# Can you id this actress/TV program?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-actress-tv-program/522750>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 28, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-actress-tv-program/522750 "2009-12-28T00:48:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 7:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-actress-tv-program/522750/21 "2009-12-29T07:47:16Z")

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Nothing about her reminds me of Shelley Winters – and I remember SW from that period.

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-actress-tv-program/522750/22 "2009-12-29T17:18:50Z")

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I asked her name in the comments section and someone says it’s Dody Goodman. I’m skeptical. Goodman and Arquette were regulars on Jack Paar’s show so the sketch could have come from there, but the woman’s voice isn’t right. I remember Dody from _Mary Hartman Mary Hartman_. I guess her voice could have changed in 30 years, but I don’t think it’d change that much.

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**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-actress-tv-program/522750/23 "2009-12-29T17:47:26Z")

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I think she’s more Medfordish than Goodmanish, but if it’s a Jack Paar sketch, that could make sense.

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**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-actress-tv-program/522750/24 "2009-12-29T18:42:33Z")

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Dody Goodman makes sense, especially for a Jack Paar sketch . . . but I don’t remember her face being that lean and angular during that period. And the voice doesn’t match.

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**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2009, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-id-this-actress-tv-program/522750/25 "2009-12-29T18:53:53Z")

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Maybe the guy who posted the video will read the comments and settle it – assuming he even knows. I assume he knows, if he’s the one who’s compiling and posting the videos.

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