Irene's physical comedy as 'Granny' on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' was remarkable. Many initially thought it was a young woman acting the part. As outstanding as Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett were in this area; Irene was the undisputed 'Queen of physical Comedy'. RIP to a wonderful actress.
I've been re-watching The Beverly Hillbillies and the two things that shock me is - 1) Irene Ryan is acting the hell out of that role and 2) The writing can actually be pretty witty, its a little forces at times but awfully clever.
Sometimes she sounds like Granny, but then sometimes she breaks out and you can tell how beautiful her voice really was. This is talent right here. The irony of how she acts while singing that song.
Irene Ryan was a marvelous actress, lending a real feel to the role of Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies. I can't imagine that show without her amazing wit and personality. Truly a remarkable soul. RIP, wonderful lady.
They did a Beverly Hillbillies movie in the 80s without both her and Max Baer JR. Needless to say it was a horrible pile of crap without either of them and tarnished the show’s legacy.
The person who uploaded this video has a keen eye for classic moments in cinema. Normally, something like this would go unnoticed, but THIS is the kind of stuff from the 20th century that will interest people a thousand years from today. Bravo,
I didn't know Irene Ryan was so pretty, but she was a great woman no matter what and loved her on the Beverly Hillbillies and even now I still watch those programs.
She was actually only 60 when she started playing on the Beverly Hillbillies. Her granny character was just that, pulling off playing someone much older.
Irene was a wonderful actress. She brought to the character of Daisy Mae Moses (Granny) the combination of cantankerous yet sensitive that made the character endearing and likable. She was the perfect choice for that role.
My Mother, who is now 92, claims that when she was a youngster- that Irene Ryan had a Radio Show called ToyTown Review, and that Ms. Ryan also was her first dance teacher. She always had a soft spot for the Beverly Hillbillies Show because that was her "Miss Ryan."
THANK YOU, To WHOMEVER posted this. Just look at how beautiful little “granny” was. It’s hard to believe that the Beverly Hillbilly’s show only ran for 9yrs, and Irene Ryan (Granny) was only 60 when she played that role. She’d already been so successful in pretty much every other genre of entertainment at that time. She died just a few years after the show was canceled. But even though this clip is of her in her much younger years, you CAN NOT mistake that voice. THAT WAS TRULY ONE OF A KIND. So again I say Thank you to whomever found this, and posted it. I think Irene Ryan will forever be “Granny”, and it will always make me smile. If you want another Granny moment. Look her up her on RUclips singing “I’m a Woman” on the Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Hollywood Palace Show. It is HILARIOUS!
That was awesome,her facial expressions like watching a young granny from Beverly Hillbillies. She is a very attractive woman. Thanks for the memories 👍😁
Thanks for showing this video. I saw this clip by accident, recognize Irene Ryan right away. She's beautiful and talented throughout her whole lifetime.
Susan DA WOW !! NEVER KNEW SHE WAS THAT GREAT SINGING THESE SONGS !! SHE'S A FUNNY SINGER ON BEVERLY HILLBILLIES . PRETTY TOO ! SURE WOULD LOVED TO HER SING !!
Ironic that she sings the line "I'm not made of tin" and years later she and Buddy Ebsen are together on the Beverly Hillbillies. Buddy Ebsen was to play the tin man in the Wizard of Oz but had a near fatal reaction to the silver makeup and had to be replaced. Guess he wasn't made of tin either.
Oh how I love old classic black and white movies!! Especially when they have tv stars, way before they were known!! Irene sure was a little beauty!! I'd like to see some of her old movies
This is an actress was superb not just in The Beverly Hillbillies but she was underrated as an actor and should deserve more credit she was a kooky funny and determine actress which I admired and I watch The Beverly Hillbillies and I know is know that that's not the only thing that she could do but she was a very good actress God bless her
@Chatsworth Osbourne Jr. Then there's this bit of TV "trickery" Estelle Getty was a year YOUNGER than Bea Arthur - Yet she played Bea's MOTHER on "The Golden Girls".
@Chatsworth Osbourne Jr. She was born in 1902 in El Paso, Tx. She was 42 when this clip was made, in her sixties when she did the "Beverly Hillbillies" and passed away in 1973.
