Green Acres Cast Young: See Them Before Life on the Farm
The Green Acres cast young is an opportunity to see the stars of the 1965 to 1971 Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor series that was set in the same television universe as The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction. The show, of course, is about New York attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Albert) leaving the hustle and bustle of New York City behind and taking his socialite wife, Lisa (Eva Gabor), to a broken down farm in Hooterville to get back to nature. Obviously nothing goes smoothly.
Other characters include dishonest salesman Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram), the Douglases' neighbors Fred and Doris Ziffel (Hank Patterson and Barbara Pepper), without children but "parents" of Arnold Ziffel, their pig who became a huge part of the show; and storekeeper Sam Drucker (Frank Cady), a character who would appear on the other Hooterville shows as well.
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Eddie Albert (Oliver Wendell Douglas)
1933
Eddie Albert fastens the roller skates of Jane Wyman prior to their lunch-time exercise in 1933.
1934
1934: Closeup of American actors Eddie Albert and Grace Albert posing in front of NBC microphone in a promotional still for their radio show, The Honeymooners.
1935
Crca 1935: Studio portrait of comedian Eddie Albert.
1936
Jose Ferrer, Frank Albertson and Eddie Albert starring in the stage production of Brother Rat in 1936.
1940
Eddie Albert shows Granville Bates a toy soldier in a scene from the film Brother Rat and a Baby.
1943
In 1943, Eddie Albert poses in his U.S. Naval Reserve uniform in Los Angeles, California.
1945
Eddie Albert as he looked in 1945.
1949
Eddie Albert dancing with Mary McCarty in Miss Liberty.
1950
Eddie Albert and Lucille Ball (just a couple of years shy of I Love Lucy) in 1950's The Fuller Brush Girl.
1952
Betty White (left), actor Eddie Albert and an unidentified woman during a broadcast of the talk show Hollywood on Television, 1952.
1953
Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn and Eddie Albert in the romantic comedy Roman Holiday.
1955
Eddie Albert and Susan Hayward in I'll Cry Tomorrow.
1957
Actors Eddie Albert, Ava Gardner, Errol Flynn, and Mel Ferrer on the set of The Sun Also Rises.
1958
Eddie Albert and wife Margo and Maria Del Carmen, 4, who they adopted in Madrid'.
Eva Gabor (Lisa Douglas)
1923
The Gabor Sisters (L-R) Eva Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Magda Gabor circa 1923.
The Gabor Sisters (L-R) Magda Gabor, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Eva Gabor from another angle in 1923.
1940
Portrait of Eva Gabor in 1940.
1941
Richard Arlen next to Eva Gabor in Forced Landing.
1943
Publicity portrait of Eva Gabor in the early 1940’s.
1944
Eva Gabor smiles with her second husband, Charles Isaacs.
1948
Eva Gabor smiles broadly as fellow actor Burgess Meredith, dressed as Uncle Sam, playfully pokes her chin in a promotional portrait for an unspecified appearance in Chicago, Illinois, 1948.
1950
Eva Gabor in publicity portrait circa 1950.
1952
Famed Designer Mme. Schiaparelli gave her first social function of the 1952 season at the St. Regis Roof. She is shown chatting with two of the famed Gabor sisters, Eva (Left), and Magda.
1955
Three generations of Gabors gather for a portrait. L-R: (top row) Madga, 'Mama' Jolie and Eva Gabor; (bottom row) Zsa Zsa and Papa (Vilmos) Gabor and Francesca Hilton, age 8, Zsa Zsa's daughter by hotel magnate Conrad Hilton. Francesca is the only child to result from the combined 20 marriages of the three Gabor sisters.
1957
June Allyson, David Niven, Jessie Royce Landis and Eva Gabor in My Man Godfrey.
1959
Eva Gabor in publicity portrait for the film It Started with a Kiss.
Pat Buttram (Mr. Eustace Haney)
1950
Portrait of American actor and country singer Gene Autry smiling with his co-star, American actor Pat Buttram, on the set of the Western film Beyond Purple Hills.
1956
L-R: Actors and singers Gene Autry, Dale Evans and Roy Rogers pose together at a roasting event in honor of Evans and Rogers at the Masquers Club, Hollywood, California. George Gobel and Pat Buttram laugh in the background. Buttram hosted the event.
Hank Patterson (Fred Ziffel)
1958
Hank Patterson and June Kenney in the 1958 sci-fi/horror film, Earth vs. the Spider.
1965
In this scene from Green Acres, Lisa and Oliver examine a primitive washer with their farming neighbors, Hank Patterson as "Fred Ziffel" and Barbara Pepper as "Doris Ziffel."
Barbara Pepper (Doris Ziffel)
1941
Barbara Potter in 1941's Manpower, seen here with Eve Arden, Marlene Dietrich, Dorothy Appleby and Joyce Compton Fay.
1954
Actress Barbara Pepper in 1954.
1965
Eve Gabor standing next to Barbara Pepper, who is attached to a curler machine in Green Acres.
Frank Cady (Sam Drucker)
1958
Tommy Noonan and Frank Cady look on as Jane Powell decides to marry Keith Andes. Cliff Robertson also looks on in a scene from the film, The Girl Most Likely.
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1965
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