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Carney's film career began with an uncredited role in Pot o' Gold (1941), the radio program's spin-off feature film, playing a member of Heidt's band. Carney, a gifted mimic, worked steadily in radio during the 1940s, playing character roles and impersonating celebrities such as President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill.
Charlie Bratton, a loudmouth who frequently picked on the mild-mannered Clem Finch (portrayed by Art Carney, a future Honeymooners co-star); Stanley R. Sogg , a pitchman who usually appeared on commercials during late-night TV movies, often selling items that came with extras or bonuses (the ultimate inducement was a 10-pound wedge of ...
[8] starring Jackie Gleason and Art Carney. For several years, beginning in the late 1940s, Clifton alternated solo shows with the great pianist, Cy Walter (the Park Avenue Art Tatum) at New York's famed Drake Room. This elegant night spot housed in The Drake Hotel was a nexus at the time for some of the biggest names in the entertainment world.
In television between 1951 and 1955, Art Carney frequently wore one in his characterization of Ed Norton in The Honeymooners, and in Puerto Rico the actor Joaquín Monserrat, known as Pacheco, was the host of many children's 1950s TV shows and was known for his straw pork pie hat and bow tie—in this incarnation, the pork pie returned to its ...
These were three-minute musicals filmed especially for new coin-operated movie jukeboxes, and making their debut in September 1940. Many of the earliest Soundies films are very handsomely mounted, because they used many of the same sets, costumes, musicians, and dancers from Pot o' Gold , then in production.
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Pot o' Gold was radio's first big-money giveaway program, garnering huge ratings within four weeks of its 1939 debut. The program kept so many listeners at home and away from movies that "some theater owners offered $1,000 prizes to anyone who was called while attending the movies."
In 1940 was the release of Laurel and Hardy's Saps at Sea, ... Abbott and Costello, Burns and Allen, Jackie Gleason and Art Carney, Wheeler & Woolsey, ...