This little-known star of Broadway, TV & movies of the 60s,and former wife of Woody Allen, rose to worldwide cult status as the ditzy, pigtailed, housewife of the late-night soap-opera phenomenon Mary Hartmen, Mary Hartman in the 1970s. Her portrayal was so strongly identified with her that the public actually failed to recognize any of her other accomplishments.

When she left the hit show the end of the second and final season the public assumed that SHE had a nervous breakdown (rather than her character in the show)