From left, Ms. Lasser, Mary Kay Place, Debralee Scott and Dody Goodman on “Mary Hartman.”
Louise Lasser, the deadpan comedic actress who began her screen career in Woody Allen movies and became a star as the wrenchingly sympathetic title character of “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman,” Norman Lear’s off-center 1970s comedy, died on Monday at her home in Manhattan. She was 87.












