Jane Kean

Jane Kean was an American actress and singer whose show business career lasted seven decades and took in nightclubs, recordings, radio, television, Broadway and film. Born in Hartford, Connecticut, she trained with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse and worked the nightclub circuit in a comedy duo with her older sister, Betty Kean. On Broadway she took over leading roles in Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? and Call Me Mister, appeared in The Pajama Game and Carnival!, and had a featured part in Take Me Along opposite Jackie Gleason, who later cast her as Trixie Norton in the color Honeymooners episodes from 1966 to 1970 on The Jackie Gleason Show. She voiced Belle in the television special Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962), played Miss Taylor in Pete's Dragon (1977), and wrote a 2003 memoir about her Honeymooners years. Her last film, Abner, the Invisible Dog (2013), was completed the year she died.