Moviefone: The Jackie Gleason Show - Season 3 (1953)
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Jackie Gleason
Herbert John Gleason, known as Jackie Gleason, was an American comedian, actor, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One".
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entertainment · American comedian and actor (1916–1987) · film actor · screenwriter · stage actor · television actor · composer · comedian · actor · musician · bandleader · writer · also Jackie Gleason, John Herbert Gleason, John Herbert "Jackie" Gleason, Gleason
Born 26 February 1916 · Died 24 June 1987 · Q454200
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2026· 2 entries
Yahoo: All About “The Honeymooners” Star Jackie Gleason's 2 Kids
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2025· 1 entry
Yahoo: ‘The Great One’ Jackie Gleason had a big role in South Florida. Take a look
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2022· 1 entry
Moviefone: Jackie Gleason Television Treasures (2022)
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2005· 1 entry
Released album “Night Winds”.
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2003· 1 entry
Released album “A Taste of Brass for Lovers Only / Doublin' in Brass”.
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2001· 2 entries
Released album “Music to Remember Her”.
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Released album “Lover's Rhapsody / And Awaaay We Go!”.
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2000· 2 entries
A statue of him as Ralph Kramden in "And away we go
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A life-sized statue of Jackie Gleason, in uniform as bus driver Ralph Kramden, was installed outside the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York City
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1999· 1 entry
Released album “Music for Lovers Only / Music to Make You Misty”.
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1996· 2 entries
Released album “The Romantic Moods of Jackie Gleason”.
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Released album “How Sweet It Is! The Jackie Gleason Velvet Brass Collection”.
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1988· 1 entry
The Sunset Park MTA, NYCT's 5th Avenue Bus Depot in Brooklyn was renamed the Jackie Gleason Depot in honor of the native Brooklynite
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1987· 2 entries
Died 1987-06-24.
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Renamed the Miami Beach Auditorium as the Jackie Gleason Theater of the Performing Arts
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1985· 2 entries
Three decades after the "Classic 39" began filming, Gleason revealed he had carefully preserved kinescopes of his live 1950s programs in a vault for future use (including Honeymooners sketches with Pert Kelton as Alice)
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And later were added to the Honeymooners syndication package
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1978· 1 entry
Suffered chest pains while touring in the lead role of Larry Gelbart's play Sly Fox and later underwent triple-bypass surgery
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1976· 1 entry
At the Sixth Annual American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA) "Entertainer of the Year Awards", Paul Lynde received an award for being voted the funniest man of the year
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1971· 1 entry
Because they had become too expensive to produce and attracted, in the executives' opinion, too old an audience
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1970· 1 entry
Released album “Softly”.
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1969· 1 entry
William Friedkin wanted to cast Gleason as "Popeye" Doyle in The French Connection (1971), and Gleason wanted the part, but the studio refused because of the poor reception of Gigot and Skidoo
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1967· 2 entries
Awarded Amateur Cartoonist Extraordinary Award (1967).
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Released album “'Tis the Season”.
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1966· 3 entries
Abandoned the American Scene Magazine format and converted the show into a standard variety hour with guest performers
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Released album “Music Around the World for Lovers Only”.
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Released album “Silk 'n' Brass”.
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1964· 2 entries
Released album “Today's Romantic Hits - For Lovers Only - Vol 2”.
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After Gleason took up permanent residence there
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1963· 3 entries
Released album “Movie Themes: For Lovers Only”.
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Released album “Champagne, Candlelight and Kisses”.
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Released album “Today's Romantic Hits - For Lovers Only”.
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1962· 2 entries
Gleason resurrected his variety show with more splashiness and a new hook: a fictitious general-interest magazine called The American Scene Magazine, through which Gleason trotted out his old characters in new scenarios,
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Released album “Jackie Gleason Presents His Original Music for "Gigot"”.
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1961· 1 entry
Released album “Jackie Gleason Presents the Gentle Touch”.
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1960· 4 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical (1960).
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Released album “Opiate d'Amour”.
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Released album “Aphrodisia”.
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Released album “Jackie Gleason presents Lazy Lively Love”.
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1959· 2 entries
Released album “That Moment”.
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Gleason discussed the possibility of bringing back The Honeymooners in new episodes; his dream was partially realized with a Kramden-Norton sketch on a CBS variety show in late 1960, and two more sketches on his hour-lon
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1958· 3 entries
Released album “The Torch With the Blue Flame”.
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With a half-hour show featuring Buddy Hackett, which did not catch on
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Released album “Riff Jazz”.
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1957· 5 entries
Released ep “To a Sleeping Beauty”.
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Released album “Velvet Brass”.
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Released album “Jackie Gleason Presents "Oooo!"”.
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When his ratings for the season came in at No
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Released album “Music for the Love Hours”.
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1956· 4 entries
Released album “Jackie Gleason Presents Music to Change Her Mind”.
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Gleason revived his original variety hour (including The Honeymooners), winning a Peabody Award
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Released album “Merry Christmas”.
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Released album “Jackie Gleason Presents Night Winds”.
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1955· 3 entries
Gleason gambled on making it a separate series entirely
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Released album “Lonesome Echo”.
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Released album “Plays Romantic Jazz”.
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1954· 2 entries
Released album “Music, Martinis, and Memories”.
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Released album “And Awaaay We Go”.
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1953· 3 entries
Released album “Lover's Rhapsody”.
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Released album “Music to Make You Misty”.
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Released album “Tawny”.
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1952· 1 entry
Released album “Music for Lovers Only”.
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1951· 1 entry
With Carney in a guest appearance as a cop (Norton did not appear until a few episodes later) and character actress Pert Kelton as Alice
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1950· 1 entry
DuMont's Cavalcade of Stars variety hour in 1950 had an opening when that show's host Jerry Lester jumped to NBC to host the first late-night comedy/variety series Broadway Open House
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1949· 1 entry
When, working nightclubs and earning the attention of New York City's inner circle, he landed work with the fledgling DuMont Television Network
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1941· 1 entry
And reconciled in 1948, the couple had two daughters, Geraldine (b
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1935· 1 entry
From complications of sepsis from a large neck carbuncle that young Jackie had tried to lance
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1916· 2 entries
Born 1916-02-26.
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At 364 Chauncey Street in the Stuyvesant Heights (now Bedford–Stuyvesant) section of Brooklyn
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