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Dody Goodman, a comedian and character actress who gained fame as the resident zany on Jack Paar’s late-night show and as the ditsy matriarch on the soap opera send-up “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” has died. She was believed to be 93.

Goodman died Sunday at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in New Jersey, said Ann-Marie De Feis, a spokeswoman for the Actors Fund Homes in Englewood, where Goodman had been living. A cause of death was not announced.

Her early success as a dancer on Broadway gave way to television in the 1950s after friends such as comic actress Imogene Coca persuaded Goodman that she was naturally funny.

Cultivating a zany persona in the vein of comedian Gracie Allen was made easier by Goodman’s distinctive, crackly Southern voice. It has been described as sounding “like a Tweetie Pie cartoon bird strangling on peanut butter” or “gravel mixed into a bowl of honey.” She had a loopy grin to match.

Even Paar wasn’t sure what to make of Goodman.

“She seemed more like a bird-brained housewife than a ballerina” and “spoke in a distracted manner that defied description,” he said in an excerpt from his 1983 book, “P.S. Jack Paar,” on Goodman’s website. “The more she talked the more obvious it became that no one could have made up Dody Goodman.”

An early guest on the show when it debuted in 1957, Goodman “had a great deal to do with the original success of the program,” Paar wrote. She was “terribly witty, in a droll way, with a natural sense of the ridiculous.”

Goodman told the Associated Press in 1994 that she would “do a dumb thing for fun. That’s how I got the reputation for being dopey and dumb.”

Her goofy interactions on the Paar show brought her an Emmy nomination in 1958, but she was off the NBC show the same year after a reported fallout with the host. She was “a tireless talker,” Paar wrote, and he had begun “to feel like the announcer on ‘The Dody Goodman Show.’ ”

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Barbra’s first appearance on television was in 1961 on NBC's The Jack Paar Show.

Starting in 1960, The Jack Paar Show was videotaped in color and broadcast on NBC from 11:15 P.M. to 1 A.M. Eastern time. (Only black-and-white kinescope recordings of some of the shows still exist — the videotapes were destroyed decades ago.)

To escape the grind of the daily show, Paar would sometimes take nights off and the show would feature a “guest host” like Orson Bean or Jonathan Winters.

On the night of April 5, 1961, Orson Bean was in the guest host’s chair. Since both he and Barbra were clients of agent Ted Rozar at the time, Rozar arranged a serendipitous booking for Barbra — and she would also be on the show with her Bon Soir mentor, comedienne Phyllis Diller.

Bean recalled, years later, “I met Barbra when she was 18 and singing at a place in Greenwich Village,” he told US Magazine. “When I guest-hosted The Jack Paar Show, I got them to fly her in from a club she was playing in Detroit. She was a nervous wreck. But then when she started singing – ‘A Sleepin’ Bee’ – it was like God singing through her. She got a standing ovation, which doesn’t happen on TV. It was an incredible moment.”

Streisand prepared for her first T.V. appearance by having a burgundy damask dress made for her — and since the show was taped in

American actress (1914–2008)

Dody Goodman (October 28, 1914 – June 22, 2008) was an American character actress. She played the mother of the title character in the television series Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, her distinctive high-pitched voice announcing the show's title at the beginning of each episode. She was a frequent guest on The Tonight Show in the 1950s. In the 1978 summer blockbuster film Grease, she played Blanche Hodel, the zany student-popular secretary in the principal's office. She reprised this role again in 1982 for Grease 2. In 1979 she appeared in The Mary Tyler Moore Hour, and in 1981-82 had the recurring role of Aunt Sophia in Diff'rent Strokes. Aside from film and television appearances, she also voiced Miss Miller in the television series Alvin and the Chipmunks and the film spin-off The Chipmunk Adventure. She also played on Punky Brewster, as Punky's teacher.

Early life

Born Dolores Goodman in Columbus, Ohio, she was the daughter of Leona and Dexter Goodman. She had a sister, Rose, and a brother, Dexter Jr. She attended North High School in Columbus, Ohio (now Dominion Middle School) and is a member of the Hall of Fame at North High School. Goodman attended Northwestern University, where she studied dramatics, and two ballet schools—the School of American Ballet and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School.

Stage

Goodman's Broadway debut came in 1941. She gained a measure of newspaper column space for her dancing solos in such Broadway musicals as High Button Shoes (1947), and Wonderful Town (1953). In 1955, she stopped the show in Off Broadway's Shoestring Revue with the novelty song "S

American talk show (1957–1962)

Tonight Starring Jack Paar (in later seasons The Jack Paar Tonight Show) is an American television talk show broadcast by NBC. The show is the second installment of The Tonight Show. Hosted by Jack Paar, it aired from July 29, 1957 to March 30, 1962, replacing Tonight Starring Steve Allen and was replaced by The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.

During most of its run it was broadcast from Studio 6B (formerly the home of Milton Berle's Texaco Star Theater series) inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City. The same studio later hosted early episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Its theme song was an instrumental version of "Everything's Coming Up Roses", and the closing theme was "So Until I See You" by Al Lerner.

History

In July 1957, after the failure of Tonight! America After Dark (a news-oriented program first hosted by Jack Lescoulie and briefly by Al Collins), NBC reverted its late-night show, Tonight, to a talk/variety show format as it had been during Steve Allen's tenure as host. Jack Paar was brought in to host the reformatted Tonight. He was, at the time, working for CBS and hosting the network's The Morning Show, a morning show similar to NBC's The Today Show, before he agreed to jump networks and take over Tonight.

Under Paar, most of the NBC affiliates that had dropped the show during the ill-fated run of America After Dark, or who had never picked it up, began airing the show once again. Paar's era began the practice of branding the series after the host, and as such the program, though officially still called Tonight, was marketed as The Jack Paar Show. A combo band conducted by Paar's Army buddy pianist José Melis filled commercial breaks and backed musical entertainers. When Paar was on vacation, guest hosts presided over