Bea Benaderet
Acting • Born 1906-04-04 – Died 1968-10-13
Biography
Beatrice "Bea" Benaderet was an American actress born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. She appeared in a wide variety of television work, which included a starring role in the 1960s television series Petticoat Junction and Green Acres as Shady Rest Hotel owner Kate Bradley, supporting roles as Blanche Morton in The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show and as the voice of Betty Rubble during the first four seasons of The Flintstones, and in The Beverly Hillbillies as Pearl Bodine. She did a great deal of voice work in Warner Bros. animated cartoons of the 1940s/50s.
Filmography
122 credits
The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame
Movie • 1991
Marc Anthony's Mistress (voice)
Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home
Movie • 1948
Turtle / Kangaroo (voice)
Fresh Laid Plans
Movie • 1951
Of Rice and Hen
Movie • 1953
Miss Prissy (voice)
A Bear for Punishment
Movie • 1951
Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Baseball Bugs
Movie • 1946
The Statue of Liberty (voice) (uncredited)
On the Town
Movie • 1949
Brooklyn Girl on Subway (uncredited)
Gift Wrapped
Movie • 1952
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Two's a Crowd
Movie • 1950
(voice)
Bewitched Bunny
Movie • 1954
Witch Hazel / Gretel / Pretty Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
Chow Hound
Movie • 1951
Pet Owner
Feed the Kitty
Movie • 1952
Marc Anthony's Owner (voice) (uncredited)
For Scent-imental Reasons
Movie • 1949
Cat
Kiss Me Cat
Movie • 1953
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A Hare Grows in Manhattan
Movie • 1947
Lola Beverly (voice) (uncredited)
Pigs in a Polka
Movie • 1943
Second Little Pig (voice) (uncredited)
Putty Tat Trouble
Movie • 1951
Ladies letting cats out (voice) (uncredited)
Little Red Riding Rabbit
Movie • 1944
Little Red Riding Hood (voice) (uncredited)
A Gruesome Twosome
Movie • 1945
Girl Cat
Hare Force
Movie • 1944
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Kit for Cat
Movie • 1948
Beatrice (voice) (uncredited)
The Hep Cat
Movie • 1942
Bird
Tweety's S.O.S.
Movie • 1951
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Censored
Movie • 1944
Sally Lou (voice) (uncredited)
It's Murder She Says...
Movie • 1945
Anopheles Annie's Pal (voice)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel
Movie • 1950
The Fair Melissa (voice)
Tweetie Pie
Movie • 1947
Woman (voice) (uncredited)
Bear Feat
Movie • 1949
Ma Bear
Lovelorn Leghorn
Movie • 1951
Miss Prissy / Hazel / Hens (voice)
Book Revue
Movie • 1946
Bobby-Soxer / Lady on 'Freckles' Cover / Various Screams (voice)
Tweet Dreams
Movie • 1959
Various (voice)
Goofy Groceries
Movie • 1941
Cow / Can Can Dancers / Gorilla's Mother (voice) (uncredited)
Orange Blossoms for Violet
Movie • 1952
Violet (voice) (uncredited)
Goo Goo Goliath
Movie • 1954
Ethel (voice) (uncredited)
A Mouse Divided
Movie • 1953
Mrs. Sylvester / Female Mouse (voice) (uncredited)
Canary Row
Movie • 1950
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
Movie • 1944
Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Kiddin' the Kitten
Movie • 1952
Dodsworth's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
Ain't She Tweet
Movie • 1952
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Room and Bird
Movie • 1951
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
All a Bir-r-r-d
Movie • 1950
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Snow Business
Movie • 1953
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Puss n' Booty
Movie • 1943
Woman (voice)
An Egg Scramble
Movie • 1950
Miss Prissy / Hens / Housewife (voice)
Sandy Claws
Movie • 1955
Granny
Punch Trunk
Movie • 1953
Marsha, Delores
The Bear's Tale
Movie • 1940
Mama Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Tom Tom Tomcat
Movie • 1953
Granny (voice)
Little Red Rodent Hood
Movie • 1952
Granny Mouse (voice)
Plunderers of Painted Flats
Movie • 1959
Ella Heather
Terrier-Stricken
Movie • 1952
Frisky's Mistress (voice)
The First Time
Movie • 1952
Mrs. Potter
Wild Wife
Movie • 1954
