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Comments: It was an honor to be a part of our Dody's Memorial Celebration. I think that she would have been very pleased with the wonderful turn-out, and with the rememberances and songs. It was just the kind of evening she would have loved: filled with music, laughs, love, and her beloved Christian Science. Everyone brought something individual and special to the evening. Thank you for featuring the Memorial on the home page.
Comments: Dear Dody, You were one of a kind--a true American original. What joy you brought to so many for so long! Love, a;ways, Patrick
Comments: I Love Dody's book "Women Women Women"! It's full of great humorous pictures of Dody portraying many kinds of women. Her webmaster, Glen, has put wonderful examples of pictures from Dody's book onto Dody's webpages. Everyone should buy her book, on Ebay or Abe Books etc. for such wonderful laughs Dody provides and she always has! Her book is a scream! Mike
Comments: I am just a fan- but want to tell Dody- thank you for coming to this earth and doing what you did so very well. Many Blessings to you-
Comments: We all will miss Dody very much. She was one great actress. I will never forget all the times she was on Johnny Carson. My father would always talk about her. If he couldn't get Dody on the phone he would call her niece and ask how she was doing. I talked to her about a year ago and it was so nice to her her voice. God Bless you Dody.
Comments: Dody will be sadly missed, she was one of those great actress` who I believed never got the full credit that she deserved and the same could be said for Jack Elam and Conway Twitty in the music business.. Love You Dody
Comments: My great niece has just showed me this website. My partner, Jack Drudy, and I were longtime friends of Dody's. Our friendship started in Columbus, Ohio, and continued through Los Angeles. The three of us even lived together in Marina Del Rey and briefly in Culver City where I still reside. Jack has been gone 10 years now and I hope that he and Dody are making the Big Man laugh. A longtime friend and fan, Romey DeVictor
Comments: I am so sorry. I remember NOW how Dody Goodman made me laugh through my uncomfortable teenage years. I was 12 when grease came out...and between Doty ..&Our Miss Brooks & and of course Joan Blondell it was a lot of fun to see the movie Grease. But Doty Goodman seemed to see the laughter in the moment and everyday thing without seeming to be above it all. She had the real humour. I wish I had met her. Sorry.
Comments: Dody will be missed by me because i knew her as Blanch in Grease and Grease2.Grease 2 was my favorite movie when i was growing up.She was a funny. . wonderful. . outstanding actress.She will be missed by many that has seen those movies.What a sense of humor she had. .was truly awesome.
Comments: Miss Goodman (I KNOW, YOU KNOW) I will forever miss you. You have made me smile when I didn't think I could and made me go forward... I (hope) we meet again!!
Comments: Brilliant lady!!Wonderfull actress!!Dody will be dearly missed.
Comments: I meant to sign this sooner. Having recently bought volume 1 of "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman" (about 2 months ago) I have to say that Dody's passing was met with both surprise and much sadness. She was so very good on the show and for some reason easy for me to relate to (perhaps reminding me of mothers I knew growing up in the 70's). Today's "stars" pale by comparison. Thank you, Dody, for your body of work. You will be missed.
Comments: I was the tour bus driver on 2 tours of Nunsense, never have I met and loved someone as Dody. My wife and she shared the same birthday and was able to share a dinner one year. We will never forget this wonderful lady. I did several tours and the cast of Nunsense was the best. What beautiful memories I have of those 2 years of travel. Dody made all feel like family. Dave and Pat Astey June 28, 2008
Comments: Dody was my cousin and my Dad's cousin, who he shared many phone calls and history with, I am sure she is in heaven with him now. Mag, my sister and I went to see Dody when she was playing Nonsense at Grady Gamage in Tempe AZ, and we went out to dinner. I had no idea how hard the life of an actress could be, but she loved it. Her family will miss her. Marcia Huscher
Comments: Ms. McGee was nothing without the comic talents of Dody. She made the movies Grease I & II, and I am truly going to miss her.
Comments: I am officially named Dorothy, after my aunt (who my father was not fond of ...) so before I even left the hospital as an infant I was called Dodie - not quite the same spelling, but he and my mom told me it was Dody and her laughs on the Jack Paar Show that got me delivered! I have really loved being part of her legacy - older folks remembered her from Jack Paar, and younger-ish ones from Soap. No matter what, she made people laugh and I strive to do the same - a gracious lady, a good sport, and a quick wit - thanks for giving me your name, Dody.
