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	Audrey Meadows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Audrey Meadows (February 8, 1926 - February 3, 1996), born Audrey Cotter, was an American actress best known for playing the deadpan housewife, Alice Kramden in the 1950s American television comedy, The Honeymooners.
		Meadows had auditioned for Gleason and was initially turned down for being too chic and pretty for the drab Alice.
		Audrey Meadows was the younger sister of actress Jayne Meadows, and sister-in-law to the late Steve Allen, and she also had 2 brothers who predeceased her.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Audrey_Meadows (435 words)

	Encyclopedia: Audrey Meadows
		Audrey Meadows (February 8, 1922 - February 3, 1996), born Audrey Cotter, was an American actress best known for playing Alice Kramden in the 1950s American television comedy, The Honeymooners.
		Meadows was headliningin the Broadway hit 'Top Banana' when she heard that Gleason was casting for the part of Alice in 'The Honeymooners'.
		Audrey Meadows joined The Honeymooners when the show left the DuMont network for CBS in 1952, after having to persuade a skeptical Jackie Gleason that she could look frumpy and bone-tired.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Audrey-Meadows (1144 words)

	MPI Home Video - The Honeymooners Television Series Cast Biographies
		Born to missionary parents in China, Audrey and her sister Jayne spoke only Chinese when they arrived in the United States as little girls.
		Audrey intended to become a journalist, and only tried her hand at acting after being persuaded to by her sister.
		Meadows continued in several guest roles throughout the '60s until she temporarily retired from show business to dedicate herself to her husband, Robert Six, and his company, Continental Airlines, as honorary vice president of sales.
	www.mpihomevideo.com /featured/honeymooners/cast_biographies_01.html (438 words)

	Biography for Audrey Meadows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Audrey Meadows was born the youngest of four children as Audrey Cotter on February 8, 1926 in Wu'chang China.
		Audrey was the only one of the Honeymooners cast whose contract required payments to her for TV re-runs and sales of the episodes.
		Audrey spoke nothing but Chinese until coming to the U.S. She returned once to the Honeymooners in 1966 for the last fl-and-white sketch entitled "The Adoption" which was broadcast in Miami.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0575031/bio (707 words)

	Audrey Meadows - Alice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Born on February 8th, 1926 in Wu Chang, China, to missionary parents, Audrey Meadows spoke nothing but Chinese until she came to the United States with her family.
		She made her debut as a coloratura soprano at Carnegie Hall when she was sixteen, and later moved to TV on 'The Bob and Ray Show'.
		Audrey Meadows passed away due to lung cancer on February 3rd, 1996 -- five days before her 70th birthday.
	www.honeymooners.net /alice.htm (347 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Audrey Meadows
		Actress Audrey Meadows was born Audrey Cotter in 1924 (though her birthdate is listed in other sources between 1921 and 1926) to Episcopal missionary parents in Wu Chang, China.
		Meadows had an on-again, off-again career on television, radio, and the Broadway stage when she happened upon her most famous, and memorable, role as Alice Kramden on The Jackie Gleason Show in 1952.
		Audrey Meadows died of lung cancer on February 3, 1996.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200828 (411 words)

	Obituaries: 2/05/96
		Audrey Meadows starred with Jackie Gleason as lovebirds and sparring partners Ralph and Alice Kramden in "The Honeymooners." Ms.
		Meadows was born to Episcopal missionary parents in Wu Chang, China, and spoke only Chinese when she came to the United States in the 1930s.
		Audrey Meadows went on to a Carnegie Hall debut as a coloratura soprano, performed light opera and won a 1951 Broadway role in "Top Banana" with Phil Silvers.
	www.s-t.com /daily/02-96/02-05-96/zobits.htm (1718 words)

	CNN Transcript - Larry King Live Weekend: A Look Back at Steve Allen in His Own Words - November 5, 2000
		MEADOWS: I said, if that man is not married, he's going to be someday and to me. I knew it.
		MEADOWS: Also, Steve is actually very quiet, a very -- you wouldn't think it on the -- no, you wouldn't think it on the stage or on television.
		MEADOWS: Well, when you think "The Tonight Show" is the longest- running show plus the most profitable show in the history of television, he's one of the guys who created this whole medium.
	edition.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0011/04/lklw.00.html (6803 words)

	Honeymooners, The
		The battling Brooklynites, Kramden and his sarcastic wife Alice (Audrey Meadows the most well known of the several impersonations), are trapped on the treadmill of lower middle class existence.
		Audrey Meadows, who performed with Bob and Ray, replaced Kelton, suffering from both heart problems and political fllisting.
		Meadows returned for a one-time special reenactment of "The Adoption," a 1955 sketch in which Ralph and Alice discuss their rarely heard feelings about parenthood.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/H/htmlH/honeymooners/honeymooners.htm (1187 words)

