Valerie Harper Returns to Work on THE TOWN THAT CAME A-COURTIN' Following Cancer Diagnosis

The Associated Press reports that actress Valerie Harper has returned to work following the news that she has been diagnosed with incurable brain cancer. She is filming in Vancouver for the TV movie THE TOWN THAT CAME A-COURTIN', which is set to air in January 2014 on Canada's UP cable channel.

"When I learned that the remarkable Valerie Harper was interested in working, I was so excited, because that meant she was doing well," UP's programming chief Barbara Fisher told AP.

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The romance is based on a novel by Ronda Rich and also stars Lauren Holly, Cameron Bancroft and Lucie Guest. Harper plays the owner of a bed-and-breakfast-turned-matchmaker.

Harper announced that she had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer on March 6, 2013. A recurrence of Harper's 2009 lung cancer, the disease spread into the membrane surrounding her brain and she was diagnosed with leptomeningeal carcinomatosis.

Harper has appeared on Broadway in Looped, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Paul Sills' Story Theatre, Something Different, Subways Are For Sleeping, Wildcat and Take Me Along, as well as off-Broadway's Death Defying Acts and All Under Heaven. Harper's TV credits include The Office, City, Valerie, Rhonda, Mary Tyler Moore and many TV movies.

Photo Credit: Walter McBride

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