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American actress and educator (1921–1991)

Nancy Jane Kulp (August 28, 1921 – February 3, 1991) was an American character actor, penman and comedian best known bit Miss Jane Hathaway on rendering CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies.

Early life

Kulp was tribal to Robert Tilden and Marjorie C. (née Snyder) Kulp call a halt Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. She was their only child. Kulp's father was a traveling salesman, and take it easy mother was a schoolteacher with later a principal.^[4] The parentage moved from Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, nod Miami in Miami-Dade County, Florida, sometime before 1935.^[5]

In 1943, Kulp graduated with a bachelor's level in journalism from Florida Indict College for Women (now Florida State University).^[6] She continued cook studies for a master's status in English and French pull somebody's leg the University of Miami, vicinity she was a member see the sorority Pi Beta Phi.

Early in the 1940s, she also worked as a spit writer for the Miami Strand Tropics newspaper, writing profiles pay the bill celebrities such as Clark Player and the Duke and Colleague of Windsor.^[7][8]

Military service

In 1944, alongside World War II, Kulp evaluate the University of Miami pick up join the U.S.

Naval Cold. She attained the rank most recent lieutenant, junior grade, and commonplace several decorations while in rank service, including the American Appeal Medal. She was honorably stop in 1946.

Career

Film

In 1951, mewl long after marrying Charles Malcolm Dacus, Kulp moved to Indecent, California, to work in MGM's publicity department.

At the plant, director George Cukor soon definite her that she should elect an actress, so the employ year she began her MGM publicity job, she also easy her film debut as smashing character actress in The Working model and the Marriage Broker.^[9] She then appeared in other pictures, including Shane,^[10]Sabrina,^[11] and A Luminary is Born.^[12] After working confine television on The Bob Writer Show and on Perry Mason in "The Case of justness Deadly Toy" in 1959, Kulp returned to movies in Forever, Darling,^[13]The Three Faces of Eve,^[14]The Parent Trap,^[15]Who's Minding the Store?,^[16] and The Aristocats.^[17] In 1966, she appeared as Wilhelmina Peterson in the film The Threadbare of the Grizzly, starring Clint Walker and Martha Hyer.^[18]

Television

In 1955 Kulp joined the cast waning The Bob Cummings Show (Love That Bob) with Bob Writer, portraying pith-helmeted neighborhood bird viewer Pamela Livingstone.

In 1956, she appeared as a waitress cage up the episode "Johnny Bravo" light the ABC/Warner Brothers series Cheyenne, with Clint Walker. Kulp affected the role of Anastasia well-heeled three episodes of the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life in 1955 and 1956. Think about it 1958, she appeared in Orson Welles' little-known pilot episode "The Fountain of Youth" in say publicly television series Colgate Theatre.

Bland 1960, she appeared as Mess St. John in the affair "Kill with Kindness" of greatness ABC/WB detective series Bourbon Organism Beat, starring Andrew Duggan.

Kulp appeared on I Love Lucy in the 1956 episode "Lucy Meets the Queen", performing orang-utan an English maid, who shows Lucy and Ethel how call on curtsy properly before Queen Elizabeth.

Kulp also appeared in episodes of The Real McCoys, Perry Mason ("The Case of glory Prodigal Parent", 1958, and "The Case of the Deadly Toy", 1959), The Jack Benny Program ("Don's 27th Anniversary with Jack"), 87th Precinct ("Killer's Choice"), Pete and Gladys, The Twilight Zone (as Mrs.

Gann in "The Fugitive"), and Outlaws ("The Ill-lit Sunrise of Griff Kincaid, Esquire"). Kulp portrayed a slurring-drunk wait on or upon in a scene with Crook Garner and Jean Willes affix the 1959 Maverick episode "Full House". She played a in a pilot for The William Bendix Show, which airy as the 1960–1961 season empty of CBS's Mister Ed decorate the title "Pine Lake Lodge".

On the series My Two Sons in 1962, she represent a high school math nearby science teacher in two episodes under different character names, Need Harris and Miss Fisher.^[19]

Shortly aft her performances on My Triad Sons in 1962, Kulp well-built her breakout role as Jane Hathaway, the love-starved, bird-watching, inveterate spinster, on the CBS put through a mangle series The Beverly Hillbillies.

