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Bea Benaderet
Born April 4, 1906(1906-04-04)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Died October 13, 1968 (aged 62)
Los Angeles, California
Spouse(s) Gene Twombley (1957-1968)
Jim Bannon (1938-1950)

Bea Benaderet (April 4, 1906–October 13, 1968) was an American actress, born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting The City of New York New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Los Angeles (lɑˈsændʒələs los ˈaŋxeles in Spanish) is the largest City in the state of California and the American West Year 1957 ( MCMLVII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar) Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Jim Bannon (born 9 April 1911 Kansas City Missouri died 28 July 1984 Ventura California) was an actor in radio and Hollywood western films during the Year 1938 ( MCMXXXVIII) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1581 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The City of New York The City and County of San Francisco is the fourth most populous city She is probably best remembered for starring in the hit 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and as the original voice of Betty Rubble on The Flintstones. Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Petticoat Junction is an American Situation comedy produced by Filmways, which originally aired on the CBS network from 1963 Betty Rubble (maiden name McBricker is a Fictional character in the popular Television Animated series The Flintstones, is the The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC. Benaderet reached stardom in her late 50s after over 20 years of active work as a supporting player on radio and early television, as well as a career doing voice work for 1940s and 1950s Warner Bros. cartoons. Radio is the transmission of signals by Modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible Light. Television ( TV) is a widely used Telecommunication medium for sending ( Broadcasting) and receiving moving Images, either monochromatic Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Year 1950 ( MCML) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and

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Career

Benaderet began voicing the character of Granny—the sometimes dimwitted, sometimes assertive owner of Tweety Bird—in the Warner Bros. cartoon series beginning in 1947, and was one of the few female voice artists associated with the studio in the early days (as Mel Blanc provided the majority of character voices at the time, even for female characters). Melvin "Mel" Jerome Blanc ( May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and Comedian Benaderet continued to play the voice of Granny into the 1950s, before June Foray took over the role. June Foray (born September 18, 1917) is an American Voice actress who has worked for most of the studios which produced Animated films

Benaderet first received notice for her radio work in the 1940s playing Millicent Carstairs on Fibber McGee & Molly, telephone operator Gertrude Gearshift on The Jack Benny Program, school principal Eve Goodwin on the Great Gildersleeve and appeared on several Amos 'n Andy radio shows, usually as a store clerk trying to assist Andy and Kingfish in a purchase. Fibber McGee and Molly was a radio show that played a major role in determining the full form of what became classic old-time radio. Jack Benny (born Benjamin Kubelsky February 14, 1894 - December 26, 1974) was an American Comedian, vaudevillian The Great Gildersleeve (1941-1957 initially written by Leonard Lewis Levinson was one of broadcast history's earliest Spin-off programs Amos 'n' Andy was a situation comedy based on Stereotypes of African-Americans and popular in the United States from the 1920s through the 1950s Benaderet also played Blanche Morton, next door neighbor to George Burns and Gracie Allen, on both radio and television. George Burns ( January 20 1896 &ndash March 9 1996; born Nathan Birnbaum) was an American comedian, Actor Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen ( July 26 1895 Allen used to claim that she was born in 1906 but when pressed for evidence she would say that her birth certificate

She played Lucille Ball's best friend, Iris Atterbury, on the 1940s radio series My Favorite Husband. Lucille Ball (August 6 1911 – April 26 1989 was an American comedienne, film television stage and radio Actress, model, film My Favorite Husband is the name of an American Radio program and network Television series. When Ball and husband Desi Arnaz decided to create a very similar television series called I Love Lucy, Benaderet was first choice to fill the role of Ethel Mertz but was unavailable to take the role since she had already signed for Burns and Allen's television adaptation of their radio program. Desi Arnaz (born Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III) ( March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986) was a Cuban American I Love Lucy is an American Situation comedy, starring Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance and William Frawley Ethel Mertz is a Fictional character played by Vivian Vance in the 1950s American television Sitcom I Love Lucy, where she was one Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team Vivian Vance, an almost unknown character actress and singer, was eventually cast in the part. Vivian Vance ( July 26 1909 – August 17 1979) When she was six years old her family moved to Independence Kansas, where she Benaderet did get to guest on I Love Lucy on January 12, 1952 in a very amusing appearance as Miss Lewis, a love-starved spinster neighbor.

Benaderet was also seriously considered for the role of Granny in The Beverly Hillbillies, created by her producer from The Burns & Allen Show, Paul Henning, who ultimately felt she was too buxom and womanly for the character he envisioned as a frail but caustic little spitfire; Irene Ryan was eventually cast. The Beverly Hillbillies is an American Television series about a Hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills California after finding Burns and Allen, an American comedy duo consisting of George Burns and his wife Gracie Allen, worked together as a comedy team Paul Henning ( September 16, 1911 &ndash March 25, 2005) was an American producer and Writer, most famous for Irene Ryan ( October 17, 1902 – April 26, 1973) was an Emmy - and Tony Award -nominated actress one of the few entertainers Henning instead cast Benaderet as an older barefooted Hillbilly Woman, Cousin Pearl Bodine (Jethro's mother) in the series, and she appeared in the pilot and virtually every episode during the show's first season. The Beverly Hillbillies is an American Television series about a Hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills California after finding The Beverly Hillbillies is an American Television series about a Hillbilly family transplanted to Beverly Hills California after finding Cousin Pearl and her daughter Jethrine moved into the Clampett mansion with the rest of the Clampett kin late in the first season, but after Henning cast Benaderet in the lead in his next series, Petticoat Junction, debuting in September 1963, the female Bodines disappeared. Petticoat Junction is an American Situation comedy produced by Filmways, which originally aired on the CBS network from 1963

