Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 100. Chapters: Burlesque performers, Milton Berle, Barbara Stanwyck, Abbott and Costello, Jackie Gleason, Jimmy Durante, Bob Hope, Bettie Page, Lili St. Cyr, Blaze Starr, Mae West, Harry Steppe, Josephine Baker, Red Skelton, American burlesque, La Soiree, Candy Barr, Lydia Thompson, Fanny Brice, Phil Silvers, Tura Satana, Gypsy Rose Lee, Bert Lahr, Minsky's Burlesque, Neo-Burlesque, Kitten Natividad, Satan's Angel, Cecilia Loftus, Sally Rand, Star Theater, Molly Picon, Little Egypt, Evelyn West, Dorothy Sherwood, Burlesque Hall of Fame, Roger Imhof, Pinky Lee, Mara Gaye, Tempest Storm, Ann Corio, Mat Fraser, Leon Errol, Robert Alda, Desmond O'Connor, Miss Exotic World Pageant, Margaret Hart Ferraro, Jennie Worrell, Hinda Wassau, Joan Warner, Noel Toy, Liz Renay, King of Burlesque, Jean Mode, Shirley Jean Rickert, Windy City Burlesque Festival, Pillow, Sherry Britton, Millie DeLeon, Pauline Markham, Stephanie Blake, Bambi Jones, Henry E. Dixey, Louise Henderson, Lola LeBelle. Excerpt: Jackie Gleason (February 26, 1916 - June 24, 1987) was an American comedian, actor and musician. He was known for his brash visual and verbal comedy style, especially by his character Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners, a situation-comedy television series. His most noted film roles were as Minnesota Fats in the drama film The Hustler (1961) starring Paul Newman, and as Buford T. Justice in the Smokey and the Bandit movie series. Gleason was born at 364 Chauncey Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York. He grew up nearby at 328 Chauncey Street, an address that he later used as the address for Ralph and Alice Kramden on his show The Honeymooners. Originally named Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr., he was baptized as John Herbert Gleason. His parents, both from Faranree, County Cork, Ireland, were Mae (Maisie) (nee) Murphy, a subway change-booth atten...