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AUDREY MEADOWS:
She looked like on on mo lie toil (once)
But that was the only way Audrey could convince Jackie Gleason that she was the girl he needed for his TV show
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By FLORENCE EPSTEIN
FHEN Steve Allen, carried off Jayne Meadows he broke up the kind of sister act they write plays about. Comedies— the ones that combine hilarity with sentiment and run for years.
Even as she was led to the altar, Jayne sighed to Audrey, "Maybe you'll meet someone ..."
"Are you out of your mind?" said Audrey. "I've got a career, a lot of laughs, money to pick up and go where I please — no man could possibly give me more."
Of course, there's love, which Audrey forgot to mention. Early this summer, alert columnists were gleefully preparing to make Audrey eat her words. They let fall an item that she was shuttling back and forth to Washington, D. C, on purely non-political grounds. There was a businessman down there, they said, who had one foot in the door of the marriage license bureau. Apparently, the door jammed, because next thing you knew, people were saying, "I never figured Audrey and Phil Silvers would hit it off so well together."
Probably the only reason some handsome brute hasn't come along and seized the girl is because she won't let him. The mind Audrey Meadows has is completely her own. And even without sister Jayne's constant companionship, she knows how to make life interesting — if not dazzling.
Over the next three years, Audrey stands to earn a million dollars as the dead pan, highly nasal and devastatingly sarcastic Alice Kramden, TV wife, of Jackie Gleason. The first thing Audrey did when she heard about Gleason's tremendous $11,000,000 deal with CBS
ANYTHING for a laugh is the motto of Audrey Meadows and it's paid off beautifully. was to call him up. 62