Boy, you can hear her voice being quite similar when she was young. Love to see our older people were young once to, and had similar dreams of romance and love. like all the young ones today. :)
Irene and her husband, Tim were featured in "The Tim and Irene" radio show. Some episodes from 1932 and 1933 are known to have survived in collections.
+Wide Open She did a ton of radio stuff, a lot of it available if you look on old time radio websites. She had a show with her husband Tim in the late 30's and I've heard a few of those, though not many survive. Then she was a semi-regular for a while on Bob Hope's show in the 40's, taking Vera Vague's place.
@@mH8675309 No one was as beautiful as Donna Douglas. Don't think it's possible. (lol) My brother used to live in Lake Tahoe, California, and knew Max Baer Jr., who also lived there. Max Baer Jr. told him that guys always ask him if he had ever been "intimate" with the beautiful Elly Mae. He (Max Baer Jr.) said he always responds, "No, but I've come awful close to it with granny a few times! (lol)
@@dennishalford5763 I read that he did go out on a couple of dates with Douglas . He and Ryan had many scenes together on BH . Ryan treated him to lunch when they were trying for their parts and Baer was drawing unemployment . I would not be surprised if they did .
@@JJJBRICE I interpreted what he said to my brother to mean that he was never intimate with Donna Douglas. He could very well have gone out with her a couple of times. How could he not have been attracted to her as beautiful as she was! He also told my brother that he had acquired the rights to the title "The Beverly Hillbillies" and wanted to open a casino in Tahoe calling it "The Beverly Hillbillies Casino." He was having a hard time doing this, though, he said, because the laws were complicated and they were making him jump through all kinds of hoops. He said he had played an idiot for years on television but the real idiots are the politicians.
Amazing, what talent. I can't even see Granny Clampett in that talented young lady's face! Now you got my curiosity up, I want to know more about Irene Ryan!
It's funny to see some of these actors and actresses when they were much younger than you knew them. I remember seeing Joan Blondell in the movie Grease when I was very young, and she was pretty old by then. Little did I know that Blondell had been a real hottie back in the 1930's and had even appeared in some "risque" films for that time before Hollywood implemented the Hayes Code. And now, I'm not so young. Time marches on. LOL!
Irene Ryan was born in El Paso, Texas in 1902. You can hear a bit of her West Texas accent when she always speaks and that natural West Texas accent likely helped her naturally fit right being able to portray the Granny character 20 years later in Beverly Hillbillies. Many people picture her only as the much older Granny character but she was actually very attractive looking without the Granny make up and clothing when she was young.
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definitely the most talented character on the beverly hillbillies -- my favorite on that all time classic show -- never knew until now that she was a talented vocalist -- a good one - and good looking - who knew ?
This is also the first time I've ever seen Irene Ryan do anything before Beverly Hillbillies. Mom used to say that she did other things before that, but I never knew what.
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Please don't let these gems get deleted. This is precious
I am 67 so there are no videos of my Grandma when she was young. What a gift to have.
Irene's physical comedy as 'Granny' on 'The Beverly Hillbillies' was remarkable. Many initially thought it was a young woman acting the part. As outstanding as Lucille Ball and Carol Burnett were in this area; Irene was the undisputed 'Queen of physical Comedy'. RIP to a wonderful actress.
+Tarn Sand She was the mistress of physical comedy!!!
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I've been re-watching The Beverly Hillbillies and the two things that shock me is - 1) Irene Ryan is acting the hell out of that role and 2) The writing can actually be pretty witty, its a little forces at times but awfully clever.
Awe!
We love and miss you Granny!
RIP Irene Ryan
❤️
Sometimes she sounds like Granny, but then sometimes she breaks out and you can tell how beautiful her voice really was. This is talent right here. The irony of how she acts while singing that song.
Irene Ryan was a marvelous actress, lending a real feel to the role of Granny on the Beverly Hillbillies. I can't imagine that show without her amazing wit and personality. Truly a remarkable soul. RIP, wonderful lady.
Doctor Rocker that true she is the sweet woman next to my later wife.
It hard to believe that Irene ryan,granny of Beverly hillbillies, just alot younger
They did a Beverly Hillbillies movie in the 80s without both her and Max Baer JR.
Needless to say it was a horrible pile of crap without either of them and tarnished the show’s legacy.
