Joyce Randolph, the last surviving member of the famous four stars of The Honeymooners, died Saturday night at 99.
著名的“蜜月四星”中最后一位健在的成員喬伊斯·倫道夫于周六晚去世,享年99歲。
Her son, Randolph Charles, confirmed her death to the Associated Press, saying that she died of natural causes in her Manhattan apartment.
她的兒子倫道夫·查爾斯向美聯(lián)社證實(shí)了她的死訊,稱她在曼哈頓的公寓里自然死亡。
The actress is best remembered for playing housewife Trixie Norton across 39 episodes of the classic TV sitcom. She starred alongside Audrey Meadows, Art Carney, and series creator Jackie Gleason. The show was canceled after its original run, but it gained acclaim in syndication, when it was heralded for its style of comedy and portrayal of marriage. Over the years, it has been revived in several forms.
這位女演員最令人印象深刻的角色是在這部經(jīng)典情景喜劇中扮演了39集的家庭主婦特里西·諾頓。她與奧黛麗·梅多斯、阿特·卡尼和該劇制作人杰基·格里森共同出演。該劇在最初播出后被取消,但由于其喜劇風(fēng)格和對(duì)婚姻的刻畫,它在辛迪加獲得了好評(píng)。多年來,它以幾種形式復(fù)活了。
Born Joyce Sirola on Oct. 21, 1924, Randolph began her career in theater and television, first joining a touring production of Stage Door before moving to New York to pursue acting. She enjoyed a Broadway stint in the 1950 comedy Ladies Night in a Turkish Bath and later appeared in shows including Rocky King Detective and Buck Rogers before landing her iconic role as Trixie.
蘭多夫出生于1924年10月21日,原名喬伊斯·西羅拉,她的職業(yè)生涯始于戲劇和電視,在搬到紐約追求表演之前,她首先參加了《舞臺(tái)之門》的巡回演出。1950年,她在百老匯出演了喜劇《土耳其浴中的女士之夜》,后來又出演了《洛基國(guó)王偵探》和《巴克羅杰斯》等電視劇,后來她出演了標(biāo)志性角色特里茜。
The Honeymooners began as a series of short sketches on the variety show Cavalcade of Stars before later featuring regularly on CBS’ The Jackie Gleason Show. Randolph was not the first actress to play Trixie during this early period — Elaine Stritch originated a version of her when the shorts began — but from 1952 to 1957, Randolph became synonymous with the beloved character in the sketches and, eventually, on the sitcom itself.
《蜜月》最初是在綜藝節(jié)目《明星陣容》上播出的一系列小品,后來在CBS的《杰基·格里森秀》上定期播出。蘭多夫并不是第一個(gè)扮演特里克西的女演員——在這部短劇開始的時(shí)候,伊萊恩·斯特里奇創(chuàng)作了一個(gè)特里克西的版本——但從1952年到1957年,蘭多夫成為了小品中這個(gè)受人喜愛的角色的代名詞,最終,在這部情景喜劇中也出現(xiàn)了這個(gè)角色。
Gleason spotted Randolph doing a commercial for Clorets in 1951 and flagged her for the part.
1951年,格里森發(fā)現(xiàn)蘭多夫在為克洛雷茨做廣告,并邀請(qǐng)她出演這個(gè)角色。
“I had done a breath mint commercial and got a call that Jackie wanted 'that serious actor' to audition for a skit called The Honeymooners and to play the sewer worker’s wife,” recalled Randolph in a 2015 interview with Daily Press. “It didn’t pay much and my character was less developed than the other three, but I was happy to have a job.”
“我做了一個(gè)薄荷糖的廣告,接到一個(gè)電話,說杰奎琳想讓‘那個(gè)嚴(yán)肅的演員’去試鏡一部名為《蜜月》的小品,扮演一個(gè)下水道工人的妻子,”倫道夫在2015年接受《每日新聞》采訪時(shí)回憶道。“薪水不高,我的性格也不如其他三個(gè)人發(fā)達(dá),但我很高興有一份工作。”
Randolph’s character was married to Carney’s Ed Norton and together they were the neighbors of Ralph (Gleason) and Alice Kramden (Meadows), who were all searching for happiness in their tiny Brooklyn apartments. The chemistry between the four leads had clear sitcom potential, and the sketches ultimately expanded into a half-hour series, which debuted in 1955.
倫道夫飾演的角色嫁給了卡尼飾演的埃德·諾頓,他們是拉爾夫(格里森飾)和愛麗絲·克拉姆登(梅多斯飾)的鄰居,他們都在布魯克林的小公寓里尋找幸福。四位主角之間的化學(xué)反應(yīng)具有明顯的情景喜劇潛力,這些小品最終擴(kuò)展成一個(gè)半小時(shí)的劇集,于1955年首播。
In the same interview, Randolph said she was “amazed by the show’s longevity.” Though the single-season sitcom originally aired in the mid ‘50s, fans who recognized her from it still regularly approached her.
在同一次采訪中,蘭多夫說她“對(duì)這部劇的長(zhǎng)壽感到驚訝”。雖然這部單季情景喜劇最初在50年代中期播出,但從劇中認(rèn)出她的粉絲仍然經(jīng)常找到她。
“Strangers still come up and want to hug and kiss me and tell me how much they love the show,” she said. “You learn to accept it, but it’s fun and people are nice. The show continues to influence my life.”
她說:“仍然有陌生人走過來擁抱我,親吻我,告訴我他們有多喜歡這部劇。”“你學(xué)會(huì)接受它,但它很有趣,人們也很好。這部劇一直影響著我的生活。”
Though The Honeymooners existed in various new forms for years, Randolph never returned to play Trixie for Gleason. She eventually reprised the character in 1991 on another sitcom, ABC’s Hi Honey, I’m Home, which also brought back Meadows as Alice.
盡管《蜜月夫婦》以各種新形式存在了多年,但倫道夫再也沒有回來扮演格里森的特里克西。她最終在1991年的另一部情景喜劇《嗨,親愛的,我回家了》中再次出演了這個(gè)角色,這也是梅多斯飾演的愛麗絲。
Gleason was the first of the Honeymooners quartet to die, in 1987. Meadows died in 1996, after a battle with lung cancer, followed by Carney in 2003.
1987年,格里森是“蜜月四重奏”中第一個(gè)去世的人。1996年,梅多斯在與肺癌作斗爭(zhēng)后去世,卡尼也于2003年去世。
Randolph is survived by her son, Randolph Richard Charles, from her marriage to Richard Lincoln Charles, who died in 1997.
倫道夫留下了她的兒子倫道夫·理查德·查爾斯,這是她與理查德·林肯·查爾斯的婚姻所生,理查德·查爾斯于1997年去世。