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Barbara Pepper (born Marion B. Pepper; May 31, 1915 – July 18, 1969) was an American stage, television, radio, and film actress. She is best known as the first "Doris Ziffel" on the sitcom Green Acres. Pepper was born in New York City, the daughter of actor David Mitchell "Dave" Pepper, and his wife, Harrietta S. Pepper. At age 16 she started life in show business with Goldwyn Girls, a musical stock company where she met lifelong friend Lucille Ball.
Pepper began making movies. Among her later film parts were small roles in My Fair Lady and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. She also performed radio parts. In 1943, she married actor Craig Reynolds (né Harold Hugh Enfield), and the couple later had two sons. After Reynolds died in 1949 in a California motorcycle accident, Pepper was left to raise their children alone. She never remarried.
After gaining weight, her roles were mostly confined to small character parts on television, including several appearances on I Love Lucy, The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Petticoat Junction, and The Jack Benny Program. She made four appearances on Perry Mason, including the role of Martha Dale, mother of the title character, in the 1957 episode "The Case of the Vagabond Vixen".
A long-time friend of Lucille Ball, Barbara was considered for the role of Ethel Mertz on "I Love Lucy," but was passed over due to the fact that she was reportedly a drinker. William Frawley ("Fred Mertz") was, likewise, reportedly, a drinker and was already cast. It was felt that having two drinkers in the cast might eventually cause difficulties so they auditioned and found Vivian Vance to play Ethel instead.
She may be best remembered as the first Doris Ziffel on Petticoat Junction in 1964, although her character's name on the "Genghis Keane" episode of Petticoat Junction was Ruth Ziffel. Her role as Doris Ziffel continued on Green Acres from 1965 to 1968, until heart ailments finally forced her to leave that weekly series. Veteran actress Fran Ryan replaced her on Green Acres, which would continue to run for another three years. Her final performance was in the 1969 film Hook, Line & Sinker, in which she played Jerry Lewis's secretary.
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15 September 1950
A daffy door-to-door saleswoman blunders into a murder investigation.
30 October 1942
Andy, the owner of a bicycle shop, gets involved with one of his customers.
04 December 1936
Investigators set out to capture a gang of thieves transporting stolen cash through the U.S. mail.
23 February 1940
A young newspaper reporter finds himself framed for murder.
12 June 1942
The Army takes a bandleader (Kay Kyser) away from his bride (Ellen Drew) and sends him on a spy mission with a woman (Jane Wyman).
02 December 1935
In this high-flying mystery set aboard a cross-country flight to New York, some of the passengers are kidnappers who are trying to locate a hidden cache of loot.
15 December 1938
In this drama, a New York physician takes a much-needed vacation down South. Unfortunately, he encounters a nurse working in the backwoods and ends up helping her to combat an epidemic that rages through the mountain communities.
04 December 1936
Get ready for a roller-coaster trip of emotion with this campy collection from the golden age of Hollywood!
19 March 1943
Andy innocently becomes involved with a female customer; his wife jumps to the wrong conclusion and walks out on him.
01 April 1944
High-school student Henry Aldrich hopes to improve his grades by finding a sweetheart for his unmarried teacher.
20 June 1945
In the gay '90s, cardsharps take over a Mississippi riverboat from a kindly captain. Their first act is to change the showboat into a floating gambling house.
18 April 1938
A small town soda jerk discovers a gang of criminals staying at a local hotel. Comedy.
20 March 1943
Old rivals are pitted against each other in basic training and fight for the same woman.
21 November 1946
The Durango Kid (Charles Starrett) returns to Ret Butte intending to sell his cattle ranch. Saloon owner, Duke Catlett (Lane Chandler) is the secret owner of a sheep flock which graze on the cattle lands--leaving them useless for cattle.
04 October 1935
When a young man is befriended by a gambling ship operator and made a partner in the business, he becomes involved in a police manhunt after he covers up a murder committed by his new partner.
07 March 1952
Gil Lamb, window washer at the "Daily Record" has aspirations of becoming a reporter and marrying Carol Hughes, the city editor's secretary.
22 April 1938
A detective investigates the disappearance of a girl's body from the city morgue.
09 April 1937
An heiress and a dog-catcher go searching for a priceless stamp.
11 May 1934
A failed poet ends up becoming a gag writer for a bombastic comedian.
12 August 1953
When selfish and arrogant millionaire Donald Carson fractures his leg during a desert vacation, his wife, Geraldine, leaves with their friend Joseph Duncan to supposedly get help.
