When Jackie Gleason suddenly up and announced his retirement from CBS television last winter, he got a wire of “appreciation” from an NBC vice president. The telegram was ill timed. In the first place ...
NORTH TEXAS (CBSDFW.COM) - Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) was an accomplished actor, comedian, writer, composer, and conductor. He was best known on television as New York bus driver Ralph Kramden on the ...
If you want to learn about TV's early days, the career of Jackie Gleason (1916-1987) is a good starting point. On the “Cavalcade of Stars” comedy-variety show from 1950 to 1952, he created some of ...
Art Carney's name doesn't come up nearly as often as Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason or Ed Sullivan when people talk about the ...
Jackie Gleason was a TV superstar, but he never won an Emmy. And he never got over that snub. It drove him, in fact, to win a Tony on Broadway, an Oscar nomination in the movies, and a place amid the ...
In 1983, the space shuttle Challenger - carrying America's first woman in space, Sally K. Ride - coasted to a safe landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California. In 1987, comedian-actor Jackie ...