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We LOVE Trixie/Joyce Randolph (as much as Jackie, Art and Audrey)!

posted 10 years ago by shominy-491-652355
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We cannot understand people's unflattering-to-cruel, unjustified remarks regarding Ed's wife, Trixie (real name "Thelma"), played perfectly by the amazingly talented and beautiful Joyce Randolph. What IMDb members have to realize is that Joyce Randolph was NOT the director/writer: If you don't like her acting/line delivery, blame it on the director. If you don't like her lines as Trixie, blame it on the writers. She said her lines and presented her character to the TV audience EXACTLY as she was directed. We have seen every episode of The Classic 39 -and- all the Lost Episodes many times and many of our very favorite scenes involve Trixie. People do not realize (or remember) how funny she was and how hilarious some of her lines were (we quote her lines a lot in every day life). When Trixie isn't in an episode, we miss her greatly! We think she is just as important to the sit-com as Alice/Audrey Meadows was. Sewer worker Ed Norton was so lucky to have such a gorgeous, glamorous wife! Jackie Gleason was a genius comic actor, "The Great One", an underrated dramatic actor, The Boss (as the actors/staff called him), and he always claimed his success was due to the fact that he surrounded himself with "the best" actors and writers. "The Honeymooners" will always be one of the very, very top funniest sit-coms of all time, thanks to the writers, director, and Fab Four cast: Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph.

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[–] memayse1701 9 years ago

She wasn't great...the character or actress. It's a shame. I never understood why she called Ed "NORTON" at times.

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[–] gbennett5 9 years ago

I agree with the OP - the attacks on Joyce Randolph are very odd. She
portrayed Trixie in a very natural, neighbor-next-door fashion, and,
while the focus was on the other three, she lent terrific support. I
loved her rolling eyes and looks of "Oh, brother" whenever Ed would
jabber nonsense (which was often).

I think Randolph's shining moment is in the kitchen scene of "Hello Mom."
She's wonderful here.

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[–] shominy-491-652355 9 years ago

At work, my Dad was always called by his last name (and on his bowling team) and I never understood that. What's even weirder is that my sister-in-law calls my brother by his last name! (She just started that a few years ago and they've been married over 30 years!) Very weird! P.S. As much as we LOVE Jackie & Art, we just can't "get into" the shows with the new wives. Audrey and Joyce were just PERFECT.

[–] ramsplp 9 years ago

and she had little acting experience.

That's not my impression. I once read Joyce Randolph was featured in many detective shows, and was called, "The most murdered girl in television". She then hit it big as Trixie, and I thought she was fine in that role.

[–] CaptainLouisRenault 9 years ago

"We LOVE Trixie/Joyce Randolph (as much as Jackie, Art and Audrey)!

Well, it's a dirty job but someone's got to do it!

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What kind of a man is Captain Renault?
Oh, he's just like any other man, only more so.

[–] rainbowfever64 9 years ago

Who doesn't like here? She was good in the part she had.

[–] einsteinfile 8 years ago

She was great in the show!

[–] yellowrose21 8 years ago

I think she was good as Trixie, and seems like a nice lady. However, I do not see the role of Trixie as being as important as Alice, I think Joyce would agree. I also do not see her as being on the same level of an actor as Art, Audrey, and Jackie. And she did little acting after, partly because it was difficult for her because she was typecast and because she was a wife and mother and wanted to stay home. The other three went on to do a pretty substantial amount of work, Jackie and Audrey worked until shortly before they passed. But I do enjoy her as Trixie and I don't see why so many are critical of her but to each their own.

[–] lonnieanixt 8 years ago

She was fine, but she was definitely the Ringo Starr of that fab four. One thing about her character is that she really is the only one who stands up to Ralph, in fact she doesn't seem to care for Ralph at all and for good reason she can't understand why her friend Alice has to live in such a pig-sty.
This comes out more in the lost episodes, where the two really go at it. Ralph is always making fun of her for being in Burlesque.
Ralph:" Are you still sore at me for saying you were in Burlesque?"
Trixie:" No, i take it from what comes the source."

In another episode
Trixie: "This has nothing to do with you Alice because i know none of this is you're fault, Ed are you going to let this fat tub boss you around."