@@jackb348 granny had an good an excuse why she as not on , jethro hated the role, love jethro being very tall and very handsome
@@jackb348 Yep. It was pretty stupid.
I guess all grannies were young and lovely once upon a time.
YES!!
And Irene Ryan was a wonderful Granny in Beverly Hillbillies as well!
And the young and lovely become grannies.
It very hard to believe that granny from Beverly hillbillies
Except Irene Ryan
I didn't know of Irene Ryan pre-Beverly Hillbillies. This was cool to see.
Not recognize her, I never would her, it like grand mama of the Addams family, she had a long very successful career before Addams family
She's on an episode of The Rifleman. Check out her career. I'm 58 and got curious because she has always been Granny Clampett to me.
@@lloydkline6946 The Beverly Hillbillies!
@@bob0s062 She was also in an episode of "My Three Sons" called "The Romance Of Shady Pines" where you see her without her Granny costume.
She was on Bob Hope's radio show back in the late 1940's S a man chasing spinster. She was very funny on that show too
I really want to see more of her performances when she was young, she was wonderfully talented and underrated. Beautiful woman, too!
The person who uploaded this video has a keen eye for classic moments in cinema. Normally, something like this would go unnoticed, but THIS is the kind of stuff from the 20th century that will interest people a thousand years from today. Bravo,
Amen
25 years does a lot to a person. It seems like yesterday that I was 32, and now I'm 57. It comes quick!
@@lettyguerra371 And the older you get the faster time goes... I turn 55 in 8 days.
@@SSHitMan 6 days now?
@@itis9555 Yes, the time is flying.
My son just graduated from East Stroudsburg University, where each year they give out the Irene Ryan award!
Congratulations! Wishing him a successful future! 🎓
Congratulations from Hershey. Pa
Did he win the lookalike contest ?
I didn't know Irene Ryan was so pretty, but she was a great woman no matter what and loved her on the Beverly Hillbillies and even now I still watch those programs.
She is pretty, but I couldn't stand to be around that voice.
Parbhu M yes , she was pretty !!!
I said that to myself when I was watching this clip
@@im1who84u You call that pretty? Lol not even close
It's Granny, when she and Jed were younguns.
How can four people not like this? C'mon, it's Granny!
Damn straight! 😁
She still sounds like granny to me.
+Karen Celeste 👍 😁
goldpet66 10 idiots now
goldpet66 Irene was entertaining at any age! REST IN PEACE IRENE RYAN🕊
WOW!!!!! She was amazing!!!! What a talent!!!!!
Oh my goodness, she was natural Granny. I can hear so much of Granny in this performance.
This would move Mrs. Drysdale to tears.
what a fantastic view of an amazzingly talented singer and actrress, thanks
You brought much joy into my life Irene . I look forward to seeing you again in the kingdom.
Wow, that’s a blast from the past. She was an amazing actress.
What a lovely girl she was. I grew up on the Beverly Hillibillies during the 60's-a wonderful actor and woman-Paul was here-04-12-16.
I did not know Irene Ryan sing back when she was young thanks for this look into her past great actress loved her granny character
Her facial expressions are uncanny. Definitely, granny.
The whole song was in her face
She was young when she did this.
Love Irene (Granny)
What a beautiful and talented lady.
She was actually only 60 when she started playing on the Beverly Hillbillies. Her granny character was just that, pulling off playing someone much older.
If it weren't for that voice, I'd have never known it was her!
Those facial expressions, and her chin. Daisy Mae Moses!
What a truly brilliant talent this lady was. So beloved by so many.
She is so pretty great actress u got to love this
Irene was a wonderful actress. She brought to the character of Daisy Mae Moses (Granny) the combination of cantankerous yet sensitive that made the character endearing and likable. She was the perfect choice for that role.
Even though she's younger, she still sounds like Granny Clampett!
Her part as Polly Kane is one of the cutest and purest things I've seen in a long, long time.
I adored her character in the movie.
My Mother, who is now 92, claims that when she was a youngster- that Irene Ryan had a Radio Show called ToyTown Review, and that Ms. Ryan also was her first dance teacher. She always had a soft spot for the Beverly Hillbillies Show because that was her "Miss Ryan."
A gorgeous person. Excellent as Granny too. An extremely talented lady. Sadly missed.
This is awesome! Go Irene!
