Freda Rosen, Actress on a Memorable Episode of 'The Honeymooners,' Dies at 87

hollywoodreporter.com ^ | September 23, 2016 | Mike Barns

[Morgana]

She portrayed Rita Wedemeyer, the glamorous new wife of Ralph's co-worker.

Freda Rosen, who as the blond bombshell Rita Wedemeyer is embarrassingly fawned over by Jackie Gleason and Art Carney on a classic episode of The Honeymooners, has died. She was 87.

A resident of Beverly Hills for more than 50 years, Rosen died Sunday, her family announced.

Her husband was TV writer Arnie Rosen, who won five Emmy Awards for his work on The Phil Silvers Show and The Carol Burnett Show. He died in 1980.

In The Honeymooners episode "Alice and the Blonde," which first aired in June 1956, Ralph (Gleason) and Ed (Carney) bring their wives (Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph) to the apartment of Ralph's co-worker, Bert Wedemeyer (Frank Behrens), for a rare couples' evening out.

[Noob1999]

And, don’t forget Combat with Vic Morrow!

(We were not allowed to have TV in our dorm rooms. So we put casters on a bureau after removing the guts of the drawers, leaving only the drawer face, and placed a TV on a table inside. Roll the “bureau” aside, and we packed them in to watch Combat, Untouchables, Honeymooners. Lots of aluminum foil to get the antenna signal). Great college dorm times!

[Hildy]

I was not a honeymooners fan, frankly, but this was the best episode and it has my favorite line of all time:

I Call you Killer Because you slay me!

[W.]

Oh yes, Combat was a must-see for me as well. 12 O'Clock High was primo stuff, too. H'wood can't make shows like than anymore--probably thanks to the dumbing-down of America. Look to the schools and how they're ran now. So many people can't read/spell/write. Not very well, anyways.

[kiryandil]

I better not do this to you guys...

Oh, heck - I'll do it anyway:

Warning! Do NOT click on the pic if you don't want to end up wasting hours of your life watching a cool old series... :)

[fieldmarshaldj]

RIP.

[CaptainK]

But it’s nothing without the retort

“And I’m callin’ Bellevue, cause you’re nuts!!”

[Hildy]

Of course! I didn't want to give it away. 😄

[CaptainK]

I haven’t seen that episode in at least a decade, but I remembered those lines.