TMZ Photo: Donna "Ellie Mae Clampett" Douglas at 75

[Amerigo Vespucci]

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

1. Ouch!

Who picked that shade of lipstick?

[KittyWampus]

2. I wish her good health. TV has changed a bit since her heyday.

[NoPasaran]

3. Too much time by the cement pond

[tishaLA]

4. now I know what happened to Baby Jane

[mitchum]

5. I have a friend who was a writer on the show and he says that she was the only clean-liver...

in the cast. The rest were heavy duty drinkers and were often quite soused during filming. Lines were written all over the set.
True story.
Clampett Babylon!

[DevonRex]

7. I think they pretty much had to be soused to say whee doggie and

wear those clothes. :)

[Yavin4]

13. If You Were On The Beverly Hillbillies, You'd Be Drinking Too

The show was not high brow entertainment.

[Mopar151]

14. Booze - the secret of Charlie Chan's inscrutability n/t

[mitchum]

16. True, but there were also sly digs at cultural trends/foibles of the time...

and, as a Southern California fetishist, I also enjoyed how they used, and made reference to, actual locations- the Sunset Strip, Griffith Park, Pismo Beach, etc.

[BurtWorm]

24. I'm with you, mitchum

I dug them hillbillies. They was kin to Green Acres, after all.

[pink-o]

6. She was also the "beauty" in Twilight Zone's "Eye of the Beholder"

Remember, "Janet Tyler", who was under the knife for the 11th time, trying to look like less of a "freak". She's upset that children scream at her in the street, but it turns out, she's gorgeous and everyone else is pig-nosed and hideous.

Now, it looks like kids have a reason to scream!

[Beaverhausen]

8. I think she looks lovely

I hope I look that good at 75.

[triguy46]

9. From what we can tell, she does seem to be a good person. That says a lot.

[Mopar151]

15. I rember reading that her affinity for "critters" was real

And continued long after the show. She went into real estate, I think.

[GoCubsGo]

10. I agree.

She looks a heck of a lot better than many women who are 20 years younger than she is.

[ChickMagic]

30. +1

I think she looks fine. I'd be happy to look
that good NOW.

[Orrex]

11. I'm not thrilled about the outfit, but I'd say that she looks just fine.

[Sanity Claws]

12. Her face looks lovely

The problem is the makeup and hairstyle.
If she had a stylist who gave her more current and age appropriate makeup and hair, you'd think she looked great, particularly for a 75 year old woman.

[begin_within]

17. Reminds me of

a Baby Jane Hudson doll

[Captain Hilts]

18. She's aged. You got a problem with that?

[sarge43]

28. Thank you, Cap.

What's 75 suppose to look like anyway?

[Stevenmarc]

19. She's fine, but lose the Ellie Mae hair it's a little too Delta Dawn

Very faded rose from days gone by.

[tilsammans]

20. I want to look that good when I'm 75!

:applause:
But her stylin' is a little -- how you say? -- severe.

[blue neen]

21. Ah, she doesn't look so bad.

With different make-up and a different wig, she'd look pretty good for 75!

Plus, she seems like a nice person.

[AsahinaKimi]

22. Wow..just found this..

Donna Douglas had the least show business experience when she became the beauteous Elly May. Born in 1933, she didn't pursue a show business career until 1957. Before that, she had won some beauty contests including Miss New Orleans, got married, had a son and divorced. She decided to go to New York where she started out being a model in toothpaste ads.

She started getting a few television appearances including The Perry Como Show, The Steve Allen Show and then The Ed Sullivan Show. A producer liked what he saw on The Ed Sullivan Show and she then had a few movies including Career (1959), L'il Abner (1959) and Lover Come Back (1961). She also appeared in a number of television shows like The Twilight Zone and Ozzie and Harriet. Her one starring role came in 1966 while on hiatus from the show. She played along with Elvis Presley in Frankie and Johnny.

Donna is a devout Christian and often performs singing gospel music and has recorded a couple of albums. She speaks at churches across the country as well as at schools and college campuses. She also wrote a children's book featuring Bible stories about animals called Donna's Critters & Kids: Children's Stories with a Bible Touch.

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She was quite stunning.

[joeybee12]

23. Lose the hair and she'd look good for 75...n/t

[Demoiselle]

26. You beat me to it..

A simpler hair style in a more natural color, and dial down the sparklies, and you have a very attractive older woman.
There are makeup tricks that work better for older women too.
(Too much paint accentuates the ruts, so to speak.)

[BurtWorm]

25. If we didn't know she was Ellie Mae, we'd think she was a right pretty lady.

Bettie Page was pretty her whole life, but she didn't allow portraits of herself to be published after a certain age because she didn't want to spoil the illusion that the BP of the 1950s ever aged.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

27. I think she looks great for a 75 year old woman

sure the hair and outfit rub against our cultural grain, because 75 year old women, they are supposed to be completely asexual crones, aren't they? :(

If I wanted to live to be 75, I would hope to look as good.

[Vidar]

29. She looks fine for 75.

[NNadir]

31. It is a beautiful thing to grow old. The alternative of course, is dying young.

For a life, I'd prefer Ms. Douglas than Marilyn Monroe.