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Barbara Pepper is a Actor American born on 31 may 1915 at New York City (USA)

Barbara Pepper

Barbara Pepper
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Birth name Marion Pepper
Nationality USA
Birth 31 may 1915 at New York City (USA)
Death 18 july 1969 (at 54 years) at Panorama City, Los Angeles (USA)

Barbara Pepper (May 31, 1915 – July 18, 1969) was an American stage, television, radio, and film actress. She is best known as the first "Doris Ziffel" on the sitcom Green Acres.

Biography

Barbara Pepper a commencé sa carrière sur scène à l'âge de 16 ans avec les Ziegfeld Follies où elle se prit d'amitié avec Lucille Ball.

Elle se produisit ensuite au cinéma et à la radio, jusqu'au décès accidentel de son mari en 1949 qui la laisse sonnée, tombant rapidement dans l'alcoolisme, prenant trop de poids, ce qui ne lui laisse d'autre choix que d'accepter de petits rôles sans intérêt, notamment dans My Fair Lady et Un monde fou, fou, fou, fou, et dans la série télévisée I Love Lucy.

On se souvient principalement d'elle grâce à son rôle de « Doris Ziffel » pour la série télévisée Les Arpents verts (Green Acres), rôle qu'elle tint de 1965 à 1968. Une santé défaillante l'éloigna du petit écran et le rôle de Doris a été repris par l'actrice Fran Ryan.

Best films

So This Is Washington (1943)
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Filmography of Barbara Pepper (84 films)

