Detroit-born Joyce Sirola was the daughter of Mary and Carl Sirola, the former a first-generation Finnish American, and the latter a Finnish immigrant who worked as a meat cutter. She became an actress and performed on Broadway and landed various television roles.
Her role in a Clorets commercial brought her to the attention of Jackie Gleason who cast her as Trixie Norton in The Honeymooners. Several New York columnists referred to her as the “Garbo of Detroit.” “That’s still a mystery … I was a nobody in Detroit. Why Garbo? Well, she was Scandinavian — and so was I”, responded Randolph.
After The Honeymooners, she had difficulty landing parts. “For years after that role,” Randolph said, “directors would say: ‘No, we can’t use her. She’s too well known as Trixie.”
She was the last surviving member of The Honeymooners cast. She died on January 13, 2024 at age 99. She was the grandaunt of former Major League Baseball pitcher Tim Redding.
Her first census is the 1930 census of Detroit.
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- Onthisday.com
- Picryl.com
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