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	Gleason, Jackie
		Jackie Gleason must be counted among Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, and Red Skelton in the small group of creative comedy-variety stars who dominated, and to some degree invented, early television.
		The Gleason style was utterly suited to 1950s comedy-variety: the vaudeville trappings, including a live audience; the emphasis on slapstick, constant close-ups, flout segues, splintered segments and so on.
		Gleason repackaged the most popular feature of his show, The Honeymooners, into a 30-minute sitcom, while the second half of the hour was contracted to the Dorsey Brothers for a big-band musical program.
	www.museum.tv /archives/etv/G/htmlG/gleasonjack/gleasonjack.htm (1263 words)

	Jackie Gleason - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gleason grew up as an only child, abandoned by his father (probably the reason he never mentioned Ralph Kramden having a father on The Honeymooners) and raised by his loving, but work-worn and troubled mother, who died when he was around 16.
		Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine was a hit and endured in the format for four seasons---a staple was Joe the Bartender opening his sketch by speaking to the unseen Mr.
		On June 30, 1988, the Sunset Park Bus Depot in Brooklyn was renamed the Jackie Gleason Bus Depot in honor of the native Brooklynite.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jackie_Gleason (2347 words)

	The Jackie Gleason Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Jackie Gleason Show was a popular television variety show that starred Jackie Gleason and ran in a variety of incarnations, from 1952 to 1970.
		In 1952 CBS president William S. Paley lured Gleason away to his network, and the series was retitled The Jackie Gleason Show.
		Gleason portrayed a number of recurring characters, including supercilious millionaire Reginald Van Gleason III; friendly Joe the Bartender; loudmouthed braggart Charlie Bratton; mild-mannered Fenwick Babbitt; Rudy the Repairman; and a put-upon character known only as the Poor Soul, who Gleason always performed in pantomime.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Jackie_Gleason_Show (450 words)

	Jackie Gleason - The Honeymooners
		Better known to us as "Jackie", Gleason was born in Brooklyn on February 26, 1916 and years later was kind enough to share a talent as immense as his physicality with television viewers and, later on, movie-goers and music lovers.
		Spring-boarding from Riley, Gleason was hired in 1950 to host the now defunct Dumont Network's Cavalcade of Stars, a weekly variety show that made Gleason an immediate sensation; sensational enough to be hired by CBS as host and star of The Jackie Gleason Show in 1952.
		Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows as Ralph and Alice.
	www.loti.com /jackie_gleason.htm (577 words)

	Internet Obituary Network, Obituary forJackie Gleason (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gleason's own humble beginnings were geared more toward a bleak life as a DOT employee than the future founder of the highest paying golf tournament in the US, The Jackie Gleason Inverray Classic.
		Gleason was raised by his mother, who worked as a token counter attendant at a New York Transit subway stop, and had to watch her son, whom she called "Jackie" take a series of odd jobs as a child to help bolster their income.
		Gleason called an end to the series when he felt the quality of the show's content could not be maintained, and he bore such affection for his characters he could not bear to see the series deteriorate.
	obits.com /gleasonjackie.html (1301 words)

	Jackie Gleason's grave
		Gleason is best-remembered for his brashly versatile comedy and swift ad-libbing, particularly in the comic portrait of his Chauncey Street, East New York/Brownsville neighborhood in The Honeymooners as bus driver Ralph Kramden.
		Gleason repeatedly proved himself to be as capable a dramatic actor as he was a comedian, in films like Rod Serling's Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962), Soldier in the Rain (1963) with Steve McQueen, and his Oscar-nominated performance opposite Paul Newman in The Hustler (1961).
		Gleason did two Jackie Gleason Show specials for CBS during the '70s, which are said to have included "Honeymooners segments" (and in a non-Kramden sketch, Reggie Van Gleason is revealed as an alcoholic).
	www.hollywoodusa.co.uk /GravesOutofLA/gleeson.htm (2075 words)

	Brian's Belly - Heavyweight Hall of Fame: Jackie Gleason
		Jackie Gleason is considered one of the true pioneers of early television.
		When Gleason moved to CBS in 1952 for The Jackie Gleason Show, he showed the world "how sweet it is" when he sealed his fate as a national celebrity with a never before heard of 11 million dollar contract.
		Jackie Gleason was laid to rest in Florida in 1987 at the age of 71.
	www.briansbelly.com /halloffame/jackiegleason.shtml (903 words)

	The Jackie Gleason Show (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Okay, I understand Gleason had various shows on TV from 1952 to 1970, but the show I was talking about, the Miami Beach show, was on in the mid to late '60's, and it was crap.
		Gleason was coasting on his past fame, not putting an ounce of effort into producing anything funny.
		Jackie was exciting, his show was daring, a last vestige to vaudeville (that and the Ed Sullivan Show), shot live, on stage, where anything could happen and often times did.
	www.jumptheshark.com /j/jackiegleason.htm (1497 words)

