Posted on 01/02/2015 10:47:41 AM PST by BunnySlippers
Donna Douglas -- who famously portrayed Elly May Clampett on the legendary 60s TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies" -- passed away Thursday at her home in Louisiana with friends and family by her side.
Douglas' granddaughter confirmed the death to TMZ.
Donna starred on "The Beverly Hillbillies" for all nine seasons and even returned for the 1981 reunion TV movie.
Twilight zone is all I can stand to watch on regular cable on new years eve if I am home.
You must have been a bit too young to have had a mad crush on Tuesday Weld.
How can we have hundreds of channels and nothing but garbage on top of garbage to watch ? Even the least of the TZ episodes are often head and shoulders above almost anything else these days. Rod Serling was a national treasure.
Don’t forget “Hazel”.
Yes! Hazel ... Shirley Booth! :-)
I read a book on liberal Hollywwod recently
That era of purging TV of rural or faux rural family values programming is called just the The Rural Purge or something about cancelling any show with a tree in it
It wasn’t due to ratings...it was demographics....the rural shows attracted fewer under 30 viewers on the 3 networks
And it was in step ideologically with a further leftward Norman Lear style pool of TV creativity
The country elected Nixon twice
Freddie Silverman went the opposite way and cancelled all the folksy stuff
Even Lassie....
In a few years TV resembled pretty much where it is today
Tawdry
Leftist progressive and not funny
And very very homosexual agit prop.
Moments of greatness on occasion but mostly a reflection of the angry and alienated
But...an ever dumbing down populace take it as gospel
I knew Bob Crane was into that and I think it got him mixed in with low life characters and ended up with Crane being found with his head bashed in. I didn’t know Max Baer did that. Kinda takes the luster off his appeal as “Jethro Bodine’’.
The Rural Purge is famous. All in the Family was great but the rest of the Lear stuff was worse the more political it became. No one cares about Maude anymore. Sanford and Son and The Jeffersons were funny BECAUSE they were not overtly political.
RIP Ellie May
Heard this, forgot to see if there was a FR thread.
RIP.
Ellie May was a hottie.
Sad news... sorry to hear it.
Uh-huh. Yep.
” RIP.
Ellie May was a hottie.”
Yes to both.
"The Clampetts Go Hollywood" (November 20, 1963, the Wednesday night before Kennedy was shot) from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddVRFyuvzKA
Gadzooks, watch this episode to really see how incredibly beautiful and... 
sexy Donna Douglas truely was—
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See what... 
I mean?
Granny’s reaction:
“Hoooly jumpin’ Toad Lizards! It’s Ellie May!”
She truly was a stunning beauty. Boufont hairdo and all...
So 1960’s, and so classy.
She was sexy without being slutty. It’s a nearly forgotten skill.
Gadzooks, NF-- You flat know... 
your Hillbillies!
One of the episodes my late Father loved had this bit of dialogue:
Jethro: [Jed and Jehtro are discussing a "fast" girl back in the hills] Uncle Jed, she handed me a big old sugar cookie, looked at me and said, "Jehtro, if you had a choice between that cookie and me, which one would you take". Uncle Jed, that's when I found out just how fast she was!
[Jed leans in close to hear the rest of the story]
Jethro: I had to run nearly a mile to get away from her with that cookie!
Jed Clampett: [After a beat] Jethro, some day me and you got to have a long talk.
And:
Widow Fenwick: [Very buxom elderly millionaress who wants Jed to come in with her as a business partner on a real estate development venture she calls Honeymoon Lane] I need a partner who will come into Honeymoon Lane with me. I have the license and I have the heavy equipment.
Jed Clampett: [Somewhat taken back] Well, ma'am, them's the kinda things a man likes to find out fer himself.
And:
Jed Clampett: [Looking at the tree Jethro has cut down] When Mrs. Drysdale gets home she's gonna call the PO-lice!
Jethro: No she won't. I gnawed the stump so it'd look like a BEAVER done it!
And:
Milburn Drysdale: [dictating a letter to Miss Jane] ... and furthermore, if you are late on your mortgage payment one more time you will be thrown out into the street...
Jane Hathaway: Chief, she's eighty-five years old and in a wheelchair!
Milburn Drysdale: Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't know... change that to read, you will be wheeled out into the street.
And:
Jed Clampett: That's the thing about salted down possum, it's just as good the second day.
And to get back to the main subject of this thread:
Granny: Well, the first thing to do is get her into a dress. She's gettin' too old to be wearin' a man's duds. Lookee here - she done popped the buttons off her shirt again.
Jed Clampett: Well, Elly May carries herself proud... with her shoulders thrown back.
Granny: It ain't her shoulders that's poppin' these buttons.
She was in Twllight Zone classic episode Eye of the beholder where she play beauty among ugly
“...It ain’t her shoulders that’s poppin’ these buttons. ...”
I’m DYIN’ over here...hahah!!!
I loved that show when I was a kid...
And on closer listening, Granny said “Holy Jumpin’ Toad GIZZARDS...” Which makes more sense!!!!
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