Estelle Getty funded films.
== Personal life ===== Family ===Getty was introduced to Arthur Gettleman, whose last name she later used as the basis for her stage name, at a party by her friends from the New York theater circuit
== Early life ==Getty was born Estelle Scher in New York City on July 25, 1923, to Charles Scher and Sarah (ne Lacher), Jewish immigrants from Poland, at the family's apartment at 257 East 2nd Street on the Lower East Side, which also served as the storefront for the family's glass business

