Skip to content
On Air
All channelsAll
Join Free
Vintage Radio Vault · On the airBea BenaderetBea Benaderetas Blanche Morton (neighbor) · The Burns and Allen Show

Photo: CBS Television-Photo is CBS Portrait by Gabor Rona, partly hidden by clipping. Rona did a lot of photography for CBS and Benadaret was starring in Petticoat Junction at the time., Public domain

Cast & crew · 2 shows in the vault

Bea Benaderet

Beatrice Benaderet was an American actress and comedienne.

Beatrice Benaderet was an American actress and comedienne. Born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, she began performing in Bay Area theatre and radio before embarking on a Hollywood career that spanned over three decades. Benaderet first specialized in voice-over work in the golden age of radio, appearing on numerous programs while working with comedians of the era such as Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, and Lucille Ball. Her expertise in dialect and characterization led to her becoming Warner Bros.' leading voice of female characters in their animated cartoons of the early 1940s through the mid-1950s.
1945–1950Career
2Radio credits
Did You Know?
◆

Benaderet first specialized in voice-over work in the golden age of radio, appearing on numerous programs while working with comedians of the era such as Jack Benny, Burns and Allen, and Lucille Ball.