May she rest in peace, she brought happy moments to a lot of people, celebrating the rural fems of America.
Posted on 01/03/2015 5:37:20 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
Donna Douglas, who played voluptuous tomboy daughter Elly May Clampett on the 1960s TV series “The Beverly Hillbillies,” has died. She was 81....
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....she never regretted her claim to fame.
“Today the role of Elly May has been a beautiful opportunity, a wonderful little door opener for me to share my heart with others, whether speaking in churches, ladies conferences, youth groups, schools, conventions, and various civic organizations, or one on one,” her website bio said. “Amazing what God can do with a life, if given the opportunity!”
Douglas was married twice and is survived by a son, Danny Bourgeois.
I’m feeling really old about now.
Me too. Seems as if the days are getting shorter and shorter. RIP Elly May
Off to the Great Cee-ment Pond in the sky...
My feelings exactly. I watched this show when I was a little kid. How could this young woman have gotten to be 81 years old!
God bless her.
She was only a few years younger than my mother. God Bless her and her family.
I have wondered whether the writers for many of the TV shows in the fifties and sixties were older writers in radio comedy. The writing would have been funny without images but it was drop dead funny with visible actors.
I watched this show when I was a little kid.
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I watched this show when I was in my 20’s. I not only feel old I am old.
“...I’m looking for some crawdaddies to smoke...but first I have to get me a little pot!” ~ Granny to the police.
May she rest in peace, she brought happy moments to a lot of people, celebrating the rural fems of America.
“Now look at what’s on TV, Hollyweird is an immoral cesspool, the movies suck, and the music industry has been hi-jacked for decades by the most violent, sickest culture in American history.”
I don’t have cable or broadcast TV and rarely go to the movies because I feel that all three of those sources of entertainment have too much obscenity and left wing cant.
I am in charge of my family’s moral development and I will have none of that claptrap in my home.
Besides that, the writing is horrible. Most of the humor is the same stuff we laughed at in Junior High (but we got better, LOL). Absolutely abysmal writing.
You want good writing? Mayberry RFD is well known in the writing community as the school for comedy writers and comedians. How to write it, how to deliver it, how to reprise a one liner in another joke down the line. It is all there. Complete in all respects.
Then the hippie said, “smoking crawdads? Wow man, that’s too far out for me!”
Little Jimmy Dickens, 94, of the ‘Grand Old Opry’ famed died Friday.
FR thread on Dickens:
Little Jimmy Dickens, Oldest Opry Member, Dies at 94
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3243018/posts?
Li'll Abner's perpetual sweetheart, Daisy Mae!
Then we had Daisy & Elly's direct descendant in the "Dukes of Hazard's" Daisy Duke - (oh those hot pants!)
But no one should ignore the genuine article of talented, comedic and bodacious Southern Womanhood that is ...
Dolly Parton!
Word of caution, engage parental blocks before searching for "Daisy Mae" images - WHEW!
And then Green Acres came on.
gawd she is gorgeous. Does that say Psalm 3:5&6?
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