From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   A Friend wrote:   
   >Adam H. Kerman  wrote:   
      
   >>The original Alice was Pert Kelton. She performed the role in nine skits   
   >>between 1951 and 1952. She also played Mrs. Paroo in The Music Man,   
   >>both on Broadway and in the 1962 movie adaptation. Sadly, she had heart   
   >>problems and died in 1968.   
      
   >Pert Kelton was caught up in the blacklist because her husband, Ralph   
   >Bell, had been listed in a publication called Red Channels, which   
   >purported to expose communists working in the entertainment industry.   
   >Gleason was forced by CBS to fire Kelton, but he later recast her as   
   >Alice's mother in one of the Honeymooners sketches on his 1960s variety   
   >show.  When he brought out the cast at the end of that show, he told a   
   >little bit of her story.   
      
   Huh. I never read that she was affected by the Blacklist in any of my tv   
   reference books. I assumed she returned to Broadway.   
      
   Thanks   
      
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