Loni Anderson, best known for her role as receptionist Jennifer Marlowe on '70s and '80s sitcom \

Anderson flipped the script on the dumb blonde stereotype with her breakout role on the CBS sitcom “WKRP in Cincinnati."

Loni Anderson, who played a struggling radio station’s empowered receptionist on the hit TV comedy “WKRP in Cincinnati,” died Sunday, just days before her 80th birthday.