for making my soul-crushing shit show one iota less shitty, you senile old bat"? That wouldn't have been very nice. And I also doubt he even knows the phrase "Iota" unless it's to say "Iota Mafia my career."

Judith Light gave a statement to the Los Angeles Times: “Katherine Helmond was a remarkable human being and an extraordinary artist; generous, gracious, charming and profoundly funny,” said Helmond’s “Who’s the Boss?” costar Judith Light in a statement to The Times. “She taught me so much about life and inspired me indelibly by watching her work. Katherine was a gift to our business and to the world, and will be deeply missed.”

Weird. I was just thinking about her yesterday.

So how many people are left from [italic]Soap[/italic]?

You guys beat ABC (her old network) by three hours with her death announcement.

For me she is always Jessica. Wonderful woman and actress. Rip.

[quote] Has Susan Dey commented yet?

Yes, she said "God fucking dammit. If I could go from [italic]The Partridge Family[/italic] to [italic]LA Law[/italic], what's your excuse? Sorry you croaked."

I'm so glad the Susan Dey query was posted within the first 50 comments.

I remember the hoopla and outrage before the first episode of SOAP aired. My mother was livid about the program... priests having sex, I think there was supposed to be an abortion storyline, and there was a homosexual (well Mom really didn't care about that, but the media did).

However, Mom and I watched, she laughed (I don't think I got most of the jokes) and we watched it for the first few seasons, Then the show got stale fast, which was unfortunate, because the premise and characters were delightful.

Helmond was incredible as Jessica Tate.

[quote]For me she is always Jessica.

Jes, Jess.

[quote] Helmond was incredible as Jessica Tate.

Agreed. The Bible Belt boycotted the wrong show.

I would have swore she died months ago and when I saw this thought someone had bumped an old thread.

She died twenty-two weeks a year for eight miserable years on that show. I hope she got a house out of it.

Who's the Boss was a great show with a top notch cast.

Then why'd it bomb resoundingly on DVD?

This is sad but kind of nice to see....

So sad . Mona was such a sexy Grammy . RIP beautiful!

She was the last of the quartet of Cathryn Damon, Richard Mulligan, and Robert Mandan. I loved SOAP and these 4 late, great actors along with superb writing are the reason why. RIP, Katherine. Sorry to hear she had Alzheimer’s.

She deserved and Emmy for [italic]Soap[/italic] and a better show after it.

She never had children so I wonder if she considered her life complete and fulfilled?....

^ Not everyone is dying to breed.

Hold me closer Tony Danza?

I loved, loved her.

[quote]^ Not everyone is dying to breed. —Jen A.

No, some are dying because they got bred at the wrong place and time.

So young.

She was also in [italic]The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman[/italic] and Cicely Tyson has now outlived her.

I worked with her about 35 years ago. She was one of the sweetest women I've ever encountered in show biz.

I'm Irene Kampen and I wrote "Life Without George," the book that "The Lucy Show" is based on. Very, very loosely based on.

^^Oops, wrong thread. Sorry, Katherine.^^

Since she had Alzheimer's, I hope staff told her she won all the Emmys and Oscars - and perhaps staff will tell her she had many many children who are all now doctors - after dabbling in gay porn for a few seasons.

She made us smile. God must have been short an angel.

Helmond & Guillaume were the heart of Soap. Mulligan was annoying--worse on "Empty Nest" becaue he had a bigger role. She was great on Raymond.

I liked it when Mulligan thought he made himself invisible. But I agree R 72. Soap was ahead of it's time. Where can I watch it again?

Have the likes of Diana Canova, Jennifer Salt, and that other Baio boy commented?

Who gives a shit about that languid turdface Susan Dey?

And I just found out that hot daddy Donnelly Rhodes died last year. That guy knew how to spread his gonorrhoea across the gender spectrum. You had to want it to hurt a bit and be willing to laugh and drink about it. He only drank to take the paranoid edge off all that weed he smoked. Thick like a beercan and he knew how to use it. Giant balls.

