Re: The Late Walter Matthau & Yiddish Theater

[Trudi Goodman <goobietheg...>]

   He also maintained that is father was an Orthodox Russian priest, who 
married a Jewish woman. His wife Carol, is a writer, who was previously 
married to William Saroyan..His daughter Lucy is an actor and his son David 
is an actor and director.
   He will be sorely missed.  I can think of very few actors that any actor 
would want to work with except him or his buddy Jack Lemmon.
    BHsOHsO.
      Trudi the G

>From: MaxwellSt (at) aol(dot)com
>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org
>To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
>Subject: The Late Walter Matthau & Yiddish Theater
>Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 10:55:21 EDT
>
> >From an AP article about the late WM:
>
>Some of the facts about the actor's early life seem accurate. He was born
>Walter Matuchanskayasky on Oct. 1, 1920, in New York City to impoverished
>Russian-Jewish immigrants.
>
>The father left home when Walter was 3. Walter and his older brother, 
>Henry,
>lived with their mother, a garment worker, in a series of cold water flats 
>on
>the lower East Side.
>
>Young Walter showed a dramatic bent early, reading Shakespeare at 7 and
>reciting poems in school assemblies at 8. He was introduced to Yiddish 
>plays
>at 11, when he sold soft drinks at 2nd Avenue theaters. He made occasional
>appearances onstage at 50 cents a performance.
>
>

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