Jean Abel

We called it CINA, the Society for Indecency to Naked Animals.

How did you and Alan meet?

Well, I came to New York looking for an acting career.

I had already done summer stock and studied speech and acting in college, and it was my time to try my luck.

He seemed very nice.

At this point, I'd only spent maybe a month or so in New York.

I'd met with various agents, and they all seemed rather abrupt.

They didn't want to spend more than five minutes getting to know you.

But he took like 40 minutes.

And I'm trying to figure out why he was being so nice and kind to me.

So he was being sued for that, a couple hundred bucks.

So I didn't learn about, of course, the process or for quite some time after.

But meantime, we got, you know, very chummy.

What can I say?

Jean and Alan were married within the year.

I can't say, you know, I fell for him immediately, but he certainly grew on me, that's for sure.

He just had this, I don't know, I think a lot of it emanated from his father, who had a small general store in Coshocton, Ohio.

And Alan was that kind of guy.

He would engage waiters and waitresses in conversation.

He would step outside the norm to be kind and to be...