Bonnie Franklin Net Worth

Bonnie Franklin's Quotes

• [In 2004, she reviewed clips from One Day at a Time (1975)] "When I looked at the tapes, I remember thinking how thin I looked. At the time, I was always saying, 'I need to lose weight, I need to lose 10 pounds'."
• [as to whether she knew that One Day at a Time (1975) was going to be a hit or not]: As soon as we went on the air we started receiving a lot of letters. The letters were saying, 'This is my life. This is what I'm going through. This is what my mother is like.' And so we pretty quickly got the idea that we were touching something.
• It's been pretty much 50-50 between the acting and the singing. The stuff I've done on stage has been so bloody exciting. The roles are just extraordinary. To play a person who is drunk, or angry, or English, or blind, to have that kind of stretch--when you're over 40, that's the exact time of the really great, meaty roles for women in theater. It's a wonderful opportunity to take advantage of that part of the business.
• [re 'One Day' show, 1980:] I know it's just a television show, and I don't think that I am changing the way the world is structured [but] sometimes we strike chords that do make people think a bit.
• [1981] I'm not working with insensitive men. But the men who produce and write the show still don't believe me when I present them with the women's point of view. After seven years, I just want to say, 'C'mon guys, I'm an intelligent person, why don't you just trust me?' I'm so tired of fighting. But you can't give up.

Interesting Facts about Bonnie Franklin

1. Began acting as a child.
2. She once said that because of her red hair and freckles, fans have a hard time believing that she is Jewish.
3. She won a Theatre World Award and a Tony Award nomination in 1970 for the Broadway musical, "Applause".
4. She attended Beverly Hills High School, whose famous alumni included Michael Lembeck, Angelina Jolie, Michael Klesic, Nicolas Cage, Corbin Bernsen, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman and Richard Dreyfuss.
5. Remained friends with her former co-stars from One Day at a Time (1975), until the time of her death.
6. She graduated from Beverly Hills High School in 1961, and was admitted into the Hall of Fame in 2008.
7. Her series, One Day at a Time (1975), was canceled at the end of the ninth season, because of low ratings and Franklin decided to leave the show.
8. Was the understudy for Sandy Duncan in the 1968 off-Broadway show, "Your Own Thing". She was often mistaken for Duncan at the time.
9. Second wife and widow of Marvin Minoff.
10. Has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer [September 24, 2012].
11. Acting mentor and friend of Valerie Bertinelli.
12. Her agent, for 15 years, was Robert Malcolm.
13. She was one of the two stars to have appeared in every episode of One Day at a Time (1975), with the exception of 1 in the last season.
14. Was reunited with ex-One Day at a Time (1975) co-star, Valerie Bertinelli on an episode of Hot in Cleveland (2010).
15. In 2001, she and her sister, Judy Franklin Bush, founded the nonprofit "Classic and Contemporary American Plays", an organization that introduces great American plays to inner-city schools' curriculum.
16. Is buried at Mount Sinai Memorial Park in Los Angeles, California beside her husband.
17. Stepmother of Jed Minoff and Julie Minoff.
18. Her Acting Mentor was Actor Donald O'Connor.
19. Performing the role of "Gloria" in "Grace and Glorie", at the Helen Hayes Theatre in Nyack, NY. [March 1998]
20. Performing in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf", at the Public Theater, Pittsburgh, PA. [March 1999]