I remember reading more than once that Bob Keeshan's Clarabelle makeup was created (or at least tweeked) by the well known Barnum & Bailey star, Emmett Kelly. Mark Evanier doesn't mention it and I haven't seen that in several other obits I've gone through, so I wonder if it is one of those 'showbiz myths' that get passed around. As I heard it, Keeshan (working as a go-fer and kid rangler for the Peanut Gallery) had on a clown outfit of some kind, but no makeup. One day Kelly was a guest on Howdy Doody and spying Keeshan was upset that he had no makeup whatsoever, so taking Keeshan aside he 'created' what we came to know as Clarabelle. Anybody know for sure?