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Actress

Kiss Me, Stupid, 2h6
Directed by Billy Wilder
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Films about classical music and musicians, Jazz films, Musical films, Films based on plays, Erotic thriller films
Actors Dean Martin, Kim Novak, Ray Walston, Felicia Farr, Cliff Osmond, Barbara Pepper
Roles Big Bertha
Rating69% 3.4509353.4509353.4509353.4509353.450935
While driving his Dual-Ghia from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, lecherous, heavy-drinking pop singer Dino (Dean Martin) is forced to detour through Climax, Nevada. There he meets the amateur songwriting team of Barney Millsap (Cliff Osmond), a gas station attendant, and piano teacher Orville J. Spooner (Ray Walston), a man easily given to jealousy. Hoping to interest Dino in their songs, Barney disables the "Italian" sports car and tells Dino he will need to remain in town until new parts arrive from Milan. (Dual-Ghia was actually an American marque, mating a Dodge frame, drivetrain, and engine with Italian coachwork.
A Child Is Waiting, 1h42
Directed by John Cassavetes
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about children, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Films about autism, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland, Barbara Pepper, Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill, Paul Stewart
Roles Miss Brown (uncredited)
Rating71% 3.5947653.5947653.5947653.5947653.594765
Jean Hansen, a Juilliard graduate, joins the staff of the Crawthorne State Mental Hospital and immediately clashes with the director, Dr. Matthew Clark, about his strict training methods. She becomes emotionally involved with 12-year-old Reuben Widdicombe (Bruce Ritchey), and is certain his attitude will improve if he is reunited with the divorced parents who abandoned him. She sends for Mrs. Widdicombe, who agrees with the doctor's opinion that it would be best if Reuben doesn't see her, but as she leaves the grounds, her son sees her and chases her car. Distraught, he runs away from the school.
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 2h34
Directed by Stanley Kramer, Carey Loftin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Heist films, Chase films, Gangster films, Escroquerie
Actors Spencer Tracy, Milton Berle, Sid Caesar, Buddy Hackett, Dorothy Provine, Moe Howard
Roles an ice cream counter waitress (scene deleted)
Rating74% 3.74683.74683.74683.74683.7468
"Smiler" Grogan (Jimmy Durante), wanted by police in a tuna factory robbery fifteen years ago and on the run from the police, careens his 1957 Ford Victoria off twisting, mountainous State Highway 74 near Palm Springs in Southern California and crashes. Five motorists stop to help him - Melville Crump (Sid Caesar), a dentist, Lennie Pike (Jonathan Winters), a furniture mover, Dingy Bell (Mickey Rooney) and Benjy Benjamin (Buddy Hackett), two friends on their way to Las Vegas, and J. Russell Finch (Milton Berle), who owns Pacific Edible Seaweed Company in Fresno. Just before he dies, Grogan tells the five about $350,000 buried in Santa Rosita State Park near the Mexican border under a mysterious "big W".
Who's Minding the Store?, 1h31
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Actors Jerry Lewis, Jill St John, Agnes Moorehead, Ray Walston, Kathleen Freeman, John McGiver
Roles Customer at Bargain Sale (uncredited)
Rating67% 3.3504253.3504253.3504253.3504253.350425
The rich Mrs. Tuttle (Agnes Moorehead) is upset that her daughter Barbara (Jill St. John) is engaged to a man beneath their social stature, Norman Phiffier (Jerry Lewis).
It's Only Money, 1h20
Directed by Frank Tashlin
Genres Thriller, Comedy
Actors Jerry Lewis, Zachary Scott, Joan O'Brien, Mae Questel, Jesse White, Jack Weston
Roles Fisherwoman
Rating62% 3.1468253.1468253.1468253.1468253.146825
Lester March (Jerry Lewis) is a 25-year-old orphan who is an electronics repairman. However, his real passion is detective novels, and he dreams of someday becoming a detective himself. His best friend, Pete Flint (Jesse White), is a detective, and they see a television program about a wealthy, single woman, Cecilia Albright (Mae Questel) who is looking for her long-lost nephew. The mention of a $100,000 reward gets their attention.
The Music Man, 2h31
Directed by Morton DaCosta
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical theatre, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals
Actors Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, Buddy Hackett, Hermione Gingold, Paul Ford, Pert Kelton
Roles Mrs. Hawkes
Rating76% 3.8469153.8469153.8469153.8469153.846915
In July 1912, a traveling salesman, "Professor" Harold Hill (Robert Preston), arrives in the fictional location of River City, Iowa, intrigued by the challenge of swindling the famously stubborn natives of Iowa ("Iowa Stubborn"). Masquerading as a traveling band instructor, Professor Hill plans to con the citizens of River City into paying him to create a boys' marching band, including instruments, uniforms, and music instruction. Once he has collected the money and the instruments and uniforms have arrived, he will hop the next train out of town, leaving them without their money or a band.
Sex Kittens Go to College, 1h34
Directed by Albert Zugsmith
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Mamie Van Doren, Tuesday Weld, Mickey Shaughnessy, Mijanou Bardot, John Carradine, Louis Nye
Roles Circe
