Valerie Harper Explains Her Reaction When Cloris Leachman Did Not Win An Emmy | The Dick Cavett Show

Dick Cavett interviews 4-time Primetime Emmy winner Valerie Harper about the complaints she got when she looked disappointed that Cloris Leachman had not won an Emmy.
Date aired - September 28th 1972 - Valerie Harper
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Dick Cavett has been nominated for eleven Emmy awards (the most recent in 2012 for the HBO special, Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again), and won three. Spanning five decades, Dick Cavett’s television career has defined excellence in the interview format. He started at ABC in 1968, and also enjoyed success on PBS, USA, and CNBC.

His most recent television successes were the September 2014 PBS special, Dick Cavett’s Watergate, followed April 2015 by Dick Cavett’s Vietnam. He has appeared in movies, tv specials, tv commercials, and several Broadway plays. He starred in an off-Broadway production ofHellman v. McCarthy in 2014 and reprised the role at Theatre 40 in LA February 2015.

Cavett has published four books beginning with Cavett (1974) and Eye on Cavett (1983), co-authored with Christopher Porterfield. His two recent books -- Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets (2010) and Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic moments, and Assorted Hijinks(October 2014) are both collections of his online opinion column, written for The New York Times since 2007. Additionally, he has written for The New Yorker, TV Guide, Vanity Fair, and elsewhere.
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[@TheDickCavettShow]

What's your favourite Valerie Harper movie or TV performance?

[@kidmack3556]

The Rhoda episode where she decides at the spur of the moment to go to Paris by herself for the weekend. She says that she had always wanted to go, but no one else ever offered to go with her, or any man to take her, so she wasn't going to wait any longer and she just went... Loved the scenes of her walking around "Paris" I've only watched a handful of Rhoda episodes, which I can't really remember, but I will never forget that one.

[@MrJokerlad19]

Columbo

[@kidmack3556]

@@MrJokerlad19 I'll have to check that out too. If possible I will sign up for a ME TV alert.

[@docadams7099]

I love her performance on the MTM episode "The Snow Must Go On" which features her then-husband Richard Schaal playing Chuckles the Clown. I LOVE it when Chuckles announces the winner of the election!

[@stevemoore9509]

When her and Brenda goes to Vegas and Rhoda's wedding.

[@kittygrrlhk]

I really miss Valerie she was so talented and honest. She and Cloris both stated in interviews that they were very close friends.

[@angelthman1659]

It's interesting because they played such fierce rivals on MTM always at each other's throats.

[@thishandleistaken2023]

I love both of these people. I was lucky enough to meet Valerie in 1992 at a political rally. She's as warm and genuine in real life as in front of the camera.

[@dougmorris9317]

I was 11 years old when this aired, now in my sixties and loved Valerie as much then as I do now. Her beauty, humor and class are timeless. ❤❤❤😊

[@michellerosebrown]

Recently rediscovered her after a three decade hiatus from watching classic tv renuns, I am in my early thirties. Dark and stunning inside and out ❤. Beautiful white 👩🏻 with half French ancestry 🇫🇷. '𝙇𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙃𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙧𝙘𝙮'. 𝙈𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙚𝙣 𝙗𝙤𝙩𝙝 𝙬𝙝𝙞𝙩𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙗𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙨𝙬𝙤𝙤𝙣 🌹

[@TildeDixon]

I love her, I remembered I wrote a fan letter as a tween and she responded with her autograph….such a true class act!

[@Biofeedback1975]

The actresses of today cannot hold a candle to These ladies.

[@BCSExpress1]

Valerie Harper made The Mary Tyler Show fly. She was one of the best casting decisions in television history; by the series' 2nd episode the relationship between Rhoda & Mary was a home run.

[@michaelsx2]

She was always completely endearing.

[@davidfenn4444]

She was lovely, I fancied her when I was a young lad.

[@danielbrown1724]

We all did mate

[@pepelemoko01]

Who didn't?and kate jackson.

[@cidweinberg]

I got to meet both Valerie and Michelle Lee in the early 00's... they were performing in The Allergist's Wife, and it was a treat to sit down and be in their company of 20 minutes. Valerie asked me if I was an actor. Ah, memories.

[@johnbrowneyes7534]

Those long gowns, just a different elegance then. Was a wonderful time.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

'70's, from minis to maxis.

[@brettsprang7991]

I really miss Valerie good humor and beautiful 😢 😍

[@ZulcanPrime]

I just ordered the first season of Rhoda on DVD. I love her character as Rhoda and her later Valerie series during the mid 1980s. I had a schoolboy crush on her during the 1970s.

