Toots said to me, 'I gotta hand it to him, thought, when he got into the big money, he came by and handed me the cash, saying, 'Here's what I'm sure I owe you.'

She was quoted as saying "I've always voted Republican because America is exactly that a republic. Meadows had auditioned for Gleason and was initially turned down for being too chic and pretty to play Alice. She was interred in Holy Cross Cemetery Culver City next to her husband.

Audrey Meadows (February 8 1922 — February 3 1996) was an American actress best known for her role as the deadpan housewife Alice Kramden on the 1950s American television comedy The Honeymooners.