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Two years later, at the age of sixteen, she married Marvin May, an engineer and toy inventor. They had one child, Jeannie Berlin (born 1949), who became an actress and screenwriter. The couple divorced in 1960, and she married lyricist Sheldon Harnick in 1962; they divorced a year later.
Actress, screenwriter. Years active. 1969–present. Known for. The Heartbreak Kid. Parents. Marvin May (father) Elaine May (mother) Jeannie Berlin (born Jeannie Brette May; November 1, 1949) is an American film, television and stage actress and screenwriter, the daughter of Elaine May.
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At 87, iconic comedian, actor, and director Elaine May is at last getting her due. ... She quit school at 14, married at 16, and had a daughter at 18—actor Jeannie Berlin. ... May’s daughter ...
The daughter of Yiddish theater star Jack Berlin, May made her stage debut at age three. She married Marvin May at sixteen and divorced him a year later, then hitchhiked to Chicago in the early 1950s, where she joined the Compass Players in 1955 and met Mike Nichols, a fellow troupe member.
She married Marvin May in the late 1940s and gave birth to a daughter, actress-director-screenwriter Jeannie Berlin (who is known by her mother's maiden name) in 1949 at age 17; the couple later divorced. In 1962, she married lyricist Sheldon Harnick, best known for his work in Fiddler On The Roof.
In 1948, she married her her first husband, the toy inventor Marvin May. She was only 16-years-old at the time of her marriage. She would later keep her husband's surname as her professional name.
May is the daughter of Jack Berlin, who directed, wrote, and performed for a Yiddish traveling theatrical group, and actress Jeannie Berlin. She married Marvin May in 1949 and divorced young, giving birth to a daughter while still in her teens.
