JOYCE RANDOLPH - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 01/15/1995 - HFSID 325017

JOYCE RANDOLPH
Randolph responds to a fan's previous letter regarding a benefit for a young girl, saying that she is unable to attend due to her husband's sickness, and instead sends a check to contribute (item not included). Signed and dated 1995
Autograph letter signed: "Joyce Randolph", in black ink, 5½x8½. January 15, 1995. In full: "Dear Shawn, Thank you for your letter, received recently, regarding the Benefit for Kerie David + her family. I'm very sorry that we can't contribute, but my husband isn't too well anymore + we don't travel. I'm sending a $50.00 check to Dick Davis in the same mail [item not included]. Good luck with evetrything! Sincerely". Post script: "Please excuse my uphill scrawl!". Joyce Randolph (1925-2024) is best known for her role as Trixie Norton on one of television's earliest - and most successful -- situation comedies, The Honeymooners (1953-1957). She was paid $250 per week when the series started. The Honeymooners also starred Jackie Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden, Audrey Meadows as his wife, Alice, and Art Carney as Trixie's husband, sewer worker Ed Norton, who won three Emmys for his role as the Kramden's friend and neighbor. With Carney's death in 2003, Randolph is the only surviving member of the cast. A former chorus girl and featured performer in Broadway musicals, Randolph had once been cast with Audrey Meadows in a summer stock production of No, No, Nanette, long before The Honeymooners. Normal mailing folds. Light surface creases. Corners slightly worn. Fine condition.