	What A Character! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		At first, Jackie Gleason thought Audrey Meadows was too young and vital to play his wife, but after presenting him with a set of photos of herself made-up as frumpy as possible--she won the part.
		Meadows was born in Wu-ch'ang, China, the youngest of four children of missionaries, Francis James Meadows-Cotter and Ida Miller Taylor-Cotter.
		Her performing career began at the suggestion of her older sister, actress Jayne Meadows, and her outstanding voice landed her as a coloratura soprano at Carnegie Hall.
	www.what-a-character.com /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=982798970 (243 words)

	Read about Audrey Meadows at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Audrey Meadows and learn about Audrey Meadows here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		1926 - February 3, 1996), born Audrey Cotter, was an American actress best known for playing Alice Kramden in the 1950s American television comedy, The Honeymooners.
		Pert Kelton had originated the role of Alice when the Honeymooners was a skit on Gleason's variety show.
		Audrey Meadows is the sister of actress Jayne Meadows.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Audrey_Meadows (241 words)

	Canadian Drug Outlets Ready To Take On State - from TBO.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Meadows handed Goode, 81, and his wife, Beth, 80, a piece of paper with phone numbers of government officials and agencies to call to complain about the action by health care regulators.
		Meadows and Melinda Liddy, who operates another storefront business in Lakeland that was ordered to cease and desist, have consulted with lawyers and will wait to see what is recommended before they close up shop.
		Meadows and Liddy say they make it clear to customers they are not pharmacies.
	news.tbo.com /news/MGBB93YHRVD.html (559 words)

	CNN - News Briefs - Feb. 4, 1996
		Richard Davis, a parolee, pleaded innocent to charges he kidnapped and murdered Klaas, who was abducted at knifepoint from her home in Petaluma, 30 miles north of San Francisco, on October 1, 1993, during a slumber party while her mother slept nearby.
		LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Audrey Meadows, who as Alice on the 1950s comedy "The Honeymooners" played one of television's strongest, most spirited wives, died of cancer, a spokeswoman said Sunday.
		Meadows starred with Jackie Gleason as lovebirds and sparring partners Ralph and Alice Kramden in "The Honeymooners." Meadows held her own against the bigger-than- life Gleason and his blustering bus driver character.
	www.cnn.com /US/Newsbriefs/9602/02-04 (657 words)

	The Honeymooners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Audrey Meadows, the most popular of The Honeymooners' Alices, was born in Wuchang, China on February 8, 1926 into a family of Episcolpalian missionaries.
		But Meadows was very determined, and she hired a photographer to take shots of her dressed up as a dowdy housewife.
		She continued as Alice for many years, but was replaced in the mid-sixties by Sheila MacRae because Meadows had gotten married and retired from regular television.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Park/1568/Honeymooners.html (1330 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Audrey Meadows started in comedy working with Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding for two years, five night a week on radio station in 1951.
		It was because of her work in Top Bananas that Audrey to the job to appear on The Jackie Gleason Show to play Alice on "The Honeymooners" segment.
		Audrey got married in 1961 and settled down to a married life.
	members.aol.com /bookviewzine/myhomepage/issue91.html (1823 words)

	Audrey Meadows (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Coronation Street 48: Audrey Roberts, whom he proposed to while in France only 63: ''Audrey Roberts'' (formerly Audroy Potter), widow of former Weatherfield mayor ''Alf 91: his being welcomed to Weatherfield by then mayor Autrey Roberts, which was being shown on the TV in the R
		A meadow is a tract of grassland, either in its natural state or usedas pasture or for growing hay.
		Meadow is an open source programming project to port the popular GNU Emacs text editor for UNIX -based operating systems to Microsoft Windows with some added functions.
	www.bodawg.com /point/44712-audrey-meadows.html (408 words)

	Entertainment: 'Honeymooners' auction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The proof is in the contents of her Beverly Hills, Calif., home, which went on auction this week in Pompano Beach, a year after Meadows died of cancer at 71.
		Among the sale items: letters to Meadows from Jerry Lewis and Kirk Douglas and letters to Six, who died in 1987, from presidents John F. Kennedy and Gerald Ford.
		Another is a letter, signed ``Jack,'' from Jackie Gleason Enterprises concerning the end of her run on the show, dated June 20, 1957.
	www.newsherald.com /ENTERTAINMENT/MEAD.HTM (250 words)

	Jayne Meadows - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Buckleys were fervent Roman Catholics, and the Cotters obviously were Protestants, and some of the Buckley girls engaged in acts of misconduct and vandalism directed towards the Cotters, such as making prank calls sending the Rev. Cotter to imaginary deathbeds, and breaking windows.
		Movie and stage actress whose most famous movies include: Song of the Thin Man (with William Powell and Myrna Loy), David and Bathsheba (with Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Raymond Massey), Lady in the Lake (with Robert Montgomery and Audrey Totter), and City Slickers (as the voice of Billy Crystal's oversolicitous mother, only).
		She was the older sister of Audrey Meadows, whom she survives, as well as having had 2 brothers who are also deceased.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jayne_Meadows (249 words)

