Barbara Pepper
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Barbara Pepper (born Marion B. Pepper; May 31, 1915 – July 18, 1969) was an American stage, television, radio, and film actress. She is best known as the first "Doris Ziffel" on the sitcom Green Acres. Pepper was born in New York City, the daughter of actor David Mitchell "Dave" Pepper, and his wife, Harrietta S. Pepper. At age 16 she started life in show business with Goldwyn Girls, a musical stock company where she met lifelong friend Lucille Ball.
Pepper began making movies. Among her later film parts were small roles in My Fair Lady and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. She also performed radio parts. In 1943, she married actor Craig Reynolds (né Harold Hugh Enfield), and the couple later had two sons. After Reynolds died in 1949 in a California motorcycle accident, Pepper was left to raise their children alone. She never remarried.
After gaining weight, her roles were mostly confined to small character parts on television, including several appearances on I Love Lucy, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Petticoat Junction, and The Jack Benny Program. She made four appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Martha Dale, mother of the title character, in the 1957 episode "The Case of the Vagabond Vixen".
A long-time friend of Lucille Ball, Barbara was considered for the role of Ethel Mertz on "I Love Lucy," but was passed over due to the fact that she was reportedly a drinker. William Frawley ("Fred Mertz") was, likewise, reportedly, a drinker and was already cast. It was felt that having two drinkers in the cast might eventually cause difficulties so they auditioned and found Vivian Vance to play Ethel instead.
She may be best remembered as the first Doris Ziffel on Petticoat Junction in 1964, although her character's name on the "Genghis Keane" episode of Petticoat Junction was Ruth Ziffel. Her role as Doris Ziffel continued on Green Acres from 1965 to 1968, until heart ailments finally forced her to leave that weekly series. Veteran actress Fran Ryan replaced her on Green Acres, which would continue to run for another three years. Her final performance was in the 1969 film Hook, Line & Sinker, in which she played Jerry Lewis's secretary.
Fotos
Películas (97)
Kiss Me, Stupid
1964 · Big Bertha
The Best Man
1964 · Delegate (uncredited)
Who's Minding the Store?
1963 · Customer at Bargain Sale (uncredited)
A Child Is Waiting
1963 · Miss Brown (uncredited)
It's Only Money
1962 · Fisherwoman
The Music Man
1962 · Mrs. Hawkes
Sex Kittens Go to College
1960 · Circe
The Bramble Bush
1960 · Polly Welk
Auntie Mame
1958 · Mrs. Krantz (uncredited)
The D.I.
1957 · Woman Customer
Dark Meeting
1956 · Clara
A Star Is Born
1954 · Esther's Neighbor (uncredited)
The Eddie Cantor Story
1953 · Beer Garden Patron
Inferno
1953 · Waitress (uncredited)
So This Is Love
1953 · Fat Girl with Sailor in Nightclub (uncredited)
I Love Lucy: The Movie
1953 · Party Guest (archive footage)
Ghost Buster
1952 · Mrs. Nolan
The Fuller Brush Girl
1950 · Wife Watching TV (uncredited)
My Blue Heaven
1950 · Susan (uncredited)
No Way Out
1950 · Woman (uncredited)
Unmasked
1950 · Mrs. Schmidt
The Inspector General
1949 · Buxom Villager (uncredited)
The Crooked Way
1949
The Snake Pit
1948 · Asylum Patient (uncredited)
Terror Trail
1946 · Karen Kemp, the Louisville Lady
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry
1945 · Annie
Murder, He Says
1945 · Bonnie Fleagle
The Naughty Nineties
1945 · Gilded Cage Hostess (uncredited)
Trouble Chasers
1945 · Goldie
Once Upon a Time
1944 · Cabbie (uncredited)
Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid
