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Jeanne Silberman (nee Baer). When Gene was 7 or 8, she suffered a heart attack (the first of several, due to a chronic heart condition), prompting her doctor to tell the young boy then known as Jerry two things: Not to get angry at his mother, and to try to make her laugh. He did so, thus taking his first steps on the road to Hollywood...a road that Jeanne, sadly, never got to see him reach the end of.

Remaining in fragile health after her initial heart attack, she died of Breast cancer and her heart condition (despite this information coming from her son's own mouth, several sources erroneously list Mrs. Silberman's cancer type as ovarian) in 1957, when her son was only 24.

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