01 September 1939
A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays.
16 August 1940
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war.
28 August 1939
Spinner McGee, devil-may-care mail pilot volunteers his courage and skill for the task of raising $100,000 to save the small airport owned by Pop Hussey from being condemned.
24 August 1960
Collins College needs a new department head for their science department, so Doctors Carter and Zorch consult Thinko, the campus computer, and come up with Dr.
30 October 1937
A detective must solve a case where a girl was murdered in a room--and all the doors and windows were locked from the inside.
23 July 1937
A small-town veterinarian inherits $2 million from an uncle he barely knew. His attempts to help mankind don't go smoothly.
15 July 1953
Film biography of opera star Grace Moore, released in 1953.
15 September 1950
Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby.
27 July 1936
The third film version of the Bret Harte tale, starring Anne Shirley as a miner's daughter in a small town who falls for a handsome young schoolteacher.
27 November 1933
A kind-hearted young man is thrown out of his corrupt home town of West Rome, Oklahoma. He falls asleep and dreams that he is back in the days of olden Rome, where he gets mixed up with court intrigue and a murder plot against the Emperor.
09 October 1936
A quarterback stands against gangsters out to control the college sports scene.
19 June 1962
Traveling con artist Harold Hill targets the naïve residents of a small town in 1910s Iowa by posing as a boys' bandleader to raise money before he can skip town.
17 October 1941
Three men survive a plane crashes on an uncharted Pacific island, south of Tahiti. One falls in love with the the daughter of the tribe's leader, heiress to the throne after the death of her brother, who is as savage as her pet leopard.
15 May 1935
Let 'Em Have It is a 1935 gangster film. It was also known as The Legion of Valour and False Faces. An FBI agent tracks down a gang leader.
22 November 1939
Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary.
23 December 1938
A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.
15 March 1940
A disillusioned factory worker is charged with the attempted murder of her mother's lover.
04 December 1958
Mame Dennis, a progressive and independent woman of the 1920s, is left to care for her nephew Patrick after his wealthy father dies.
16 August 1950
Two hoodlum brothers are brought into hospital for gunshot wounds, and when one dies, the other accuses their Black doctor of murder.
01 October 1954
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
02 October 1934
John and Mary Sims are city-dwellers hit hard by the financial fist of The Depression. Driven by bravery (and sheer desperation) they flee to the country and, with the help of other workers, set up a farming community - a socialist mini-society.
05 June 1942
A honeymoon couple in New York for one night of wedded bliss before he's to join the army, become involved with gangsters after they find a cadaver under their bed.
14 October 1937
Ford Sterling is married to a very jealous wife, who has a hobby of collecting French dolls. In order to keep her appeased and unsuspecting.
21 February 1938
A boxer is killed in the ring, and the only clue is a tune that a man was whistling.
24 December 1939
An intellectually disabled giant and his level headed guardian find work at a sadistic cowboy's ranch in depression era America.
01 August 1943
Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber--Abner's homemade licorice.
04 August 1943
A soldier stationed on an army base and his fiancé, who runs a women's "fat farm" nearby, want to get married but don't have enough money.
23 June 1945
Pete Marshall is sent as a replacement to the mountain district town of Plainville when a public opinion surveyor who went there goes missing.
05 January 1956
Billie hires an odd man as the new pin boy at her bowling alley, but quickly fires him because of his violent outbursts.
25 February 1941
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune.
24 February 1960
A young doctor returns to his Massachusetts home town at the request of a terminally ill old friend.
17 May 1943
A fired teacher finds work at a girls reform school and helps a detective on a case.
31 December 1949
An illiterate stooge in a traveling medicine show wanders into a strange town and is picked up on a vagrancy charge.
21 January 1939
A boxer flees, believing he has committed a murder while he was drunk.
30 June 1939
Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a foundling.
22 December 1964
While traveling home from Vegas, an amorous lounge singer named Dino gets conned by a local mechanic/songwriter into staying in town for the night.
17 May 1936
Despite her mother's objections, the naive young daughter of a show boat captain is thrust into the limelight as the company's new leading lady.
16 April 1943
Harry's buddy comes over with his fiance. Harry's wife calls on the phone, hears a woman's voice and gets the wrong idea.
13 February 1963
Dr. Matthew Clark is the head of a state institution for intellectually disabled children. Jean Hansen, a former music teacher anxious to give her life some meaning, joins the staff of the hospital.
02 May 1945
A pair of gangsters are under the mistaken impression that three goofballs know the location of a valuable stolen necklace.
