Irma Kalish, a prolific comedy writer who blazed trails for women in television with a career that stretched from radio to 1980s sitcoms, died Monday in Woodland Hills due to complications from pne…
, a prolific comedy writer who blazed trails for women in television with a career that stretched from radio to 1980s sitcoms, died Monday in Woodland Hills due to complications from pneumonia. She was 96.
Kalish was a partner in life and work with her husband, Austin “Rocky” Kalish, for seven decades until his death in 2016 at age 95. The two got their start together in radio as writers for “The Martin & Lewis Show” starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. They followed Martin and Lewis into TV after the radio show ended in 1953, writing for live shows such as “The Colgate Comedy Hour.” The pair worked steadily thereafter.
Solo, Irma Kalish wrote for Valerie Harper on sitcoms “Valerie” and “The Hogan Family” and Madeline Kahn on the short-lived “Oh Madeline.” Her other solo credits included “227,” “The Facts of Life” and the 1985 telefilm “I Dream of Jeannie … Fifteen Years Later.” Other early TV credits included episodes of “The Patty Duke Show,” “The Millionaire,” “Gidget,” “That Girl,” “The Brian Keith Show” and “Dusty’s Trail.” In 1998, the Kalishes worked on an episode of Disney Channel’s “The Famous Jett Jackson.”
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