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Post by erik on Jan 2, 2015 21:29:46 GMT -5
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Post by sliderocker on Jan 2, 2015 22:21:52 GMT -5
A couple of sad ironies with Donna's death: her death occurred three days before the 77th birthday of her "Beverly Hillbillies" co-star, Max Baer, who, with Donna's passing, becomes the last surviving cast member of that show. Another irony is that Donna was the third person with an Elvis connection to die within the past month. Actress Mary Ann Mobley died last month, as did Millie Kirkham, who provided backing vocals for Elvis on record and on stage from 1957 through the early 70s. I believe Linda mentioned in her book knowing someone who wrote for or worked for "The Beverly Hillbillies," so that might also be an indirect connection, though a very thin one.
In 1964, there had been a widespread rumor spread about Donna Douglas, which was that she had been killed in a shark attack while swimming off the coast of California. I heard the rumor from classmates and also from relatives in Alabama. Everyone seemed to have heard the rumors but no one ever produced a newspaper that carried the story. In those days, rumors probably had a longer life span than what they would have today. I remember someone a few years ago spread an internet rumor about Gordon Lightfoot dying. Lightfoot was okay and very much alive but the rumor died a deserbedly quick death.
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Post by erik on Jan 2, 2015 23:00:49 GMT -5
Quote by sliderocker:
I think Linda was referring to Ron Perelman, who was one of the writers on The Beverly Hillbillies (I don't know if this is the same Ron Perelman who was in the CBS-TV series Beauty And The Beast, though).
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Post by sliderocker on Jan 3, 2015 12:38:36 GMT -5
I think Linda was referring to Ron Perelman, who was one of the writers on The Beverly Hillbillies (I don't know if this is the same Ron Perelman who was in the CBS-TV series Beauty And The Beast, though). That's the one but according to the Internet Movie Database (imdb.com), the Ron Pearlman who wrote for the "Beverly Hillbillies" was a different person. He wrote or cowrote ten episodes of the series between 1965 and 1967. He was four years older than Linda - he passed in 1977 at the age of 35. I don't know if the Ron Pearlman who was on "Beauty and the Beast" was a writer but I guess the Ron Pearlman who was a writer wasn't an actor as that would've caused problems for Pearlman the actor, given the Screen Actors Guild rule there can't be two actors having the same name. I've always wondered about the reason for that rule as surely it wouldn't have been that hard to keep track of two different people in the same business? But of that issue, I remember there was an issue in the 70s with singer Jennifer Warnes being told to change her name because there was an actress with a similar name. I believe it was the actress who told Warnes to change her name because of the rule of two people couldn't have the same name or similar name. Warnes stuck to her guns, told them to back off as that was her name and she wasn't going to change her name. She also added that she was a singer and not an actress, so there was no chance of any possible conflicts. |
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Post by Dianna on Jan 3, 2015 14:19:26 GMT -5
In 1964, there had been a widespread rumor spread about Donna Douglas, which was that she had been killed in a shark attack while swimming off the coast of California. She played a cute part on the beverly hillbillies..RIP Regarding the shark attack rumor in 1964.. I thought the whole shark phobia or shark fever didn't kick in until the book and movie Jaws which came out in the early 70's. Prior to that period it is my understanding Sharks were pretty much non mainstream in popularity. |
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Post by sliderocker on Jan 3, 2015 15:35:11 GMT -5
In 1964, there had been a widespread rumor spread about Donna Douglas, which was that she had been killed in a shark attack while swimming off the coast of California. She played a cute part on the beverly hillbillies..RIP Regarding the shark attack rumor in 1964.. I thought the whole shark phobia or shark fever didn't kick in until the book and movie Jaws which came out in the early 70's. Prior to that period it is my understanding Sharks were pretty much non mainstream in popularity. The rumor of Donna Douglas being killed by a shark in 1964 was most unusual in that if it had actually happened, the tv network news and local news would've been all over the story, given her immense popularity as part of "The Beverly Hillbillies." When "Rawhide" star Eric Fleming drowned in South America in 1966 while filming a movie, that made the news. But, there wasn't one story that ever aired about Douglas being killed by a shark, not even a story that addressed the rumor. Some people still believed it happen, even as TBH continued to be renewed each year and even though Douglas continued to appear in every episode. One person who believed a shark killed Douglas, explained Douglas's continuing presence by explaining all those episodes had been filmed before the attack but not aired. This was a person who also believed all the long haired rock and roll male musicians were wearing wigs and that a real man wouldn't wear his hair long. Some people in those days were hysterically and hilariously stupid. Regarding the shark attacks, news of those attacks were likely heightened by the movie "Jaws" but news reports of actual shark attacks in those days and before probably didn't get reported all that often except in the parts of the country or other parts of the world where they were happening. It still happened but Donna Douglas was never a shark victim. Just one of the more bizarre rumors of the time. |
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Post by Dianna on Jan 3, 2015 16:34:09 GMT -5
I said that because a woman I knew via my family told a story, in the early 70's before the movie Jaws, her family would take their boat to Catalina Island.. I think it was a fancy yacht type boat.. at any rate, she remembered looking down into the water and saw this amazing creature looking up from the water and appeared to be smiling.. it was a great white shark and even living in california was not aware of their existence or what it was. She said before the movie many people didn't think of anything so dangerous lurking in the oceans waters, especially close to shore. I thought that was weird because it isn't like they magically appeared after the Jaws. .
