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