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Bea Benaderet
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Before creating Green Acres, Jat Sommars wrote and produced Granby's Green Acres, which starred Bea Benaderet and Gale Gordon as the transplanted city slickers. Coincidentally, Benaderet and Gordon were the original choices for Fred and Ethel Mertz, but neither actor was available.
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Appearing in this episode were longtime character actors Edward Everett Horton and Bea Benaderet. Horton, of course, was a veteran of dozens of motion pictures -- including one of Lucy's first RKO films, "Top Hat."
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Benaderet was a "busy Bea" during this time, as she ... played a part in another iconic television series of the 1960s, as the voice of Betty Rubble on the cartoon series The Flintstones, which debuted in 1960. Benaderet resigned from the animated series in 1964 due to the workload on Petticoat Junction, and Betty would be voiced by Gerry Johnson for the remainder of the series' run. Benaderet was no stranger to cartoon voice work. She had played many female characters in the Warner cartoons of the 1940s, showing a good deal of versatility, from her natural feminine voice, to the "Granny" character, to the loud-mouthed teenager in Little Red Riding Rabbit. The Flintstones re-united her with her 1940s co-worker Mel Blanc (as Betty's husband, Barney Rubble). Benaderet never received an on-screen credit for her voice characterizations with Warner, as the studio had a policy of not listing them (with the exception of Blanc, who had it written into his contract).
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