![]() Network cable movie A Weekend in the Country (1996). She also cowrote the film Peter's Friends with her husband in 1992 and wrote the teleplay to the U.S.A. She turned to fiction with Tickled Pink (2001), a semi-autobiographical novel about two women trying to make it in the show business in the 1980s. In 1994, Rita Rudner's Guide to Men was published. Rudner wrote Naked Beneath My Clothes (1992), short, amusing meditations on love, family, food, and fashion (and won that year's Emmy for the audio version). That same year, Rudner made her film debut ( The Wrong Guys) and co-hosted a TV program Funny People (with Leeza Gibbons, produced by Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In creator George Schlatter). In 1986, British theatrical producer Martin Bergman brought her to the U.K. In 1980, she was cast in the Broadway production of Annie, and also did her first stand-up act at the comedy club Catch a Rising Star, "because there weren't too many female comedians." Rudner dressed in evening gowns and cultivated a quiet, minimalist presentation of funny stories. She worked in other Broadway shows and did commercials for 10 years. Rudner dreamed of show business as a child, and after she lost her mother to cancer at 13, she graduated high school at 15, giving her father this ultimatum: "Let me go to New York or I'll run away." Within three months, Rudner got a job dancing in the road company of Zorba the Greek. Rudner was born in Miami, Florida, the daughter of Abe (an attorney) and Frances (a homemaker). comedian, stage and screen actress, and author.
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