Over the last year or so my 3 year old daughter Zoe and I have watched a slew of old school Sesame Street and Electric Company on dvd. Being a child of the Seventies, it was a predictable enough path to take. I expected to feel the warmth of long buried nostalgic memories. Sure enough, I did, and was pleased to find this vintage television still very appealing. What I didn’t expect was my reaction to watching Judy Graubart on The Electric Company.
Overshadowed by the likes of Morgan Freeman and Rita Moreno, she never enjoyed similar success post-Electric Co. Outside of EC she could be spotted in some classic 70s television commercials (like these) but not too much else. I truly had forgotten about her.
That changed when I revisited the vintage PBS series. The dormant psycho-sexual bombshell that had been residing in my subconscious was reawakened! I’m not exactly sure where it came from, but I instantly formed a renewed and truly filthy obsession with Judy Graubart. Similarly, I have the same kind of lust for Madeline Khan and Fran Drescher, but that’s another story…
So imagine my delight when I recently discovered a liberated stash of polaroids and snapshots from the continuity department at the Electric Co.! Breezing past similarly candid photos of the aforementioned Freeman and Moreno, I crossed my fingers that I would find her well represented in the pile of flea market photographs. Mission accomplished! Check them out below…
