Kim Fields, best known as Tootie Ramsey, the rollerskating gossip of Eastland Academy, was married to movie producer Johnathon Franklin Freeman from 1995 to 2001. Following her divorce, she had a son, ...

For nine seasons, TV audiences sang along to the theme song from NBC's "The Facts of Life." Over the years, some of the ...

(Clockwise from left): Kim Fields as Dorothy 'Tootie' Ramsey, Nancy McKeon as Joanna 'Jo' Marie Polniaczek, Mindy Cohn as Natalie Letisha Sage Green, Charlotte Rae as Mrs. Edna Ann Garrett, and Lisa ...

In the '80s, no show captured the ups and downs of growing up as a teenage girl better than The Facts of Life. The sitcom's cast centered on Edna Garrett, the housemother of Eastland Academy, an ...

Impressing Tyler Perry with her survival skills, becoming a "Coco Mama," and doing what Ross never could by turning down Rachel. Lisa Whelchel's story didn't end when she stopped playing Blair on "The ...

You take the good, you take the bad, and there you have... nine seasons and over 200 episodes of one of the most successful sitcoms of all time. Spun out of NBC's other wildly popular series ...

The Facts of Life was one of the biggest breakout sitcoms of the 1980s. Rae sadly died in 2018 after being diagnosed with bone cancer. Meanwhile, several of the show's younger stars continued acting ...

The television series The Facts of Life ran for an impressive nine seasons, and it remains an excellent comfort watch.

It all started with Charlotte Rae, who played the lovable “Edna Garrett,” the Drummond family’s housekeeper on Diff'rent Strokes. When producers saw the potential for Rae to carry her own show, they ...

If you were an '80s kid, The Facts of Life — about those core four Eastland girls and their housemother — was probably a staple on your rabbit-eared TV set. And maybe, just maybe, you can still sing ...

The Facts of Life, which followed the highs and lows of four teens at an all-girls boarding school, was one of the most beloved sitcoms of the ’80s. During its impressive run from 1979 to 1988, fans ...

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