Louise Lasser for starring as the neurotic, unhappy housewife Mary Hartman in the serialized satire "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" appearing on the covers of "Newsweek", "People", and "Rolling Stone" during the run of the show. "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" aired five nights a week for two seasons from 1976-1977. In his autobiography, producer Norman Lear says that the casting of Lasser took less than a minute after Charles H. Joffe told him there was only one actress to play the part of Mary Hartman and Lear met the former Mrs. Woody Allen. Lasser refused the role at first. Of the casting process,
Louise Sunshine Scholarship Fund. Sunshine has been married twice. During her first marriage she had three children: Suzanne, Paul and Sam Sunshine. The marriage ended in divorce in 1980. In 1997, she married her second husband, Martin S. Begun in New York. Begun, who passed away in May 2016, served as Associate Dean and Vice President for external affairs at the NYU Langone Medical Center and as President of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York. Sunshine is a resident of Florida. Louise Sunshine Louise Mintz Sunshine (born December 2, 1940) is an American real estate professional and founder of the