Valerie Harper has started production in Vancouver on a new TV movie called, "The Town that Came A Courtin." Harper, famously known to play Rhoda on the Mary Tyler Moore Show announced that she was battling terminal brain cancer in early March.
The UP cable channel announced that the movie was slated to premiere in January. The movie also stars Cameron Bancroft, Lauren Holly and Lucie Guest. In the movie, Harper plays the owner of a hotel who is trying to help a romance flourish between a widowed mayor and an author.
"When I learned that the remarkable Valerie Harper was interested in working, I was so excited, because that meant she was doing well," Barbara Fisher, programming chief at UP, said to AP. "We are thrilled to have this iconic talent in our film and awed by her determination to live each day to the fullest. She is truly an inspiration."
At the time that Harper announced she had brain cancer, doctors said she could have had as little as three months to live.
"The thing I have is -- is very rare and it's serious and it's incurable . . . so far," she said. "So I'm holding on to the 'so far, " she said on the Today Show.
Harper added she is remaining "hopeful" and has the intention to "live each . . . moment fully." She said, "I'm not dying until I do."
She went on a number of talk-show appearances to talk about her condition and also reunited with some Mary Tyler Moore co-stars including Mary Tyler Moore and Cloris Leachman for an episode of "Hot in Cleveland."
"UP, which is based in Atlanta, airs on Time Warner Cable (Ch. 152), DirecTV (Ch. 338) and DISH network (Ch. 188) - and bills itself as airing "uplifting family entertainment," reported The New York Post.
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