Clamped

Donna Douglas, the two best things about The Beverly Hillbillies, not counting the Ballad of Jed Clampett, has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 82. In the vein of Jeannie and Samantha Stevens, Mary Ann and Ginger, Betty and Veronica, Douglas and Nancy Culp (Miss Hathaway) formed one of the all-time great “Who’s Hotter?” pop culture debates. The tomboyish, critter lovin’ Elly May never cottoned to the ways of Southern California, and regularly battered the many suitors eager to visit her hills. Though she did enjoy the cement pond. Douglas’ other contribution to the 1960s was in the reveal in the Twilight Zone classic Eye of the Beholder as the patient whose reconstructive surgery-defying beauty makes her an outcast in the land of the duckfaced.