PERT KELTON - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 19937
Price: $100.00
PERT KELTON
The original Alice Kramden (dropped from the show when she was blacklisted)
signs an album leaf. A rare signature!
Inscribed Signature: "To/Stanley/From/Pert Kelton", 6x4 album leaf.
Pert Kelton (1907-1968) played supporting comedy roles in films of the
early 1930s (The Bowery, Bed of Roses), specializing in bawdy
roles (cabaret singer, prostitute) which would disappear with the Hayes Code.
She was a frequent radio presence in the 1940s, using 5 different voices
to portray 5 characters on Milton Berle's show. She appeared in 12 Broadway
plays, earning Tony nominations for Greenwillow (1960) and
Spofford (1968), but her best remembered role may have been as the
mother of Marion the Librarian in the stage and film versions of The Music
Man (1957, 1962). In the original version of The Honeymooners, part
of the Cavalcade of Stars, Kelton as Alice Kramden, opposite Jackie
Gleason's Ralph. She was removed from the show and replaced with Audrey Meadows
after her husband, Ralph Bell, was blacklisted. (The stigma carried over to
her.) In 1963 she played Robert Duvall's overbearing mother in the classic
Twilight Zone episode "Minature", and she returned for an episode of The
Honeymooners (1967) as the mother of Alice, now played by Sheila MacRae. Binding
holes at left edge. Lightly creased. Fine condition.
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