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Remembering Jackie Gleason

The Honeymooners, the Jackie Gleason Show, Minnesota Fats in The Hustler … Gleason has left his imprint on a generation.

Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools, Gleason was the consummate performing artist having been a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver, a disc jockey before he made his breakthrough as a nightclub comedian.

By the mid-1950s he had turned to writing original music and recording a series of popular and best-selling albums including “Melancholy Serenade”, “Glamour”, “Lover‘s Rhapsody”, “On the Beach” and “To a Sleeping Beauty.”

Join his fans for a look back on a most remarkable person.











When: Sat., Nov. 10, 2012 at 1:00 pm
Where: Greater Astoria Historical Society
Quinn Building, 35-20 Broadway, 4th Floor
718-278-0700
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The Honeymooners, the Jackie Gleason Show, Minnesota Fats in The Hustler … Gleason has left his imprint on a generation.

Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools, Gleason was the consummate performing artist having been a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver, a disc jockey before he made his breakthrough as a nightclub comedian.

By the mid-1950s he had turned to writing original music and recording a series of popular and best-selling albums including “Melancholy Serenade”, “Glamour”, “Lover‘s Rhapsody”, “On the Beach” and “To a Sleeping Beauty.”

Join his fans for a look back on a most remarkable person.

Buy tickets/get more info now