| TV and Movie Trivia Tribute
Audrey Meadows |
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| Born: | 8 February 1922 | Wu-ch'ang, China (now Wuchang, China) |
| Known As: | Alice Kramden | "The Honeymooners" |
| Trivia: | Birth name: Audrey Cotter | |
| Father, Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter was an Episcopal priest and mother, Ida, was a missonary. | ||
| Sister of actress Jayne Meadows. | ||
| Audrey Meadows was the only one of the Honeymooners cast whose contract required payments to her for TV re-runs and sales of the episodes. | ||
| Became the first woman director of the First National Bank of Denver in post-acting years. | ||
| Known for being one of entertainment's more glamorous personalities, Audrey got the dressed-down part of "Alice Kramden" by hiring a photographer to take pictures of herself as frumpy, weary and slatternly, and rushed them to the highly skeptical Jackie Gleason. Impressed, he hired her. | ||
| (1955) Won an Emmy Award - Best Supporting Actress in a Regular Series for: "The Jackie Gleason Show". | ||
| Has a star on the Walk of Fame (6104 Hollywood Blvd.). | ||
| On TV: | TVNow | Click here for TV schedule. |
| Filmography: | The Internet Movie Database | Click here. |
| Departed: | 3 February 1996 | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| External Links: | Starpulse.com | Live.com |
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Art Carney
Bob Denver
Cloris Leachman
Doris Day
Jackie Gleason
John Astin