Portrait of American actress Louise Lasser, smiling with her hair in pigtails, as the titular character on the short-lived nighttime serial ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,’ 1976. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Louise Lasser, the star of the syndicated soap opera parody Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman and ex-wife of Woody Allen, has died.
Lasser’s death was confirmed by her friend Susan Charlotte in a report Tuesday in the New York Times. She was 87.
Lasser also starred in Allen comedies Take the Money and Run (1969) and Bananas (1971). She was married to the writer-director from 1966 to 1970.
Produced by Norman Lear, Lasser starred in the title role in Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, a comedy that examined the life of her 1970s housewife character amid societal changes in the 1970s. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, which also starred Mary Kay Place, Greg Mullavey, Graham Jarvis, Debralee Scott and Dody Goodman, was filmed in front of a live studio audience at KTLA-TV in Los Angeles and aired in syndication.
The series ran 325 episodes over two seasons, from 1976 to 1977. Lasser was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Special Classification of Outstanding Program and Individual Achievement in 1976, while Place won an Emmy for Outstanding Continuing Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 1977.
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