# Who are our current "Abe Vigodas"? (people you might be surprised to learn are still alive)

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Hey, another Norman Lear related one.

**Mrs FtG** watches _Days of Our Lives_ and as I was passing by with it on I stopped and asked myself: “Is that Marla Gibbs?” I checked and it was Florence from _The Jeffersons_. She’s 91 and has been a widow since 1973.

Other things she’s done lately include _One Day at a Time_, _The Last O.G._, and _Young Sheldon_.

I could have sworn that all the cast members of her generation from _The Jeffersons_ were deceased.

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