Nancy Kulp

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Nancy Jane Kulp (August 28, 1921-February 3, 1991) was an American character actress best known as Miss Jane Hathaway on CBS television series The Beverly Hillbillies.

Early life

Kulp was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to Robert Tilden and Marjorie C. (née Snyder). She was their only child. Kulp's father was a traveling salesman, and her mother was a schoolteacher and later a principal. The family migrated from Mifflintown, Pennsylvania, to Miami-Dade County, Florida, sometime before 1935.

Kulp received a bachelor's degree in journalism from Florida State College for Women in 1943. She continued her studies at the University of Miami for a master's degree in English and French, where she was a founding member of the sorority Pi Beta Phi. She began as a reporter for the Miami Beach Tropics newspaper in the 1940s, writing about celebrities including Clark Gable and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Personal life

In 1951, Kulp married Charles Malcolm Dacus in Dade County, Florida; they divorced in 1961. Following her retirement from acting and teaching, she moved first to a Connecticut farm and later to Palm Springs, California, where she became active with several charities, including the Humane Society of the Desert, the Desert Theatre League, and United Cerebral Palsy. In 1989, Kulp conducted an interview with author and LGBT activist Boze Hadleigh, which she referred to as "absent."

Kulp was implying that she was a lesbian, according to Hadleigh. (Note: Boze Hadleigh is best known for publishing interviews of actors after they've died, in which he claims they were consulted during the interview). Nonetheless, he is reluctant to disclose the audio tapes that would back his claims.

In 1990, Kulp was diagnosed with cancer, for which she underwent chemotherapy. By 1991, the cancer had grown to a point, and she died on February 3, 1991, aged 69 in Palm Desert, California. Her remains are laid to rest at Westminster Presbyterian Cemetery in Mifflintown, Pennsylvania.

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Career

Kulp moved to Hollywood, California, to work in MGM's public relations department, not long after marrying Charles Malcolm Dacus. Director George Cukor at the studio soon agreed she should be a writer, so she made her MGM debut as a character actor in The Model and the Marriage Broker the year after. She appeared in other films, including Shane, Sabrina, and A Star is Born. After being on television on The Bob Cummings Show and on Perry Mason in 1959, Kulp's Case in Forever, Darling, The Three Faces of Eve, Who Owns the Store, and The Aristocats, in Forever, Darling, Who's Minding the Store? She appeared in The Night of the Grizzly, starring Clint Walker and Martha Hyer in 1966.

Pamela Livingstone, a recumbent neighborhood bird watcher, appeared on The Bob Cummings Show (Love That Bob) with Bob Cummings in 1955, depicting pith-helmeted neighborhood bird watcher Pamela Livingstone. In 1956, she appeared as a waitress in the ABC/Warner Brothers series Cheyenne's episode "Johnny Bravo," starring Clint Walker. In three episodes of the NBC sitcom It's a Great Life in 1955 and 1956, Kulp appeared as Anastasia. In 1958, she appeared in Orson Welles' little-known pilot episode "The Fountain of Youth" in the television series Colgate Theatre. Emma St. John appeared in the ABC/WB detective series Bourbon Street Beat's episode "Kill with Kindness" in 1960, starring Andrew Duggan.

In the 1956 episode "Lucy Meets the Queen," Kulp appears as an English maid who teaches Lucy and Ethel how to curtsy properly before Queen Elizabeth. In addition to being on episodes of "The Case of the Deadly Toy" (1958), Jack Benny's (Killer's Choice"), Pete and Gladys, The Twilight Zone (as Mrs. Gann in "The Fugitive"), and Outlaws ("The Dark Sunrise of Griff Kincaid, Esquire"), the Jack Benny Project ("Don's 27th Anniversary with Jack"), "The Case of the Prosecutive"), In a scene with James Garner and Jean Willes in the 1959 Maverick film "Full House," Kulp portrayed a sluggish waitress. She appeared in a pilot for The William Bendix Show, which aired as the finale of CBS's Mister Ed under the guile "Pine Lake Lodge" in 1960-1961. In two episodes under different character names, Miss Harris and Miss Fisher, she portrayed a high school math and science teacher in 1962 on the television series My Three Sons.

Kulp landed her breakout role as Jane Hathaway, the love-starved, bird-watching, perennial spinster on CBS' The Beverly Hillbillies, shortly after her appearances on My Three Sons in 1962. She was given an Emmy Award nomination for her work in 1967, and she stayed with the show until its cancellation in 1971. In 1978, she appeared on The Love Boat in the episode "Mike and Ike / The Kissing Bandit," and she played Aunt Gertrude in the episode "Tony and Julie / Separate Beds/America's Sweetheart." She appeared as a nun in the Quantum Leap season 1 episode "The Right Hand of God" on April 7, 1989. Kulp has appeared on The Brian Keith Show and Sanford and Son.

Aaronetta Gibbs was also active in the Broadway production of Morning's at Seven in 1980 to 1981 as Aaronetta Gibbs as a replacement for Elizabeth Wilson in the Lyceum Theatre.

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