Ironically, the characters of Florida Evans (Esther Rolle) and Willona Woods on Good Times were supposed to be former schoolmates, but there was an estimated 25 year age difference between the two ...

Ja’Net DuBois, who played the vivacious neighbor Willona Woods on “Good Times” and composed and sang the theme song for “The Jeffersons,” has died.

“Good Times,” seen from 1974 to 1979 on CBS, was one of the first sitcoms with a predominantly black cast and was noteworthy for featuring a two-parent home. Ms. DuBois’s character, Willona ...

Ja’net DuBois, who played Willona Woods on the classic Norman Lear sitcom “Good Times,” was found dead Tuesday. She was 74. Ja’net DuBois and Janet Jackson on “Good Times” Courtesy ...

DuBois is best known for her role as Willona Woods in Good Times. Woods was a close family friend and neighbor to the Evans Family and was the adopted mother of Penny Gordon Woods, who was played ...

Good Times was more than a sitcom; ... Willona and Thelma (Bernadette Stanis and Ja’net Dubois) were perhaps the most beautiful representations of Black beauty at the time.

Ja’Net DuBois, known for her turn as Willona Woods on “Good Times,” was found dead in her Glendale, Calif. home on Tuesday.The Pan African Film Festival, which she co-founded, said she ...

Good Times was truly “dy-no-mite!” The Norman Lear series ran on CBS from 1974 to 1979 and focused on the Evans family, comprised of very different characters in inner-city Chicago. It was one ...

On "Good Times," DuBois’ Willona Woods was the single, sexy neighbor and best friend to star Esther Rolle’s Florida Evans. Though the comedy had plenty of one-liners, ...

Ja’Net Dubois, who played the vivacious neighbor Willona Woods on "Good Times" and composed and sang the theme song for "The Jeffersons," has died. She was 74.

Ja’Net DuBois, an actress who left her stamp on television playing beloved neighbor Willona Woods on “Good Times” and the voice behind the theme song to “The Jeffersons,” has died ...