Jane Kean

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Jane Kean (born April 10, 1924) is an American actress.

Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Kean and her sister Betty formed a comedy duo that worked the nightclub circuit throughout the 1940s and '50s, and the two appeared on Broadway as sisters in the short-lived 1955 musical Ankles Aweigh.

Kean studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Additional theatre credits include Call Me Mister and Carnival!. She had a small part in Take Me Along which starred Jackie Gleason, who would remember her a few years later when casting his weekly hour television program.

Television audiences remember Kean for her role of Trixie Norton in a series of sketches on The Jackie Gleason Show from 1966–70. She replaced Joyce Randolph, who played the role in earlier sketches and on the 1955–56 sitcom The Honeymooners.

Additional credits include The Phil Silvers Show, Make Room for Daddy, The Lucy Show, Love, American Style, The Love Boat, The Facts of Life, and Dallas. Her feature films include Pete's Dragon.

Kean's memoir is entitled A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Honeymooners . . . I Had a Life.