Harry Crane was an American comedy writer who helped to create the concept for The Honeymooners and its signature characters.
12 Facts About Harry Crane
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Harry Crane worked as a stand-up comedian in the Borscht Belt while a teenager.
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Harry Crane wrote additional dialogue for Two Sisters from Boston and Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
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Harry Crane wrote comedic scripts and jokes for many comedians including Jimmy Durante, Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers, Milton Berle, and Jerry Lewis.
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Harry Crane wrote jokes for singers including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Alan King, Dean Martin, Eddie Fisher, Red Skelton, Liberace and Henny Youngman.
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Harry 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.
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Harry Crane had two daughters with his first wife, Julia Grandes: Stephanie Crane Hirsh, and Barbara Gilbert Cowan.
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Julia Grandes Harry Crane, born in Connecticut on April 28,1917, died on December 1,2018, in Los Angeles, California, at age 101.
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In 1958, Harry Crane married his second wife, Lillian Reifman to whom he remained married until his death.
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Harry Crane mentored her son from a previous marriage, writer Ed Scharlach.
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Harry Crane is the grandfather of the television actresses Melissa Gilbert and Sara Gilbert and actor Jonathan Gilbert.
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Harry Crane was interred at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery.