Selma Diamond
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Aug 05 1920 - May 13 1985 age 64
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Selma Diamond was a Canadian-born American comic actress and radio and
television writer, and is best known for her high-range, raspy voice
and her portrayal of Selma Hacker on the first two seasons of the NBC
television comedy series, 'Night Court' in 1984 & 1985. She began
her career as a comedy writer first in radio in the 1940's and then
television in the 1950's as one of the writers for Sid Caesar and
Imogene Coca's groundbreaking, 'Your Show of Shows' In fact, Selma
Diamond was reputed to have been the inspiration for the Sally Rogers
character on 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' (played by the similarly
raspy-voiced Rose Marie), which centered around the head writer for a
fictitious, mercurial television comedian. Miss Diamond made regular
appearances on 'The Jack Paar Show' as well as 'The Tonight Show' with
Johnny Carson. The brief excerpt on this promotional 45 was taken from
her 1960 Carlon Records comedy LP entitled, 'Selma Diamond Talks and
talks and talks.....'. Selma Diamond passed away in 1985 from lung cancer at the age of 65.
Night Court's Selma |
01 About "NOW"
02 About Being Single
03 About Men And Marriage
04 About "THEN"
05 About Four Minutes, 25 Seconds Long
06 About Her Aunt
Standup
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Carlon Records LPX-5001
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Enjoy!
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