Amazingly, The Honeymooners, one of the most enduring and beloved classics of TV’s golden era, won just a single Emmy during its run in the mid-1950s. Not at all amazingly, it went to Art Carney. Seventy years ago, the gangly, loose-limbed comedian arrived at the Grand Ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria in New York (the Emmys were a bicoastal telecast then) — not in a rumpled vest and white T-shirt but a tuxedo — and accepted a trophy for best actor in a supporting role. Perhaps his speech began with something like, “Helloooo, Ralphie boy!” Of course, Jackie Gleason was indisputably the star of the show. As his character Ralph Kramden so…
