Authors: Robert Pegg
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-10-05 - Publisher: McFarland
Although some scholars credit Shakespeare with creating in Henry IV’s Falstaff the first “second banana” character (reviving him for Henry IV Part Two), most television historians agree that the popular co-star was born in 1955 when Art Carney, as Ed Norton, first addressed Jackie Gleason with a “Hey, Ralphie-boy,” on