Burns and Allen had several regulars on radio, including Toby Reed, Gale Gordon, Bea Benaderet, Gracie's real-life friend Mary " Bubbles " Kelly, Ray Noble, singers Jimmy Cash and Tony Martin and actor / writer / director Elliott Lewis.

At the wrap party, Gracie had a token sip of champagne from a paper cup, hugged her friend and co-star Bea Benaderet, said " Okay, that's it.

While doing Husband, veteran character actors Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet had played Rudolph and Iris Atterbury, an older, more financially stable couple as Mr. Atterbury was George Cooper's ( Lucy's radio husband's ) boss.

Ball had initially wanted both actors to reprise their roles on television, however, both were unavailable at the time the show went into production as Benaderet was already playing Blanche Morton on Burns and Allen, and Gordon was under contract by CBS to play Mr. Conklin on the radio and television versions of Our Miss Brooks.

Lucille Ball had wanted either Bea Benaderet or Barbara Pepper, both close friends, to play the role.

CBS refused Pepper on the grounds that she had a drinking problem, and Benaderet was already playing Blanche Morton on the Burns and Allen television series.

The radio series, which lasted 13 episodes, had starred Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet as a big-city family who move to the country.

During this period, Benaderet had two children, Jack and Maggie, from her marriage to actor Jim Bannon.

When Ball and husband Desi Arnaz decided to develop this program for television in a series called I Love Lucy, Benaderet was first choice to fill the role of Ethel Mertz, but was ultimately unavailable to accept it since she had already been cast for the fledgeling Burns and Allen television show.

Shortly after the death of Benaderet, June Lockhart was brought in to play a female doctor who had set up her practice at the Shady Rest hotel, and thus became the show's surrogate mother figure.

Twombly had been a sound-effects artist for a number of radio and television shows, including The Jack Benny Program, on which Benaderet had been a regular cast member.

According to Filmways Publicist Ted Switzer, series creator and producer Paul Henning had decided to cast Bea Benaderet as Granny ; however, when Ryan read for the role, “ with her hair tied back in a bun and feisty as all get out, she just blew everyone away .” Al Simon ( executive producer ) and Henning immediately said: “ That ’ s Granny .” Later when Benaderet saw Ryan's tryout, she agreed.

As Uncle Joe, he took over as proprietor of the Shady Rest Hotel following the death of Bea Benaderet, who had played Kate Bradley.

Other characters in and out of the Gildersleeve orbit included Richard LeGrand as Peavey the druggist ( his dry, almost mumbled " Oh, now, I wouldn't say that " also became a familiar catch-phrase ), Arthur Q. Bryan ( making a name as sarcastic Doc Gamble on Fibber McGee & Molly ) as Floyd the barber, Ken Christy as police chief Gates, Shirley Mitchell as Leila Ransom, Bea Benaderet as another Gildersleeve paramour Eve Goodwin, and occasionally Gale Gordon ( Mayor LaTrivia on McGee ) as Rumson Bullard, a neighbour who served Gildersleeve the way Gildersleeve had once served Fibber McGee --- an equal for obnoxiousness.

This show failed despite the presence of George, Ronnie and Sandra Burns as well as Bea Benaderet and Harry von Zell, who had appeared on The Burns & Allen Show.

Benaderet played Blanche Morton, the next-door neighbor to George Burns and Gracie Allen, on both the radio and television incarnations of The George Burns & Gracie Allen Show.

The Green Acres television series later became a spinoff of Petticoat Junction, with Eva Gabor portraying Benaderet's original part in this new series, and Benaderet herself showing up in the first few episodes as her Petticoat Junction character, in order to establish the Hooterville setting ( Eddie Albert took 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 ).

Benaderet was quite busy during the last decade of her life, starting with a voice role as Betty Rubble in the animated series The Flintstones, which debuted in 1960.

The Flintstones reunited Benaderet with her 1940s co-workers Alan Reed ( Fred Flintstone ) and Mel Blanc ( Barney Rubble and Dino ).

Benaderet received no on-screen credit for her many voice characterizations with Warner Bros., as the studio was bound by Blanc's iron-clad contractual stipulation that no other voice actor could ever receive credit for their work while he himself was under contract to Warners.

Benaderet supposedly resigned from the show in 1964 owing to the workload on Petticoat Junction, when in fact Director Joe Barbera unceremoniously replaced her with Gerry Johnson for the remainder of the series ' run.

