Judy Carne, the British actress and comedienne whose lasting fame came as she portrayed the Sock It To Me Girl on the 1968-73 NBC-TV Network comedy-variety series Rowan and Martin's Laugh In, passed away last Thursday at Northampton, England at age 76, probably from pneumonia.
After appearing on TV, the stage, and movies in her native England, Miss Carne arrived in the US and gained her first television role as an exchange student in the sitcom Fair Exchange.
Judy's first starring role came in the critically-praised, but lowly-rated ABC Network sitcom Love on a Rooftop (1966-67), a romantic comedy about a San Francisco woman who disappointed her father by marrying a struggling young architect, played by Peter Deuel (later known as Pete Duel).
In Laugh-In, which was hosted by comics Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, Judy (along with Goldie Hawn, amongst others) appeared in miniskirts and other revealing costumes and jokes about sex, drugs, and politics which tested network censors.
Shapely and slender with her pixie hairdo, Judy would appear on camera and declare, in one variation or another, that it was "It's-sock-it-to-me-time," and she would be doused with water, or she would vanish through a trap door.
Judy left the series in 1970.
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