Eleanor AudleyFilmography

Green Acres: The Birthday Gift

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Merie Earle, Ketty Lester

Synopsis: Lisa (Eva Gabor) makes the first mistake of the evening when she gives Oliver (Eddie Albert) a list of items that she would like to get for her birthday. Near the top of the list is a horse, meaning that Oliver must enter into another unholy bargain with the crafty Mr. Haney (Pat Buttram) -- and Read More

Never a Dull Moment

Actors: Dick Van Dyke, Edward G. Robinson, Dorothy Provine, Henry Silva, Joanna Moore

Synopsis: Jack Albany (Dick Van Dyke) is an actor in a television series who is mistaken for a real-life murderer Ace Williams (Jack Elam). Comedy ensues when gangster Leo Smooth (Edward G. Robinson) goes after Jack. Robinson reprises the role of the gangster tough guy he made famous in the 1930s. He leads Read More

Green Acres: Give Me Land, Lots of Land

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) curries favor with his wealthy neighbor Lud Watson (Guy Wilkerson), hoping to add Watson's 300 acres to his own property. The deal is made, and Lisa (Eva Gabor) enthusiastically begins to renovate the house on Watson's former land. There's only one teeny tiny problem: the Read More

Green Acres: The Day of Decision

Synopsis: Back when her husband Oliver (Eddie Albert) decided to move out of their Manhattan penthouse and into a rundown farm in Hooterville, Lisa (Eva Gabor) reluctantly agreed to give rural living a chance -- for six months. If at the end of the trial period she decided that being a farmer's wife wasn't Read More

Green Acres: What Happened in Scranton?

Synopsis: When Lisa (Eva Gabor) discovers to her horror that Hooterville has no beauty parlor, she decides to set up one of her own. Not surprisingly, Lisa does a land-office business beautifying the wives of the local farmers. But her business enterprise proves to have an injurious effect on the community Read More

Green Acres: The Best Laid Plans

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Gavin Gordon, Guy Wilkerson

Synopsis: One of a steady stream of eccentric visitors to Hooterville interferes with Oliver (Eddie Albert)'s Herculean efforts to work his farm. More trouble ensues when rumors spread that Lisa (Eva Gabor) has left Oliver and returned to New York (actually, she's only gone on a shopping excursion). And Read More

Green Acres: Furniture, Furniture, Who's Got the Furniture?

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Edgar Buchanan, Smiley Burnette, Rufe Davis, Peter Leeds

Synopsis: Lisa (Eva Gabor) is delighted when Oliver's mother (Eleanor Audley) ships all of their penthouse furniture to their farm in New York. Oliver (Eddie Albert) is not so pleased when Mother Douglas announces that she will also be arriving at his doorstep. Unfortunately, the furniture is accidentally Read More

Green Acres: The Wedding Anniversary

Synopsis: Standard TV sitcom procedure dictates that the husband always forgets his wedding anniversary. Surprisingly, Oliver (Eddie Albert) has no trouble remembering the day he and Lisa (Eva Gabor) became man and wife -- he just doesn't recall the year it happened. This premise proves to be an excellent Read More

Green Acres: Oliver Buys a Farm

Actors: John Daly, Edgar Buchanan, Eleanor Audley, Rufe Davis, Willis B. Bouchey

Synopsis: The opening episode of Green Acres begins in the form of a "person-to-person" TV interview, as successful attorney Oliver Wendell Douglas (Eddie Albert) tells moderator John Daly of his plans to move out of his fashionable Manhattan penthouse apartment and into a farm in the faraway town of Read More

Green Acres: The Decorator

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Bob Jellison, Marjorie Garretson, Bea Benaderet, Lori Saunders

Synopsis: Trying her best to acclimate herself to her new Hooterville farm, Lisa (Eva Gabor) decides that what the place needs is a cosmopolitan touch -- thus she hires an expensive interior decorator. This proves to be headache enough for Oliver (Eddie Albert), but things get worse when his overbearing Read More

Green Acres: Neighborliness

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Edgar Buchanan, Gail Bonney, Jeffrey Hutten

Synopsis: Oliver (Eddie Albert) discovers to his chagrin that he will not be able to finish his plowing in time for planting. Worse still, his efforts to pump water on the farm results in a steady stream of yucky green liquid. For our hero, this is the last in a long line of straws -- but wife Lisa (Eva Gabor Read More

Green Acres: Lisa Has a Calf

Synopsis: Although the title of this episode sounds like something out of The Simpsons, rest assured we're still in Green Acres country. The fun begins on a rainy night, when soft-hearted Lisa (Eva Gabor) takes the Douglases' cow out of the leaky barn and into the warmth and comfort of the house. For Read More

