
Bea Benaderet
Department: Acting
Biography
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.
Known For

The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame
1991

Speaking of Animals: Home Sweet Home
1948

Fresh Laid Plans
1951

Of Rice and Hen
1953

A Bear for Punishment
1951

Baseball Bugs
1946

On the Town
1949

Gift Wrapped
1952

Two's a Crowd
1950

Bewitched Bunny
1954

Chow Hound
1951

Feed the Kitty
1952

For Scent-imental Reasons
1949

Kiss Me Cat
1953

A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947

Hare Force
1944

A Gruesome Twosome
1945

Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944

Kit for Cat
1948

Pigs in a Polka
1943

Putty Tat Trouble
1951

The Hep Cat
1942

Tweety's S.O.S.
1951

Censored
1944

It's Murder She Says...
1945

Tweetie Pie
1947

The Scarlet Pumpernickel
1950

Bear Feat
1949

Lovelorn Leghorn
1951

Tweet Dreams
1959

Book Revue
1946

Goofy Groceries
1941

Orange Blossoms for Violet
1952

Goo Goo Goliath
1954

A Mouse Divided
1953

Canary Row
1950

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears
1944

Kiddin' the Kitten
1952

Ain't She Tweet
1952

Room and Bird
1951

All a Bir-r-r-d
1950

Snow Business
1953

Puss n' Booty
1943

An Egg Scramble
1950

Sandy Claws
1955

Punch Trunk
1953

The Bear's Tale
1940

Little Red Rodent Hood
1952

Tom Tom Tomcat
1953

Plunderers of Painted Flats
1959

Terrier-Stricken
1952

The First Time
1952

Wild Wife
1954

The Hole Idea
1955

The Weakly Reporter
1944

Hollywood Canine Canteen
1946

A Hick, a Slick and a Chick
1948

Doggone Cats
1947

Quentin Quail
1946

I Taw a Putty Tat
1948

The Shooting of Dan McGoo
1945

Black Widow
1954

Hare Trimmed
1953

Hare We Go
1951

The Cats Bah
1954

A Corny Concerto
1943

The Bee-Deviled Bruin
1949

Confederate Honey
1940

Cross Country Detours
1940

Scent-imental Over You
1947

A Street Cat Named Sylvester
1953

Doggone Tired
1949

Notorious
1946

Hiss and Make Up
1943

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
1944

Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
2010

Brother Brat
1944

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
1982

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
1981

Swooner Crooner
1944

The History of Hooterville
2005

Tender Is the Night
1962

The Windblown Hare
1949

The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration
1986

Yankee Doodle Bugs
1954

Fowl Weather
1953

Feather Dusted
1955

A Midsummer Daydream
1955

Looney Tunes Collector's Vault, Volume 2
2026

77 Sunset Strip
1958

The Beverly Hillbillies
1962

The Flintstones
1960

I Love Lucy
1951

Petticoat Junction
1963

General Electric Theater
1953

Pete and Gladys
1960

Matinee Theater
1955

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
1956

The New Breed
1961

Vacation Playhouse
1963

The George Burns Show
1958

Peter Loves Mary
1960

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
1950

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
1959

The Jack Benny Program
1950

The Jack Benny Program
1950

Top Cat
1961

Green Acres
1965

Top Cat
1961

Top Cat
1961

Top Cat
1961

Top Cat
1961

Top Cat
1961

The Bob Cummings Show
1955

The Jack Benny Program
1950

Screen Director's Playhouse
1955

The Jack Benny Program
1950

The Jack Benny Program
1950

The Bob Cummings Show
1955

The Restless Gun
1957

The Jack Benny Program
1950

The Jetsons
1962

The Danny Kaye Show
1963