CLORIS LEACHMAN

The year that just ended was a sad one for fans of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show,’" one of the most popular situation comedies of the 1970s.

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Cloris Leachman died Wednesday. As a dramatic actress she won an Oscar for "The Last Picture Show." See also:Cicely Tyson died Thursday. She received a Kennedy Center Honor in 2015, the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2016, and an honorary Oscar in 2018. Cicely Tyson was 96 years old.

Passage: Cicely Tyson and Cloris Leachman "Sunday Morning" looks back on the careers of Cloris Leachman, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning star of "The Last Picture Show," "Young Frankenstein" and "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," who died this week at the age of 94; and Cicely Tyson, the Emmy- and Tony-winning actress and model, best known for "Sounder," "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman" and "Roots," who died this week at age 96. Mo Rocca reports.

Award-winning actress Cloris Leachman has died at 94 Cloris Leachman, an Oscar-winner for her portrayal of a lonely housewife in "The Last Picture Show" and a comedic delight as the fearsome Frau Blücher in "Young Frankenstein" and self-absorbed neighbor Phyllis on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," has died. She was 94.

Leachman died in her sleep of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, California, publicist Monique Moss said Wednesday. For three years in the 1990s she appeared in major cities as the captain's wife in the revival of "Show Boat." In the 1993 movie version of "The Beverly Hillbillies," she assumed the Irene Ryan role as Granny Clampett. Although she started out as Miss Chicago in the Miss America Pageant, Leachman willingly accepted unglamorous screen roles. There's supposed to be a point in life when you aren't supposed to stay believing that.

From 2015: Cloris Leachman Cloris Leachman, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress who kept us laughing on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," died on January 26, 2021 at the age of 94. In this profile, which originally aired on "CBS Sunday Morning" November 22, 2015, Leachman talked about some of her classic performances, and showed off her prowess in preparing gourmet vegetarian dinners to correspondent Tracy Smith.

From 2015: Cloris Leachman Cloris Leachman, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress who kept us laughing on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," died on January 26, 2021, at the age of 94. In this profile, which originally aired on "CBS Sunday Morning" November 22, 2015, Leachman talked about some of her classic performances, and showed off her prowess in preparing gourmet vegetarian dinners to correspondent Tracy Smith.

FILE - Actress Cloris Leachman gestures to honoree Mel Brooks in the audience during the American Film Institute's 41st Lifetime Achievement Award Gala on June 6, 2013, in Los Angeles. Leachman died in her sleep of natural causes at her home in Encinitas, California, publicist Monique Moss said Wednesday. “Nothing I could say would top the enormity of my love for you,” posted Ed Asner of “The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Phyllis was so unexpectedly engaging that Leachman starred in a spinoff series of her own, “Phyllis,” which ran on CBS from 1975 to 1977. Cloris Leachman grew up on the outskirts of Des Moines, Iowa, where she was born in 1926.

Even with new content arriving the theaters, the Thanksgiving box office is set to see its worst haul in decades, according to Comscore analyst Paul Dergarabedian. The only two years that didn't hit this threshold were 2011 and 2014, but the box office tally still surpassed $230 million in each case. Already, the yearly box office is a fraction of what it was last year, dropping more than 77% to $2.18 billion. During the same period last year, the box office brought in $2.86 billion. It's unclear how many theaters will be open for Thanksgiving weekend, but if that number shrinks again, so too does the potential box office haul.

Cloris Leachman kept audiences in stitches on "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." It's just how long you live," Cloris Leachman replied. Cloris Leachman with her daughter, Dinah Englund. CBS NewsShe may balk at being called a legend, but with Cloris Leachman it's hard to think of a better word. And I said, 'Wait, wait, wait, wait.