It’s New York City. A “Honeymooners” actress who played Ed Norton’s sarcastic wife Trixie has died. She was 99 years old.
Her son Randolph Charles told The Associated Press on Sunday that Randolph died of natural causes Saturday night at her home on Manhattan’s Upper West Side.
She was the only major character left from the beloved comedy from the 1950s, when TV was at its best.
Based in part on singer Jackie Gleason’s youth, “The Honeymooners” was a warm look at life in a Brooklyn tenement. Ralph Kramden, the blustery bus driver, was played by Gleason. His witty and stubborn wife Alice was played by Audrey Meadows, and Ed Norton, the happy sewer worker, was played by Art Carney. Alice and Trixie often felt sorry for their husbands when they did stupid or bad things, like selling dog food as a popular snack without knowing it, fighting a rent increase without success, or freezing in the winter because their heat was turned off.
After the fact, Randolph would name a few of his favourite scenes, one of which has Ed sleepwalking.
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“Then Carney yells, ‘Thelma!'” “He never knew what her real name was,” she told the Television Academy Foundation later.
The first episode of “The Honeymooners” aired on Gleason’s variety show, “Cavalcade of Stars,” in 1950. It is still one of the most popular comedies of all time. The show became more well-known after Gleason moved networks to host “The Jackie Gleason Show.” After that, it turned into a full-fledged show for one season in 1955–1962.
Those 39 episodes were shown all over the country and the world as part of broadcast shows.
In a January 2007 interview with The New York Times, Randolph said that she didn’t get any residuals for those 39 shows. She said that she started getting income again after “lost” variety show episodes were found.
In a sketch on “Cavalcade of Stars,” Elaine Stritch was the first actor to play Trixie. Her version was much rougher than Randolph’s.
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Randolph told Forbes in the past, “That first Trixie did not at all look like my much more wholesome version of her.” “We moved very quickly when we did ‘The Honeymooners.'” In Manhattan, the script was sent to my flat. A few days later, we went to a live show and did it. Jackie didn’t want to do the practices. It didn’t bother me that he wanted everything to be casual. In the end, I never had that many lines.”
Before she was on “Honeymooners,” Randolph started her career in 1950 in “Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath” on Broadway. She had smaller parts on TV as well.
She made fun of the fact that she often played the young woman who turned out to be the dead body in thrillers. “They used to call her the’most murdered girl’ on TV,” her son told Fox News on Sunday.
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