Selma Diamond

Selma Diamond (5 August 1920 – 13 May 1985) was a Canadian-American actress. She voiced Di-Di in some episodes of The Jetsons.
== Biography ==
Though she is most familiar to TV audiences as the diminutive but feisty court bailiff on Night Court (1984), Selma Diamond's entrance into acting wasn't through the usual venue of vaudeville, stage work or modeling. She was a writer for TV shows, once having been nominated for an Emmy for Caesar's Hour (1954).
Although she had that tough New York accent and street demeanor, Diamond was actually born in London, Ontario, but raised in Brooklyn. A graduate of New York University, she at first made a living by selling cartoons and fiction to The New Yorker magazine. NBC hired her as a writer for one of its radio shows, The Big Show, and she later made the transition into writing for television.
Diamond's film debut was as the voice on the telephone of Spencer Tracy's wife in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), where the world got a sample of the unique Diamond voice: nasal, high-pitched and distinct from that of any other woman. She did a lot of TV work and was a regular on another series, Too Close for Comfort (1980), before Night Court. She died of lung cancer in 1985.
== External Links ==
* Selma Diamond at the Internet Movie Database
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