Comments: When Dody was on the Jack Paar show i was obsessed with her. Every Sat. I would go into Manhattan and stand outside her apartment building waiting for her to come out, just so I could say hello to her. Many Saturdays she would say "Lets go have coffee" and we'd go across the street to the Horn and Hardart coffee shop and have coffee and fruit salad. Heaven only knows what she must have thought of a 15 year old girl, who today would be guilty of stalking her, but she was always so nice and so friendly to me. She was a wonderful person then and I'm sure she remained one til her final day.
Comments: Dody was one of the sweetest persons I’ve known and I’m going to miss talking to her and asking her my silly showbiz questions. She’s likely conducting school with Eve Arden again, in Heaven, and taking Drama Class at night with Vivian Vance who has likely brought along Lucille Ball for a comedy play. I can only hear Dody’s voice now on her LP “DODY GOODMAN SINGS?” and on CDs “LORELEI” and “SHOESTRING REVUE” or in “Grease” and “Grease 2”, saying with chocolated hands, “Yes Miss McGee, I just had my hands on them” and Eve saying, “Oh good, they’ll be nice and smudged”. Dody had a lovely home in NYC with her cat Nicholas whose teeth she had cleaned by the vet regularly! In FEB.2003, Dody, Glen and I walked from her home to see the movie “Chicago” nearby. That same month Dody performed with Richard Skipper at the TRIAD. The blizzard of 2003 prevented me from going home and I was thrilled to see DODY sing onstage there at the Triad. A year later Dody sang with “The Singing Experience” and afterwards we walked her to her taxi, still wearing her formal gown. In her appearances, I saw her sing, “South America Take It Away”, “I’ve Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Back In My Bed While I Cry Over You”, “Oyster Song” and “The End of the News”. We once took Dody to dinner for her BIRTHDAY and she chose Chinese Food near her home and another time we picked her up to go to Glen’s for home-made cake and she showed us her film of her BOOK ‘Women, Women, Women!’ which she had hopes of doing a tour with. Her book is filled with photos of her posing in amusing situations and events; she was VERY comical! When she autographed her book and LP for me, which I got on Ebay, she said “I’ve made it to Ebay have I!”. She had Glen prepare 8x10’s of her so she’d have them ready for Celebrity Conventions. We often gave her a ride to and from Richard’s summer parties and NEW YEAR’S EVE parties and once Dody’s dish for the party came from the ‘Hot and Crusty’ store, she said. I last saw her in MAY 2007 when she won the MAC Lifetime Achievement Award and I gave her a kiss but did not realize that would be the last time I’d see her. A beautiful career tribute that Glen made was shown to the audience and it can be seen also on Dody’s ‘VIDEOS’ webpage. Thanks to Glen for his webguy work which shows Dody’s career that is full of so many good achievements that we all appreciate her for. I would like to have had one more chance to see and talk again with Dody, whom ALL of us love VERY much.
Comments: I have had the honor and pleasure to have produced her last recording, "Tears On My Ears" (in 1998?) at my recording studio just across Broadway where we both were neighbors. By the year 2000, she and my late Mother became acquainted through our lunches at The City Diner on 90th and Bway, where, Dody and I would run into each other almost weekly. I brought her to Joe Franklin's office to interview on his early morning show and everyone was delighted to have her, while they played her newest recording on the air. Over the years, I saw her health first-hand deteriorate but I kept calling her; checking in on her to offer her some much needed support. She did have an extended family of nephews and nieces who were always there for her and that was a relief to most who knew her. The last time I saw her, she was being wheeled by her loyal and hardworking caregiver. I said hello to Dody; she raised her head and said hello Larry (in that voice that was still going strong) and she still remembered me... That was about five months ago. Two weeks ago I called Joe Franklin and asked him if he would want to visit Dody. He immediately said YES and said that we would go in his car asap. I was getting ready to remind Joe when I heard the bad news on Monday. I never got to say goodbye to that wonderful, fiery, and multi-talented artist. One we will never forget.
Comments: One of the first things you see when you are introduced to Dody Goodman is a heartwarming, beautiful, sincere smile. I've had the privilege to be in her presence and experience her sensational aura; grace, humour and beauty.Dody was truly one of a kind; her bright blue eyes said it all. She would always greet me with exuberance and kindness as I,looking on, saw my mother give great care to her.My mother is the duaghter Dody never had and she loved her dearly. Dody, you will be sadly missed but there are millions of memories here that a lot of people shared with you. I thank you that I was one of them. |
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