{"id":77,"date":"2014-10-05T07:13:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T12:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/?p=77"},"modified":"2014-10-05T07:20:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T12:20:10","slug":"elaine-stritch-in-the-honeymooners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/2014\/10\/05\/elaine-stritch-in-the-honeymooners\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaine Stritch in <em>The Honeymooners<\/em>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned that Elaine Stritch, who died in 2014, was in the original sketch for\u00a0<em>The Honeymooners<\/em> that appeared on\u00a0DuMont network&#8217;s <em>Cavalcade of Stars<\/em>, in 1951. That led me to a fruitless search for images of her in that sketch. But I did find a color photo of the program (with a camera poking into the frame on the left&#8211;see below) that I hadn&#8217;t seen before and a\u00a0<em>Life<\/em> magazine, high-angle shot of the set that shows the boom microphone and a bit of the lights.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 1130px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2011\/10\/04\/honeymooners_color_-maltin-_1_wide-57e39c6d5a7012ec0f3223393793699ace1ecd77-s40-c85.jpg\" alt=\"The Honeymooners... IN COLOR!\" width=\"1120\" height=\"628\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Honeymooners<\/em>&#8230; IN COLOR! From\u00a0left: Art Carney, Joyce Randolph, Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_78\" style=\"width: 1290px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/honeymooners_set_mic_lights.jpg\" rel=\"prettyPhoto[77]\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78\" src=\"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/honeymooners_set_mic_lights.jpg\" alt=\"The Honeymooners's set.\" width=\"1280\" height=\"895\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/honeymooners_set_mic_lights.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/honeymooners_set_mic_lights-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/honeymooners_set_mic_lights-1024x716.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-78\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The Honeymooners,\u00a0<\/em>on the set&#8211;showing the boom mike and a bit of the lights.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently learned that Elaine Stritch, who died in 2014, was in the original sketch for\u00a0The Honeymooners that appeared on\u00a0DuMont network&#8217;s Cavalcade of Stars, in 1951. That led me to a fruitless search for images of her in that sketch.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/2014\/10\/05\/elaine-stritch-in-the-honeymooners\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actors","category-production","category-sitcoms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tvcrit.com\/sitcom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}