I love Pert Kelton, and thank God we have her performance as Mrs. Paroo in THE MUSIC MAN forever and ever. She was blacklisted due to her husband's politics in the early 50's and DuMont wanted her dropped from Gleason's "Cavalcade of Stars." Gleason refused to let her go and kept her on the...
I can distinctly remember in the great old days of the Merv Griffin/Mike Douglas 1970's talk shows, a guest shot on Merv with Audrey Meadows. She told a great story about the production of these shows. When Jackie Gleason, in character as Ralph Kramden, would angrily, and with an exasperated...