![]() Plying the self-deprecating, no-holds-barred brand of stand-up comedy popularized by Totie Fields and Joan Rivers in the 1960s, the teenaged Getty attempted to regale Catskills audiences with short jokes, but their chilly reaction prompted her to abandon stand-up comedy for good.After marrying Arthur Gettleman in 1947, Getty began the daunting task of juggling marriage, motherhood (the couple had two sons, Barry and Carl), secretarial work, and acting. ![]() The comedians' slapstick antics and Borscht Belt humor captivated the little girl, whose showbiz aspirations bewildered her parents - especially her mother, whom Getty later recalled as telling her that I "didn't have much going for me and that I should settle for less than I wanted."Undeterred by her mother's harsh assessment of her talent, Getty began honing her craft, first in Manhattan's amateur Yiddish theater groups, and then in the Catskills resorts, during her short-lived stint as a stand-up comic in the 1940s. Her father Charles, a Central European immigrant working in the glass business, took Estelle and her mother Sarah to a vaudeville show at the New York Academy of Music. Born Estelle Scher in New York City, NY the future Emmy Award winner was bitten by the proverbial acting bug at the age of four. ![]()
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