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If Lon Chaney will permanently be named 'The Man with 1,000 Faces', Jackie Gleason retains a legitimate state to being 'The Man with 1,000 Personas.' Indeed, during his time hosting The Jackie Gleason Show on tv set, he developed numerous alter egos, including troublesome man Rudy the Repairman, the energetic Joe the Bartender, and the alcoholic Rum Dum. Physically, there was no mistaking Jackie Gleason (the way one certainly could with Lon Chaney), but Gleason also possessed an uncanny ability to alternate between personas. Inside the years before the Rat Pack made the nightclub lifestyle trendy and glamorous over a national scale, Jackie Gleason presided as possibly the foremost nightclub body in the us, and no one excelled at situation comedy as well as he. Paradoxically, the iconic factor of Jackie Gleason's persona was that he was able to maintain so many personas together. In a sense, each one of these character types bears traces of the "real" Jackie Gleason. But the truth remains that the countless personas of Jackie Gleason make it difficult to figure out exactly who Jackie Gleason actually was beneath his show business facades.
