She almost immediately started taking singing, dancing and acting lessons and, following her graduation from Seward Park High School, she began building up experience in the Yiddish theater. Starry-eyed as a very young child when her father first took her to see a vaudeville show at the New York Academy of Music, Estelle already had a mindset about her future. Getty was born Estelle Scher on July 25, 1923, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, the daughter of Sarah (Lacher) and Charles Scher, Polish Jewish immigrants who worked in the glass business. The affliction, which slowly clouds then erases the memory banks, should have claimed her a couple of years after its detection, but she proved the doctors wrong and lived nearly eight years from its onset, dying peacefully in her Hollywood home on July 22, 2008. Yet even something as sinister as Lewy body dementia, a degenerative brain disease, couldn't take away her indomitable spirit and feistiness. Ill health forced her retirement in 2000 after only a decade and a half of celebrity. After nearly five decades of stage work, she achieved "overnight" stardom at age 62. The star who had a hard time playing the star card also taught an earnest lesson to the millions of actor wannabes that it was never too late to get into the big leagues, pursue your dream and come out a winner. The middle-class masses and society's underdogs deemed Estelle one of their own.
Blunt and down-to-earth off-stage as she was on-, she scored big points with both the young and the old.and all those who fell in between. A favorite firecracker on 80s and 90s television, tiny character player Estelle Getty became best known for her carping, meddlesome moms - complete with bemused, cynical looks, irreverent digs and dead-pan Henny Youngman-like one-liners.
She was truly one mother of a mom.on stage, on film and on TV.
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