![]() Raised there, she pursued an acting career following high school. ![]() She was born Sally Ann Struthers, the daughter of a surgeon, on July 28, 1948, in Portland, Oregon. History as a member of a dysfunctional family quartet in the milestoneĪll in the Family (1971). Nabbed a series role in the early 1970s and became a solid part of TV Vulnerability that endeared her to the American public, Sally Struthers When I was mad at my husband, I went to where I knew his car was parked, and I took a sledgehammer, and I beat the crap out of the car.Cute as a button and with a petite, porcelain prettiness and She's kept that example of her friend’s moxie in mind-and even tried to follow suit. “And I said, ‘You are a goddess!’" Struthers remembered, battling a full giggle fit. Struthers recalls this story through fits of laughter: Torres was apparently so angry that she stomped into his office, lifted her skirt, and peed on the floor. To illustrate that, she shares a story from the early days of their friendship-one she says Torres will surely kill her for telling-about something Torres once did to show her then-husband that she was mad at him. that we're forgiven,” she says of her friend, whom she describes as “articulate,” “wild,” and “daffy”-with a “stream of consciousness” not unlike that of a Gilmore girl.īut it is Torres’s inner strength that Struthers said she admires best. “We say things to one another and share things with one another we would never say to anyone else because we know that if it's not P.C. That's because for more than 40 years, Torres has been Struther's “zone of safety”: from working long hours together to helping each other with tricky marriages, Struthers says the two have long been bosom buddies. Neither one knew, initially, that the other was going to be cast-but Torres remembers screaming gleefully when she saw Struthers, running into her embrace. I always have to sing the melody, and she can just do harmony all around me.”īoth women refer to their first meeting on the set of Gilmore as though it were a sorority reunion. She knows how to automatically harmonize. Struthers remembered it pretty much the same way: “We'd talk about people we like, people we couldn't stand, gossip, show business news, memory lane from her career and mine. Torres appeared on the show as the family's boarder, Theresa, for one season. These Stars Hollow fan favorites actually first met on the set of the classic Norman Lear sitcom All in the Family, which starred Struthers as liberal feminist Gloria Stivic. As it turns out, though, Torres and Struthers were Babette and Miss Patty long before Lorelai Gilmore first begged for Luke’s coffee. ![]() They could often be seen gossiping away in Luke’s diner, at the magazine stand or the dance studio “We were like Abbot and Costello,” Torres said. Struthers, who played Babette on the show-next-door neighbor to Lorelai and Rory Gilmore, and possibly the only one who could match the fast-paced cadence of their dialogue-and Torres were an inseparable twosome onscreen. And the mention of one other cast member had Torres leaning back in her chair, giggling like a mischievous girl in a beginner’s ballet class: Sally Struthers. She's almost certainly best known, though, as zany, dramatic, nostalgic Miss Patty on Gilmore Girls. A Puerto Rican-American who worked as both a dancer and a stand-up comic in her early days, Torres frequently rubbed shoulders with the biggest names in the business. ![]() She opened for Liza Minnelli, the year Minnelli won her Oscar for Cabaret. (Which was only appropriate: the town was hosting the Gilmore Girls fan festival, after all.) Then Torres launched into a summary of those “jobs”: she ran the Continental Baths with a then-unknown Bette Midler. I had jobs,” actress Liz Torres said as we sat around a table decorated with a very Stars Hollow-esque, autumnal theme in the town hall of Washington Depot, Connecticut.
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