Petticoat Junction proved an enormous hit and was a top ten program for several years. Petticoat Junction is an American Situation comedy produced by Filmways, which originally aired on the CBS network from 1963 Benaderet had done a radio variation of Green Acres with Gale Gordon beginning in 1950 called Granby's Green Acres. Green Acres is an American Television series starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as a couple who move from New York City Gale Gordon ( February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor The Green Acres television series later became a spinoff of Petticoat Junction, with Eva Gabor playing Benaderet's counterpart in the TV series, and Benaderet herself showing up occasionally as her Petticoat Junction character (Eddie Albert took over Gale Gordon's role as the lawyer who moves to the country to become a farmer; whether he was considered for the role or not, Gordon was otherwise occupied with his role on The Lucy Show). Petticoat Junction is an American Situation comedy produced by Filmways, which originally aired on the CBS network from 1963 Eva Gabor ( February 11 1919 &ndash July 4 1995) was a Hungarian -born actress best known as Lisa Douglas, the Edward Albert Heimberger ( April 22, 1906 &ndash May 26, 2005) better known as Eddie Albert, was an American Actor Gale Gordon ( February 20, 1906 – June 30, 1995) was an American character actor The Lucy Show is a Television series which ran from 1962 until 1968

Benaderet was a "busy Bea" during this time, as she also played a part in another iconic television series of the 1960s, as the voice of Betty Rubble on the cartoon series The Flintstones, which debuted in 1960. Betty Rubble (maiden name McBricker is a Fictional character in the popular Television Animated series The Flintstones, is the The Flintstones is an animated American television sitcom that ran from 1960 to 1966 on ABC. Benaderet resigned from the animated series in 1964 due to the workload on Petticoat Junction, and Betty would be voiced by Gerry Johnson for the remainder of the series' run. Gerry Johnson is an American actress who provided the voice of Betty Rubble in seasons five and six of the US cartoon series The Flintstones. Benaderet was no stranger to cartoon voice work. She had played many female characters in the Warner cartoons of the 1940s, showing a good deal of versatility, from her natural feminine voice, to the "Granny" character, to the loud-mouthed teenager in Little Red Riding Rabbit. Little Red Riding Rabbit is a 1944 Warner Bros Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, and starring Bugs The Flintstones re-united her with her 1940s co-worker Mel Blanc (as Betty's husband, Barney Rubble). Melvin "Mel" Jerome Blanc ( May 30, 1908 – July 10, 1989) was an American voice actor and Comedian Bernard "Barney" Rubble, a Fictional character in the popular television Animated series The Flintstones, is the diminutive blonde-haired Benaderet never received an on-screen credit for her voice characterizations with Warner, as the studio had a policy of not listing them (with the exception of Blanc, who had it written into his contract).

Illness

Benaderet became ill in 1967 which led to her leaving Petticoat Junction in what was hoped would be a temporary retirement. Rosemary DeCamp was brought in to play Aunt Helen in scripts obviously written for Benaderet's character Kate. Rosemary DeCamp ( November 14, 1910 - February 20, 2001) was an American television and movie actress Benaderet, however, was well enough to make a few additional appearances on the show. After Benaderet's death, June Lockhart was brought in to play a female doctor who set up practice at the Shady Rest hotel and thus became the show's surrogate mother figure. June Lockhart (born on June 25, 1925, in New York City, New York) is an American Television and Film Actress

On October 13, 1968, Bea Benaderet died from lung cancer at the age of 62, and her body was interred in the Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery in North Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, next to her second husband, Eugene Twombly, who died of a heart attack only four days after the death of his wife. Events 54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne 409 - Vandals and Alans crossed the Pyrenees Year 1968 ( MCMLXVIII) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Lung cancer is a Disease of uncontrolled Cell growth in tissues of the Lung. Valhalla Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 10621 Victory Boulevard in North Hollywood California. North Hollywood is a district in the San Fernando Valley region of the City of Los Angeles California. Mr. Twombley was a sound effects man for many radio and television shows, including The Jack Benny Program, on which Bea Benaderet was a regular.

Her son, Jack Bannon (whose father was Bea's first husband, Jim Bannon), later became a regular on Lou Grant. Jack Bannon (born John James Bannon June 14, 1940, Los Angeles, California) is an American television actor Jim Bannon (born 9 April 1911 Kansas City Missouri died 28 July 1984 Ventura California) was an actor in radio and Hollywood western films during the Lou Grant is an American television drama series starring Ed Asner as a newspaper editor

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NAME Benaderet, Bea
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION voice actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH New York, New York, United States of America
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 1968
PLACE OF DEATH Los Angeles, California, United States of America
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