Appreciation: Georgia Engel's 'Mary Tyler Moore' character the friend we'd all like to have usatoday.com

Mary Tyler Moore may have been the one who turned the world on with her smile, as Moore's sitcom theme has it, but co-star Georgia Engel helped make sure viewers' grins never faded into frowns. Engel is best known for her role as soft-voiced Georgette Franklin, the sweet, ever-so-innocent girlfriend and later wife of self-important TV anchor Ted Baxter (Ted Knight) on one of the best sitcoms ever, "The Mary Tyler Moore Show." Younger viewers may know her as the mother-in-law of Brad Garrett's Robert on "Everybody Loves Raymond," and she also appeared in recurring roles on "Coach," the soap "Passions," and, more recently, in "Hot in Cleveland," which reunited her with "Moore" castmate and friend Betty White.