#Selma Diamond

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Remembering the brilliant comedy writer/actor Selma Diamond on her birthday #botd

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The Merv Griffin Show (1968) with guest host Orson Bean and comedians Selma Diamond, Charlie Manna, and Bobby Ramsen. And Dustin Hoffman.

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1984 Cast of the TV series “NIght Court”

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What a time to be a Night Court fan. (Fuck the Sara J. Maas books.)

First they announce they’re making a sequel series and NOW people are making a documentary on Selma Diamond.

YAY!

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"I can hardly read this."

'I can hardly read this.' I'm getting choked up as I read DIVIDED LOYALTIES for my audio book.

I just read that sentence into my audio book. I was so choked up by the painful moment in the book when…oh no, I can’t tell you. Suffice it to say, something dreadful just happened and sent all the main characters of Divided Loyalties reeling. My voice caught in my throat and tears stung myeyes as I read those sad words. It seems like it was only a moment before when I had chuckled at a touching…

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Remembering actor/writer Selma Diamond on her birthday #botd

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Comedy writer Selma Diamond wrote for Groucho Marx, Sid Caesar, Jimmy Durante and Milton Berle

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Selma Diamond (August 6, 1920 – May 13, 1985) died 29 years ago today at the age of 64. Best known for her high-range, raspy voice and her portrayal of Selma Hacker on the first two seasons of the NBC television comedy series Night Court (1984-1992).

She was also a writer. Her earliest radio writing credits included You Bet Your Life, Duffy's Tavern, and The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. In 1950, she became one of the staffers hired by legendary comedy writer Goodman Ace (who'd previously hired her for some work on Danny Kaye's short-lived 1940s' radio show) for The Big Show (1950–52), the ninety-minute weekly radio variety program hosted by Tallulah Bankhead and featuring some of the biggest entertainers of the era.

She moved on to television as one of the writers for Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca's groundbreaking Your Show of Shows. Diamond was reputed to have been the inspiration for the Sally Rogers character on The Dick Van Dyke Show, which centered on the head writer for a fictitious, mercurial television comedian. While writing for another Caesar vehicle, Caesar's Hour, Diamond earned an Emmy nomination. She also worked for Goodman Ace once again, writing for Perry Como's successful television series. (Wikipedia)

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And while watching Twilight Zone: The Movie, I had the uncomfortable moment of seeing one of the actresses -- Selma Diamond, portraying Mrs. Weinstein in the "Kick the Can" segment -- bears a striking resemblance of my (soon-to-be-ex) mother-in-law.

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An all too brief cameo by Selma Diamond (as the Gas Station Attendant) in the final episode of Season 1 of McMillan & Wife, "An Elementary Case of Murder".

A little over a decade later she'd become a member of fictional law enforcement herself as Baliff Selma Hacker on Night Court.

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