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Tony Award-winning actress and first-time author Dinah Manoff will join me in The Locher Room. Dinah is well known to movie audiences around the world for her role of “Pink Lady” Marty Marachino in the movie musical Grease. Last week she released her first novel, The Real True Hollywood Story of Jackie Gold.

Manoff's other film credits include Ordinary People, Bloodhounds of Broadway, Child's Play, Staying Together, Backfire, I Ought to be in Pictures, Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael, and the independent film, Bart Got a Room.

She made her television debut in Welcome Back Kotter and went on to star as a series regular on Soap. Manoff has appeared in numerous TV movies, including Maid For Each Other, which she wrote the story for as well. In television, Manoff is best known for her portrayal as Richard Mulligans daughter “Carol Weston” the character she played for seven years on Empty Nest. She went on to star in the highly acclaimed ABC family series State of Grace, for which she received a Jewish Image Award.

She won both a Theater World and Tony Award as Best Featured Actress for her performance in the Broadway production of Neil Simon’s I Ought To Be In Pictures. She reprised the role in the motion picture of the same title.

Manoff has also worked as a television director, helming episodes of “Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Movie Stars, Brothers, and numerous episodes of Empty Nest.

She was born in New York City to actress Lee Grant and writer Arnold Manoff.

Original Airdate: 7/28/2021