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Louise Lasser, Star of TV’s ‘Mary Hartman,’ Is Dead at 87

Louise Lasser, Star of 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,' Dies at 87

Ethan Shanfeld

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Summary

Louise Lasser, best known for her starring role as the frazzled Midwestern homemaker Mary Hartman in Norman Lear's satirical soap opera "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," has died at age 87. She died of natural causes at her Manhattan home. Lasser's career began on Broadway and she was also known as Woody Allen's second wife. Her performance in the short-lived but influential series flipped her reserved real-life persona, portraying a materialistic housewife in absurdist comedic scenarios that satirized consumerism and American domestic life.

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VarietyLouise Lasser, Star of 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,' Dies at 87variety.com

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Lasser died of natural causes on Monday at her home in Manhattan.

Lasser's reserved and soft-spoken demeanor was flipped on its head in 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,' in which she played a frazzled, materialistic Midwestern homemaker.

The show involved bizarre, absurdist comedy premises — in one episode, a man drowns in a bowl of Mary's chicken soup — and satirized the effects of consumerism on the American housewife.

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Louise Lasser, the star of 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' and Woody Allen's second wife, has died. She was 87.

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