‘Facts of Life’ Star Charlotte Rae Remembered as ‘Funny, Wise, Lovely’

Charlotte Rae, the on-screen character best known as the female authority of the NBC life experience school sitcom "The Facts of Life," was recollected Sunday by partners and fans as a warm, clever, and adaptable genius. 

Rae passed on Sunday evening at her home in Los Angeles. She revealed a year ago that she was doing combating bone disease. 

Rae was hailed for her long profession in front of an audience and in addition for her mark TV part as life experience school headmistress Edna Garrett on the teenager amicable NBC sitcom that kept running from 1978 to 1988. 

Previous "Unavoidable truths that apply to everyone" co-stars Kim Fields and Mindy Cohn communicated their trouble at Rae's passing on Twitter. Cohn called Rae "this mind boggling power of a lady." 

"Unavoidable truths that apply to everyone" hailed from Norman Lear's Embassy Communications. Before she was tapped to stay the show, Rae was a fan most loved on the initial two periods of another Embassy satire, NBC's "Diff'rent Strokes." She was recalled affectionately by her co-star Todd Bridges. "You were cherished by everybody on our show," Bridges composed on Twitter. 

Rae picked up popularity on TV yet she made her name as a performer in the 1950s in such stage in parts running from "The Threepenny Opera" to "Li'l Abner." She was Tony-assigned in 1966 for her work in the melodic "Pickwick" and in 1969 for the play "Morning, Noon, and Night." Broadway star Audra McDonald called Rae "clever, shrewd, dazzling, and splendid." 

Industry notables additionally communicated their thankfulness for Rae and her part as the straightforward yet delicate house mother on "The Facts of Life."