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• “Five months later we got married.” Randolph was the last surviving member of the show’s core four cast members: Gleason died in 1987, Meadows in 1996, and Carney in 2003..
• Likewise, she was all but bereft when a disappointed Ed was called into work for a sewer emergency on the night of the Racoon Lodge’s costume party (the “Racoons” spelled their name with only one “c”)..
• Randolph’s association with The Honeymooners left her forever identified as Trixie Norton and she all but gave up acting after the series ended, declining to participate in a revival of the sketch on The Jackie Gleason Show in 1966 (Meadows passed too)..
• Credit that to Randolph’s ability to play sympathetic so effortlessly, a trait Gleason no doubt noticed when he cast her to appear on his Cavalcade of Stars, the series that birthed The Honeymooners as a sketch in 1951..
• On Oct. 2, 1955 — the day after the series premiered on CBS — Randolph married Dick Charles, who was introduced to the actress by The Honeymooners’ costume designer at the cast’s favorite bar..
• While Alice gave as good as she got from Gleason’s blustering, threatening Ralph, Trixie often just rolled her eyes at Ed’s well-intentioned foibles — like when he purchased her an orange-juice squeezer in the shape of Napoleon as a Christmas gift..