'Georgette', Mary Tyler Moore sidekick, showed that spacy can be smart

As Georgette Franklin Baxter in "The Mary Tyler Moore show," the actress Georgia Engel, who died Friday, was pretty and people-pleasing — a pioneer of the modern-day, nonthreatening female sidekick archetype, the sort of character everyone loved to love. But viewers would soon learn to take her seriously.

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