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How Sweet It Is: The Jackie Gleason Story pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
When Jackie Gleason--born Herbert John
Gleason on February 26, 1916--first took the
BMT to Times Square from his native Brook-
lyn, he was nineteen years old, he was without
a family, and he had thirty-one cents to this
: name. An older brother had died when Jackie
was three; his father had disapped when
Jackie was nine; and now, his mother had
just died. But Gleason had made it to Broad-
way, and that was all that really mattered. He
looked up at the names on the marquees--Bob
Hope, Milton Berle, Henny Youngman--and
knew that he had found his home.
And indeed, he had. Afteronly a few short
years--in which the young comic played
"joints" all over New Jersey and Pennsylvania
(with fellow unknown Frank Sinatra) and
learned that he was funnier drunk than
sober--Jackie Gleason ad-libbed his way to
the legendary Club 18 on 52nd Street in New
York, where, unknowingly, he insulted Hol-
lywood mogul Jack Warner.
The accident landed Jackie a movie con-
tract, and, by the age of twenty-five, he was
playing against Humphrey Bogart, Edward
G. Robinson, and Betty Grable, and drinking
with Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, and Martha
Raye. But it wasn t until he made it onto
television that Gleason was truly in his ele-
ment. An appearance on "The Ed Sullivan
Show" landed him the lead in "The Life of
Riley" and a two-week appearance--which
became two years--on the Du mont network s
"Cavalcade of Stars," in which the world was
introduced to Reggie Van Gleason IlI, The
Poor Soul, and Joe the Bartender. Jackie had
become the undisputed king of American TV,
and in 1952, CBS-TV paid Jackie an unpre-
cedented $11 million for his show. The Great
One moved into high gear,taking over the bar
at Toots Shot s and carrying on with such
cronies as Bing Crosby, Humphrey Bogart,
Frank Sinatra, the Dorsey Brothers,Mickey
Mantle, Billy Martin, and Joe DiMaggio (to
whom he once hit pop flies in Central Park at
midnight).
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How Sweet It Is: The Jackie Gleason Story pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024