Joyce Randolph, star of iconic ‘Honeymooners’ series, dead at 99
nypost.comtold TMZ. According to the outlet, the last surviving member of the hit television show had been in hospice care at the time of her death and was unable to walk.
The Michigan native, who was born in 1924, got her acting start when she moved to New York City in 1950 to star in a Broadway show called “Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath” before moving into TV.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Randolph was initially tapped to star in the iconic television show after Jackie Gleason, who played Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden on the show, saw her doing a commercial for chewing gum and asked her to be a part of his variety show “Cavalcade of Stars.” Randolph would later star in the show’s spinoff series “The Honeymooners” as Trixie Norton which only ran for 39 episodes before being canceled.
The show also starred Art Carney as sewer worker Ed Norton and Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden. “We just played ourselves,” Randolph once told The New York Times regarding the show in 2012. ” Nobody told us to characterize in any way.
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