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 S. Robbins Louise S. Robbins Louise S. Robbins is an American academic and formerly director of the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Library and Information Studies. Robbins has won awards for her articles and books dealing with the history of librarians and intellectual freedom in the United States. Her best known work is "The Dismissal of Miss Ruth Brown: Civil Rights, Censorship, and the American Library" (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2000), winner of the Eliza Atkins Gleason Award and the Willa Literary Award for a nonfiction book from Women Writing the West. A long-time resident of Ada, Oklahoma before moving to