Ethel Waters, Butterfly McQueen, Dooley Wilson, Pert Kelton--Beulah TV
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- In this rare episode of "The Beulah Show," Ethel Waters stars with Dooley Wilson, Butterfly McQueen and guest Pert Kelton in "Bill, the Babysitter". Includes original Dreft and Oxydol commercials and a Lilt commercial with Jinx Falkenburg.
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Amazing to see Ethel Waters and Butterfly McQueen together years after they were in the movie 'Cabin in the Sky' at MGM.
WOW! Their going to the Holiday Inn for dinner. High Tone eatin'!
Nice, real nice to see more Ethel Waters work - she's the greatest of stage, radio, film, recording, and television. Wanna get some of that Dreft scouring-free stuff for my greasy pots & pans.
I think Dreft is still made!
Where did you ever find this one? Doesn't appear anywhere else...most comp DVDs of this show feature the only 4 remaining episodes. A real find.
Ethel Water’s Beulah was the sanest voice of reason in the whole episode. All of the other characters black & white were either stereotypes or reflective of the era. The obnoxious businessman, his meek wife & child from hell are good examples. Oreo was essentially a good character but scatter brained & man crazy. The same type of character did appear in other shows later but usually as the ditzy blonde or neighbor to a main character. Something like Chrissy Snow in Three’s Company. Pert Kelton, who played Clara, was the first Alice Kramden on The Honeymooners. Unfortunately, she was fired after being named during Sen. McCarthy’s witch-hunt hearings. But, Jackie Gleason helped her during that time. I’ve never seen this show but Ethel Waters was very good despite the restrictions of her role.
With Joe McCarthy there were people being accused of being Communists, but in fact there was no REAL way to prove it.
My nana took me to see Ethel Waters at Curtis Hixson. I remember she sang "suppertime"
No local Sizzler i gues
This is a real treasure!
This is an absolute gem!Ethel Waters is a treasure!
I prefer Ethel Waters to the other Beulahs. I would have loved to see her and Julie Harris on Broadway in Member of the Wedding.
Yes, she plays the role with a dignity that defies racism and just makes it funny. It's obvious that she's treated like a member of the family and probably rules the roost. Even Butterfly and Dooley comes across as comic, not stereotypes, when playing opposite her. She was the Hazel of her day.
"Maybe she'll electrocute herself on that stove", LMAO!
I love Dooley Wilson 💕
I love the Beulah show, its nice and funny.
It was on everyday at 12:45 in Cleveland...1954-1962....
I loved Beulah as a child
This doesn't really have the negative stereotypes of the later Beulah episodes. But if you look at who's starring Ethel Waters and Dooley Wilson, they didn't do stereotypes. Particularly in the later Louise Beavers episodes, there were some cringe worthy stereotypes!
Really in the later Beulah shows it's hard to say who is more demeaned,the black domestics or the white employers.
In this it's really a toned down version of Hazel.
The stereotypes faced by these actors are more sitcom-based than racial. There are no " I is" and "you is" moments in the show. Beulah actually has a love- life with a loving, affectionate man and OREO is more than a one-dimensional character. I'd say the writing was pretty daring for the time.
Than, don't watch.
This is the best material they could come up with for these women?
SOMEONE KEPT IT REAL Lol
This is 1952. They were lucky to have a series. Television was still struggling for an audience as most people still went out to the movies often.
Love it. I would like to share it but I'm afraid I would get negative comments. Butterfly McQueen is so adorable, but people would say she's a stereotype. Actually I don't think there was a type like her. She's an original!! Does anyone know what year this was?
1950 or 1951. That's when Ethel Waters was on, the 1950-51 season.
@@devontehuntley6274 Thank you. I must have seen re-runs because we didn't have a tv yet then. But I definitely remember seeing her in this.