Green Acres: Lisa the Helpmate

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Edgar Buchanan, Bea Benaderet, Parley Baer, Jack Bannon

Synopsis: Curious about the strange makeup of his topsoil, Oliver (Eddie Albert) has it tested by the Scientific College. Their findings reveal that the soil is comprised of several bizarre ingredients. This would be a mystery were it not for the audience's foreknowledge of the whimsicalities of Oliver's Read More

For Those Who Think Young

Actors: James Darren, Pamela Tiffin, Paul Lynde, Tina Louise

Synopsis: In this beach movie, a group of teenagers hang out at the Silver Palms everyday after school. Because things can get quite raucous in the club, the protagonist's grandfather wants to shut it down. When the clever kids discover that grandpa used to be a bootlegger, they blackmail him into keeping Read More

The Unsinkable Molly Brown

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Sr., Jack Kruschen, Hermione Baddeley

Synopsis: Meredith Willson's second Broadway hit (the first and biggest was The Music Man) proved a lucrative vehicle for the equally unsinkable Debbie Reynolds. Based on a true story, the film casts Debbie as hoydenish Molly Brown, who wangles her way into Denver High Society when she marries "overnight Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Jethro's Graduation

Synopsis: The big day has arrived: Jethro has been promoted to the sixth grade, the first step towards his chosen profession as a brain surgeon! Alas, when time comes for the graduation ceremony at Mrs. Millicent Potts' private school, Jethro is nowhere to be found. Helpfully, Elly May sends along a Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Clampetts Get Culture

Synopsis: Try as they might, the Clampetts just can't seem to fit in with Beverly Hills society. Sadly, they tell banker Drysdale that it is time for them to pack up and return to the Ozarks. Not wishing to lose the Clampett account, Drysdale promises to help the Clampetts "get culture," which is how this Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Debutante

Synopsis: Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by wealthy San Francisco dowager Mrs. Quincy (Eleanor Audley) to locate her granddaughter and heir. The trail leads Paladin to a lonely farm, where he meets a wild, unkempt girl named Prudence Powers (Gale Garnett), who is treated as little better than a slave by Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Too Many Stars

Actors: Richard Deacon, Eleanor Audley, Sylvia Lewis, Eddie Ryder, Jerry Hausner

Synopsis: For the third year in a row, PTA president Mrs. Billings (Eleanor Audley) hornswoggles Rob (Dick Van Dyke) into directing the annual charity show. This time around, Buddy (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally (Rose Marie) help Rob out by writing the material, but the problems of casting the right people for Read More

The Beverly Hillbillies: Jethro Goes to School

Synopsis: Jethro is determined to become a brain surgeon, but the fact that he hasn't completed the fifth grade puts a crimp in his plans. At the suggestion of cousin Pearl, Jed enrolls Jethro in the fancy private school managed by the snooty Millicent Schuyler-Potts (Eleanor Audley). At first, Mrs. Potts Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Somebody Has to Play Cleopatra

Synopsis: In flashback, Rob (Dick Van Dyke) explains to Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) why he intends to avoid speaking to local PTA president Mrs. Billings (Eleanor Audley) at all costs. It seems that the previous year, the unctuous Mrs. Billings had dragooned Rob in directing the PTA's annual fundraising Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Sick Boy and the Sitter

Actors: Richard Deacon, Barbara Eiler, Mary Lee Dearing, Michael Keith, Stacy Keach Sr.

Synopsis: In this very first episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show, little Richie Petrie (Larry Mathews) is a bit feverish, and his mom Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) doesn't want to leave him with a babysitter. But Laura's hubby Rob (Dick Van Dyke) insists that Laura accompany him to a party at the penthouse of Read More

The Dick Van Dyke Show: Forty-Four Tickets

Actors: Eleanor Audley, Paul Bryar, Opal Euard, Joe Devlin, Frank Adamo

Synopsis: Another hectic week at "The Alan Brady Show" is over, and head writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) looks forward to a relaxing weekend. Only one problem: Rob has completely forgotten that he promised to secure 44 tickets to the next "Alan Brady Show" telecast for the New Rochelle PTA. A mad scramble Read More

The Second Time Around

Actors: Debbie Reynolds, Steve Forrest, Andy Griffith, Juliet Prowse, Thelma Ritter

Synopsis: Though the title suggests that this film is a musical romance built around the song hit of the same name, Second Time Around is actually a comedy western. Debbie Reynolds plays a young widow who in 1912 moves with her children to a wild and wooly Arizona town. At first having trouble coming to Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: The Kid

Synopsis: Entering into a poker game with a loudmouthed miner named Moriarity (Jacques Aubuchon), Paladin (Richard Boone) ends up winning a month's worth of Moriarity's "Silver Strike." But this is hardly a reason to celebrate: "Silver Strike" turns out to be Moriarity's young son (Flip Mark), as wild and Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Nine Dolls

