Jackie Gleasons iconic circular mansion in Westchester County on the market for $12M

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• See Inside Jackie Gleason's Amazing 'UFO House'
• Jackie Gleason’s iconic circular mansion on the market for $12M
• Unexpected Gems – Liza Minnelli Use Me
• Phoebe Bridgers shares ‘heartbreak’ advice amid Paul Mescal split rumors
• Jackie Gleason’s Mothership in Cortlandt Manor On the Market, $12M
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It took Gleason two years to design the house, which was completed in 1959. In 1959, Jackie discussed the possibility of bringing back The Honeymooners in new episodes. His dream was partially realized with a Kramden-Norton sketch on a CBS variety show in late 1960 and two more sketches on his new hour-long CBS show The American Scene Magazine in 1962. Gleason enjoyed a prominent secondary music career during the 1950s and 1960s, producing a series of best-selling "mood music" albums. His first album, Music for Lovers Only, still holds the record for the longest stay on the Billboard Top Ten Charts , and his first 10 albums sold over a million copies each.

For many years, Gleason would travel only by train; his fear of flying arose from an incident in his early movie career. Gleason would fly back and forth to Los Angeles for relatively minor movie work. After finishing one movie, the comedian boarded a plane for New York.

See Inside Jackie Gleason's Amazing 'UFO House'

Look up and the wooden ceiling recalls the shape of canoes or rowboats, which is no surprise since the builder was a Swedish ship maker. “They built these in a shipyard hanger, and the design is like a signature,” Payson said. The hillside estate was built not only to be the celebrity’s suburban playground — though it certainly was that — but an architectural wonder.

Gleason's big break occurred in 1949, when he landed the role of blunt but softhearted aircraft worker Chester A. Riley for the first television version of the radio comedy The Life of Riley. (William Bendix had originated the role on radio but was initially unable to accept the television role because of film commitments.) Despite positive reviews, the show received modest ratings and was cancelled after one year. The Life of Riley became a television hit for Bendix during the mid-to-late 1950s.But long before this, Gleason's nightclub act had received attention from New York City's inner circle and the fledgling DuMont Television Network. He was working at Slapsy Maxie's when he was hired to host DuMont's Cavalcade of Stars variety hour in 1950, having been recommended by comedy writer Harry Crane, whom he knew from his days as a stand-up comedian in New York. The program initially had rotating hosts; Gleason was first offered two weeks at $750 per week. When he responded it was not worth the train trip to New York, the offer was extended to four weeks.

Jackie Gleason’s iconic circular mansion on the market for $12M

The statue was briefly shown in the film World Trade Center . In 1978, he suffered chest pains while touring in the lead role of Larry Gelbart's play Sly Fox; this forced him to leave the show in Chicago and go to the hospital. He was treated and released, but after suffering another bout the following week, he returned and underwent triple-bypass surgery. Halford wanted a quiet home life but Gleason fell back into spending his nights out.

Of course, it is quite a decision to make when you're 61 years old. How do you know if you're physically able to stand up under it? And with all the work I have coming up, if anything had happened, God forbid, it would have been a disaster. But the main thing was to get the best possible doctor to do the job, and I did. Prone to excess with wine, women, song and work, a lifestyle that often led to exhaustion.

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Recorded a number of albums featuring instrumental "mood music" (what is now known today as "lounge music"). Gleason served as producer, bandleader and vibraphone player, despite the fact that he couldn't read sheet music. Several of the albums included original compositions by Gleason. One album, "Lonesome Echo", topped the charts in 1955, and featured a cover with original art by Salvador Dalí.

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. So I'm figuring that if Gable needs that kinda help, then a guy in Canarsie has gotta be dyin' for something like this. In the 1930s, before he ever really made it even in small-time venues, he was a bartender at a bar in Newark, NJ, called the Blue Mirror. This was also a time when he actually lived and slept in the back room with the empty bottles, etc. Naturally, of course, it was across the street from a pool hall that he patronized in the afternoons after he was finished cleaning up the Blue Mirror.

Celentano opted to keep the house much the same as Gleason did when he lived there, Lakhlani said. The 6,000-square-foot lakefront home at 3425 Willow Wood Road, affectionately referred to as "Glea Manor," was built by Gleason in 1971 after he moved from "the sun and fun capital of the world" in Miami Beach. LAUDERHILL, Fla. – The Lauderhill estate once owned by the late great comedian Jackie Gleason is back on the market at the asking price of $299,000. This the first time Gleason’s home has been on the MLS, though it has changed hands several times.

In 1985, three decades after the "Classic 39" began filming, Gleason revealed he had carefully preserved kinescopes of his live 1950s programs in a vault for future use . These "lost episodes" were initially previewed at the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City, aired on the Showtime cable network in 1985, and later were added to the Honeymooners syndication package. Some of them include earlier versions of plot lines later used in the 'classic 39' episodes. One had all Gleason's best-known characters featured in and outside of the Kramden apartment. The storyline involved a wild Christmas party hosted by Reginald Van Gleason up the block from the Kramdens' building at Joe the Bartender's place.

Even if the buildings never left the ground, Gleason and his guests—who included Marilyn Monroe and Ol’ Blue Eyes himself—surely did. Gleason delivered a critically acclaimed performance as an infirm, acerbic, and somewhat Archie Bunker-like character in the Tom Hanks comedy-drama Nothing in Common . During production, it was determined that he was suffering from terminal colon cancer, which had metastasized to his liver. "I won't be around much longer", he told his daughter at dinner one evening after a day of filming. Gleason kept his medical problems private, although there were rumors that he was seriously ill. A year later, on June 24, 1987, Gleason died at age 71 in his Florida home.

All other marks contained herein are the property of their respective owners. Jackie's older brother and only sibling, Clement Gleason, died at the age of 14, when Jackie was three years old. Prior to his first film, Navy Blues ,Gleason was an uncredited extra in Zeit der Liebe, Zeit des Abschieds with no dialog.