Beverly Hillbillies

Actress Donna Douglas, who died of pancreatic cancer at 82 in 2015, was best known as the critter-loving Elly May Clampett on TV’s classic country sitcom The […]

The Beverly Hillbillies was a 1960s sitcom smash, pitting two particularly American stereotypes — the shoeless, aw-shucks hillbilly and the Monopoly Man millionaire — against one […]

On The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962-1971), actress Nancy Kulp (who died of cancer at 69 in 1991), portrayed man-hungry bank secretary Jane Hathaway. On that same series, actor Buddy Ebsen (who […]

Hollywood is often described as a place of fleeting friendships and fragile loyalties, but for the cast of The Beverly Hillbillies, bonds ran deeper than […]

With enthusiastic energy, beloved actor Max Baer, Jr. portrayed Jethro Bodine, the monumental TV character on the classic TV country-comedy, The Beverly Hillbillies. In the series, which originally aired […]

When TV series creator Paul Henning was driving cross-country in 1959, he stopped to see Abraham Lincoln’s log cabin, and the visit sparked an idea that would […]

The Beverly Hillbillies was a hilarious show when it aired, and the funniest episodes still hold up even half a century later. Before The Beverly Hillbillies premiered in […]

On The Beverly Hillbillies, star Irene Ryan played the beloved “Granny,” mother-in-law of series lead “Jed Clampett.” But, sadly, the actress’s life came to a tragic […]

It’s been twenty-two years since the tragic death of beloved actor Buddy Ebsen, best known for TV’s The Beverly Hillbillies (CBS, 1962-1971) and Barnaby Jones (CBS, 1972-1980). A former big-screen actor/dancer, […]