She was a hit on Broadway in the stage production of, Pippin and died during its run.
More of Tim and Irene on Netflix?..I'm there!
After all these decades I've finally found something other than granny with Irene Ryan
THANK YOU, To WHOMEVER posted this. Just look at how beautiful little “granny” was. It’s hard to believe that the Beverly Hillbilly’s show only ran for 9yrs, and Irene Ryan (Granny) was only 60 when she played that role. She’d already been so successful in pretty much every other genre of entertainment at that time. She died just a few years after the show was canceled. But even though this clip is of her in her much younger years, you CAN NOT mistake that voice. THAT WAS TRULY ONE OF A KIND.
So again I say Thank you to whomever found this, and posted it. I think Irene Ryan will forever be “Granny”, and it will always make me smile.
If you want another Granny moment. Look her up her on RUclips singing “I’m a Woman” on the Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Hollywood Palace Show. It is HILARIOUS!
That was awesome,her facial expressions like watching a young granny from Beverly Hillbillies. She is a very attractive woman. Thanks for the memories 👍😁
I love you Granny!!!
Thanks for showing this video. I saw this clip by accident, recognize Irene Ryan right away. She's beautiful and talented throughout her whole lifetime.
Love her!
So funny and simultaneously it just about brings a tear! Thanks so much for resurrecting this.
+Susan DA me to(":
Susan DA WOW !! NEVER KNEW SHE WAS THAT GREAT SINGING THESE SONGS !! SHE'S A FUNNY SINGER ON BEVERLY HILLBILLIES . PRETTY TOO ! SURE WOULD LOVED TO HER SING !!
Excellent post! I'm so glad she found fame and worked right to the end. RIP
Ironic that she sings the line "I'm not made of tin" and years later she and Buddy Ebsen are together on the Beverly Hillbillies. Buddy Ebsen was to play the tin man in the Wizard of Oz but had a near fatal reaction to the silver makeup and had to be replaced. Guess he wasn't made of tin either.
Oh how I love old classic black and white movies!! Especially when they have tv stars, way before they were known!!
Irene sure was a little beauty!! I'd like to see some of her old movies
Thank you for posting this,Irene Ryan is my 5th cousin,and I'd never seen what she looked like young. Awesome hair,and classic beauty imo.
SHE WAS JUST A SWEET PERSON.. THANKS FOR ALL YOU GAVE US...SEE YOU LATER...
Thank you for sharing.. wow
Irene Ryan was a beauty when she was young.
What a cute lil thing she was
What a doll!
The Greatest Star in Music and Movies Irene Ryan,thanks For Your Advice in real Music I Miss Yeah! RIP Irene Ryan 1973 USA
She was great on Bob Hope radios programs
when actors had talent
Thanks for the memories Irene
Wow she was a beautiful woman
This is an actress was superb not just in The Beverly Hillbillies but she was underrated as an actor and should deserve more credit she was a kooky funny and determine actress which I admired and I watch The Beverly Hillbillies and I know is know that that's not the only thing that she could do but she was a very good actress God bless her
She has a great singing voice!
Thanks for posting this. Wonderful memories.
There's only 20-25 years between this scene and her as an elderly woman in Beverly Hillsbillies
@Chatsworth Osbourne Jr. Then there's this bit of TV "trickery" Estelle Getty was a year YOUNGER than Bea Arthur - Yet she played Bea's MOTHER on "The Golden Girls".
@Chatsworth Osbourne Jr. She was born in 1902 in El Paso, Tx. She was 42 when this clip was made, in her sixties when she did the "Beverly Hillbillies" and passed away in 1973.
only 20-25 years? Thats a big difference.
I absolutely love and adore Irene Ryan she really was all that and some.
Thank you for posting this clip! Good to see her when she was younger.
I remember this show when I was a kid loved the Beverly Hillbillies
WOW 🙀, she was beautiful 😍💜
I got joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart
Really wonderful clip. Thank you!
that was great! Fantastic Irene!
Boy, you can hear her voice being quite similar when she was young. Love to see our older people were young once to, and had similar dreams of romance and love. like all the young ones today. :)
What a beauty she was
Most people don't know that Irene Ryan did a lot of radio shows in the 1940s - 50s
Her voice was distinctive.
holy geez Granny was a babe, and talented! Never seen her in anything but the Beverly Hillbillies till now! Thanks for the upload!