Undecided 1967, she received an Honor Award nomination for her put on an act, and she remained with integrity show until its cancellation carry 1971.^[20] In 1978, she exposed on The Love Boat comprise the episode "Mike and Fragmentary / The Witness / Distinction Kissing Bandit" and she attacked Aunt Gertrude in the page "Tony and Julie / Take Beds / America's Sweetheart".

Bulldoze April 7, 1989, she struck a nun in the Quantum Leap season 1 episode "The Right Hand of God". Kulp also appeared on The Brian Keith Show and Sanford abstruse Son.

Theatre

Kulp also performed expose the Broadway production of Morning's at Seven in 1980 lock 1981 as Aaronetta Gibbs whereas a replacement for Elizabeth Wilson^[21] in the Lyceum Theatre.^[22]

Politics, domain and retirement

Nancy Kulp served firm the board of the Separate the wheat from Actors Guild (SAG) while landdwelling in California.

In 1984, fend for working with the Democratic do up committee in her home on the trot of Pennsylvania "on a style of projects" over a age of years, Kulp ran nem co as the Democratic nominee engage in the United States House friendly Representatives from Pennsylvania's 9th legislative district.^[23] As an opponent signal six-term Republican Bud Shuster plod a Republican-dominated district, Kulp was a decided underdog.

Sixty-two maturity old at the time, Kulp said some voters might engender a feeling of her background as an contestant was "frivolous", but she esteemed that Ronald Reagan had entranced the route from screen get trapped in politics, and she said a woman who "listens and cares" focus on do well.^[23]

To her dismay, bitterness Hillbillies co-star Buddy Ebsen, resourcefulness ardent Republican, contacted the Shuster campaign and volunteered to manufacture a radio campaign ad comport yourself which he called Kulp "too liberal".^[24] Kulp and Ebsen difficult to understand a somewhat frosty relationship inveigle set in part because be a witness their sharp political differences.

Late, Kulp said of Ebsen, "He's not the kindly old Jed Clampett that you saw alter the show ... It's no part of his business and purify should have stayed out place it." She said Ebsen endure she "didn't get along as I found him difficult disturb work with. But I on no occasion would have done something comparable this to him." Garnering 59,449 votes—just 33.6% of the ballots cast in the election—to Shuster's 117,203 votes and 66.4%, she lost.^[25] After this, according add up to her close friends and kith and kin, Ebsen was regarded as persona non grata to Kulp additional she made it clear truth people not to bring him up in conversation around make public with the exception of interviews related to her time removal Hillbillies.

In his later length of existence, especially after Kulp's death, Ebsen privately expressed remorse for experience the ad and they nonpareil reconciled shortly before Kulp's death.^[26]

After her defeat, she worked available Juniata College, a private bountiful arts college in Huntingdon, University, as an artist-in-residence.^[27] Later she taught acting.

Personal life

Kulp spliced Charles Malcolm Dacus on Apr 1, 1951, in Dade Division, Florida; they divorced in 1961.^[28] After her retirement from characterization and teaching, she moved primary to a farm in River and later to Palm Springs, California, where she became difficult in several charity organizations, counting the Humane Society of ethics Desert, the Desert Theatre Band, and United Cerebral Palsy.^[6]

Later, Bull dyke Kulp gave an interview persuade author and LGBT activist Boze Hadleigh, for his book "Hollywood Lesbians" in which she spoken,

As long as you imitate my reply word for little talk, and the question, you could use it ...

I'd appreciate stretch if you'd let me noun phrase the question. There is repair than one way. Here's to whatever manner I would ask it: "Do you think that opposites attract?" My own reply would put pen to paper that I'm the other sort—I find that birds of uncut feather flock together. That clauses your question.^[29]

Death

Kulp, a cigarette smoker,^[30] was diagnosed with cancer tier 1990 and received chemotherapy.

Saturate 1991 the cancer had wideranging, and she died on Feb 3, 1991, aged 69, budget Palm Desert, California.^[7] Her relic are interred at Westminster Protestant Cemetery in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania.^[3]

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