Jackie Gleason relocated his CBS variety show to Miami Beach in 1964. Local officials valued Gleason's Miami Beach presence at $9M in annual publicity. The Miami Beach Auditorium, now The Fillmore, ...
The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater is a 2,200-seat theater in the heart of Miami Beach. It opened in 1951 as the Miami Beach Municipal Auditorium, and for five years, it was the ...
You may know Jackie Gleason just from the name of a Miami Beach theater. He was much more than that. Gleason brought his TV show to the city from New York in the 1960s and he retired to Inverrary in ...