"She was the love of my life," Christian said. "We spent 57 beautiful, wonderful, loving years together, which I will treasure forever. I've been with Katherine since I was 19 years old. The night she died, I saw that the moon was exactly half-full, just as I am now … half of what I’ve been my entire adult life."

What a sweet sentiment!

You sound like fun, R74. Wanna make out?

I liked her on Soap, but then was disappointed she ended up on Who's The Boss, which I never watched. Then she disappeared, and nearly 3 decades later, has died.

Ray and Debra Barone's parents and in-laws are now all dead.

Jessica expelling the Devil from her grandbaby was an amazing scene.

Those pictures of Katherine and her hot nearly nude hubby ran in — what else — After Dark.

Here's another shot from the session.

I always loved her mayonnaise.

Thanks, R80. I remember jerking off more than a few times to this when it appeared in After Dark. I thought they were both hot as fuck. I guess it sort of confirmed it for me that I was bi.

I'm not crying! You're crying!

She really was a genius on Soap and should have won the Emmy.

I believe she and Cathryn Damon were nominated every year, and Cathryn got one.

She was hilarious, of course, but absolutely nailed those big dramatic scenes: When Jessica said goodbye to Benson; when Jessica explained adoption to Corinne; and the exorcism above. She was the most affecting member of the entire super-talented cast.

She was hot stuff.

Great actress and by all accounts, a lovely and kind person.

R84 Damon crossed picket lines to pick up her Emmy. Good for her

She had a small role in one of Susan Dey's made-for-TV masterpieces, "Cage without a Key".

Susan, are you here? Susan?

Her first Terry Gilliam movie, "Time Bandits" (1981).

She was in a weird ghost movie I liked to scare myself with as a child, The Lady in a White.

Rip Mona

Don't forget, she was also in an episode of The Snoop Sisters, which features a fist-fight between Roddy McDowall and Vincent Price. Camp Gold!

She was the only reason to watch Who's the Boss. I really thought she'd won an Emmy for Soap. She should have won many. She was just brilliant as Jessica. I was pretty young when it originally aired--and it often DIDN'T air in my Bible Belt area--but I got into it when I was in college and one of the cable networks was showing the reruns. My friends and I watched it every day. Jessica was our favorite.

Also, good for her for getting that hot shorty with the big dick!

Terribly underrated

She appeared in the classic episode of THE BIONIC WOMAN “Deadly Ringer” about Jamie’s double Lisa Galloway.

She was in FAMILY PLOT, Hitchcock's last film. Since Karen Black and Barbara Harris have both left us, the only stars remaining are Bruce Dern and William Devane. Oh, and Marge Redmond.

Has anyone asked Danny Pintauro for a statement on Helmond's passing?

Has Mickey Mouse's dog been reached for comment?

[quote]For me she is always Jessica.

Me too, I feel like a real elder with all this "Who's the Boss?" talk.

I always loved Helmond's looks, that great patrician bearing with red hair.

So young!

Loved her in Overboard, just everything she was in.

hello everyone, Judith Light here. Kate would have been so honored to see that her memorial on DataLounge reached 100 replies, bitches!!! Suck a clit!

Alyssa commented on her being a wonderful mentor. She was fantastic in Soap.

Donald Trump had an affair with her in 1972

With Jimmy Baio and Billy Crystal

Jimmy has aged poorly

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Jimmy as a teen pin-up

I love this scene from Who's the Boss when Sinatra sees Mona in that red dress

Rue McClanahan turned down the Catherine Daymon role on Soap.

They had a rough time casting Mary Campbell. It's true, Rue turned them down. She wanted to play Jessica, but Katherine Helmond was already cast.

There were actually three pilots for Soap, with three different Mary Campbells. The first two were Salome Jens (Mae from Mary Hartman) and Sally Kemp (below).

It's a good thing the producers kept trying, because Cathryn Damon was perfection, especially with Katherine Helmond.

Mickey Mouse's dog is too busy being gay, R97.

Damon was great casting for that role, although Salome Jens was terrific in Mary Hartman.

If any of you aren't familiar with Soap, treat yourself to the series on DVD for $19.

The first three seasons are some of the best TV comedy that's ever been produced. And if you like the Golden Girls, it really is mandatory viewing.

