Valerie Harper Collapses Backstage During Performance of Nice Work If You Can Get It

Tony nominee and Emmy winner Valerie Harper fell unconscious backstage during the evening performance of Nice Work If You Can Get It at Maine's Ogunquit Playhouse on July 29. The fire department reportedly received an emergency call at 8:56 PM for a 75-year-old female. Deadline reports that Harper was discharged from hospital the morning of July 30.

Harper has suffered from serious health problems in recent years. Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2009, in March 2013 she received the news that she had terminal brain cancer.

Best known for playing Rhoda Morgenstern Gerard on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, Harper appeared on Dancing With the Stars in fall 2013. A Tony nominee for the 2010 Broadway run of Looped, her other Great White Way credits include Take Me Along, Wildcat, Subways Are For Sleeping, Something Different, Paul Sills’ Story Theatre, Ovid’s Metamorphoses and The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife.