Editing Bea Benaderet
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Benaderet relocated to Hollywood in 1936 and joined radio station [[KHJ (AM)|KHJ]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1939/1939-10-01-BC.pdf|title=Purely Previews: For Night Listeners |work=Broadcast Advertising|date=October 1, 1939|page=60|access-date=July 30, 2017}}</ref> making her [[Radio network|network radio]] debut with [[Orson Welles]] for his [[Mercury Theatre]] repertory company heard on ''[[The Campbell Playhouse (radio series)|The Campbell Playhouse]]''.<ref name="TCM" /><ref name="orsonwelles">{{cite web|url=http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2010/09/betty-rubble-meets-orson-welles.html|title=Betty Rubble Meets Orson Welles|work=yowpyowp.blogspot.com|date=September 9, 2010|access-date=July 19, 2017}}</ref> The following year she received her first big break in the industry on ''[[The Jack Benny Program]]'', where she played Gertrude Gearshift, a wisecracking [[Switchboard operator|telephone operator]] who gossiped about [[Jack Benny]] with her cohort Mabel Flapsaddle ([[Sara Berner]]).<ref name="maguire">{{cite web|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Life/40s/47/Radio-Life-1947-11-09.pdf|title=Benny's Switchboard Sweeties|last=Maguire|first=Judy|date=November 9, 1947|work=Radio Life|page=7|access-date= July 16, 2017}}</ref><ref name="berner">{{cite web|url=http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2012/05/rise-of-sara-berner.html|title=Transradio Star Gazer|first=Bob|last=Kalb|work=source unknown; reprinted on tralfaz.blogspot.com|date=January 21, 1949|access-date=July 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>Busch, Noel F. (February 3, 1947). "Jack Benny, Inc.: Comedian mixes a fiddle, a feud and stock characters in formula which has paid off for 15 years". ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', pg. 85. Retrieved July 16, 2017.</ref> Intended as a one-time appearance, the pair became a recurring role starting in the 1945–46 season, and in early 1947, Benaderet and Berner momentarily took over the NBC [[Telephone switchboard|switchboards]] in Hollywood for publicity photos.<ref name="maguire" /> She performed in as many as five shows daily,<ref name="erskine">{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/54900025/|title='Higgins' Keeps ''Petticoat Junction'' Cast on Its Toes|first=Erskine|last=Johnson|author-link=Erskine Johnson|agency=Associated Press|publisher=[[North Adams Transcript]]|page=24|date=November 19, 1964|access-date=August 11, 2017}}</ref> causing her rehearsal dates to conflict with those of ''The Jack Benny Program'' and resulting in her reading live as Gertrude from a marked script she was handed upon entering the studio.<ref name="erskine" /> |
Benaderet relocated to Hollywood in 1936 and joined radio station [[KHJ (AM)|KHJ]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1939/1939-10-01-BC.pdf|title=Purely Previews: For Night Listeners |work=Broadcast Advertising|date=October 1, 1939|page=60|access-date=July 30, 2017}}</ref> making her [[Radio network|network radio]] debut with [[Orson Welles]] for his [[Mercury Theatre]] repertory company heard on ''[[The Campbell Playhouse (radio series)|The Campbell Playhouse]]''.<ref name="TCM" /><ref name="orsonwelles">{{cite web|url=http://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2010/09/betty-rubble-meets-orson-welles.html|title=Betty Rubble Meets Orson Welles|work=yowpyowp.blogspot.com|date=September 9, 2010|access-date=July 19, 2017}}</ref> The following year she received her first big break in the industry on ''[[The Jack Benny Program]]'', where she played Gertrude Gearshift, a wisecracking [[Switchboard operator|telephone operator]] who gossiped about [[Jack Benny]] with her cohort Mabel Flapsaddle ([[Sara Berner]]).<ref name="maguire">{{cite web|url=http://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-Radio-Life/40s/47/Radio-Life-1947-11-09.pdf|title=Benny's Switchboard Sweeties|last=Maguire|first=Judy|date=November 9, 1947|work=Radio Life|page=7|access-date= July 16, 2017}}</ref><ref name="berner">{{cite web|url=http://tralfaz.blogspot.com/2012/05/rise-of-sara-berner.html|title=Transradio Star Gazer|first=Bob|last=Kalb|work=source unknown; reprinted on tralfaz.blogspot.com|date=January 21, 1949|access-date=July 27, 2017}}</ref><ref>Busch, Noel F. (February 3, 1947). "Jack Benny, Inc.: Comedian mixes a fiddle, a feud and stock characters in formula which has paid off for 15 years". ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', pg. 85. Retrieved July 16, 2017.