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		It has engraved itself upon the national TV memory as a classic, and those of us who are too young to have seen it anyplace but late night reruns imagine it must have been a hit nonpareil at the time.
		Smack at the center of the show like a maypole or a singularly tough woman with an unreasonably idiotic fat husband was Audrey Meadows.
		Meadows, who died Feb. 3 at age 71, was born in China where her father was an Episcopal minister.
	www.goodbyemag.com /feb/meadows.htm (324 words)

	Audrey Meadows' Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Audrey Meadows, at the height of her comedy success, showed her unique versatility in developing a series of straight dramatic roles in "Play of the Week" and"Alfred Hitchcock Presents," which won an award, "Checkmate," "Wagon Train" and more.
		Few fans realize that the familiar throaty rasp of Alice Kramden belongs to the Audrey Meadows who was more than capable of holding her own with many of the nation's top ranking comics.
		Audrey Meadows died February 3, 1996 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at the age of 69.
	www.audreymeadows.com /audreys_biography.html (399 words)

	Sitcoms Online - The Honeymooners
		Audrey Meadows was approached for suggestions about who could replace Kelton.
		Meadows, determined to get the part, had a photgrapher come to her house at 7am the next morning, whom she greeted without makeup, her hair pinned up with combs she'd slept on, and wearing a torn blouse, a skirt, and an apron.
		Audrey Meadows was the only Honeymooners cast member to receive residual payments for the show for her entire life; not even 'Jackie Gleason' knew how she managed to arrange such a deal.
	www.sitcomsonline.com /thehoneymooners.html (1638 words)

	Classic TV Store (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It was a great race, Jackie!" In 1952, a young actress named Audrey Meadows took a chance in leaving a successful Broadway show to join a fledgling television series headlined by a brash new comic named Jackie Gleason.
		In this warm, engaging, frequently hilarious memoir, Audrey Meadows recalls the years she spent playing Alice Kramden opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph.
		The 8"x10" fl and white glossy of Audrey Meadows is imprinted with her authentic autograph.
	www.audreymeadows.com /Store/classic_tv_store.html (213 words)

	Audrey Meadows Pics - Audrey Meadows News - Audrey Meadows Information
		B orn in WuChang, China, to Episcopal missionary parents, Audrey spoke nothing but Chinese until she was five, when her parents returned home to America.
		A lthough Audrey had made her debut as a coloratura soprano in Carnegie Hall when she was sixteen, she also sang with the Civic Light Opera companies in Detroit, Louisville and Chicago in standards like "Roberta," "Anything Goes,"...
		Her last word was reportedly "Jayne!" Her sister rushed to her bedside when she heard of her impending death, and after saying this last word, Jayne took her little sister's hand and Audrey squeezed it.
	www.tvtome.com /tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-3406 (194 words)

	Modamag.com \|The Honeymooners Classic Episodes (DVD Review)
		He’s a bus driver in New York City and living with his wife, Alice (Audrey Meadows, “Too Close For Comfort”), in a less-than-upper-class apartment.
		Because this was filmed in front of a live studio audience and the microphones weren’t quite perfected for capturing the actors’ voices like they are today, there are times when it’s difficult to hear what they’re saying.
		There’s some vintage interview footage to be found in the special, but everything is surrounded by tons of footage from the show.
	www.modamag.com /honeymoonersclassic_dvd.htm (738 words)

	Audrey Meadows Photos
		Actress Audrey Meadows was born in Wu-ch'ang, China on February 8th 1926.
		Her biggest role was as Ralph Kramden's wife Alice on The Honeymooners 1955 tv show.
		On February 3rd, 1996 Audrey Meadows died of cancer.
	www.hissandpop.com /celebrities/m/audreymeadows (61 words)

	Find A Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials
		She was the youngest of the four children of Ida (Taylor) and the Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter.
		She made her debut as a coloratura soprano at Carnegie Hall when she was only sixteen.
		Her older sister, Jayne and she made several records as The Meadows Sisters for RCA Victor.
	www.findagrave.com /cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1550 (289 words)

	eBay - audrey meadows, Nonfiction Books, Television Memorabilia items on eBay.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		AUDREY MEADOWS really nice orig PHOTO 1962 8 X 10" cute
		Audrey Meadows - Honeymooners - Art Carney - Gleason
		Love, Alice by Audrey Meadows The Jackie Gleason Show
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	Classic TV Shows - Honeymooners, Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows, Art Carney
		In 1952 CBS bought the show from Dumont and renamed it the "Jackie Gleason Show." Audrey Meadows took over as Alice and Joyce Randolph came onboard as Trixie.
		Nether Audrey Meadows nor Joyce Randolph wanted to move to Miami so Sue Ann Langdon had the role of Alice.
		Touchingly, Audrey Meadows did return to film the story, "The Adoption," on 1/8/1966.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /honeymnr.htm (525 words)

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