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Harry Crane
Harry Crane (April 23, 1914 - September 13, 1999) was an American comedy writer who helped to create the ''The Honeymooners'' concept and signature characters.〔(New York Times: "Harry Crane, 85, Who Helped Create 'The Honeymooners'" by Nick Ravo ) Monday September 20, 1999〕〔(Variety: "Harry Crane" by Doug Galloway ) September 16, 1999〕
==Biography==
Crane was born Harry Kravitsky〔(Harry Kravitsky Online Archive of California: "Finding Aid for the Harry Crane Papers, ca. 1915-late 1990s (bulk 1940s-1980s)" ) retrieved October 4, 2015 | "''Harry Kravitsky (later changed to Crane) was born in 1914 in Brooklyn, New York''"〕 to a Jewish family on April 23, 1914, in Brooklyn, New York.〔 He worked as a stand up comedian〔 in the Borscht Belt while a teenager.〔 In 1943, he was hired as a writer by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer〔 and wrote several screenplays including ''Air Raid Wardens'' (1943) starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy,〔 ''Lost in a Harem'' (1944) starring Lou Costello and Bud Abbot;〔 ''The Harvey Girls'' (1946) starring Judy Garland and Angela Lansbury;〔 the ''Ziegfeld Follies'' (uncredited) (1946) with Fred Astaire, Lucille Ball, and Fanny Brice;〔(UCLA Newsroom: "UCLA Library Acquires Papers of Television Pioneer Harry Crane" by Teri Bond Michael ) November 18, 2004〕 the ''Song of the Thin Man'' (1947) starring Myrna Loy and William Powell.〔 He also wrote additional dialogue for ''Two Sisters from Boston'' (1946)〔 and ''Take Me Out to the Ball Game'' (uncredited).〔
In the 1950s, he began working in television with the DuMont Television Network. Crane successfully recommended Jackie Gleason - whom he knew from his time as a comedian in New York - to DuMont as host for their show the ''Cavalcade of Stars''.〔 In 1951, while working with Joe Bigelow on ''Cavalcade of Stars'', Gleason asked them to produce a sketch of him as a working class Brooklyn guy with a nagging wife. The two created the characters Ralph and Alice Kramden which became a recurring act in Gleason's show;〔 eventually morphing into its own show entitled the ''The Honeymooners'' on CBS which ran from 1955 to 1956.〔 Crane wrote comedic scripts and jokes for many comedians including Jimmy Durante, Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers, Milton Berle, and Jerry Lewis. He also wrote jokes for singers including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Alan King, Dean Martin,〔 Eddie Fisher, Red Skelton, Liberace, and Henry Youngman.〔
Crane wrote for the Academy Awards in 1957 and 1959; the Golden Globes in 1968; and the Emmy Awards in 1968, 1971, 1973 and 1974.〔 In 1965, he resuscitated the ''Dean Martin Show'' which had been suffering from poor ratings and added the concept of the ''celebrity roast'';〔(Split Sider News: "The Head Writer at the End of an Era" BY Michael Barrie ) May 28, 2015〕 he was nominated for an Emmy during the 1966-67 for his efforts.〔
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