Maury Orr

Maury Orr. Director: The Ernie Kovacs Show. Maury Orr broke the gender barrier in early broadcast television as a director and assistant director on such shows as Space Patrol, Lawrence Welk, and telecasts of the Academy Awards, and championship golf. Orr was a young graduate from UCLA in 1949 when she landed a secretarial job at the CBS affiliate in Los Angeles after claiming she knew shorthand. A quick night course...