</ref> Intended as a one-time appearance, the pair became a recurring role starting in the 1945–46 season, and in early 1947, Benaderet and Berner momentarily took over the NBC [[Telephone switchboard|switchboards]] in Hollywood for publicity photos.<ref name="maguire" /> She performed in as many as five shows daily,<ref name="erskine">{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/54900025/|title='Higgins' Keeps ''Petticoat Junction'' Cast on Its Toes|first=Erskine|last=Johnson|author-link=Erskine Johnson|agency=Associated Press|publisher=[[North Adams Transcript]]|page=24|date=November 19, 1964|access-date=August 11, 2017}}</ref> causing her rehearsal dates to conflict with those of ''The Jack Benny Program'' and resulting in her reading live as Gertrude from a marked script she was handed upon entering the studio.<ref name="erskine" /> |
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Other recurring characters Benaderet portrayed were Blanche Morton on ''[[Burns and Allen#Radio|The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show]]''; school principal Eve Goodwin on ''[[The Great Gildersleeve]]''; Millicent Carstairs on ''[[Fibber McGee & Molly]]''; maid Gloria on ''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]'';<ref name="leonard">{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/149359703/|title=Boss at Shady Rest|first=Vince|last=Leonard|work=The Pittsburgh Press|date=May 31, 1964|access-date=August 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1964/10/18/page/295/article/display-ad-229-no-title|title=Voice as Famous as Face|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|first=Larry|last=Wolters|date=October 18, 1964|access-date=August 6, 2017}}</ref> and Iris Atterbury on the [[Lucille Ball]] vehicle ''[[My Favorite Husband]]'', opposite [[Gale Gordon]]. Benaderet voiced various one-time parts before joining the main cast as Iris, neighbor and friend of Ball's character Liz Cooper.<ref name="opp" /> The 1950 CBS program ''[[Granby's Green Acres]]'', a perceived spinoff of ''My Favorite Husband'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mercurie.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-50th-anniversary-of-green-acres.html|title=The 50th Anniversary of ''Green Acres''|work=A Shroud of Thoughts|first=Terence|last=Towles Canote|date=September 15, 2015|access-date=July 17, 2017}}</ref> was her one radio lead role and reunited her with Gordon as a husband and wife who abandon city life to become farmers, but it lasted only eight episodes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Granby%27s+Green+Acres|title=Granby's Green Acres|author=J. David Goldin|work=radioGOLDINdex|access-date=July 17, 2017 |
Other recurring characters Benaderet portrayed were Blanche Morton on ''[[Burns and Allen#Radio|The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show]]''; school principal Eve Goodwin on ''[[The Great Gildersleeve]]''; Millicent Carstairs on ''[[Fibber McGee & Molly]]''; maid Gloria on ''[[The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet]]'';<ref name="leonard">{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/149359703/|title=Boss at Shady Rest|first=Vince|last=Leonard|work=The Pittsburgh Press|date=May 31, 1964|access-date=August 6, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1964/10/18/page/295/article/display-ad-229-no-title|title=Voice as Famous as Face|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|first=Larry|last=Wolters|date=October 18, 1964|access-date=August 6, 2017}}</ref> and Iris Atterbury on the [[Lucille Ball]] vehicle ''[[My Favorite Husband]]'', opposite [[Gale Gordon]]. Benaderet voiced various one-time parts before joining the main cast as Iris, neighbor and friend of Ball's character Liz Cooper.<ref name="opp" /> The 1950 CBS program ''[[Granby's Green Acres]]'', a perceived spinoff of ''My Favorite Husband'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mercurie.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-50th-anniversary-of-green-acres.html|title=The 50th Anniversary of ''Green Acres''|work=A Shroud of Thoughts|first=Terence|last=Towles Canote|date=September 15, 2015|access-date=July 17, 2017}}</ref> was her one radio lead role and reunited her with Gordon as a husband and wife who abandon city life to become farmers, but it lasted only eight episodes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Granby%27s+Green+Acres|title=Granby's Green Acres|author=J. David Goldin|work=radioGOLDINdex|access-date=July 17, 2017}}</ref> |
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