Editing Marty Feldman (section)

==Personal life==
From January 1959 until his death in 1982, Feldman was married to Lauretta Sullivan, with whom he had two children. She died in 2010, at the age of 74, in [[Studio City, Los Angeles]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/latimes/obituary.aspx?pid=141834867 |title=Lauretta Sullivan Feldman |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=15 April 2010}}</ref> Feldman's peers have reported, in a number of biographies, that he was highly attractive to women in spite of his unconventional facial appearance.<ref name="Ross2011">{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qne_BgAAQBAJ&pg=PT252 |title=Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend |year=2011 |publisher=Titan Books |isbn=978-0-85768-602-2 |page=252 |first=Robert |last=Ross}}{{Request quotation|date=June 2019}}</ref> He spent time in jazz clubs, as he found a parallel between 'riffing' in a comedy partnership and the improvisation of jazz.<ref name="six" /><ref name="Rare Bird Books">{{cite book|last1=Feldman|first1=Marty|title=eyE Marty: The Official Autobiography of Marty Feldman|date=2016|publisher=Rare Bird Books}}</ref>

Politically, Feldman was described as an "avowed [[socialist]]",<ref name=current>Mike Kuhlenbeck. [https://archive.jewishcurrents.org/marty-feldman-versus-the-suits/ "Marty Fieldman versus the suits]", ''Jewish Currents'', June 29, 2016</ref> telling one interviewer, "I'm a socialist by conviction, if not by lifestyle",<ref>"Feldman has 'ideal equipment'", ''The Pittsburgh Press'', January 11, 1976</ref> and another, "I'm a socialist from way back, but in order to pay my back taxes I have to live in America to earn enough money to pay the back tax I owe to the socialist government that I voted in."<ref name="six"/> He later joked that when a [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] cabinet minister said to him, "Of course you vote Labour", Feldman replied, "No, I don't, because I'm a socialist!"<ref>''[https://books.google.com/books?id=9j04CgAAQBAJ&dq=%22I%27m+a+socialist%22+marty+feldman&pg=PT535 Marty Feldman: The Biography of a Comedy Legend]'' by Robert Ross, chapter 15, footnote 17</ref> Nevertheless, he generally did not seriously discuss politics in public, and once stated: "I feel it would be presumptuous for me to make any statements about American politics because I'm a guest here."<ref name="PEO">{{cite web|last1=Wilkins |first1=Barbara|title=Killer Looks|url= https://people.com/archive/cover-story-killer-looks-vol-8-no-9/|website=[[People (magazine)|People]]|date=August 29, 1977}}</ref>  

An exception was during a promotional tour for ''The Last Remake of Beau Geste,'' when he denounced the campaign led by [[Anita Bryant]] against homosexuality.<ref>Mike Kuhlenbeck. [https://jewishcurrents.org/marty-feldman-versus-the-suits/ "Marty Feldman versus the Suits"], ''Jewish Currents,'' 29 June 2016</ref>  Another exception was after the murder of his friend [[John Lennon]].  Feldman subsequently became an anti-gun advocate in the US, even wearing an anti-gun t-shirt and hat pin during his appearance on the late night TV show ''Fridays''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.theofficialmartyfeldman.com/main/news/fridays-with-marty/|title= Fridays with Marty|website= The Official Marty Feldman Website|date=March 18, 2016}}</ref>

In 1971, Feldman gave evidence in favour of the defendants in the obscenity trial for [[OZ (magazine)#UK obscenity trial and appeal|''Oz'']] magazine.<ref name="six" /> He chose not to [[Oath|swear on the Bible]], but to [[Affirmation (law)|affirm]].<ref name="six" /> Throughout his testimony, he mocked the judge after it was implied that Feldman had no religion because he was not Christian.<ref name="six" />

Feldman was a [[Lacto-ovo vegetarianism|lacto-ovo vegetarian]]. In a 1979 interview, when asked how long he had practised this, he stated: "I was about five and a half or six when I converted; I'm forty-three now, so it's been approximately thirty-eight years."<ref>{{cite book |last=Berry |first=Rynn |author-link=Rynn Berry |title=The Vegetarians |year= 1979 |location=Brookline, MA |publisher=Autumn Press |chapter=Marty Feldman |page=30 |isbn=0-394-73633-8 }}</ref>

[[File:Martin Feldman - photo by Jim Tipton, curtesy of findagravedotcom.jpg|thumb|upright|Feldman's gravestone in Forest Lawn Memorial Park]]

Feldman wrote an autobiography, ''Eye Marty: The Newly Discovered Autobiography of a Comic Genius'', which was brought to light following Lauretta's death. It was published in 2012 with a foreword by [[Eric Idle]].<ref name="Rare Bird Books"/>