She was a comic icon, a for funnywomen of the past 60 years. She was funny, self-deprecating and to the world at large could be as polarizing as she was funny.

Joan Molinsky grew up the daughter of a physician and homemaker in Larchmont Conn., graduating from Barnard College. Her parents, while never quite disapproving of her career, truly only wanted her to marry and be taken care of.

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