Synopsis: Seven-year-old Peggy Smith (Laurie Perreau) has spent most of her life at the exclusive Westcroft Boarding School. Her tuition has been paid by an unknown person, who has also sent Peggy a doll each year. Curious about her benefactor, and wishing to find out who her parents were, little Peggy Read More

The Twilight Zone: The Hitch-Hiker

Actors: Inger Stevens, Leonard Strong, Adam Williams, Lew Gallo, Dwight Townsend

Synopsis: First telecast January 22, 1960, this Twilight Zone episode was adapted by Rod Serling from the famous radio play by Lucille Fletcher. In the original radio version, the protagonist was a young man named Ronald Adams, played by Orson Welles. Deducing that TV viewers would be more emotionally Read More

Have Gun, Will Travel: Day of the Badman

Synopsis: Hired by elderly Cynthia Parker (Eleanor Audley), Paladin heads to Cedar Wells to rout out the town's resident "bad guy" Amos Saint (Don O'Kelly) and his gang. Paladin is also supposed to persuade Cynthia's timid nephew, schoolteacher Laredo Perkins (William Joyce, to return to the East. But Read More

The Swamp Fox: Redcoat Strategy

Synopsis: In the fifth episode of Walt Disney's eight-part miniseries The Swamp Fox, the guerilla forces under the leadership of Francis Marion (Leslie Nielsen) have succeeded in capturing British officer Col. Townes (Henry Daniell). Unfortunately, Marion's longtime enemy Col. Tarleton (John Sutton) has, at Read More

The Untouchables: The Unhired Assassin, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Capone's second-in-command Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) steps up his heretofore unsuccessful efforts to eliminate Anton Cermak (Robert Middleton), the incorruptable mayor of Chicago. Scheduled to appear at a public event in Miami with president-elect Franklin Read More

Sleeping Beauty

Actors: Mary Costa, Bill Shirley, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton

Synopsis: Disney produced this lavish animated fairy tale, the most expensive cartoon ever made up to its release with a budget of $6 million. When the young princess Aurora is cursed at birth by the evil fairy Maleficent, the baby is kidnapped by a trio of good fairies who raise the girl themselves, hoping Read More

A Summer Place

Actors: Richard Egan, Dorothy McGuire, Sandra Dee, Arthur Kennedy, Troy Donahue

Synopsis: The Jorgensons are a wealthy family spending the summer on a resort island. Ken (Richard Egan), Helen (Constance Ford) and daughter Molly (Sandra Dee) settle in to a beach house on the island where Ken was a young lifeguard twenty years ago. He rediscovers Sylvia (Dorothy McGuire), with whom he Read More

Home Before Dark

Actors: Jean Simmons, Dan O'Herlihy, Rhonda Fleming, Efrem Zimbalist, Jr., Mabel Albertson

Synopsis: Wearing a curiously (and perhaps deliberately) unattractive blonde wig, Jean Simmons stars in the tense psychological drama Home Before Dark. Having just recovered from a nervous breakdown, Charlotte Bronn (Simmons) returns from a mental institution to the home she shares with her academician Read More

Perry Mason: The Case of the Pint-Sized Client

Synopsis: The Hargrove Finance Company has been robbed and Frank Anderson (James Anderson) lies dead. Identified by witnesses as one of the robbers, old Pop Renzi (Eduardo Ciannelli) is accused of murder. At the behest of Renzi's little grandson Nicky (Bobby Clark), Perry (Raymond Burr) agrees to handle Read More

Spoilers of the Forest

Actors: Rod Cameron, Vera Ralston, Ray Collins, Hillary Brooke, Edgar Buchanan

Synopsis: Every time Republic Pictures head honcho Herbert J. Yates starred his minimally talented wife Vera Ralston in a film, the studio's stockholders began trembling in their boots. Like most of its predecessors, the 1957 Ralston vehicle Spoilers of the Forest just barely made back its cost. Vera plays Read More

Jeanne Eagels

Actors: Kim Novak, Jeff Chandler, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Drake, Larry Gates

Synopsis: Kim Novak is clearly out of her depth as legendary Broadway actress Jeanne Eagels, but one can't fault her for trying very hard. As this filmed biography gets under way, wide-eyed Eagels finds herself stranded in a tank town by a smooth-talking traveling salesman. Carnival operator Sal Satori Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy Wants to Move to the Country

Actors: Frank Wilcox, Eleanor Audley

Synopsis: I Love Lucy heads in a whole new direction for its final 13 episodes when Lucy (Lucille Ball), feeling confined by apartment living, talks Ricky (Desi Arnaz) into making a deposit on a spacious country house in Westport, CT. But no sooner has Ricky done so than Lucy changes her mind, choosing to Read More

