Estelle Lebost 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.
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 his "mother was Mary Tyler Moore."
In her 60s, Estelle 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; her most enduring film role was in 1989's "When Harry Met Sally..." in which director 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." (Wikipedia)
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