I had mentioned that Jane Kean appeared as Trixie Norton in 1977's "The Honeymooners Christmas Carol."
She does a good job, but in typical Trixie fashion, she doesn't really get a lot to do. She does do a wacky kid voice as Bob Cratchit's daughter, though!
Jane was a versatile performer, having honed her performing skills as one-half of popular nightclub act with her sister Betty in the 1940s and 1950s.
She had an excellent singing voice, which was shown to advantage in her more famous "A Christmas Carol"-related role: that of Belle in 1962's "Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol!"
She does a great job with the song "Winter Was Warm" in the Christmas Past sequence.
For fun, here's the extended version of the song before it was trimmed for time:
Pretty cool!
Intriguingly, as I had mentioned way back when, Jane's sister Betty had been married to "Mister Magoo" himself, Jim Backus, years before this special.
That's show biz!
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