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The Reiner family is a fairly big institution in Hollywood. Carl Reiner has been a famed director and actor for decades, while his son Rob Reiner was a sitcom star turned famed director himself. But Carl Reiner's wife and Rob Reiner's mother, Estelle Reiner, achieved some fame in many entertainment worlds of her own.
With one line in Rob Reiner's most famous movie, Estelle Reiner was as big a movie icon as Carl and Rob were. It is those memories that come to pass as the Reiner family and their fans morn the death of Estelle Reiner at age 94.
Estelle Reiner started her showbiz career best known as Carl Reiner's wife. The two were married on Christmas Eve 1943. While Carl Reiner's career took off, Estelle Reiner gave birth to his two sons and one daughter, one of which was Rob Reiner.
In the 70's, the Reiner name got a new level of fame when Rob Reiner launched his acting career with All In The Family. During that time, Estelle Reiner became well known for her paintings, having four one-woman shows for her work in the 70's. Estelle also began working bit parts in movies, like in Fatso, Carl Reiner'sThe Man With Two Brains and To Be or Not to Be in the 70's and 80's.
But all movie goers around the world know Estelle Reiner for her cameo in her son Rob's classic comedy When Harry Met Sally in 1989. Meg Ryan's famed fake orgasm scene, and Estelle Reiner's one sentence reaction to it, are so well known that they don't need to be quoted here. The line and Estelle's delivery of it still live on, almost 20 years after the movie launched Rob Reiner's career to a new, Woody Allen-esque level.
Sometimes directors will cast family members for bit parts in a movie, but few have been as well remembered as Estelle Reiner's cameo. Perhaps the closest comparison to be made is from Goodfellas the next year. There, Martin Scorsese cast his own mother as the mother of Joe Pesci's character, in a famed scene where the Goodfellas eat dinner while murder victim Billy Batts is dying in the trunk of their car.
With one line in Rob Reiner's most famous movie, Estelle Reiner was as big a movie icon as Carl and Rob were. It is those memories that come to pass as the Reiner family and their fans morn the death of Estelle Reiner at age 94.
Estelle Reiner started her showbiz career best known as Carl Reiner's wife. The two were married on Christmas Eve 1943. While Carl Reiner's career took off, Estelle Reiner gave birth to his two sons and one daughter, one of which was Rob Reiner.
In the 70's, the Reiner name got a new level of fame when Rob Reiner launched his acting career with All In The Family. During that time, Estelle Reiner became well known for her paintings, having four one-woman shows for her work in the 70's. Estelle also began working bit parts in movies, like in Fatso, Carl Reiner'sThe Man With Two Brains and To Be or Not to Be in the 70's and 80's.
But all movie goers around the world know Estelle Reiner for her cameo in her son Rob's classic comedy When Harry Met Sally in 1989. Meg Ryan's famed fake orgasm scene, and Estelle Reiner's one sentence reaction to it, are so well known that they don't need to be quoted here. The line and Estelle's delivery of it still live on, almost 20 years after the movie launched Rob Reiner's career to a new, Woody Allen-esque level.
Sometimes directors will cast family members for bit parts in a movie, but few have been as well remembered as Estelle Reiner's cameo. Perhaps the closest comparison to be made is from Goodfellas the next year. There, Martin Scorsese cast his own mother as the mother of Joe Pesci's character, in a famed scene where the Goodfellas eat dinner while murder victim Billy Batts is dying in the trunk of their car.
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