	Jackie Gleason (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gleason’s album remained at #1 for an unprecedented 17 consecutive weeks and topped that amazing feat by staying on the hit charts for a solid two years, in the process earning several million in sales!.
		Gleason released a total of 18 albums, ‘Music, Martinis, and Memories (went to #1 for a million-seller)’, ‘Lonesome Echo (also went #1 and gold)' and all the others charted on the best-seller lists.
		The Brooklyn born Gleason who first hit the TV screen in 1949 as the star of ‘Life With Riley’; on Dumont television, and went on to CBS television with 'The Jackie Gleason Show' and 'The Honeymooners'; remaining at the top of the ratings into 1970, 21 years of being on top.
	www.lentriola.com /legends/gleason.htm (345 words)

	The Jackie Gleason Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Jackie Gleason Show ran in two incarnations, from 1952 to 1959 and from 1966 to 1970.
		In 1966, Jackie Gleason returned to television in his final weekly series, broadcast from South Beach in Miami.
		The regular cast of the new variety show included Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and Milton Berle as a frequent guest star.
	www.cary.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/The_Jackie_Gleason_Show (231 words)

	Jackie Gleason : Comedian Profile
		Herbert John (Jackie) Gleason, nicknamed "The Great One", was a rotund, Brooklyn-born comedian famous for brash humor and fast ad-libs who immortalized his Chauncey Street neighborhood in The Honeymooners, playing bus driver Ralph Kramden alongside his pal and upstairs neighbor, sewer worker Ed Norton, and their wives Alice Kramden and Trixie Norton.
		Gleason was hired as the host of Cavalcade of Stars, where he originated many of his famous characters and skits, from 1950 to 1952 on the small DuMont Television Network.
		Gleason's show was eventually cancelled due to declining ratings, an aging audience, and the ever-increasing costs of producing a weekly variety show live-on-tape.
	www.comedy-zone.net /standup/comedian/g/gleason-jackie.htm (1191 words)

	St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture: Jackie Gleason
		Gleason's mother supported her son by working in a subway token booth and living with rented furniture.
		Jackie quit school at an early age and worked as a pool hustler,; comic high diver, and carnival barker to pay the rent.
		Gleason was recruited to play the goodhearted but incompetent Chester A. Riley in one of television's first comedies recorded on 35mm film.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419200461 (889 words)

	Jackie Gleason Bus Depot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On June 30, 1988 the New York City Transit Authority's Fifth Avenue Bus Depot in Brooklyn was renamed for native Brooklynite Jackie Gleason who played the character of bus driver Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners.
		It is located on 5th Avenue and 39th Street in the neighborhood of Sunset Park in Brooklyn, New York, adjacent to the New York City Subway's 36th-38th Street Yard.
		The Jackie Gleason Depot is part of the Brooklyn Division of bus depots in the MTA New York City Transit buses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jackie_Gleason_Bus_Depot (459 words)

	Modern Drunkard Magazine Online
		Jackie was the ultimate super-functional alcoholic; he was almost always on time and always knew his lines, and what lines he got he polished into comedic nuggets.
		Jackie was fully in the center of the booze tunnel now—if before he’d been a prodigious drunk, he was now Bacchus incarnate, possessing not a shred of remorse or restraint.
		Jackie was forty years old now and he had no interest whatsoever living moderately so he could later solemnly tack grey moments onto the tail end of a long monotonous march to the grave.
	www.moderndrunkardmagazine.com /issues/03-05/03_05_great_drunk.htm (6793 words)

	The Jackie Gleason Collection at the Otto G. Richter Library, University of Miami
		Gleason, a comedian, television star, and motion picture actor of international acclaim, developed a deep and abiding interest in parapsychology and its many components.
		Marilyn Gleason, the widow of Jackie Gleason, donated the collection to the University of Miami Library in 1988.
		The Jackie Gleason Collection includes approximately 1,700 volumes of books, journals, proceedings, pamphlets, and publications in the field of parapsychology, and a lesser quantity of titles relating to the entertainment industry.
	www.library.miami.edu /archives/jg/intro.html (430 words)

	CNN.com - Transcripts
		M. GLEASON: And the fact that you're talking about it is one of the reasons he did it, that the flight, everybody could have flown down.
		Jackie once told me that he wanted to do "The Odd Couple." And I said, boy, you'd be a great Oscar.
		We found Audrey's first appearances as Alice was on the first "Jackie Gleason Show" on CBS that's never been rerun and never been part of the lost "Honeymooners." That particular kinescope was lost.
	transcripts.cnn.com /TRANSCRIPTS/0205/03/lkl.00.html (5822 words)

