Elly May is Gone

Baer told Rumor Fix in an exclusive interview, “She was ‘Elly May’ until the day she died. When I saw her for autograph signings or other gatherings she always dressed the same with pink or blue and, of course, those signature pigtails.”

Still embracing the character of “Jethro Bodine”, Baer noted with a sad tone in his voice, “I’m the last man standing. All the actors, producers—everybody on the show is gone.”

When Miss Douglas gave her autograph, she included the Bible verse Proverbs 3: 5-6: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to Him and He will make your paths straight.”

Political Clown Parade

Since I just happened to have watched these yesterday:

Donna Douglas's Twilight Zone episode, Eye of the Beholder, free to watch on Hulu. (Commercial runs first.) One of those Rod Serling half-hour stories that would have made a great ten-minute tale, but Douglas was pretty good. She also had a blink-and-you'll-miss-it part in another TZ, a kind of Wonderful Life story, with Carol Burnett in the "George Bailey" role. Cavender Is Coming. Cavender is Clarence, played by the late Jesse White, best known as the lonely Maytag repair man. Actually the better of these two TZ stories.

You can find the Beverly Hillbillies episodes on your own, I presume.