Discovered the show in reruns on WGN as a kid, and it made me a funnier, happier person.

Slaying in a bikini at age 60.

Let us not overlook her unforgettable turn opposite Elizabeth Montgomery in The Legend of Lizzie Borden.

"An only child, Katherine Marie Helmond was born on Galveston Island in Texas on July 5, 1929. Her father was a fireman and her mother a housewife, and she was the oldest of three daughters."

So she was an only child or did she have two sisters?

Why do the survivors always specify that the deceased was a “human being?” Relax, no one is under the misapprehension she was an antelope.

Always found the show insufferably smug, r113. It’s not half as funny as it thinks it is.

Finally my name in the press again

You could tell she wasn't really there mentally when they did a Who's The Boss? reunion back in 2016. It was sad to see her looking so lost while everyone else is sharing memories. Alzheimer's terrifies me.

R120 Danny looks hot there, is he still a meth head?

She had a small but memorably haunting role in the 1974 TV movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, in which Cicely Tyson plays a former slave who lives to be over 100, seeing in the Civil Rights movement. Helmond plays a poor woman in the south who lost her husband and son in the Civil War. She vents her sorrow and fury on the young Jane and another newly freed slave, blaming them for her misery.

The scene begins at 28:35.

Oops- forgot the link.

Damon did not cross union lines to accept Emmy. Powers Boothe was the only actor to accept his award on the televised Emmys the year of the strike.

I wanted her for my show, but she turned her nose up and said, "You'll have to go with second best, that suits you."

You have come to the wrong house.

I heart R126.

The scene with her sister in Soap with the hand mirrors, bending back and looking in the mirrors " I'm young", bending forward "I'm old".

Jimmy Baio wasn’t as cute as I remembered him being. Maybe I was thinking of Jimmy McNichol.

I never watched that stupid "Who's The Boss?" But I thought she was wonderful in "Brazil" and "Soap." Especially "Soap"; she should definitely have won an Emmy for that.

Jimmy Baio was never cute.

God Bless her showing up for the reunion in her condition. My mom has the disease. It is just heartbreaking to watch her die little by little.

Legendary scene

Pressure from religious right ended the show with this scene. Season 5 was planned but because of the cancelation Jessica’s future was brought up in Benson. Katherine played Jessica to perfection.

I wonder if she was considered for a Golden Girl.

[quote] If any of you aren't familiar with Soap, treat yourself to the series on DVD for $19.

Does anyone know if this is on Amazon or Netflix?

[quote] I wonder if she was considered for a Golden Girl.

She was under contract to Who's The Boss, so no.

She would've been a great Blanche. Rue McClanahan was great in the role, but Katherine had great body for her age (Rue not so much) and it would've made it more believable with lots of men wanting her. On the other hand, they couldn't have taken as many shots at her appearance like they did with Rue.

"dead to me" is dead to me. I'm guessing the person who came up with that is a 15-year old.

It is used too much here.

Deep discount has complete series for around 20 bucks on dvd. I couldn’t find digital copies on Amazon or Vudu.

STFU, R139, or get the fuck out of here. “DEAD to me” is the DL format. This is DL, not the Springfield Ladies Auxiliary.

Dead to Me has been around for years. We don't change everything around here every time some sensitive prisspot deigns it to be offensive to her visage.

R142 Not offensive, just juvenile, unclever and tired.

[quote] It is used too much here.

and wasn't even funny the first time.

This is SO not your moment, Mary.

A great actress is gone and we are discussing HER.

Smell YOU, R143.

Anyone want to bet she gets no Oscar mention next year ?Only one great film appearance.

I think she will, R149. Way more beloved than the likes of Dorothy Malone and even Carol Channing.

I loved her but as a TV actress.

I didn't realize that she died on Feb 23, but the news wasn't released until yesterday.

Katherine Helmond

Gorgeous, funny, great ol' broad. Loved her in "Soap."

I wonder whether the people who remember her for her second TV series role lived in places where the ABC station wouldn’t carry her first one.

R154, or they aren’t old enough to remember Soap.

That reunion video of her is tragic.