	Jackie Gleason biography, information, news, links, pictures and products (actor/comedian: Honeymooners) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Gleason was hired as the host of Cavalcade of Stars, where he originated many of his famous characters and skits, from 1950 to 1952 on the small DuMont Television Network.
		Gleason's show was eventually cancelled due to declining ratings, an aging audience, and the ever-increasing costs of producing a weekly variety show live-on-tape.
		Gleason ended up checking himself out of the hospital where he had been admitted shortly before the end, and died quietly at his Florida home on June 24, 1987, at the age of 71.
	www.popstarsplus.com /actors_jackiegleason.htm (1744 words)

	Gigot - vhs or dvd - Gene Kelly, Jackie Gleason, Katherine Kath, Gabrielle Dorziat, Jean Lefebvre, Jacques Marin, ...
		Gleason shows his considerable talents as an actor without uttering a sound as he plays the bumbling, kind-hearted janitor, Gigot.
		It needs to be remembered by a generation that loves the film genre for I am a member of Generation X that has fallen in love with the artistry of a great actor and a dancer that could direct as he danced, with grace and with a great love for the story.
		Jackie Gleason may have been the greatest entertainer of all time.
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	MSN Encarta - Jackie Gleason
		Jackie Gleason (1916-1987), American comedian and actor, one of television's most popular stars in the 1950s and 1960s.
		Born Herbert John Gleason in Brooklyn, New York, he had little formal education and decided on a career in show business after winning a talent contest at the age of 15.
		The following year Gleason left that show (American actor William Bendix reprised the role from 1953 to 1958) and became host of “Cavalcade of Stars” (1949-1952) on the DuMont Television Network, where he introduced characters from his nightclub routine, including Reggie Van Gleason, Joe the Bartender, and Charlie the Loudmouth.
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	Jackie Gleason / You're in the Picture
		I remember thinking that the show could be risky for it was quite removed from anything that Gleason had done and the premise of celebrities sticking their heads through a painted plywood board and quessing what historical character they were supposed to be was pretty shaky.
		Jackie Gleason was the host of this live broadcast, (he even helped develop the show) and the celebrity contestants for that first (and only broadcast) episode included Jan Sterling, Keenan Wynn, Aurthur Treacher, and Pat Carroll.
		Jackie Gleason returned in 1962 with a variety show on CBS that had a highly successful nine-year run.
	www.tvparty.com /picture.html (1597 words)

	Jackie Gleason in Orchestral Debut, 1953
		Gleason originally planned to have only 21 men for the engagement, but he found by putting his rhythm section on the smaller stage left he could do a little violin packing.
		From loud buffoonery to touching pantomime, Jackie has turned from a limited two weeks to music he loves, love melodies that are tender and appealing.
		Between the four shows presented during the Gleason engagement, Van Smith and his trio continue their fine brand of music that that kept them at the club for over a year.
	www.bigbandsandbignames.com /gleason.html (482 words)

	Jackie Gleason
		Gleason's zest for life and generosity to friends and colleagues was legendary.
		Gleason patterned the Kramden's apartment after the one he lived in with his mother as a boy.
		As Gleason himself said "the poor soul" came from his deprived childhood based on the child he once was with his nose pressed against the window watching other children play.
	www.classichollywoodbios.com /jackiegleason.htm (1625 words)

	AMCTV.com BIOGRAPHY - Jackie Gleason (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jackie Gleason was loud, controlling, sweet, generous, enormous, and graceful all at once.
		Gleason, on the other hand, went on to defy audience expectations to win acclaim in both film and stage work long after "The Honeymooners" was relegated to perpetual late-night syndication.
		Gleason also used his TV fame to further his movie career; he earned an Oscar® nomination for Best Supporting actor for his portrayal of Minnesota Fats in The Hustler (1961) and appeared in the popular Smokey and the Bandit (1977) and its two sequels.
	www.amctv.com /person/detail?CID=1000-1-UTC (580 words)

	SIGHTINGS
		This article deals with the ole folklore of Jackie Gleason and President Nixon, who were not only supposedly good buddies but UFO believers as well.
		Gleason sputtered, catching his breath." According to Warren, Jackie proceeded to tell him the intriguing set of circumstances that led him to the stunning conclusion that extraterrestrials have arrived on our cosmic shores.
		Gleason noted his initial reaction was that this was all a joke brought on by their earlier conversation on the golf course.
	www.rense.com /ufo5/gleason_u.htm (1353 words)

	UFO Folklore Jackie Gleason & UFOs (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A story circulated by Gleason's ex-wife, Beverly, has Jackie actually viewing the bodies of several aliens who died when their craft crashed in the Southwest.
		The story was carried originally in the National Enquirer, and though Beverly Gleason later confirmed it to members of the press who were able to track her down, independent confirmation of Gleason's supposed experience could - for the longest time - not be certified.
		"Jackie Gleason was interested in hearing my story first hand," Warren offers as a means of explaining how he met the famous comic in May, 1986.
	www.qtm.net /~geibdan/news2/greatone.htm (1282 words)

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