Benaderet was diagnosed with cancer in 1967, which led to her departure from Petticoat Junction in what was hoped would be a temporary absence, during which time Rosemary DeCamp was brought in to play " Aunt Helen " in scripts obviously written for Benaderet's character Kate.

In 1966, MacRae signed a contract with CBS to play Billie Jo Bradley on the sitcom, Petticoat Junction, starring Bea Benaderet as her television mother and Edgar Buchanan as her television uncle.

Gale Gordon and Bea Benaderet, supporting cast members on My Favorite Husband, were originally approached for the roles of Fred and Ethel, but neither could accept owing to previous commitments.

Benaderet began voicing the character of Granny ( the sometimes dimwitted, sometimes assertive owner of Tweety ) in the Warner Bros. cartoon series beginning in 1943.

Pearl ( played by Bea Benaderet ) appeared in most of the first season episodes, as did Jethro's twin sister Jethrine, played by Baer in drag, using Linda Kaye Henning's voiceover.

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* Mrs. Millicent Carstairs ( Bea Benaderet )-another of Wistful Vista's high society matrons, known to Fibber as " Carsty ".

Benaderet was a guest star in one episode as elderly Miss Lewis, a neighbor of the Ricardos.

" As Jones was unable to get Foray to play the role, Bea Benaderet supplied the witch's voice.

Actress Bea Benaderet, a friend of Lucille Ball, was the first choice to play the character of Ethel Mertz.

Benaderet was unavailable, however, owing to a prior commitment.

Set in the rural town of Hooterville, the show followed the goings-on at The Shady Rest Hotel, of which Kate Bradley ( Bea Benaderet ) was the proprietor.

Bea Benaderet was born April 4, 1906, Edgar Buchanan died April 4, 1979.

Bea Benaderet, who played main character Kate, died in 1968 ; June Lockhart then joined the show as Dr. Janet Craig, a mother figure to the girls, from 1968 until the show's end in 1970.

Sickness kept Bea Benaderet away for the last portion of the sitcom's fifth season.

Benaderet returned for the sixth season but her return proved short-lived as she only made three appearances ( ep.

Granny looks at a picture of Kate and is astonished at her resemblance to Jed's cousin, Pearl Bodine ( previously played by Benaderet ), and prior to her visit to Hooterville, reminded Jed that he was related to Kate through Pearl.

Surprisingly, he had told the others what he had done.

He had done time for the theft.

He, McBride, would be cited as in the wrong, and he, Lord, would go scot-free, an officer who had only done his duty, though perhaps too energetically.

He had done his rustling openly and boasted about it.

An inquest was held, and after a good deal of testimony about the anonymous notes, the county coroner estimated that the shooting had been done from a distance of 300 yards.

Even in the very area where the shooting had been done, cattle were still disappearing.

My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.

Instead it means that the thinking in which decision issues has the power to determine the morality of the decision, as in this instance the pressure for renewed practical or legislative attention to the constitutional problems the decision had uncovered might have done.

At one time it seemed as if the Soviet Union had done us a favor by providing a striking example of how not to behave towards other peoples and other nations.

He had always done well.

Never well known, but he had done his work competently.

When Nan Patterson, a stunning and money-minded chorus girl who had appeared in a Floradora road show, rode down Broadway in a hansom cab with her married lover, Frank Young, she stopped the cab to disclose that Young had been shot dead, tearfully insisting that he had shot himself although experts said he could not have done so.

As he had done on his first Imperial sortie a year and a half before, Lewis trekked southeast through Red Russia to Kamieniec.

The Artists contended that the Philistines, gross of soul, were all for having Son et Lumiere, since the French were footing the bill and the attraction, wherever it had been done, had proven popular.

It took Pike a long time to realize what Woodruff had done, and it had a profound effect on him.

When the captives arrived in Boston, `` the chaplain ( of their captors ) went to prayers in the open streets, that the people might take notice what they had done in a holy manner, and in the name of the Lord ''.

Bad relations between England and Flanders brought hard times to the shepherds scattered over the dales and downs as well as to the crowded Flemish cities, and while the English, so far, had done no more than grumble, Othon had seen what the discontent might lead to, for before he left the Low Countries the citizens of Ghent had risen in protest against the expense of supporting Edward and his troops, and the regular soldiers had found it unexpectedly difficult to put down the nasty little riot that ensued.