1944 · Miss LaRue ("Wild Rose")
Let's Face It
1943 · Daisy (uncredited)
So This Is Washington
1943 · Betty - Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Girls in Chains
1943 · Barbara Pepper
Blonde and Groom
1943 · Rex's Fiancée
Aerial Gunner
1943 · Blonde at Shooting Gallery (uncredited)
A Maid Made Mad
1943 · Blonde
Sappy Pappy
1942 · Female Customer
Carry Harry
1942 · Edith, Harry's Girl Friend
My Favorite Spy
1942 · Speedy
One Thrilling Night
1942 · Lettie
Birth of the Blues
1941 · Maizie
South of Tahiti
1941 · Julie
Manpower
1941 · Polly
Three Sons o' Guns
1941 · Francie LaRue
Out of the Fog
1941
The Lady Eve
1941 · Lady Wrestler Type on Ship (uncredited)
Foreign Correspondent
1940 · Dorine
The Return of Frank James
1940 · Nellie Blane
Sailor's Lady
1940 · Maude
Forgotten Girls
1940 · Eve Abbott
Framed
1940 · Goldie Green
Castle on the Hudson
1940 · Goldie
Of Mice and Men
1939 · Second Girl (uncredited)
The Amazing Mr. Williams
1939 · Muriel - Wedding Guest (uncredited)
Three Sons
1939 · Viola
The Women
1939 · Tough Girl (uncredited)
Flight at Midnight
1939 · Mildred
Colorado Sunset
1939 · Ginger Bixby
Bachelor Mother
1939 · Dance-Hall Hostess (uncredited)
They Made Me a Criminal
1939 · Budgie Massey
Off the Record
1939 · Flossie - Telephone Operator (uncredited)
The Girl Downstairs
1938 · Woman at bar (uncredited)
The Strange Case of Dr. Meade
1938 · Mattie
Army Girl
1938 · Riki
The Chaser
1938 · Mabel, Drunken Girl
The Lady in the Morgue
1938 · Kay Renshaw
Wide Open Faces
1938 · Belle
Hollywood Stadium Mystery
1938 · Althea Ames
Portia on Trial
1937 · Evelyn
The Westland Case
1937 · Agatha Hogan
Many Unhappy Returns
1937 · Sophie - Cigar Store Counter Girl
Music for Madame
1937 · Blonde on Bus (Uncredited)
Forty Naughty Girls
1937 · Alice
The Big Shot
1937 · Mamie
You Can't Buy Luck
1937 · Store Clerk
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1937 · Blonde Saloon Lady (uncredited)
Too Many Wives
1937 · Angela Brown
After the Thin Man
1936 · Party Guest (uncredited)
What Becomes of the Children?
1936 · Elsie Ford
Wanted: Jane Turner
1936 · Marge Sanders
Winterset
1936 · Girl
The Big Game
1936 · Lois
Mummy's Boys
1936 · Mary Browning
M'Liss
1936 · Clytie Morpher
The Rogues' Tavern
1936 · Marjorie Burns
Show Boat
1936
Taming the Wild
1936 · Hazel White
The Singing Vagabond
1935 · Honey
Frisco Waterfront
1935 · The Blonde Stranger
The Sagebrush Troubadour
1935 · Joan Martin
Forced Landing
1935 · Nancy 'Dusty' Rhodes
Waterfront Lady
1935 · Gloria Vance
Let 'em Have It
1935 · Milly Adams
Our Daily Bread
1934 · Sally
Strictly Dynamite
1934 · Party Girl (uncredited)
Roman Scandals
1933 · Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)
Series (27)
Mayberry R.F.D.
1968 · Emma
Laredo
1965
Green Acres
1965 · Doris Ziffel
Daniel Boone
1964 · Mrs. Shanks
Petticoat Junction
1963 · Ruth Ziffel, Doris Ziffel
Burke's Law
1963 · Cleaning Woman
The Greatest Show on Earth
1963
The Fugitive
1963 · Matty
Bus Stop
1961 · Mrs. Miller
Mister Ed
1961
My Three Sons
1960
The Untouchables
1959 · Mrs. Littlesmith, Landlady
The Texan
1958
Shirley Temple's Storybook
1958 · First Choir Lady
The Walter Winchell File
1957
Perry Mason
1957 · Martha Dale, Mrs. Diamond, Mrs. Dwyer - Fat Woman, Mrs. Williamson
M Squad
1957 · Landlady
Wagon Train
1957 · Mrs. Maybelle Gifford
Have Gun, Will Travel
1957
Richard Diamond, Private Detective
1957 · Mrs. Brody, Clara Chase
Tales of Wells Fargo
1957 · Boxcar Annie
The Millionaire
1955 · Fat Woman
Father Knows Best
1954 · Shopper
Four Star Playhouse
1952 · Clara
I Love Lucy
1951 · Nurse, Woman On Bus, Neighbor, Woman Shopper, Showgirl #2
Schlitz Playhouse of Stars
1951 · Miss Buell
Studio One
1948 · Ellie