Charlotte Zucker

Zucker was born on March 10, 1921, and grew up in Manhattan.^[1] Her father, Harry Lefstein, was a tailor, and her mother, Sarah (née Seiden) was a housewife. She earned a degree in speech and theater at Brooklyn College,^[1][2][3] and appeared in stage performances at the Henry Street Neighborhood Playhouse.^[1] She then moved to Milwaukee to teach English at a junior high school.^[3] She graduated from the University of Wisconsin in Madison with a master's degree.^[1]

Zucker had appeared in community theater productions in Florida and in Shorewood, Wisconsin.^[4] She was a member of the Jewish Community Center Readers Theater-Milwaukee.^[5] She made her screen debut in The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977).^[3] She appeared in a total of 17 films,^[1] including Airplane!, Ghost (as the bank officer interacting with Whoopi Goldberg), First Knight and Rat Race, which were directed and produced by her sons, David and Jerry Zucker.^[1] She also appeared at the Second Avenue Theater, New York, reading selections from Molly Picon's autobiography.^[4]

From 1941 to her death in 2007, she was married to Burton Zucker, who was a real estate developer.^[2] She had three children, David, Jerry and Susan. On September 5, 2007, Zucker died from cancer in Shorewood, Wisconsin, aged 86.^[1] She was buried at Second Home Cemetery in Greenfield, Wisconsin.^[6]