Irene was in the Broadway cast of Pippin in 1972. She departed this life the following year. 😢😞
Irene and her husband, Tim were featured in "The Tim and Irene" radio show. Some episodes from 1932 and 1933 are known to have survived in collections.
She was wonderful
Loved it,good actress
PRICELESS. Just Wonderful!
Don, t remember ever seeing this.Irene Ryan was rather pretty then, friends.God bless her sweet mrmory.
I meant"God bless her sweet memory".
She sure acts thee happyest girl in town, yep she aged well: great as granny, hard to find early stuff on her.
+Wide Open
She did a ton of radio stuff, a lot of it available if you look on old time radio websites. She had a show with her husband Tim in the late 30's and I've heard a few of those, though not many survive. Then she was a semi-regular for a while on Bob Hope's show in the 40's, taking Vera Vague's place.
@@RRaquello She played the mother of the comic strip character "Little Iodine" back in the late 40s.
Hard to think of "granny" as a gorgeous young woman but there she is :>)
Omg, how adorable!
Hard to believe there was a time when 'Granny' was a damn good lookin' woman!
Right up there with Elly Mae I reckon
@@mH8675309
No one was as beautiful as Donna Douglas. Don't think it's possible. (lol)
My brother used to live in Lake Tahoe, California, and knew
Max Baer Jr., who also lived there. Max Baer Jr. told him that guys always ask him if he had ever been "intimate" with the beautiful Elly Mae.
He (Max Baer Jr.) said he always responds, "No, but I've come awful close to it with granny a few times! (lol)
@@dennishalford5763 I read that he did go out on a couple of dates with Douglas . He and Ryan had many scenes together on BH . Ryan treated him to lunch when they were trying for their parts and Baer was drawing unemployment . I would not be surprised if they did .
@@JJJBRICE
I interpreted what he said to my brother to mean that he was never intimate with Donna Douglas. He could very well have gone out with her a couple of times. How could he not have been attracted to her as beautiful as she was!
He also told my brother that he had acquired the rights to the title "The Beverly Hillbillies" and wanted to open a casino in Tahoe calling it "The Beverly Hillbillies Casino." He was having a hard time doing this, though, he said, because the laws were complicated and they were making him jump through all kinds of hoops. He said he had played an idiot for years on television but the real idiots are the politicians.
Love this!!!!
It is so strange to see Granny that young and that talented before stardom struck on the Beverly Hillbillies!
I saw her in ‘Pippin’ on Broadway! great ensemble, William Katt, Ben Vereen!
Amazing, what talent. I can't even see Granny Clampett in that talented young lady's face! Now you got my curiosity up, I want to know more about Irene Ryan!
That's the mark of a great actor or actress, being able to play any part convincingly.
You can see the granny in this young lady! Crazy!
Thank you for sharing this!
I was hoping for a direct copy, but this is pretty decent for a video of a TV. Thank you for posting!
Irene "Granny" Ryan was beautiful when she was younger.
It's funny to see some of these actors and actresses when they were much younger than you knew them. I remember seeing Joan Blondell in the movie Grease when I was very young, and she was pretty old by then. Little did I know that Blondell had been a real hottie back in the 1930's and had even appeared in some "risque" films for that time before Hollywood implemented the Hayes Code.
And now, I'm not so young. Time marches on. LOL!
What a talent!
Love Irene Ryan.
After seeing and HEARING this, I can see how this lovely young lady became "Granny."
Irene Ryan was born in El Paso, Texas in 1902. You can hear a bit of her West Texas accent when she always speaks and that natural West Texas accent likely helped her naturally fit right being able to portray the Granny character 20 years later in Beverly Hillbillies. Many people picture her only as the much older Granny character but she was actually very attractive looking without the Granny make up and clothing when she was young.
What a amazingly pretty lady I've seen her on a couple different older shows . But most memorable is Beverly hill Billy's rip irene
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She's a stunner! Both her skill and looks.
definitely the most talented character on the beverly hillbillies -- my favorite on that all time classic show -- never knew until now that she was a talented vocalist -- a good one - and good looking - who knew ?
This is also the first time I've ever seen Irene Ryan do anything before Beverly Hillbillies. Mom used to say that she did other things before that, but I never knew what.