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Post by sliderocker on Jan 3, 2015 18:22:26 GMT -5
I said that because a woman I knew via my family told a story, in the early 70's before the movie Jaws, her family would take their boat to Catalina Island.. I think it was a fancy yacht type boat.. at any rate, she remembered looking down into the water and saw this amazing creature looking up from the water and appeared to be smiling.. it was a great white shark and even living in california was not aware of their existence or what it was. She said before the movie many people didn't think of anything so dangerous lurking in the oceans waters, especially close to shore. I thought that was weird because it isn't like they magically appeared after the Jaws. . Not just weird but scary. That story gives me the shivers and landlocked as I am, I've known about sharks ever since I was a kid. I've rarely been to any of the oceans. Was in Virginia Beach in '91 and while at the beach, saw quite a few finned creatures which I thought at first was sharks but turned out to be dolphins. Magnificent creatures to watch. I also found a clear jellyfish near the beach, picked it up and stuck my finger through it. I thought it was broken glass. Luckily, I wasn't stung and when someone told me what it was, I gave the jelly fish a free ride through the air and back into the ocean and hoped it held no grudges. The description of sharks smiling is an apt description as the way their mouths are shaped, it looks like they are smiling. Their mouths also look like someone had sliced them with a sharp knife. They are creatures not to be messed with although there are not than many people-shark encounters. |
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Post by Goldie on Jan 4, 2015 16:08:16 GMT -5
Donna was a real sweetheart and very much like the character she played in the hillbillies. Shark popularity really took off after SNL's land shark episodes and it goes on and on even today:
go directly to 1:25 if you are easily offended
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Post by Goldie on Jan 4, 2015 16:10:16 GMT -5
No, that is not a photoshop picture.
listen to the music.
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Post by moe on Jan 4, 2015 17:19:40 GMT -5
Speaking of not Photoshop, Dianna love your avatar. Took me a minute to figure out what was up. Thanks for making my day!!
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Post by Goldie on Jan 5, 2015 0:36:57 GMT -5
Looks like a hippo with Madonna's teeth?
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Post by Goldie on Feb 2, 2015 21:01:01 GMT -5
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Post by erik on Feb 2, 2015 22:57:07 GMT -5
Well, if those had been real sharks and had eaten Katy Perry up, it wouldn't have been a loss. Besides, the game was the thing; and though it didn't end well for Seattle, it was exciting enough, decided only in the final twenty seconds.
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Post by Goldie on Feb 2, 2015 23:20:30 GMT -5
And lots of controversy about those 20 seconds and why they did that.
I think Katy Perry has an interesting story to tell and she is quite popular. I don't know much about her music but she certainly is a product of her time and in a good way I think.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2015 10:42:41 GMT -5
And lots of controversy about those 20 seconds and why they did that. I think Katy Perry has an interesting story to tell and she is quite popular. I don't know much about her music but she certainly is a product of her time and in a good way I think. I never was that impressed by her talent, but obviously lots of people disagree with me  |
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