This comic actress of revues, early TV and Broadway found national fame in the 1980s playing Edna Garrett, first as a housekeeper on the NBC sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" from 1978-79 and then as the house mother and guiding figure to Tootie, Natalie, Jo and Blair on "The Facts of Life" (NBC) from 1979-86. The diminutive Charlotte Rae had a mop of reddish auburn hair, a…
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