Joyce Randolph, Trixie on ‘The Honeymooners,’ Dies at 99

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• cheeseburger@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Her character on The Honeymooners was the inspiration for Betty Rubble on The Flintstones.

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• xyzzy@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ninety-nine! Imagine being a main character on a popular TV show (early to late '50s, including The Jackie Gleason Show) just as broadcast television was starting to hit critical mass, then seeing everything that came afterward. Growing up during the Great Depression, grandparents alive with Lincoln during in the Civil War, WW2 in your 20s, commercial jet airliners in your 30s, moon landing and color TVs in your 40s, Internet in your 70s, smart phones in your 80s.

  1924 to today, what a crazy time to be alive. She was the last Honeymooner. See ya, Trixie.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie, the wife of Art Carney’s goofy sewer worker Ed Norton, on the classic sitcom The Honeymooners, has died.

  Randolph, the last surviving member of the famous foursome that also included the stars Jackie Gleason (as Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden) and Audrey Meadows (as Ralph’s level-headed wife, Alice), died Saturday at her home in New York, her son, Randy, told TMZ.

  Gleason spotted Randolph doing a commercial for Clorets and hired her to play Trixie on his DuMont network variety show Cavalcade of Stars, which premiered in 1951 and featured the Kramdens and the Nortons — neighbors in a rundown Bensonhurst apartment building — in a recurring skit.

  Randolph continued on CBS’ The Jackie Gleason Show and then on The Honeymooners when it was spun off in 1955-56 as a half-hour sitcom recorded in front of a live audience.

  She appeared on Broadway in 1950 in the comedy Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath and did some early television for the General Electric Co. before joining Gleason’s troupe.

  She did portray the character on the quirky 1991-92 ABC sitcom Hi Honey, I’m Home, which also brought back Meadows as Alice.

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