Jackie Gleason was my generation’s Diamond Jim Brady. Bigger than life and meticulously dressed – always with a flower in his lapel – he was one of the last of the big spenders. He loved a ...

At 69, Jackie ... have to have guts.” ”What do you mean by that?” Gleason shoots back, and for a moment, he looks like he`s ready for ”Bang! Zoom! To the moon!” response to one of ...

On his deathbed last month, a Jackie Gleason who was too ill to sign his own name modified his ... He said Marilyn Gleason was to receive one-half his estate. The balance was to be divided equally ...

From 1949 until his death in 1987, Jackie Gleason had some kind ... stagehands bring out an example of one of the tableaus, and as they do, they both have their heads turned away from the camera.

Gleason was known for rubbing his stomach to buy himself time to remember his lines Gleason may have been considered ... a script the day of a performance. One of the ways he hid his lack of ...

The Honeymooners was made up of one of the greatest ensemble ... He was the perfect foil for Jackie. “I don’t think Mr. Gleason would have gotten as far as he did without Art Carney.” ...

The mood of the photo essay is a strange one: Jackie Gleason ... side may have come as a surprise to some of LIFE’s readers, who were certainly more familiar with Gleason’s outsize public ...

Known affectionately as "The Great One" Jackie Gleason was a legendary actor, comedian, writer, and composer. Gleason was known for his brash and visual comedy, and the character that typified his ...

The Great One was a nasty one. The CBS movie Gleason refuses to sugarcoat the television icon, depicting him as a selfish husband, a cruel colleague and a despicable friend. Jackie Gleason ...

“You have braved a blizzard,” Gleason told the audience at the conclusion of the episode. A veteran performer, he knew a disaster when he saw one. Though producers had arranged for another pan ...

The nine ball plops into the side pocket, the cue ball hits one cushion and stops ... curiously enough, by Jackie Gleason, and where audiences might have arrived expecting a million laughs from ...