Rating38% 1.9248651.9248651.9248651.9248651.924865
Collins College's administrators are expecting new professor Dr. Mathilda West, who holds 13 degrees and speaks 18 languages. What they aren't expecting is the buxom blonde beauty who gets off the train.
The Bramble Bush, 1h33
Directed by Daniel Petrie
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about euthanasia, Medical-themed films, Films about sexuality
Actors Richard Burton, Angie Dickinson, Jack Carson, Barbara Rush, Carl Benton Reid, Tom Drake
Roles Polly Welk
Rating55% 2.7640552.7640552.7640552.7640552.764055
Dr. Guy Montford moves back to his seaside Massachusetts hometown at the request of old friend Larry McFie, who is dying of cancer. Over the objections of Larry's father, hospital administrator Dr. Sol Kelsey puts the patient in Guy's personal care.
Auntie Mame, 2h23
Directed by Don Alvarado, Morton DaCosta
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about children, Musical films, Films based on plays
Actors Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne, Roger Smith, Peggy Cass, Joanna Barnes
Rating78% 3.94553.94553.94553.94553.9455
Patrick Dennis (Jan Handzlik), orphaned in 1928 when his father unexpectedly dies, is placed in the care of Mame Dennis (Rosalind Russell), his father's sister in Manhattan. Mame is a flamboyant, exuberant woman, who hosts frequent parties with eclectic, bohemian guests. Patrick is quickly introduced to his aunt's free-spirited and eccentric lifestyle, including Vera Charles (Coral Browne), a Broadway actress, who spends many of her nights passed out drunk in Mame's guest room. Mame's frequently repeated motto is "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death!"
The D.I.
The D.I. (1957)
, 1h46
Directed by Jack Webb
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Jack Webb, Don Dubbins, Jackie Loughery, Monica Lewis, Virginia Gregg, Earle Hodgins
Roles Woman Customer
Rating72% 3.640223.640223.640223.640223.64022
Technical Sergeant Jim Moore, a Drill Instructor on Parris Island, has a thorn in his side, Private Owens (Don Dubbins), who always caves in when the pressure is on. Convinced he can make Owens into a Marine, Moore pushes Owens to the point of desertion.
A Star Is Born, 3h1
Directed by George Cukor
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Films about films, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about television, Musical films
Actors Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson, Charles Bickford, Tommy Noonan, Amanda Blake
Roles Esther's Neighbor (uncredited)
Rating74% 3.7464753.7464753.7464753.7464753.746475
Esther Blodgett is a talented aspiring singer with a band, and Norman Maine is a former matinee idol with a career in the early stages of decline. When he arrives intoxicated at a function at the Shrine Auditorium, the studio publicist attempts to keep him away from reporters. After an angry exchange, Norman rushes away and bursts onto a stage where an orchestra is performing. Blodgett takes him by the hand and pretends he is part of the act, thereby turning a potentially embarrassing and disruptive moment into an opportunity for the audience to greet Norman with applause.
The Eddie Cantor Story, 1h55
Directed by Alfred E. Green
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Keefe Brasselle, Marilyn Erskine, Aline MacMahon, Marie Windsor, Ann Doran, Gerald Mohr
Roles Beer Garden Patron
Rating56% 2.812062.812062.812062.812062.81206
Raised by his grandmother on New York's East Side, 13-year-old Eddie sings while another neighborhood kid, Rocky Kramer, and his gang pick pockets. Eddie is sent by Grandma Esther to a boys camp, where he entertains the others with his songs and routines.
I Love Lucy: The Movie, 1h21
Directed by Edward Sedgwick, Marc Daniels
Origin USA
Genres Comedy
Actors Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, Vivian Vance, William Frawley, Ann Doran, Mary Wickes
Roles Party guest
Rating82% 4.118724.118724.118724.118724.11872
The film plays out with three first-season episodes edited together into a single story: "The Benefit", "Breaking the Lease", and "The Ballet", with new footage included between episodes to help transition the episodes into one coherent storyline. As the series routinely took the format of filming scenes in chronological order, this adds to the "show within a show within a show" format of the film, as viewers watch the cast perform the episodes live. The film itself ends with a "curtain call", as the cast comes out and Arnaz thanks the audience for their support.
Inferno
Inferno (1953)
, 1h23
Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Children's films
Actors Robert Ryan, Rhonda Fleming, William Lundigan, Larry Keating, Henry Hull, Carl Betz
Roles Waitress (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.490143.490143.490143.490143.49014
During a trip to the Mojave Desert, millionaire Donald Carson III, having broken his leg falling off his horse, has been abandoned and left to die by Geraldine, his adulterous femme fatale wife, and mining engineer Joe Duncan, a man she's known for just a few days.
So This Is Love, 1h41
Directed by Gordon Douglas
Origin USA
Genres Biography, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Kathryn Grayson, Merv Griffin, Joan Weldon, Rosemary DeCamp, Walter Abel, Douglas Dick
Roles Fat Girl with Sailor in Nightclub (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0012753.0012753.0012753.0012753.001275