Anderson also starred alongside Burt Reynolds in the 1983 film Stroker Ace. They later married and became tabloid fixtures before divorcing in 1994.

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.