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Jackie Gleason
Birthday:
26 February 1916
Birth Name:
Herbert Walton Gleason Jr.
Height:
177 cm
Biography
Always ended his show with the "The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world."
Always ended his show with the "The Miami Beach audience is the greatest audience in the world."
I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.
I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.
[on what inspired him to became a "mood music" legend, via a series of successful albums] Every time I ever watched Clark Gable do a love scene in the movies, I'd hear this really pretty music, real romantic, come up behind him and help set the mood. So I'm figuring that if Gable needs that kinda help, then a guy in Canarsie has gotta be dyin' for something ...
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[on what inspired him to became a "mood music" legend, via a series of successful albums] Every time I ever watched Clark Gable do a love scene in the movies, I'd hear this really pretty music, real romantic, come up behind him and help set the mood. So I'm figuring that if Gable needs that kinda help, then a guy in Canarsie has gotta be dyin' for something like this.
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The worst thing you can do with money is save it.
The worst thing you can do with money is save it.
I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.
I'm no alcoholic. I'm a drunkard. There's a difference. A drunkard doesn't like to go to meetings.
[trademark line] How sweet it is!"
[trademark line] How sweet it is!"
Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.
Drinking removes warts and pimples. Not from me. But from those I look at.
Jackie Gleason
Comedian, actor, composer and conductor, educated in New York public schools. He was a master of ceremonies in amateur shows, a carnival barker, daredevil driver and a disc jockey., and later a comedian in night clubs. By the mid-1950s he had turned to writing original music and recording a series of popular and best-selling albums with his orchestra for Capitol Records. Joining ASCAP in 1953, his instrumental compositions include "Melancholy Serenade", "Glamour", "Lover's Rhapsody", "On the Beach" and "To a Sleeping Beauty", among numerous others.
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