"Green Acres"' Actress Mary Grace Canfield Dies
Source: AP
Mary Grace Canfield, a veteran character actress who played handywoman Ralph Monroe on the television show "Green Acres," has died. She was 89.
Her daughter, Phoebe Alexiades, says Canfield died of lung cancer on Saturday at a hospice in the California coastal town of Santa Barbara.
Canfield had appearances on a number of TV shows during a four-decade career, including "General Hospital" and "The Hathaways." She was Harriet Kravitz on four episodes of the 1960s series "Bewitched."
But she was best known for her role of Ralph Monroe in some 40 episodes of "Green Acres," which ran from 1965 to 1971.
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In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)MannyGoldstein
(34,589 posts)Best television show ever.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)i read somewhere that green acres was the most surrealist television show ever. i thought about this and i agree. well from 65-71 i was high most of the time so maybe that clouded my judgement.
jtuck004
(15,882 posts)As far as your other comment, I had to think about it for a moment...then I realized that
"from 65-71 i was high most of the time"
could describe a past and future time for millions among a whole generation of Americans.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Heck, I thought it was an accurate portrayal of life in Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
progressoid
(49,945 posts)RIP
Fridays Child
(23,998 posts)Always fit her roles to a tee.
Sorry to hear that she passed.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)RIP.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)When I was a kid we would watch Green Acres. I was a tomboy, and I always got kidded about being like Ralph. Except I wasn't in love with Hank Kimble. Although I loved his character too. He's still alive I believe. I just loved that show, and I watch it still on Antenna TV in the afternoons.
Howdy Duty Ralph!
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Great show
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)Says he died in 1997. Eb is still alive.
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)RIP.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)Very talented, never broke her stride playing Ralph.
Didn't know she was still around. American culture is better for having had her here.
MADem
(135,425 posts)AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)Lisa Douglas (Eva Gabor) could not cook, much like Elly May Clampett on Beverly Hillbillies. I'm guessing that was Lisa's attempt to bake bread.
Green Acres was a hoot, and Mary Grace was a huge part of that. RIP.
(Arnold the Pig still cracks me up.)
MADem
(135,425 posts)I was not living in USA when much of it aired--I remember that show and another called "Petticoat Junction" that had a similar, kind of crazy vibe~!
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)with a common denominator of Hooterville, either as the actual "location", or a nearby town (it was near Jed Clampett's hometown). And Sam Drucker, the grocer / banker, appeared in all three shows at one time or another.
oswaldactedalone
(3,489 posts)dance partner on the Andy Griffith episode. Who can forget Gomer saying "She's nice, real nice" as he danced crazily around Thelma Lou's living room.
Lars39
(26,106 posts)Lovely in both roles!
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)(Mrs.) Gladys Kravitz was played by Alice Pearce and Sandra Gould, also fine actors.
ProfessorGAC
(64,852 posts)She was a sweet character in that episode.
GAC
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)I was trying to think of what other show I remembered her from. Thanks!
Kingofalldems
(38,422 posts)ProfessorGAC
(64,852 posts)There's no prize though. It was a bag of chips, but i ate them already.
And as Gomer said "She's Niiiicccceee!"
Rozlee
(2,529 posts)Right-wingers as a an attempt by Hollywood 'elites' to masculinize women if it was portrayed today. I can just hear Faux Spews and Limbaugh ranting and making it the manufactured outrage du jour. She was a terrific comedienne.
warrior1
(12,325 posts)Ishoutandscream2
(6,660 posts)Time waits for no one.
supernova
(39,345 posts)She was my hero(ine) and role model because I most looked like her, i.e. tomboyish. I wasn't frilly and feminine at all. So even if it was a silly show, it was a relief to see her, even in such a silly fun show.
RIP, Mary Grace Canfield. You inspired at least one little girl to be OK with being different.
treestar
(82,383 posts)I saw a lot of that show as a kid!
riverwalker
(8,694 posts)even now, I say "what are you, a Mrs. Kravitz"? when someone peeks out the window spying on neighbors. No one ever knows what I am referring to (but I'm used to that).
I still refer to Mrs. Huffnagel from St. Elsewhere when someone plays with hospital bed controls too much.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...along with The Beverly Hillbillies, because they wanted to have a more "sophisticated" image.
Green Acres, along with Beverly Hillbillies, had one sly and consistent joke that ran through every episode like an electric current...the "city folk" were outsmarted virtually every time by the "country folk," and when a solution was needed to ANY problem, small or large, the "city folk" never had the goods...it was always the "country folk" to the rescue.
R.I.P., Ralph...
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)Which was a shame, really. I consider Green Acres and the Beverly Hillbillies to be among the best sit-coms ever made.