Posted on 02/18/2014 2:10:08 AM PST by lowbridge
Mary Grace Canfield, a character actress best known as part of the daffy Ralph-and-Alf brother-sister carpenter team on the TV comedy "Green Acres," died Saturday in a Santa Barbara hospice. She was 89.
The cause was lung cancer, her daughter Phoebe Alexiades said.
On "Green Acres," Canfield was Ralph Monroe, who, with her brother Alf, was perennially working on the bedroom of a city slicker couple (Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor) at their newly acquired farm near Hooterville. She was a down-home gal in bib overalls and a white painter's cap worn backward, a funny, plain-spoken woman doing "man's work" before feminism made the term quaint.
The show ran from 1965 to 1971. Looking back at it, Canfield had mixed feelings.
"To be remembered for Ralph kind of upsets me only in the sense that it was so easy and undemanding," she said in a 2006 interview with the Bangor Daily News in Maine, where she lived for many years. "It's being known for something easy to do instead of something you worked hard to achieve."
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A few years ago, I saw a program about "Urban Legends" involving movies and TV shows. There was an urban legend that Arnold was eaten at a farewell barbecue that was held for the cast when the series wrapped. Not true. (Arnold was played by a number of pigs during the series' run.)
They cancelled these shows and others purposely, in what’s known as the rural purge, so they could start putting on propaganda by Norman Lear and others.
It had a huge hand in doing our nation in.
RIP.
That is probably true, but I never noticed the difference, so do you think it would be racist against pigs if I said they all look the same to me?
That is probably true, but I never noticed the difference, so do you think it would be racist against pigs if I said they all look the same to me?
Possibly. Some on the left might accuse you of being swine-ophobic.
LOL, swine-phobic huh? You just coined a new slogan. I like it.
I recognize her face but would never have known her name.
RIP.
I love Hank Kimball. He’s the perfect government bureaucrat.
Imagine how Jim Varney felt. Now that fellow had real talent.
I remember her on a show about monkeys
“Oh...for... the...love...of...” Every time he was frustrated and issued that look or verbal response on this series, it never got old.
After Alice Pearce, the original "Gladys Kravitz" passed away, they needed someone to temporarily fill in until they could find a new actress for the role (which went to Sandra Gould.) Mary Grace Canfield played Abner Kravitz' sister, Harriet Kravitz, who was staying with him while Gladys was "out of town." (Back then, very few sitcom characters died - they always went "out of town.")
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