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Dody Goodman

Highest Rated: 91% Splash (1984)

Lowest Rated: 0% Frozen Assets (1992)

Birthday: Oct 28, 1914

Birthplace: Columbus, Ohio, USA

Dolores "Dody" Goodman was a natural flake and parlayed that unserious, fun loving nature into a comedy career that lasted over five decades on stage, screen, and television. She started as a dancer on Broadway in the late 1940s and early '50s, gaining fame for her rendition of a novelty song called "Someone's Been Sending Me Flowers" in off-Broadway's "Shoestring Revue." This brought her to the attention of talk show host Jack Paar, whose "Tonight Show" talk show had begun in 1957 to great enthusiasm. Goodman became a semi-regular on the show but had a falling out with Paar in the second season due to what the host claimed was Dody's constant attempts to upstage him. Undaunted, Goodman used her goofy looks, high-pitched voice, and silly demeanor to carve out a niche for herself on stage and TV throughout the 1960s. She made a splash in the mid 1970s as the mother of Louise Lasser's main character on the soap opera spoof "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman." Feature film roles in the musicals "Grease" and "Grease 2" followed, as well as the occasional return to the "Tonight Show," now hosted by Johnny Carson. She had recurring roles on the sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" and did voice work for the animated series "Alvin & the Chipmunks" in the 1980s. Her madcap persona was a perfect fit for the stage show "Nunsense," where she played both Sister Amnesia and Mother Superior in traveling companies nationwide in the 1990s. She died at the age of 93.

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Highest rated movies

91% 63% Splash
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75% 87% The Chipmunk Adventure
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71% 67% Max Dugan Returns
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66% 87% Grease Watchlist
36% 53% Grease 2
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14% 40% Private Resort
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3% 43% Cool as Ice
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0% 25% Frozen Assets
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47% I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later
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Valentine Magic on Love Island
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet 40% Family Reunion: A Relative Nightmare Grandma Dotty Dooley (Character) - 1995
0% 25% Frozen Assets Mrs. Patterson (Character) $124.0K 1992
3% 43% Cool as Ice Mae McCallister (Character) $956.8K 1991
No Score Yet 40% Samantha Mrs. Higgins (Character) - 1991
75% 87% The Chipmunk Adventure Miss Rebecca Miller (Voice) $6.8M 1987
No Score Yet 47% I Dream of Jeannie: 15 Years Later Scheherazade (Character) - 1985
14% 40% Private Resort Mrs. Rawlings (Character) - 1985
91% 63% Splash Mrs. Stimler (Character) - 1984
71% 67% Max Dugan Returns Mrs. Litke (Character) - 1983
36% 53% Grease 2 Blanche Hodel (Character) - 1982
No Score Yet No Score Yet Valentine Magic on Love Island Ida Kramer (Character) - 1980
66% 87% Grease Blanche (Character) $305.3K 1978
No Score Yet 29% Bedtime Story Fanny Eubank (Character) - 1964

TV

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33% No Score Yet Boston Common Unknown (Guest Star) 1997
No Score Yet 89% Murder, She Wrote Beverly Hills (Guest Star) 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Punky Brewster Mrs. Morton (Character),
Unknown (Guest Star)
1984-1985
No Score Yet No Score Yet Diff'rent Strokes Unknown (Guest Star) 1981-1982 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fantasy Island Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tattletales Guest 1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet Forever Fernwood Mrs. Martha Shumway (Character) 1976-1977
No Score Yet No Score Yet What's My Line? Guest 1969