A comic actress who seems to have been born fraught and confused, Louise Lasser earned her place in TV history playing the title role in the syndicated 1976 late-night soap opera send-up, "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman", playing the titular put-upon housewife in pigtails to uproarious lengths. The actress left the series after a year and a half due to the "pressure" of the series. (She was also arrested for possession of $6 in cocaine found in her purse, which she said was given to her and thrown in her bag absentmindedly).The daughter of Sol Lasser, who wrote an annual tax guide for civilians,