I Love Lucy: Lucy Raises Tulips

Actors: Mary Jane Croft, Frank Nelson, Eleanor Audley, Peter Brocco

Synopsis: It's Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) vs. Betty Ramsey (Mary Jane Croft) as both ladies compete to win the gold cup at the annual Westport flower show. For her part, Lucy carefully cultivates a garden of tulips, then asks Ricky (Desi Arnaz) to mow the lawn to make the Ricardo backyard "picture Read More

Full of Life

Actors: Judy Holliday, Richard Conte, Salvatore Baccaloni, Esther Minciotti, Joe de Santis

Synopsis: When Emily Rocco (Judy Holliday) waddles into view at the beginning of Full of Life, her appearance marked a cinematic breakthrough; seldom had so pregnant a leading lady ever appeared on an American movie screen. With her baby's birthdate only a month away, Emily and her husband Nick (Richard Read More

The Unguarded Moment

Actors: Esther Williams, George Nader, Les Tremayne, John Saxon, Edward Andrews

Synopsis: Esther Williams essays her first dramatic, nonswimming role in The Unguarded Moment. Written by actress Rosalind Russell, the film is a remarkably prescient tale of sexual harassment at the workplace. Williams plays high-school music-teacher Lois Conway, who inadvertently arouses the libido of Read More

Cell 2455, Death Row

Actors: William Campbell, Marian Carr, Kathryn Grant, Harvey Stephens

Synopsis: Cell 2455 Death Row is based on the autobiography of condemned prisoner and "jailhouse lawyer" Caryl Chessman. William Campbell plays the Chessman counterpart, here renamed Whit. A seriously disturbed misfit, Whit begins a life of crime, culminating in sexual assault as the "Lover's Lane Bandit." Read More

Prince of Players

Actors: Richard Burton, Maggie McNamara, John Derek, Raymond Massey, Charles Bickford

Synopsis: Screenwriter Philip Dunne doubled as director on the elaborate filmed biography Prince of Players. Richard Burton stars as the eminent American tragedian Edwin Booth, whose life and career is thrown into turmoil after his younger brother John Wilkes Booth (John Derek) assassinates Abraham Lincoln. Read More

Untamed

Actors: Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward, Richard Egan, John Justin, Agnes Moorehead

Synopsis: Tyrone Power is a Dutchman, and Susan Hayward is an Irish lass. If you believe that, then the rest of Untamed will go down a lot easier. Power is a Boer calvary commander attempting to bring peace to his South African homeland. He has an affair with Hayward, a married woman whose husband is killed Read More

Starlift

Actors: Doris Day, Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Gene Nelson, Ruth Roman

Synopsis: Starlift was Warner Bros' attempt to revive the "all-star patriotic musical" format which had worked so well during WW II. The wisp of a plot concerns Mike Nolan (Dick Wesson) and Rick Williams (Ron Hagherty), San Francisco-based airmen who serve as crew members on a shuttle to Korea. To impress a Read More

Cinderella

Actors: Ilene Woods, Eleanor Audley, Verna Felton, Claire Du Brey, Helene Stanley

Synopsis: Cinderella was Walt Disney's return to feature-length "story" cartoons after eight years of turning out episodic pastiches like Make Mine Music and Three Caballeros. A few understandable liberties are taken with the original Charles Perrault fairy tale (the wicked stepsisters, for example, do not Read More

Pretty Baby

Actors: Dennis Morgan, Betsy Drake, Zachary Scott, Edmund Gwenn, William Frawley

Synopsis: Best known to posterity as the third wife of Cary Grant, Betsy Drake enjoyed a substantial film career during the postwar era. In Pretty Baby, Drake plays Patsy Douglas, an enterprising young lady who always assures herself a seat on the subway by carrying a doll wrapped in baby bunting. Through a Read More

No Way Out

Actors: Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell, Stephen McNally, Sidney Poitier, Mildred Joanne Smith

Synopsis: A pioneering film about racial tensions, No Way Out stars Richard Widmark as a criminal named Ray Biddle, who despises African-Americans. Sidney Poitier (in his screen debut) is the black doctor, Luther Brooks, assigned to take care of the wounded Ray. Dr. Brooks, hired by the police hospital as Read More

Gambling House

Actors: Victor Mature, Terry Moore, William Bendix, Zachary A. Charles, Cleo Moore, Basil Ruysdael, Ann Doran

Synopsis: Gambling House is a low-key remake of the 1943 Cary Grant vehicle Mr. Lucky. Victor Mature stars as Marc Fury, a foreign-born gambler who is currently facing deportation. Always looking out for Number One, Fury seeks out a legal loophole so he can sidestep naturalization--and, incidentally, avoid Read More