Estelle Getty

Celebrity deaths can send collectibles prices soaring 06/27/2009

Estelle Getty Passes Away 07/23/2008

Birthday: July 25, 1924

A 5-foot-tall embodiment of the phrase "Late Bloomer," Estelle Getty was 47 years old when she made her first off-Broadway stage appearance. Getty gained renown in 1982 for her vitriolic performance as Harvey Fierstein's mother in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Torch Song Trilogy. She made the first of several brief film appearances that same year. When the call went out for an actress ...more