evening, Paar quipped "Give them enough rope," "And they'll skip," ad-libbed Goodman, brightly. Dropped summarily by Paar in 1958, Goodman spent the next decade showing up on other talk programs, game shows and summer stock as a "professional celebrity". Following Mary Hartman, Goodman was a regular cast member on The Mary Tyler Moore Hour on CBS in 1979. Her career gained momentum with regular appearances on TV's Diff'rent Strokes, Search for Tomorrow, Punky Brewster, and as aunt Mavis in 1982 on Texas, movie roles in Grease, Grease 2 and Splash, and cartoon voiceover work as Miss Miller, The Chipettes' guardian, on Alvin and the Chipmunks and its movie The Chipmunk Adventure. Her distinctive voice was once described as sounding like "a tweetie pie cartoon bird strangling on peanut butter". Her last television role was a cameo in the talk show satire, "Jim Davison's Broadway Party" on the local NYC Manhattan Neighborhood Network channel in 2007. Modeling Goodman posed for photographs by Cris Alexander in the Patrick Dennis mock-biography First Lady, as Martha Dinwiddie's sister Clytie, who in the story married a European Count Przyzplätcki (pron. "splatsky") and perished on the . She also helped produce another book with Alexander's photography entitled Women, Women, Women! Recognition In 1958, Goodman was nominated for an Emmy Award for Best Continuing Performance (Female) in a Series by a Comedienne, Singer, Hostess, Dancer, M.C., Announcer, Narrator, Panelist, or any Person who Essentially Plays Herself. Her work in a revival of Ah, Wilderness! in 1984 earned her a nomination for the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Play. Death Goodman died of natural causes on June 22, 2008, at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center in Englewood, New Jersey, after having lived at the Lillian Booth Actors Home since October 2007. Filmography References External links Dody Goodman, Veteran Actress, dead at 93 Official Website 1914 births 2008 deaths American television actresses American film actresses American voice actresses American video game actresses American Christian Scientists Actresses from Columbus, Ohio 20th-century American actresses Best Musical or Comedy Actress Golden Globe (television) winners American stage actresses School of American Ballet alumni