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Estelle Reiner (née Lebost; June 5, 1914 – October 25, 2008) was an American actress and singer, described by The New York Times as "matriarch of one of the leading families in American comedy". She was the wife of Carl Reiner and the mother of Rob Reiner. Life and career Reiner was born in the Bronx and graduated from James Monroe High School. She was a visual artist and met her future husband, Carl Reiner, while she was working in the Catskills, designing stage sets for hotel shows. She married Reiner in 1943, and had three children Rob, Lucas and Annie. She was Jewish. Carl Reiner's 1960s television comedy, The Dick Van Dyke Show, recapitulated his career writing for Sid Caesar, with Carl Reiner playing the Caesar character and Dick Van Dyke portraying Reiner's real-life job as a writer in the role of Rob Petrie. The re-creation was so complete that the Petries in the show lived on Bonnie Meadow Road in suburban New Rochelle, New York, the same street as the real-life Reiners. As described by Rob Reiner, "Basically he wrote his own life" in The Dick Van Dyke Show and that “my mother was Mary Tyler Moore". In her 60s, Reiner became a cabaret singer and performed for decades until just a few years before her death. She studied the theatre with method acting pioneer Lee Strasberg and with Viola Spolin, the American Grandmother of Improvisation. She appeared in a number of film comedies, including with Dom DeLuise in the 1980 film Fatso, as Mrs. Goodman, and in the 1983 movies The Man with Two Brains with Steve Martin in the role "Tourist in Elevator" and in Mel Brooks' To Be or Not to Be as Gruba. Reiner's most enduring film role was in 1989's When Harry Met Sally..., in which director Rob Reiner cast his mother as a customer in a scene with stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan at Katz's Delicatessen, in which Ryan fakes what was described as "a very public (and very persuasive) orgasm". Approached by a waitress after Ryan finishes, Reiner deadpans "I'll have what she's having". The line was ranked 33rd on the American Film Institute's list of the Top 100 movie quotations, just behind Casablanca's "Round up the usual suspects". Death Reiner died of natural causes on October 25, 2008, in her home in Beverly Hills, California. She was 94. Partial filmography Fatso (1980) – Mrs. Goodman The Man with Two Brains (1983) – Tourist in Elevator To Be or Not to Be (1983) – Gruba Hot to Trot (1988) – Mrs. Goldblatt When Harry Met Sally... (1989) – Older Woman Customer (final film role) References External links Estelle Reiner at IMDb. Discover the Estelle Ryan popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Estelle Ryan books.
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Samaritan
Estelle Ryansa·mar·i·tannoun /səˈmærɪt(ə)n/A compassionate person generous in helping those in distressBritish investigative journalist Gabriella ReubenBree to everyone but her motherhas worke...
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The Courbet Connection
Estelle RyanForged masterpieces. Kidnapped students. The dark net.Nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard's search for an international assassin is rudely interrupted by an aut...
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The Malhoa Connection
Estelle RyanA decadesold crime. A torment not forgiven. Icecold revenge.When a prolific international criminal takes one of Doctor Genevieve Lenard's friends hostage in his own flat, she is ha...
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The Flinck Connection
Estelle RyanA murdered politician. An unsolved art heist. An international conspiracy.A cryptic online message leads nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard to the body of a br...
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The Pucelle Connection
Estelle RyanMediaeval books. Murdered priests. Bioweapons.Renowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard’s search for an international criminal is interrupted when her team r...
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The Uccello Connection
Estelle RyanCoded paintings. Missing planes. Dirty bombs.After a foiled attempt on the lives of world leaders, criminal mastermind Ivan Fradkov successfully eludes worldrenowned nonverbal expe...
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The Morisot Connection
Estelle RyanMurdered criminals. Flawless forgeries. Encrypted operas.The murder of an opera house director forces worldrenowned nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her ...
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The Last Tea Bowl Thief
Jonelle PatrickFor three hundred years, a stolen relic passes from one fortuneseeker to the next, indelibly altering the lives of those who possess it. In modernday Tokyo, Robin Swann’s life has ...
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The Namatjira Connection
Estelle RyanLooted artworks. Italian Mafia. Deepfakes.The weekend in Italy is supposed to be a family eventa celebration as well as a break for the whole team to enjoy everything Naples has to...
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The Gauguin Connection
Estelle RyanMurdered artists. Masterful forgeries. Art crime at its worst.World renowned expert in nonverbal communication, Doctor Genevieve Lenard investigates insurance claims. Not murd...
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The Vecellio Connection
Estelle RyanSadistic smugglers. Hacked cars. The ultimate revenge.Nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team have spent the last year tracking Marcus Gallo, a disgrac...
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The Netscher Connection
Estelle RyanNazilooted art. Cyberstalking. Betrayal.Nonverbal communication expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard is on holiday in Hungary when she and her team are asked to assist in a missing perso...
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The Dante Connection
Estelle RyanArt theft. Coded messages. A highlevel threat.Despite her initial disbelief, Doctor Genevieve Lenard discovers that she is the key that connects stolen works of art, ciphers and si...
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The Sirani Connection
Estelle RyanStolen masterpieces. Deadly narcotics. Artificial intelligence.A mysterious email and the arrest of a fugitive art thief send Doctor Genevieve Lenard and her team to Prague, where ...
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The Braque Connection
Estelle RyanForged masterpieces. Hidden messages. A desperate swan song.When worldrenowned nonverbal communication expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard wakes up in an unknown location, drugged and k...
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The Roubaud Connection
Estelle RyanBrutal murders. An ancient treasure. A rogue state.A young acquaintance of nonverbal communications expert Doctor Genevieve Lenard begs her to look into the disappearance of his fr...
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The Bookseller
Mark PryorWho is killing the celebrated bouquinistes of Paris? Maxan elderly Paris bookstall owneris abducted at gunpoint. His friend, Hugo Marston, head of security at the US embassy, looks...
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The Button Man
Mark PryorIn this prequel to The Bookseller, former FBI profiler Hugo Marston has just become head of security at the US Embassy in London. He’s asked to protect a famous moviestar couple, D...