Rhoda Faye Morgenstern Gerard Rousseau was a fictional character on the sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the subsequent spinoff series Rhoda. She was played by Emmy-award-winning actress Valerie Harper.
Rhoda was a window dresser at Hempel's department store in Minneapolis, Minnesota and lived in the same house as Phyllis Lindstrom. She lived in an attic studio apartment, having moved to Minneapolis from New York City because (as she later j...
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Rhoda Faye Morgenstern Gerard Rousseau was a fictional character on the sitcom, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and the subsequent spinoff series Rhoda. She was played by Emmy-award-winning actress Valerie Harper.
Rhoda was a window dresser at Hempel's department store in Minneapolis, Minnesota and lived in the same house as Phyllis Lindstrom. She lived in an attic studio apartment, having moved to Minneapolis from New York City because (as she later jokingly mentioned in Rhoda's opening credits) she thought she would keep better in the cold.
She had been wanting the larger apartment on the level below where she had lived; but it had been promised to Mary Richards, since Phyllis had signed a year's lease on Mary's behalf (without her knowledge), to keep Rhoda out of the apartment. At first, Rhoda disliked Mary, mainly due to their competition over the apartment, but soon, the two bonded and became best friends. She and Phyllis maintained something of an adversarial relationship, but Rhoda...
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