Thelma Lou has died

[yaktamer]

How can you not rank Green Acres ahead of The Beverly Hillbillies is beyond me

Can't have Green Acres without Petticoat Junction.

 

[dsf]

I grew up having the hots for Linda Evans on "The Big Valley". Nowadays Barbara Stanwyk is starting to look pretty good to me.

 

[ACORN]

The Beverly Hillbillies had Ellie May.....

Larry

Yeah, but Green Acres had Eva Gabor. Yeah, I liked older "girls".

The Andy Griffith Show was my refuge in the dark days post 9/11. I'd sit and watch shows I'd seen a hundred times before and still laugh. It took me back to a simpler time. An escape from a world turned upside down.
RIP Thelma Lou.

 

[ACORN]

The Beverly Hillbillies had Ellie May.....

Larry

Yeah, but Green Acres had Eva Gabor. Yeah, I liked older "girls".

The Andy Griffith Show was my refuge in the dark days post 9/11. I'd sit and watch shows I'd seen a hundred times before and still laugh. How could you not laugh at Otis Campbell, drunker than a monkey, riding a cow into town?
It took me back to a simpler time. An escape from a world turned upside down.
RIP Thelma Lou.

 

[oldbrownhat]

Yeah, but Green Acres had Eva Gabor. ....

LOL. How do you say "eye candy" in Hungarian?

 

[kozmic]

How can you not rank Green Acres ahead of The Beverly Hillbillies is beyond me

Not only that Councelor, but I would also rank Petticoat Junction ahead of Green Acres. Most of the same characters, just more humor and...er...um..."petticoats"!

 

[kozmic]

From the web:

WHAT DOES THE GIRL NEXT DOOR MEAN?

"The girl next door is a term used to describe a female archetype and fashion aesthetic which can range in terms of personal definition, but usually denotes a girl or woman who appeals to traditional or "all-American" gender norms with the allure of purity, simplicity, and charm, with a natural, modest, or effortless beauty."

works for me.

I always thought "The girl next store who routinely sunbathed in her back yard with her girlfriends directly under my bedroom window"!

 

[bgrafsr]

I always liked the shows with "The Darlings" and Ernest T. How Barney's girlfriend put up with him is a mystery.

How Andy put up with him and his shenanigans is also a mystery. Thelma Lou was also a girlfriend of Andy in one or two shows.

 

[bgrafsr]

I grew up having the hots for Linda Evans on "The Big Valley". Nowadays Barbara Stanwyk is starting to look pretty good to me.

Never did like Stanwyck. She always seemed "haughty" and stuck up to me. Same with Betty Davis.

 

[Ole Joe Clark]

I liked the Darlings, they were really good musicians. Not sure if any of them are still alive or not. In real life they were the Dillards.

Have a blessed day,

Leon

 

[Rustyt1953]

Rodney Dillard is the sole surviving member of the original foursome.

 

[dasnake]

Well well well.....??

It wasn't exactly "Ginger" or "Mary Ann" ....but for me it was always Thelma Lou ..... and NOT Helen (Crump) . Helen was MEAN !

From Wiki ....
USO tour
When she was 17, Lynn auditioned to participate in United Service Organizations entertainment. At age 18 she was part of a USO tour in the China Burma India Theater. She realized the gravity of the situation when a Marine gave her a pistol saying, "You might need this."
Her activities on the tour included visiting patients in hospitals and singing requests from a repertoire of 725 songs.

I have enjoyed seeing her in a few movies in her early years playing a teenager. She WAS Thelma Lou ! She has always tugged on my heartstrings .

Damn, thanks for those, she was a looker but those are over the top.

 

[dasnake]

For me.......

Barbara and Bette were two I enjoyed for acting skills, but for me Barbara was in a league of her own, along with Myrna Loy, Laraine Day, they all could dish it out pre-code, and out of the park during the Hays daze.

 

[Neal]

For you hard core Andy Griffith Show fans, the newly released movie "Mayberry Man" is a good watch.

Mayberry Man

 

[merl67]

Ever notice the only married person on the show was the town drunk Otis who would voluntarily lock himself up....