Emily Marshall, ‘Tonight Show’ Secretary Turned Sitcom Writer, Dies at 79

Emily Marshall, who parlayed a gig as a secretary for producer Fred de Cordova on Johnny Carson’s The Tonight Show into a two-decade career as a sitcom writer on Newhart, Rhoda, WKRP in Cincinnati and Designing Women, has died. She was 79. Marshall died March 17 of lung cancer at her home in San…

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