Tag: Jackie Gleason
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TRIB TV WEEK TURNS TEN!
June 4, 1966 Lucille Ball was one of ten stars who were on the cover of the Chicago Tribune’s TV Week Tenth Anniversary issue for the week of June 4, 1966. 1. BOZO the CLOWN ~ was first played by Pinto Colvig, who voiced dogs for “The Lucy Show” in 1964. The Chicago Bozo franchise was…
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JANE KEAN
April 10, 1924 Jane Kean was born in Hartford, Connecticut on April 10, 1924. Her show business career spanned seven decades. Among her most famous roles were as Trixie Norton on “The Jackie Gleason Show”, and as the voice of Belle in the perennial favorite “Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol.” Kean and her older sister Betty Kean, formed…
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JACKIE GLEASON
February 26, 1916 Jackie Gleason was born as Herbert Walton Gleason Jr. but baptized as John Herbert Gleason. He was born at 364 Chauncey Street in Brooklyn, an address he later used for Ralph and Alice Kramden on his iconic series “The Honeymooners.” For most of the 1940s Gleason appeared on Broadway, featured in Keep…
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AUDREY MEADOWS
February 8, 1922 Audrey Meadows was born as Audrey Cotter in New York City. She was the youngest of four children. After she was born, her family returned to China, where they worked as missionaries. Her family returned to the US and settled in New England when Audrey was age 6, and she and sister…
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EXECUTIVE SESSION
January 12, 1957 Lucille Ball was on the cover of TV Guide (volume 5; number 2) on January 12, 1957. This is Ball’s 7th (of 39) covers of the National TV Guide. Before 1957 is done, she will grace her 8th cover. The close-up photo is by John Engstead (1909-83). Engstead had photographed Lucille Ball…
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SHEILA MACRAE
September 24, 1921 Sheila Margaret Stephens was born in London in 1921, but evacuated with her parents to Long Island, New York, in 1939, shortly before the onset of World War II. She became a naturalized US citizen in March 1959. In 1941, she married actor and singer Gordon MacRae. They often appeared on the stage…
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PHIL ARNOLD
September 15, 1909 Philip Arnold was a prolific character actor born on September 15, 1909 in Hackensack, New Jersey. He appeared in approximately 200 films and television shows between 1938 and 1968 – in bit parts most of the time. Perhaps most famously, Arnold was a regular in the “Three Stooges” movies doing six films…