[@January.]

Cloris certainly did deserve to win as well.

[@leesas_classics1722]

Should of been two best friends right beside each other Valerie Harper and Cloris Leachman.

[@January.]

@@leesas_classics1722 *Should have been

[@danacaro-herman3530]

@January. I absolutely disagree. Sally Struthers was awesome!!!

[@stumack9755]

@@danacaro-herman3530 ditto!

[@StevePhil-qw4ep]

Loved Valerie Harper, you can tell she had such a light to her...great apology...such a beautiful woman, hard to play a supporting actress to a presence like MTM

[@pattibrooks1907]

I loved her acting In Mary Tyler Moore Rhoda and the movie Death Of A Cheerleader she was a great actress !

[@JustAThought155]

Oh my! I didn’t know she passed away. What memories!!! Geez! That hit me hard. I knew she battled cancer but I did not know she died, over a year ago.😢😢😢

[@eejaypea]

😞

[@ronmackinnon9374]

Yes, in August of 2019, a week after she'd turned 80. Four years earlier -- a couple of years after she'd been diagnosed with brain cancer (by which time she'd already beaten lung cancer) -- she was in a production of 'Nice Work If You Can Get It' at the Ogunquit Playhouse in Maine, but wasn't feeling well a few performances in and was briefly hospitalized. She was replaced for the remainder of the production by Brenda Vaccaro. Interestingly (in view of this clip), another cast member was Sally Struthers. I'm sorry she's gone too, but admire how she kept fighting and doing what she loved to do as long as she could. There are other good interview clips of her online as well.

[@johnschaefer2238]

Loved her as Rhoda started watching the show in 1970 and we lived in Queens. When Rhoda met Mary in the first show and that first scene with Valerie I turned to my mom and said “Rhoda sounds just like you!” Didn’t go over so well with mom but that was the case and she loved Rhoda as well.

[@Biboche23]

She a fantastique lady all around ❤ smart funny witty and beautiful

[@fs357mag]

Had a crush on this lady back in the day. Still kinda do.

[@patrickhicks9880]

i loved rhoda me and my friend caroline loved that show

[@ianbauer4703]

Great actress, loved her on MTM and Rhoda.

[@rreid3990]

Love and miss you, Valerie Harper!!

[@kevinhealey6540]

Rhoda and Phyllis were not good friends and would use sarcastic remarks on one another, but behind the scenes Valerie and Cloris were life long best friends. They saw each other on a steady basis They would even discuss rolls they were offered and discuss how the character should be played. Leachman made herself available to Harper in her last years. Their friendship ended when Valerie Harper passed on.

[@keyontedollison8547]

Valarie harper favorite mary tyler moore💖💖💕💕

[@nathelondon3719]

Beautiful inside and out. Badly treated by the studio. RIP Gorgeous.

[@stephenr3910]

I remember a TV special her husband did called "The Cube" when I was around 5 years old. For years, I thought it must have been a dream I had because I could never find it anywhere. Then I eventually saw a KZbin channel with it.

[@kevinhealey6540]

Rhoda and Phyllis did not get along with one another and both used snide jokes when they talked to one another on the show, but in real life Valerie and Cloris were best of friends, saw each other on a daily basis and their friendship that lasted their whole lives and only ended when Valerie Harper passed away.

[@marsazorean62]

I love her

[@stephenr3910]

I wish nowadays there were such a tough choice as between all three actresses.

[@MaidenUtah1]

HI YA!!!

[@thomasbinninger1355]

The corner bar Gabriel dell.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

So gorgeous.

[@maureenoneill2847]

Cavot relay what was really meant by Sids affliction by projections?

[@joejoe9435]

i was a big fan of Val and i know this was a long time ago but i must admit i was a little dissapointed by some of her comments.. great actress though

[@everycoLor_312]

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[@flenif2247]

Honest

[@DavidMiller-kf1ss]

Feed the children. Lol. Rip.❤

[@donaldcasey9204]

I think Valarie Harper was being shaddy

[@tomsenick2033p]

God cavett is so awkward and unfunny.

[@maximilian2974]

And I don't get how he landed a talk show. There are times he gets insightful answers but he stammers as well which is annoying.

[@unowen-nh9ov]

Wasp, bigots.

[@lynnlobliner3933]

Another clip of how awful Dick is as an interviewer. I guess his style was hot back around 1970 but he manages to bring out the nothing that people have to say between the something that they should have said.

