With the recent death of Joyce Randolph I revisited my own Honeymooner's collection.  I had Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph, Pert Kelton, Sue Ann Langdon, Shelia MacRae and Jane Kean.  I knew I was missing two others.  I had all the Alice's but I need two more Trixies.   Patricia Wilson had played Trixie Norton on a 1962 Jackie Gleason Show Honeymooners skit "The Kramdens get a TV set."  I do not have her but do have Alice as played by Sue Ane Langdon.  I was also missing the lady that played the very first Trixie Norton.   

Jackie Gleason hosted a show on the Dumont network entitled  The Dumont Cavalcade Of Stars.  That show was the birth of the Honeymooners in a skit called "Bread" that aired live on October 5, 1951, with Pert Kelton playing Alice.  There were no Nortons in that show, however Art Carney appeared as a policeman. 

The first time the Nortons appear was in the sketch "The Television,” that aired on November 12, 1951.   Art Carney plays Ed Norton and theater star Elaine Stritch plays Trixie Norton.  She appeared only in that one episode since Elaine's Trixie was a bit too rough around the edges and Gleason decided a softer version was needed.  Her replacement was the wonderful Joyce Randolph.  

Elaine Stritch (1925-2014) was a stage actress throughout her career.  She did television both American and British.  Her film roles included Mavis LaBreche in the Jack Lemon and Walter Matthau movie Out to Sea (1997).  In England she had her own television comedy Two's Company 1975-1979.   This is a page from a lined notebook belonging to Harvey Kuflik.