Few TV themes are as recognizable as the banjo-driven ballad that opens The Beverly Hillbillies. But behind that iconic melody lies a surprising fact: the […]
It’s been nearly 40 years since actress Harriet MacGibbon died on February 8, 1987, from a heart attack. Her most famous role was that of Margaret Drysdale, […]
He’s the son of a boxing champion. As the last surviving cast member of The Beverly Hillbillies, Max Baer Jr. — better known as Jethro Bodine — […]
For Donna Douglas, it sounds as though art really did reflect life in a way. The actress died Thursday at the age of 81 at her home in […]
In The Beverly Hillbillies, Elly May Clampett was famous for her love of “critters”—animals of every kind. But the show’s animal stars were no mere […]
Slapstick comedy has long been a staple of television, but on The Beverly Hillbillies, one of its funniest running gags had a surprising element of […]
Before Buddy Ebsen stepped into the role of Jed Clampett, the producers of The Beverly Hillbillies envisioned the patriarch as a broad caricature—a simpleminded hillbilly ripe for […]
When The Beverly Hillbillies rolled onto television screens in the early 1960s, mainstream fashion for women was often rigid: dresses, skirts, gloves, pearls—usual television fare. Elly May […]
When The Beverly Hillbillies was in the works, the character of Jed Clampett was nearly written as a comic buffoon—uneducated, clueless, incapable of understanding much beyond the […]
When The Beverly Hillbillies premiered in 1962, audiences were instantly charmed by the Clampetts—a backwoods family that suddenly struck oil and moved into a Beverly Hills mansion. […]
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