Estelle Reiner: Comedy Matriarch Dies at 94
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Estelle Reiner, who delivered the famous line "I'll have what she's having" after watching
Meg Ryan fake an orgasm in the movie When Harry Met Sally, has died. According to The American Film Institute, Mrs. Reiner's famous line is No. 33 on its list of the Top 100 quotations from movies.
Mrs. Reiner was the wife of actor-director, Carl Reiner, and mother of actor-director, Rob Reiner. Carl Reiner created the 1960s comedy series "The Dick Van Dyke Show," based on his experience writing for Sid Caesar, a volatile and demanding star. Carl Reiner played the Caesar
character, named Alan Brady; Mr. Van Dyke was Mr. Reiner's alter ego,
Brady's head writer, Rob Petrie, who was married to Laura, a pre-Mary Richards, Mary Tyler Moore. The Petries lived in New Rochelle, N.Y., the home
of the Reiners, on Bonnie Meadow Road, the same street as the Reiners.
According to her son, Rob, who was responsible for his Mother's greatest moment of fame, Mrs. Reiner died of natural causes
at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 94.
[See her famous scene after jump...]
Mrs. Reiner was the wife of actor-director, Carl Reiner, and mother of actor-director, Rob Reiner. Carl Reiner created the 1960s comedy series "The Dick Van Dyke Show," based on his experience writing for Sid Caesar, a volatile and demanding star. Carl Reiner played the Caesar
character, named Alan Brady; Mr. Van Dyke was Mr. Reiner's alter ego,
Brady's head writer, Rob Petrie, who was married to Laura, a pre-Mary Richards, Mary Tyler Moore. The Petries lived in New Rochelle, N.Y., the home
of the Reiners, on Bonnie Meadow Road, the same street as the Reiners.
According to her son, Rob, who was responsible for his Mother's greatest moment of fame, Mrs. Reiner died of natural causes
at her home in Beverly Hills. She was 94.[See her famous scene after jump...]
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