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Anne Meara
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Screenwriter, Actor Born: September 20, 1929 in Brooklyn, New York City, NY Biography:"Anne Meara" started out and ended up a distinguished dramatic actress--and in between, scored high marks as a comedienne, playwright and screenwriter. Launching her career in summer stock in 1950, Meara won an Obie Award for her intensely dramatic performance in the 1955 off-Broadway production Maedchen in Uniform; during this period, she was also a semi-regular on the NBC TV daytime soaper "The Greatest Gift". Auditioning for an opera in 1954, she met another struggling actor, "Jerry Stiller"; they were married the following year. Forming the comedy team of Stiller & Meara, The team skyrocketed to stardom via their many appearances on such 1960s variety series as "The Ed Sullivan Show" and "The Steve Allen Show". One of their richest sources of material was the difference in their ethnic backgrounds, especially in their famous "Hershey Horowitz/Mary Elizabeth Doyle" routines (an Irish Catholic,... Full Biography
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