[@annajacob7981]

I think Dick was uncomfortable interviewing women that he perceived as less than his equal (IQ wise). Or, instead, maybe he felt threatened because he knew the woman knew more than he did. Not sure. In both Valerie Harper interviews he failed. I sense a lack of respect on his part. I wonder why.

[@Branner]

He has no "ear"for the flow of conversation. It's shocking. He interrupts at the wrong time and stops the person from continuing to get to his/her point.

[@danacaro-herman3530]

Sally Struthers was AWESOME on All in The Family. I like Cloris Leachman as a person, but her character was horrible in the Mary Tyler Moore show. It added nothing to the show

[@georgegallucci9958]

Sorry, but Cloris was brilliant. I think you're confusing the character with the actress who, by the way, still holds the record for most Emmys by and actress. But Phyllis was meant to be odd and somewhat annoying, but to say she added nothing to the show couldn't be further from the truth.

[@danacaro-herman3530]

​@@georgegallucci9958Your truth perhaps but not mine.

[@patmelton43]

Was Valerie Jewish?

[@larrymabeus5896]

No she wasn't, but played her part of a Jewish Girl from the Bronx very well .

[@michellerosebrown]

Half English 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿Half French 🇫🇷

[@maureenoneill2847]

Our rose gold banns intarsian by puritanical Rites proposals

[@jldraw]

She's so beautiful and because she was a comedienne, she never truly got the recognition for her understated early nineteen seventies beauty. Hard to believe she's no longer with us. So many great memories obviously from MTM and Rhoda but she made a number of tremendous television movies in the seventies particularly "Night Terror" and then there was of course her unfortunately truncated work on her short-lived sitcom "Valerie". I still remember her in one episode teaching Jason Bateman how to dance the Charleston. I also love how she greets Cavett with the traditional Rhoda-ism, "Hiya"!

[@maximilian2974]

She was pretty special and her beauty was something else. Stunning.

[@zriter59escritor33]

Lord, how I had a crush on Ms. Harper. Superb actress, funny, charming, gorgeous and sexy.

[@Teho231]

She was such a beautiful woman. And I loved her in MTM when I was a young teen.

[@leesas_classics1722]

Valerie shouldn't feel the need to explain herself because it's only natural you want your friend up there with you but I just love how she did. People today only look at the reaction from her and not read her book which as a fan makes me sad.

[@astornic]

Valerie & Sally appeared together shortly in Sally's play bck in 2015 before Valerie collapsed bckstage

[@alaricabercrombie2692]

I know Angela Bassett can definitely relate to Valerie's experience at a televised award show. 😄

[@tlw1950]

I have the complete Rhoda and MTM on DVD. I wish they would release Phyllis!

[@b30b60b90go]

I didn't know Phylis was in jail !

[@garyjskadra1180]

Valerie Harper was hot

[@michellerosebrown]

It’s good. It’s really good. ❤

[@leamanc]

I enjoyed seeing Valerie, but this certainly wasn’t one of Dick’s more insightful interviews. He seems to be at a loss for interesting topics, a rarity for him.

[@annajacob7981]

I am thinking the same.. "Dull boy Dick"

[@jako3214]

She's fantastic & gorgeous. Sally was decent but just road off the coatails of a gargantuan smash (& cast)! Again, was FINE but really didn't exude much star power or true acting quality. Simply recited brilliant writing effectively & ended up a one trick pony (& I love Sally as a person). Valerie was right- but some old 70s shade there, wow lol. FORGET it if this happened today! 🤯 Looks like this was a 'story' back then.

[@Gannooch]

I have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Art Carney or Jackie Gleason? I don’t have Decades.

[@Marcel_Audubon]

maybe the can show it at your wake if you don't make it

[@onnietalone3181]

@@Marcel_Audubon lol,,,ha ha ha excuse me while I choke, that was funny, my friend loved this actress, sad to hear both passed with same desease breast cancer, fell so sorry for her husband, poor guy

[@Gannooch]

have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other videos around here.

[@PanhandleFrank]

That Avocado Green. Ugh.

[@wpeters4361]

Valerie was so beautiful. On the MTM show, I always thought she was much prettier than Mary, even though her character was the "loser in love".

[@NathanDunlap-j9w]

She was two pretty for everyone at the time. And now but she helped Grace us with the Year's.3.75.

[@marsazorean62]

And I Love Sally Struthers

[@nightbird5317]

🌹🙏🏼♥️♥️♥️🙏🏼🌹

[@barbarahourigan8462]

❤️❤️