When someone stumbles across a photo of Irene Ryan from the 1960s and then sees her character on The Beverly Hillbillies, one ...

Filming on location brought The Beverly Hillbillies cast to some wild places—including a water park! In this behind-the-scenes shot, Granny (Irene Ryan), Jethro (Max Baer Jr.) and Elly May ...

Don't miss reading our other stories all about The Beverly Hillbillies Irene Ryan was born Irene Noblitt on October 17, 1902 in El Paso, Texas. She was the younger (by 17 years) sister to Anna ...

In 1962, CBS struck gold with The Beverly Hillbillies cast in a sitcom about ... died in 2003 at age 95. Irene Ryan, a former vaudeville star who played Granny Clampett, died in 1973 at age ...

Paul Henning, 93, the television writer and producer who created "The Beverly Hillbillies," which was one of the biggest hits of the 1960s and spawned the popular rural-comedy spinoffs "Petticoat ...

Decades before The Beverly Hillbillies ... and as soon as Irene Ryan read the part, Bea came over to me and she says ‘There’s Granny,'” Henning remembered. The Beverly Hillbillies creator ...

Donna Douglas, who played hillbilly bombshell Elly May Clampett on the baby-boomer-beloved 1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies ... (he died in 2003) and Irene Ryan (she died in 1973) as Granny ...

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2009 file photo, Donna Douglas, who starred in the television series "The Beverly Hillbillies" holds ... the late Buddy Ebsen and Irene Ryan as well as Max Baer Jr., who ...

THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, Irene Ryan, Max Baer Jr., Donna Douglas, Tom Smothers, Dick Smothers on location (ca. 1964) Irene Ryan, with her alter ego, THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES' Granny Clampett, 1963 ...

critter-loving Elly May Clampett on the 1960s fish-out-of-water CBS sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, died on New Year’s Day. The goofy Filmways Television series, which also starred Irene Ryan as ...