Betty Schulman

Betty grew up in the seaside gated community Seagate in the Coney Island section of Brooklyn, NY to parents Samuel and Sarah, and lived with her parents until age 20 when she married. She attended PS 188, Mark Twain Junior High School, and Lincoln High School. As a child she studied classical piano. On October 15, 1944 she married classical violinist Julius Schulman, a marriage that lasted until his death on September 9, 2000. They lived together in Pittsburgh, PA, Forest Hills, NY, New Orleans, LA, Natick, MA, Manhattan, San Antonio, TX, and Culver City, CA. Betty and Julius had two children, Margaret, and J. Neil Schulman, whom they raised in Forest Hills, NY, New Orleans, LA, and Natick, MA. During her adult years, beginning in Forest Hills, Betty painted, mostly still life, landscapes and cityscapes, in oil, acrylic, watercolor, and gouache. She frequently threw parties and dinner parties for her husband that included musicians including Aaron Rosand, Eileen Flissler, Thomas Scherman, Bernard Herrmann, Joshua Bell, Lawrence Leighton Smith, and many others. In 2006 she financed, co-executive-produced, and acted the role of "Grandma" in her son's feature film, 'Lady Magdalene's'_.