When The Beverly Hillbillies made its TV debut in 1962, it was dismissed by critics as little more than a hillbilly cartoon, but the viewers knew better. With its fish-out-of-water premise, lovable ...

In a 1961 edition of the newspaper The Mercury, they summed up what happened next: According to that The Mercury profile, published the year before The Beverly Hillbillies premiered, Donna Douglas ...

Donna Douglas pictured feeding a giraffe in New Orleans in 2009 US actress Donna Douglas, best known for playing the tomboyish Elly May Clampett in 1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, has died ...

And Donna Douglas made her mark as Elly May ... Springer once told Douglas she was a “sex symbol” for those who watched The Beverly Hillbillies. Here’s how she responded.

NEW YORK - Donna Douglas, who played the buxom tomboy Elly May Clampett on the hit 1960s sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies," has died. Douglas died Thursday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, near her ...

NEW YORK (AP) – Donna Douglas, who played the buxom tomboy Elly May Clampett on the hit 1960s sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” has died. Douglas died Thursday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana ...

In 1900, a political writer described the “hill-billie” as someone who “talks as he pleases, drinks whiskey when he gets it ...

On the studio lot, the cast of The Beverly Hillbillies prepares to film another scene in the Clampett family's truck. Buddy Ebsen (Jed), Max Baer Jr. (Jethro) and Donna Douglas (Elly May ...

She reprised her role for the 1981 telefilm The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies ... as a gospel singer and wrote the book, Miss Donna’s Mulberry Acres Farm, which was published in 2011.

(Reuters) - Wholesome blonde actress Donna Douglas, who played pretty tomboy Elly May Clampett on the hit 1960s sitcom "The Beverly Hillbillies" and starred opposite Elvis Presley in the 1966 film ...