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.