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Issue Number 499
January 2017
“I had a mother who taught me there is no such thing as failure. It is just a temporary postponement of success.”
At age 54, tall, rangy vaudeville hoofer and musical vet BUDDY EBSEN (1908-2003) became an “overnight” TV star. With his grizzled, folksy portrayal of poor mountaineer-cum-multimillionaire Jed Clampett, audiences delighted in his Tennessee clan wreaking havoc on Beverly Hills society. The rural sitcom THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES (1962-1971) was bookended by popular TV series runs as DAVY CROCKETT’s sidekick and unretired detective BARNABY JONES. Prior to this, Buddy was a popular MGM song-and-dance man who nearly achieved film immortality as the Tin Woodman in the classic fantasy THE WIZARD OF OZ (1939) until a severe allergic reaction to makeup forced him to relinquish the role.
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