Lee Meriwether Quotes & Trivia

Quotes

Basically, nice guys can finish last.

I don't think that I could fit into the costume anymore.

I'm the streetwise New Yorker nun who's always wanted to be on-stage. I'm taking tap classes here in Los Angeles. There is a big tap number.

It's a wonderful way to have a role on a series - you're not tied down totally and completely to a schedule.

When we shot outside, because of the metallic (material), my skin burned.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.

You know, I've been so incredibly lucky. One hears so many horror stories from actresses who test for role after role and never get anything. I've been working steadily for more years than I care to count. I definitely consider myself to be one of the lucky ones.

Trivia

Miss America 1955

Mother of actresses Kyle Aletter and Lesley Aletter

Related to Meriwether Lewis, 19th century explorer and later governor of the Louisiana Territory.

Was a member of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls, a Masonic community service group for girls aged 11-20.

Measurements: 34 1/2B-22-35 (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine)

Classmate of Bill Bixby.

As a 19-year-old drama student from California, she was crowned Miss America in 1954, the year of the first live telecast, and was the first to cry tears of joy at the announcement.

Went to high school with future singer Johnny Mathis.

Contrary to popular belief, she never played Catwoman on the series "Batman" (1966). Only Julie Newmar and Eartha Kitt did. She did, however, play Catwoman in the movie Batman (1966) and later played another character in two episodes of the series.