![]() ![]() Years passed, but a desire still burned within Estelle. but she never gave up her dream of the stage.įor decades, while working and parenting, community theater was her primary outlet for her stage dreams. She raised two sons, kept house, and worked as a secretary. In December 1947, at age 24, she married New York businessman Arthur Gettleman (and later used a derivative of her married last name for the stage). As a child, she adored vaudeville, and was determined to be an actress she took up dance, singing, tried to make it in Yiddish theater and as a comedian in the Catskills "borscht belt" – and she failed. Born Estelle Scher on July 25, 1923, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, she was the daughter of Polish-Jewish immigrants who worked in the glass business. She found success in her later years, cracked wise about it the whole time, and taught young women like myself a few things along the way.Įstelle's story is not a typical Hollywood fable. In an industry where youth and beauty are often valued far above maturity and wit, Estelle turned the tables. evasive about her height, acknowledging only that she was under 5 feet and under 100 pounds?" Well, all the more points to Estelle Getty for being an itsy-bitsy powerhouse, but mostly I admire her for being a genuinely funny, talented woman, who never gave up on her greatest ambitions. ![]() Do I admire her because she's been described as ". ![]()
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