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Elvia Allman
She was not a great beauty--her credit in the Bob Hope/Bing Crosby comic adventure "Road to Signapore" is simply "Homely Girl"--but Elvia Allman carved out an impressive 70-year career in radio, television, and movies sparring with legendary comedians like George Burns, Jack Benny, and Lucille Ball. Fans of Ball's classic sitcom "I Love Lucy" will forever remember Allman as the chocolate factory foreman who puts Lucy and best friend Ethel on that ever-accelerating assembly line in the iconic 1952 episode "Job Switching." Allman also had recurring roles on two classic '60s sitcoms: Elverna Bradshaw, Granny's longtime rival, on "The Beverly Hillbillies" and the meddling Selma Plout on "Petticoat Junction." Before her lengthy career onscreen, Allman--who started her radio career in 1926 at Los Angeles's KHJ--provided the voice for Disney's Clarabelle Cow. She was married three times, including to legendary (and notorious) sports promoter/agent Charles "C.C." Pyle, until his death in 1939.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 76% |
|
The Prince and the Pauper | Clarabelle Cow (Voice) | - | 1990 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Honeymoon Hotel | Mrs. Sampson (Character) | - | 1964 |
| 82% |
|
The Nutty Professor | Edwina Kelp (Character) | - | 1963 |
| 88% |
|
Breakfast at Tiffany's | Librarian (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Pleasure of His Company | Mrs. Mooney (Character) | - | 1961 |
| No Score Yet |
|
You Can't Run Away From It | Ma (Character) | - | 1956 |
| No Score Yet |
|
The Noose Hangs High | Woman (uncredited) (Character) | - | 1948 |
| No Score Yet |
|
In Society | Hysterical Widow (Character) | - | 1944 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Time Out for Rhythm | Cobrina (Character) | - | 1941 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Winning Ticket | Unknown (Voice) | - | 1938 |
TV
| Credit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Score Yet | 64% | Highway to Heaven | Mrs. Alexander (Guest Star) | 1985 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Alice | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982-1983 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Gimme a Break | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1982 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Odd Couple | Mrs. Madison (Guest Star) | 1973 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Doris Day Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1970-1972 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Petticoat Junction | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 1965-1970 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Beverly Hillbillies | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1963 1969 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Lucy Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1966-1967 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Three Sons | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1967 |
| 83% | 92% | The Munsters | Mrs. Harkness (Guest Star) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | 48% | Bewitched | Mrs. Luftwaffe (Guest Star) | 1966 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Green Acres | Cora Watson (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Smothers Brothers Show | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Dick Van Dyke Show | Mrs. Glimscher (Guest Star) | 1963 1965 |
| 100% | 91% | The Addams Family | Princess Millicent (Guest Star) | 1965 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | My Favorite Martian | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1964 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wagon Train | Sabrina (Guest Star) | 1962 1964 |
| No Score Yet | 88% | The Andy Griffith Show | Henrietta Swanson (Guest Star) | 1961 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Perry Mason | Mrs. Forbes (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bachelor Father | Unknown (Guest Star) | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blondie | Cora Dithers (Character) | 1957 |
| No Score Yet | 97% | I Love Lucy | Minnie's Neighbor with glasses and a hat (Guest Star) | 1952 1954-1955 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | I Married Joan | Aunt Vera (Guest Star) | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Abbott & Costello Show | Stinky's Mother (Guest Star) | 1952 |