@@lindam.clifford6861 You're welcome. Such a shame they went through so many casting changes with all the main characters. A pretty rare thing that isn't done now for sure, but this is when TV was starting out so it probably wasn't a big deal then. I do wish this show kept a stable cast. I will say this though, I prefer the actors of the white family from Season 2 onward than in Season 1. Not sure who I'd pick as the best Beulah. They were all good in their own way.
Fancy billing Dooley Wilson as 'introducing', 7-8 years after 'Casablanca'.
Butterfly was bangin.
this is the third woman playing Beulah I've seen in one hour! Did they all quit> and that Oxydol box is straight out of Warhol! and Lord I hope she makes a cake! jinx falkenberg! I thought this was a name I made up as a kid!
Ethel Waters and Butterfly McQueen began the series, but Waters was unhappy and left. She was replaced by Hattie McDaniel, who had done the role on radio, but McDaniel was ill and eventually passed away. She was replaced by Louise Beavers for the rest of the run. Ruby Dandridge, mother of Dorothy, replaced McQueen as Oriole. The show was eventually cancelled because of racial complaints, but it's really no different from Shirley Booth's later "Hazel". If "Hazel" had been cast with a black actress, they probably would have gotten the same kind of complaints. Even though "Beulah" was shot on film, only a handful of episodes remain and the Ethel Waters shows are particularly hard to find.
Maybe if there was an African American equivilant of Sgt. Friday, Dr. Kildare, Perry Mason or Our Miss Brooks, they wouldn't have complain.
@@aeichler The unusual thing about this is that McDaniel's episode were shown after the season . So Ruby's episodes ran the season. At the end of that season they showed 6 episodes of McDaniel's and then the Dandridge's episodes ran the last season.
This was an early Beulah.
This has been 1949.
Jinx Falkenburg--the first Miss Rheingold.
A little slice of 50s life.
And nothing racist about it! It's just "Hazel" played by a black actress.
@@aeichler In this episode the head of the house , let them know he trusted the people who babysat the brat. If that were written for today's T.V. , well it wouldn't be entertaining . 😏
@@colinhalliley111 What does race have to do with that? He was just saying he trusted them with the little girl
@@aeichler that's what I mean , but if it was written for today's television it would be racialized.
@25:29 is this where Freida got that line?
I thought that in 1949 it was Louise beaver. I was wrong!
Ethel Waters was the original star for the first season, but left because the show was too stereotyped. Hattie McDaniel replaced her, but only did four episodes because of her illness. Louise Beavers came next and finished the series. It's a shame more episodes can't be found. I don't find it stereotyped at all. Beulah ran the household just like Hazel
@@aeichler Ethel was smart. She probably saved a lot of money and invested to avoid limited roles. Hattie probably had debt and probably barely saved money, maybe.
@@aeichler That stemmed from the fact that at the time black actresses were limited in roles in. white production as maids to singers or prisoners only.
Did the actor playing bill suffer a stroke?
All I ever do is wait. Herman Anthony Mayes 💝
No laugh track?
You didn't need a laugh track to make you think this is funny. This stuff is naturally funny.
Kevin Hoffman because this show is boring thats why
What a name Oreo
No, Oriole like the bird. This show went off the air because people thought it was racist, but it's no different than Shirley Booth's "Hazel".
Clesning the fridge do not like that chore
In the 50s...
It appears the marketing influence* was to make an American Housewife feel
bereft...
without using and promoting "Dreft" was that not handy?😉
I think this and Amos N Andy were better than the black sitcoms of two decades later.The black sitcoms of two decades later were worse.
I, see why Karen's think they're Blk, people's bosses. Beulah, asked her boss if she could leave the house. And look at how mean Beulah talks to her friend. Point being white is best.
Mrs Waters is glad they did not put her in maid Uniform, if she was not so fsmous already after staring in Porgy nBess and Show Boat
all of that nasty bacteria. No bleach? No thank you. And no washing either? just soak and rinse? Again, no thank you.