Early Life
Getty was born Estelle Scher in New York City, the daughter of Sarah and Charles Scher, Jewish immigrants from the Galicia region of Eastern Europe who worked in the glass business. She had a sister, Roz, and a brother, David. Getty got her start in the Yiddish theater and also as a comedienne in the Catskills borscht belt resorts, and among her most notable stage roles was as Harvey Fierstein's mother in Torch Song Trilogy during its original Broadway run.
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