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- In The Beginning, There Was A Different Alice.
- Only One of The Show’S Stars Earned A Lifetime of Residuals from The Series.
- Art Carney’s Dad Was The Inspiration For Many of Ed Norton’s mannerisms.
- Norton’s Signature Hat Belonged to Carney.
- There Were No Dress Rehearsals.
- The Series Had Some A-List Fans.
- Jackie Gleason Briefly Considered Suing The Flintstones.
- Gleason called It Quits After Just One season.
The Honeymooners began as a semi-regular sketch on Gleason’s 1951 variety series Cavalcade of Stars. Most of the same elements that appeared on the later CBS series were already in place, except that Gleason’s waistline was noticeably smaller and “Alice” was played by a different actress. Veteran vaudevillian Pert Kelton originated the role and wou...
Meadows had two brothers, both of whom were attorneys. When it came time for her to sign her Honeymooners contract in 1952, they accompanied her to the bargaining table and insisted that a clause be insertedregarding residuals for any episodes that were re-broadcast. The network agreed, never imagining that the show would become every UHF station’s...
Art Carney’s Ed Norton was famous for exasperating “Ralphie boy” with the elaborate gestures and flourishes he performed before the most mundane of tasks, whether it was signing a letter or playing the piano. Carney was simply imitating his father, who couldn’t perform the simplest of tasks—like signing his son’s report card—without going through a...
The felt porkpie hat that Ed Norton wore was from Carney’s own wardrobe. He purchased the chapeau in 1935 when he was still in high school. It was the first hat he ever bought and cost him a whopping $5. In a 1985 interview with Peoplemagazine, Carney said that he still had the hat stashed in the closet of his home in Westbrook, Connecticut. 6. THE...
Gleason didn’t believe in rehearsals, mainly because he preferred his performance to be fresh and spontaneous, and partially because he preferred to spend his afternoons relaxing with friends at Toots Shor’sfamous Manhattan watering hole. He usually did one run-through per script, with a minimal amount of crew on hand since he also wanted the camer...
Cary Grant, the very definition of a dashing and debonair Hollywood leading man, made a point of approaching Meadows on the Paramount lot one afternoon during The Honeymooners’s summer hiatus. As she recalled in her 1994 autobiography, Love, Alice, Meadows was flattered to have one of filmdom’s biggest stars so anxious to meet her and was just slig...
There’s no denying that Hanna-Barbera’s The Flintstones was heavily “influenced” by The Honeymooners: the primetime cartoon series focused on two couples who were neighbors, the main character was heavy-set and his nasal-voiced wife could be counted on to deflate his dreams of getting rich quick. Fred Flintstone and best friend/next door neighbor B...
For several months after it premiered, The Honeymooners was second only to I Love Lucyin popularity and Gleason was dubbed the “king of Saturday night television.” But in the fall of 1955, rival network NBC moved its popular variety series The Perry Como Show to the 8 p.m. time slot on Saturday nights, and The Honeymoonersstarted losing momentum. B...
1 day ago · Billy Connolly has shared what Robin Williams said to him during their final conversation before his death. The Scottish comedian was a close friend of the Mrs. Doubtfire star, who died by suicide ...
1 day ago · The original cast, including Simon Bird as Will MacKenzie, Blake Harrison as Neil Sutherland, and James Buckley as Jay Cartwright, has continued to find success in their respective careers.
Gleason has been remembered fondly not by just actors he had worked with but by those behind the camera as well. Former makeup man W. Bill Golding remembered that "Jackie was a hell of a guy. He was always very sweet to my little girl, Jackie, who we named after him.
Mar 26, 1995 · Gleason’s fabled “photographic memory” was not quite that accurate, according to William A. Henry III’s biography of “The Great One,” and so the other actors-Art Carney, Audrey Meadows...
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Oct 12, 2020 · According to Gleason's website, young Jackie knew that he wanted to be an actor from the age of six when his father used to take him to see matinee silent films and vaudeville performances. Unfortunately, the theater visits would be the only good memory that Gleason would have of his father.