Donna Douglas

• Birth name:

  Dorothy Smith

• Date of Birth:

  26 September 1933 Pride, Louisiana, USA

An honest to goodness Southern Belle, similar to her most famous role, Elly May on "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962), Donna Douglas grew up in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area loving "critters." She got married soon after high school, had a son, divorced and won a couple of beauty contests, all within the span of a few years. She moved to New York and soon appeared on television shows, including a well-remembered guest shot on "The Twilight Zone" (1959) in one of the series�... more

An honest to goodness Southern Belle, similar to her most famous role, Elly May on "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962), Donna Douglas grew up in the Baton Rouge, Louisiana area loving "critters." She got married soon after high school, had a son, divorced and won a couple of beauty contests, all within the span of a few years. She moved to New York and soon appeared on television shows, including a well-remembered guest shot on "The Twilight Zone" (1959) in one of the series' most famous episodes, "Eye of the Beholder", in which she plays a woman who tries to undergo a series of experimental treatments to make her beautiful, only for the treatments to fail. The twist was she [b]was[/b] beautiful, at least to the viewers, but considered hideous to the pig people of her planet. She soon won the role of Elly May on one of the greatest situation comedies of all time, "The Beverly Hillbillies" (1962).