Jed's wife (Elly May's mother) died but is referred to in the episode "Duke Steals A Wife" as Rose Ellen. He is the son of Luke Clampett and his wife, and has a sister named Myrtle.
Yeah, I'm guessing that you've picked up on the fact that I'm talking about the famed television series The Beverly Hillbillies, but did you know that the series idea was based off an actual family who lived in Beverly Hills? They didn't live in the house that you saw in the series, but they did live in a huge mansion.
Did you know that “The Beverly Hillbillies” lead character Jed Clampett had a wife? Well, he did but she never appears on the show. Why did this happen? According to beverlyhillbillies.fandom.com, Jed was married to a woman named Rose Ellen but she died.
She was 81. A media report said Douglas died at Baton Rouge General Hospital on New Year's Day after suffering with pancreatic cancer. Douglas, a former Miss Baton Rouge and Miss New Orleans who lived in Zachary, was also a frequent visitor to northeastern Louisiana.
The seven-time Emmy-nominated series was a huge hit and made stars of Buddy Ebsen (who played Jed Clampett), Donna Douglas (Elly May Clampett), Irene Ryan (Granny), and Max Baer Jr. (Jethro). Today, Baer is the only cast member still alive.
Elly-May has cerebral palsy. “I feel like most of the world doesn't seem to be built in a way that is accessible to everyone,” Elly-May says. “Touring is not made for my kind of body.”
The Kirkeby Mansion is still currently standing at 750 Bel Air Road in Bel-Air in almost the exact same condition (the exterior anyway) it was in the 1960s when The Beverly Hillbillies was filmed. It is, sadly, no longer visible from the street.
The Clampetts Strike Oil is the first episode of the first season of the Beverly Hillbillies. It is followed by the episode Getting Settled. In this episode, Jed Clampett sold his swamp to an oil company, gets paid 25 million dollars for it, and heads off to Beverly Hills.
The Beverly Hillbillies Was Canceled As Part Of The Rural Purge. Though television production could be an art form just like filmmaking, it was always a money-making enterprise, and CBS began to have concerns with their advertisers by 1971.
Critter-loving Elly May was still in California with her animals, but Jed was back home in the Hills, having lost his fortune, stolen by the now-imprisoned banker Drysdale.
Recall that Jed Clampett and Granny deposited their oil money in the Commerce Bank, Milburn Drysdale 's bank.
The Beverly Hillbillies was filmed at Kirkeby mansion in Bel Air. Mr. and Mrs. Kirkeby rented their beautiful home to the series for $500 a day.
750 Bel Air Road in 1988, after it was bought by Jerry Perenchio from the family of Arnold Kirkeby.
Granny and the rest of the Clampetts start a feud with the Drysdales since Sonny courted Elly May and then stood her up when granny suggested marriage. Granny and the rest of the Clampetts start a feud with the Drysdales since Sonny courted Elly May and then stood her up when granny suggested marriage.
He was 95 and lived in Palos Verdes, Calif. The lanky, 6-foot-3-inch Mr. Ebsen was the canny Jed Clampett, the patriarch of "The Beverly Hillbillies," a popular CBS situation comedy about an Ozark farm family transplanted to a California mansion by sudden oil wealth.
Tracy Richards (Martha Hyer) is the main antagonist in the 1966 episode "The Richest Woman" of the TV series "The Beverly Hillbillies". Tracy shows up the Clampett mansion in Beverly Hillbillies along with her personal financial manager and wants to buy the place.
Estate Featured 18 Bedrooms, Tunnel from Home to Pool
CNN reported that the Beverly Hillbillies mansion featured 18 bedrooms and 25 bathrooms. There was a ballroom.
1 show in its first two years. It aired from September 1962 until its cancellation in March 1971. The blond, shapely Douglas, a native of Pride, La., who was named Miss New Orleans in a 1957 beauty contest, started out making $500 a week on the show. That rose to $3,000 in the ninth and final season of the series.
The television series used Branson, Missouri for the original Arkansas scenes, but the movie kept all of its filming in California and used a studio for the brief opening scenes in Arkansas. While in California, they made the best use possible of the locations in Beverly Hills and Pasadena.
They bought the home in 1986 for $13.5 million. His estimated wealth in 2016 was $2.6 billion, and his death in May of this year has prompted the sale.
Lachlan Murdoch, son of Rupert Murdoch, purchased the mansion for around $150 million in December of 2019. Originally, the Clampett mansion had a $350 million price tag, making it the highest priced piece of real estate in the nation. The price of the mansion was later slashed to $245 million.
Elly-May – who went to school like her siblings – could move around the home “fairly easily” because the spasms in her body had gaps which allowed her to walk and lean on things with her hands.
His Real Name…
Following the death of his father, Jimmy's Mother Dorothy remarried a gentleman by the name of Reg Barnes. Dorothy made the decision to change all of her children's surnames to Barnes to ease confusion.