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| Born | April 10, 1924 Hartford, Connecticut, U.S. |
Jane Kean (born April 10, 1924, Hartford, Connecticut) is an American actress.
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Jane Kean and her older sister, Betty (December 15, 1914 — September 29, 1986), 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.
She 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.[1]
Television audiences remember Kean for her role of Trixie Norton in a series of hour-long Honeymooners episodes—in color and with music—on The Jackie Gleason Show from 1966–70. She succeeded Joyce Randolph, who had played the role in earlier sketches and on the 1955–56 sitcom The Honeymooners.
Other 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. She also voiced the character Belle in the 1962 television special Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol.
Her memoir is entitled A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The Honeymooners . . . I Had a Life.