Just wondered the other day about the whereabouts and doings of Nancy Culp the actor who played Jane Hatheway on the “Beverly Hillbillies”. No one at work seems to recall ever having seen her after that show ended. Just curious.
You are referring to a woman named Nancy Kulp. She passed away February 3, 1991.
She didn’t do much acting after “The Beverly Hillbillies”. She ran for Congress once as a Democrat in Pennsylvania, but lost. Buddy Ebsen campaigned against her.
I saw her in an episode of “Sanford & Son” after the Hillbillies left the air.
I also remember seeing her in a pre-Hillbillies movie that took place in Vietnam or some other Southeast Asian country (“Five Gates to Hell” or something like it).
She’s with a team of nurses who are captured by some Yellow Menace (led by Neville Brand, I think), and one of them (verbally) shoots at her with something like “If you’d ever had a man, maybe you wouldn’t be so uptight.”
Judging by Kulp’s lesbian-rights platform when she ran for Congress from Pennsylvania, somehow I don’t think that would have helped her be less uptight.
Buddy didn’t really campaign against her. Ms Jane made some statements that would have made it appear all the former “Hillbillies” were backing her. Buddy said this wasn’t so.
Though it caused a rift between them they made up before her death.