Louise Lasser soap opera "The Doctors" and television commercials. She appeared in the Woody Allen films "Take the Money and Run" (1969), "Bananas" (1971), and "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)" (1972), as well as being one of the voices for his earlier spoof dubbing of a Japanese spy movie, "What's Up Tiger Lily?" (1966). She also appeared in comedies such as "Such Good Friends" (1971) and "Slither" (1973). In 1973, she appeared in the episode "The Roller Coaster Stops Here" of the NBC romantic anthology television series "Love Story". Lasser became a household name
Louise Lasser Lasser was also interviewed about the series in the bonus features of the "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" Complete Series DVD box-set from Shout Factory which was released December 2013. In it, she reveals that the idea for Mary Hartman's infamous nervous breakdown at the end of the first season came after she wrote a 12-page letter suggesting the idea to Norman Lear. On July 24, 1976, Lasser hosted "Saturday Night Live" at the end of the first season. Her performance is best known for her opening monologue in which she re-creates a Mary Hartman-esque nervous breakdown and locks herself in