Jane Kean

 Jane Kean (April 10, 1923 – November 26, 2013)

Her career in show business spanned seven decades and included appearing in nightclubs, on recordings, and in radio, television, Broadway and films. Among her most famous roles were as Trixie Norton on The Jackie Gleason Show, and as the voice of Belle in the perennial favorite Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol. She appeared in starring roles on Broadway in the 1950s in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, in which she succeeded Jayne Mansfield. Other credits include Fats Waller's 1943 Broadway musical Early to Bed, Call Me Mister (in which she succeeded Betty Garrett), The Pajama Game, and Carnival! (succeeding Kaye Ballard). She also had a featured role in Take Me Along, which starred Jackie Gleason. 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 to 1970. Other credits included appearances on The Phil Silvers Show, Make Room for Daddy, The Lucy Show, Love, American Style, The Love Boat, The Facts of Life and Dallas. She was profiled in the 2011 documentary Troupers, which aired on PBS. Her last film, Abner, The Invisible Dog, in which she played "Aunt Ida", was completed in 2013. Kean died on November 26, 2013, at age 90, at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California of complications from a fall.