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Birthday wishes to a Honeymooner!

October 21, 2014, 3:10PM By MeTV Staff

Though The Honeymooners is currently on hiatus from the MeTV schedule, we couldn’t let this pass by without sending a 90th birthday greeting to Joyce Randolph, the last surviving member of the famous TV foursome.

Born in Detroit in 1924, she moved to New York City in 1943 to pursue her dreams of becoming an actor, finding work on both the Broadway stage and in television. After being spotted by Jackie Gleason in a Clorets commercial (hey, you young actors out there—you never know where those big breaks are going to come from), Joyce was invited to appear on the DuMont network’s popular Cavalcade of Stars program. Impressed by her work, Gleason cast her as Trixie, wife of Art Carney’s Ed Norton.

Joyce Randolph had met Audrey Meadows in the early ‘50s in a most interesting way. Here’s an interview with the star as she discusses how she and Audrey Meadows (Alice Kramden*, of course) became fast friends years before they became co-stars.

Happy Birthday, Joyce Randolph!

*It literally just hit us as we typed the word “Kramden.” It’s supposed to mean “crammed in,” isn’t it? Like they’re crammed in to that tiny apartment. Or perhaps, Ralph, as Alice would occasionally point out, was crammed in to his pants. What do you think? Are we late to the game on this one? We’re not going to Google that one, because we’d be embarrassed to learn how obvious a piece of wordplay it is and was intended to be.

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