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The Jackie Gleason Show: With Jack Lescoulie, The June Taylor Dancers, Ray Bloch, Jackie Gleason. Live variety show with Jackie Gleason.
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Jackie Gleason’s last show from his longtime home, at CBS Studio 50 in New York (now The Ed Sullivan Theater), aired May 23, 1964. After the summer break, the show debuted from The Miami Beach Convention Center on September 26.
Apr 25, 2024 · Not until 1950, when he hosted the DuMont television network’s variety show Cavalcade of Stars, did Gleason’s career start to gain momentum.
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- Cavalcade of Stars
- The Jackie Gleason Show (1961)
- American Scene Magazine
The Jackie Gleason Show was a series of TV shows aired on the CBS network, starring comedian\\actor Jackie Gleason.
Originally, the show aired on the DuMont network under the name "Cavalcade of Stars" from June 4, 1949 to September 26, 1952. In 1952, Gleason was given a considerably higher salary and it was renamed "The Jackie Gleason Show."
The series aired on CBS from September 20, 1952 to June 22, 1957.
In 1961, Gleason appeared on a game show called "You're in the Picture" which only lasted one episode and it was so bad, it lead to him apologizing to his viewers on-air.
Committed to filling a quota of episodes, he renamed the show "The Jackie Gleason Show" which turned into a talk show. It lasted for eight episodes from February 3 to March 24, 1961.
In 1962, Jackie Gleason returned to the tried-and-true variety format with his American Scene Magazine. The official title of the show was, again called "The Jackie Gleason Show."
During its first year, Gleason's ratings killed the competition: a revived comedy-western-variety program, The Roy Rogers and Dale Evans Show, on ABC and the legal drama Sam Benedict with Edmond O'Brien on NBC.
"American Scene" was initially taped in New York City; after two seasons, production moved to Miami Beach, Florida on Jackie's insistence. (This move caused difficulties for announcer Johnny Olson, who had several other announcing jobs; Olson commuted frequently between New York City and Miami to accommodate Gleason.)
Gleason would begin his monologue each week and be surprised by the flamboyant jackets worn by bandleader Sammy Spear. (Beholding Spear's animal-print blazer, Gleason quipped, "I've heard of Tiger Rag, but this is ridiculous!") Ralph Kramden, Reggie Van Gleason, the Poor Soul, and the rest of Gleason's comic characters were regular attractions. Frank Fontaine, as bug-eyed, grinning "Crazy" Guggenheim, starred in the Joe the Bartender skits, delighting fans with his nutty speaking voice and goofy laugh, and charmed by his surprisingly mellow singing voice. June Taylor's chorus girl routines revived for the television generation the aerial pattern kaleidoscope formations made famous on film by Busby Berkeley.
During this time, Gleason's show finished No. 17 for the 1962-1963 season, No. 15 for 1963-1964, #21 in 1964-1965 and #24 in 1965-1966.
In the fall of 1966, the show titled reverted to simply "The Jackie Gleason Show" (dropping the American Scene format), and would remain so until its cancellation in 1970. By this point episodes included guest stars and skits.
Overview. The prodigiously talented Gleason became a TV icon after he joined CBS from DuMont, where his work on `Calvalcade of Stars' had established many of his trademark characters, including Reginald Van Gleason III, the Poor Soul and Ralph Kramden, featured here, along with Art Carney, in `Honeymooners' sketches.
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Gleason portrays Joe the Bartender. After soliciting contributions for the Red Cross, Lescoulie introduces Gleason's four-movement tone-poem ballet, "Tawny," which calls for fifty musicians and seventy-six dancers.
