Deep in the Meadows
Jayne
Meadows, MathNet’s Lady Esther Astor Astute, has died at the age of 95.
She appeared on Broadway in the 1940s. She spent the 1950s and 1960s as
part of the permanent game show welfare class of celebrities on such
shows as To Tell the Truth and I’ve Got a Secret. She spent the 1970s
and 1980s as an occasional guest star on a range of TV shows from The
Nancy Walker Show to Tenspeed and Brown Shoe. In the 1990s, she was
Billy Crystal’s mother in City Slickers. But mostly you know her because
she had sex with Steve Allen. In their 46-year marriage, someone had to
keep the multitalented Allen’s composing, writing, acting, hosting and
Steve-O-Meter inventing straight, so Meadows put her acting career as
the 6th female lead on hold. The two appeared together on all of Allen’s
shows, and as a bickering couple in a brilliant and CSI-presaging
episode of Homicide: Life on the Street where Allen fires a warning shot
at Meadows and hits the body of a man committing suicide by jumping off
the roof of their building.
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