Mabel King

ABOUT MABEL KING

Veteran actress remembered by television audiences as Mama Thomas on ABC's What's Happening!! from 1976 to 1979.

She found work as a nightclub singer in her twenties.

She had notable film roles in 1979's The Jerk and 1988's Scrooged.

She was married to Melvin King from 1967 to 1989; the couple had one son.

She acted with Diana Ross in the 1978 musical The Wiz .