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Tuesday, August 19, 2014
August 19: Happy Birthday, Marie Wilson
The secretary was a minor, nearly throwaway character in many a TV sitcom or radio comedy. Not so with Irma of My Friend Irma, played on the radio by today's birthday girl, Marie Wilson.
Irma was a Midwestern-born stenographer in the employ of a lawyer, Mr. Clyde (played by Alan Reed). Though, even as the star of the show, Wilson was thrust into the "dumb blonde" role, seen by some as a forerunner of Marilyn Monroe.
She came to the part as a dancer of some Broadway repute, and would go on to play a role in the now-classic The Maltese Falcon.
According to Robert Kistler of the LA Times, the typecasting of Wilson "belied her personal zest for learning and intellectual self-improvement."
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