
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.

The Flintstones
TV • 1960

Petticoat Junction
TV • 1963

The Beverly Hillbillies
TV • 1962

Matinee Theater
TV • 1955

I Love Lucy
TV • 1951

77 Sunset Strip
TV • 1958

Green Acres
TV • 1965

The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950

The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950

The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950

The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950

The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950

The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
TV • 1959

The Jetsons
TV • 1962

The Dinah Shore Chevy Show
TV • 1956

Screen Director's Playhouse
TV • 1955

The New Breed
TV • 1961