Jayne and Audrey Meadows, the high-spirited redheaded daughters of a Connecticut clergyman, sometimes act goofy in their personal lives. But in their professional lives they are eminently sensible. As two of TV's brightest performers, they average (in 1954 - my annotation) three shows a week between them and gross an annual income of more than $100,000. Jayne, the older by two years, stars in many of TV's better dramas and is a regular panel member of I've Got a Secret. Audrey has become indispensable to Jackie Gleason as the nasal spouse of a fractious bus driver.
The girls were born in china, where their father was an Episcopal missionary. coming to the U.S. they went to boarding schools and then, deciding on theatrical careers, dropped their real name of Cotter to assume a gandmother's name of Meadows. They set off in different directions - Jane to the movies, Audrey to Broadway - and wound up in TV four years ago.
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