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You might think Bea Benadaret was born in say, Tennessee. Nope, New York City. She moved to San Francisco with her parents when she was five years old. She really found a home in San Francisco. At 12, she was signed as a singer by the manager of KGO Radio after he saw her in a minor role in a children's production of 'The Beggar's Opera." Home In San Francisco Her education "credits" include St.

Rose Academy High School and the Reginald Travis School of Acting in San Francisco. Her work list shows stock company and little theater groups, and a lot of radio as actress-singer-writer-producer-announcer. She went network radio in 1936; with Orson Welles on the "Campbell Playhouse," and guested on a number of big name shows. Her Clampett-type oil strike of course, was the Gertrude Gearshift role with the parsimonious one called Benny. Bea has two children, Jack 24, and Maggie 14, and they live in Calabasas, Calif.

COUSIN Pearl Bodine, of the "Beverly Hillbillies," shed that hick handle, that frizzy hair-do and those pipe-rack dresses, slicked up a little and became Kate Bradley in the Hillbillies' spinoff "Petticoat Junction." Yes, Bea Benadaret made a nice transition. As Pearl she was sort of a country coquette who couldn't really be popular with a smorgasbord in a starvation camp. As Kate, she runs three scrumptious daughters and one rural hotel, the Shady Rest, on "Junction" (Tuesdays, p. m. on Channels 2 and 9).

If you're old enough, you probably knew Bea's voice before you knew her face. She's been doing radio and TV for 20 years and her many clever dialects have kept her in sausage and pancakes. Imagine, for instance, the unlikely-sounding moniker of Gertrude Gearshift. Yet Bea played Gertrude and shifted gears from obscurity to popularity in the business. Brooklyn Operator Gertrude was a Brooklyn telephone operator on The Jack Benny Program.

Bea also played Amber Lipscott on "My Friend Irma," Gloria, the maid, on "Ozzie and Harriet," Eve Goodwin on "The Great Gildersleeve," Mrs. Carstalrs on "Fibber McGee and Molly" and Mama on "Meet Millie." On television, she dubs for Betty If you hate Monday morn-ings, it's probably because you don't want to go to work because you don't really like your job. This can ruin you. People who don't like their work seldom progress. They bang into an invisible roadblock, and often limp out their lives earning half or even a quarter of what they might earn.

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