Marsha, Daughter, Old Women with pennies, Beautician
The Hole Idea
Movie • 1955
Gertrude
The Weakly Reporter
Movie • 1944
Lady Buying Steak, Saleslady, Narrator, Cabbie, Lady with Bottle
Hollywood Canine Canteen
Movie • 1946
Female dog voices
A Hick, a Slick and a Chick
Movie • 1948
Daisy Lou (voice)
Doggone Cats
Movie • 1947
Dog's owner (voice)
Quentin Quail
Movie • 1946
Baby Toots (voice)
I Taw a Putty Tat
Movie • 1948
Woman (voice) (uncredited)
The Shooting of Dan McGoo
Movie • 1945
Lou (voice) (uncredited)
Black Widow
Movie • 1954
Mrs. Franklin Walsh (uncredited)
Hare Trimmed
Movie • 1953
Granny (voice)
Hare We Go
Movie • 1951
Queen Isabella (voice) (uncredited)
The Cats Bah
Movie • 1954
Penelope's Mistress (voice) (uncredited)
A Corny Concerto
Movie • 1943
Screams (voice) (uncredited)
The Bee-Deviled Bruin
Movie • 1949
Ma Bear (voice) (uncredited)
Confederate Honey
Movie • 1940
Crimson O'Hairoil (voice) (uncredited)
Cross Country Detours
Movie • 1940
Deer / Little Girl / Phone Operator (voice) (uncredited)
Scent-imental Over You
Movie • 1947
Narrator / Chihuahua (voice) (uncredited)
A Street Cat Named Sylvester
Movie • 1953
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Doggone Tired
Movie • 1949
Operator (voice) (uncredited)
Notorious
Movie • 1946
File Clerk (uncredited)
Hiss and Make Up
Movie • 1943
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
Movie • 1944
Additional Characterizations
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
Movie • 2010
Granny (voice)(archive footage)
Brother Brat
Movie • 1944
Baby Butch's Mom
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
Movie • 1981
Granny (voice)
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
Movie • 1982
Witch Hazel (voice)
Swooner Crooner
Movie • 1944
Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
The History of Hooterville
Movie • 2005
Self (archive footage)
Tender Is the Night
Movie • 1962
Mrs. McKisco
The Windblown Hare
Movie • 1949
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration
Movie • 1986
Betty Rubble (voice - archive footage)
Yankee Doodle Bugs
Movie • 1954
Various (voice) (uncredited)
Fowl Weather
Movie • 1953
Granny (voice) (uncredited)
Feather Dusted
Movie • 1955
Miss Prissy (voice)
A Midsummer Daydream
Movie • 1955
Woman
77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958
Mary Field
The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962
Cousin Pearl Bodine
The Flintstones
TV • 1960
Betty Rubble (voice)
I Love Lucy
TV • 1951
Miss Lewis
Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963
Kate Bradley
General Electric Theater
TV • 1953
Marie
Pete and Gladys
TV • 1960
Matinee Theater
TV • 1955
The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956
Self
The New Breed
TV • 1961
Miss Horne
Vacation Playhouse
TV • 1963
Sybil Murdock
The George Burns Show
TV • 1958
Blanche Morton
Peter Loves Mary
TV • 1960
Wilma
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
TV • 1950
Blanche Morton
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV • 1959
Telephone Operator (voice)
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Gertrude Gearshift
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Gertrude, switchboard operator
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Kate Bradley
Top Cat
TV • 1961
Mrs. Ball (voice)
Top Cat
TV • 1961
Julie / Mom (voice)
Top Cat
TV • 1961
Fancy's Girlfriend (voice)
Top Cat
TV • 1961
Fifi The Maid (voice)
Top Cat
TV • 1961
Girl Cat / Receptionist (voice)
Top Cat
TV • 1961
Receptionist (voice)
The Restless Gun
TV • 1957
Madame Brimstone
The Bob Cummings Show
TV • 1955
Dixie Yates
The Bob Cummings Show
TV • 1955
Blanche Morton
Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955
Woman
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Gertrude - Switchboard Operator (voice)
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Gertrude Gearshift - switchboard operator
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Peggy
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Gertrude, switchboard operator (voice)
The Jetsons
TV • 1962
Emily Scopes / Celeste Skyler (voice)
The Danny Kaye Show
TV • 1963
Self