Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Not only was the raven-haired actress’s character a beloved mentor and confidant to the other characters on The Facts of Life, but ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Charlotte Rae, the “Facts of Life” star who died Sunday at age 92, may be inexorably linked to the muffin-baking, ...

LOS ANGELES -- In "The Facts of Life," Charlotte Rae played the unflappable Mrs. Garrett, a girls' school housemother who guided her charges through crises and comedy. Rae said she implored the show's ...

Charlotte Rae, the redheaded comedian beloved as the good-natured housemother Mrs. Garrett on TV's "Facts of Life" and "Diff'rent Strokes," has died at 92. Rae's spokesman Harlan Boll told USA TODAY ...

*Charlotte Rae, best known for her role as Mrs. Garrett on “Facts of Life” and “Different Strokes,” has been diagnosed with bone cancer at age 91. “Last Monday, I found out I have bone cancer,” the ...

(Reuters) - Charlotte Rae, the actress, singer and comedienne who won acclaim on Broadway and was best known for her starring role as a girls boarding school housemother on U.S. television's "The ...

*Charlotte Rae, the actress best known as the matriarch of the NBC boarding school sitcom “The Facts of Life,” was remembered by former co-stars and colleagues following her death on Sunday afternoon ...