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Audrey Meadows

Age: 73 (passed away Feb. 3rd, 1996)
Height: 5' 6"

Birth Place: Wu-ch'ang, China
Born: Feb. 8th, 1922

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Audrey Meadows' Main TV Roles

Show	Character(s)
The Honeymooners	Alice Kramden
Password	Panelist (3)
The Name's the Same	Audrey Meadows
The Revlon Revue	Audrey Meadows
Too Close for Comfort	Iris Martin
Uncle Buck	Maggie Hogoboom
What's In a Word	Audrey Meadows panelist

NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at IMDB

BIOGRAPHY:

Audrey Meadows was born the youngest of four children as Audrey Cotter on February 8, 1926 in Wu'chang China. Her family settled in New England when Audrey was 6 and Jayne and Audrey attended and all girls boarding school. After high school, Jayne went to NYC with the goal of being an actress, and Jayne finally convinced her little sister to join her in show business, but as a singer instead of an actress. Audrey spent months working on the Broadway show "Top Banana" and then got a job on The Bob And Ray Show. She then replaced Pert Kelton as the most famed and most loved Alice Kramden of "The Honeymooners" (1955). After "The Honeymooners" ended, she went on to do films like Take Her, She's Mine (1963), That Touch of Mink (1962), and even portrayed Ted Knight's mother in law in the 80s sitcom "Too Close for Comfort" (1980). But her heart - and ours - will forever remain in that two burner stove, Chauncey street kitchen.

TRIVIA:

She returned once to _"The Honeymooners" (1955)_ (qv) in 1966 for the last black-and-white sketch entitled "The Adoption" which was broadcast in Miami.
Late husband, Bob Six, was CEO of Continental Airlines and was once married to 'Ethel Merman' (qv).
Sister of actress 'Jayne Meadows' (qv).
She was the first _"The Simpsons" (1989)_ (qv) guest star to have passed away. Ironically she played an old woman at an old folk's home who died and came back as a ghost.
Audrey and 'Joyce Randolph' (qv) (who played neighbor Trixie in the Honeymooner's sketches) knew each other before the classic TV show. They once worked together in a summer stock production of "No, No, Nanette.".
Played field hockey in school
In one sense, Audrey and her agent, were smarter than the usually visionary 'Jackie Gleason (I)' (qv). Audrey was the only one of the Honeymooners cast whose contract required payments to her for TV re-runs and sales of the episodes.
When she first auditioned for the part of Alice Kramden, 'Jackie Gleason (I)' (qv) turned her down because, he said, she was too pretty to be believable as Ralph's wife. Determined to get the part, she hired a photographer to take pictures of her with frumpy clothes, no makeup and a generally world-weary attitude and sent them to Gleason. Gleason, not recognizing the woman in the photo as Audrey, told his producers that she was "Alice" and to find her. When he found out it was indeed Audrey, he said that any actress that determined to get the part deserved it, and hired her.