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She’s wearing her signature pressed suit, a drab number we’d see her sport throughout most of the initial seasons. This would’ve been ideal for a gay man needing a wife, and perhaps for an ambitious but bookish Indian-American woman needing a husband who was going places and wouldn’t demand too much.

Is this all a lot of conjecture?

Here’s how I would ask it: ‘Do you think that opposites attract?’ My own reply would be that I’m the other sort–I find that birds of a feather flock together. She played supporting parts, often uncredited, in some noteworthy movies — Shane, Sabrina, the Judy Garland version of A Star Is Born, also directed by Cukor — and some now-forgotten ones.

Juniata, a small liberal arts college 120 miles east of Pittsburgh, has expressed interest in her, perhaps for an ″artist-in-re sidence″ program, said college spokesman Robert Howden.

Who the F Is … Actress and Politician Nancy Kulp?

Who she was: A well-regarded character actress who eventually ran for public office and came out — rather obliquely.

What she accomplished: Nancy Kulp (1921-1991) endeared herself to baby boomers with her role on a silly but successful TV sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies. From 1962 to 1971, she played the prim, efficient Miss Jane Hathaway, secretary to banker Milburn Drysdale.

The writer for The Bob Cummings Show, Paul Henning, would go on to write for The Beverly Hillbillies, and created a role specifically for Kulp. And it’s worth considering that his wife comes from a culture of arranged, often transactional marriages, where a hot-and-heavy romantic relationship is not considered a necessary or normal stage of courtship, and that their relationship was sort of arranged by their mentor Amy Chua at Yale.

But she had a passion for politics, dating back to Adlai Stevenson’s presidential campaign in 1952, and in 1984 she returned to central Pennsylvania to run for Congress. But there’s always someone who screams, ‘Where’s Jethro?’” — to People magazine, during her congressional campaign

Take a tour of Nancy Kulp’s silliest costumes.

At its heart, The Beverly Hillbillies was about breaking out of your comfort zone, and it wasn’t just the Clampetts experiencing the growing pains.

That answers your question.”

Never in the course of the interview did she refer to herself as a lesbian.

Nancy Kulp would die of cancer only two years later, on February 3, 1991, at her home in Palm desert, California. Nancy appeared in over 90 films and TV titles during her career, all of which steadily increased her wealth.

Why would someone want to do that? Later, she taught acting at a Pennsylvania college and made some stage appearances, including one as the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet at the 1987 Georgia Shakespeare Festival in Atlanta, then retired to the California desert, where she kept busy with volunteer work. The last guy, you’ll recall, calls his wife “Mother” and can’t be alone in a room with another woman.

That’s lovely. Apparently I didn’t have to worry about being gay anymore. It’s presented as a way of saying it’s OK to be gay, but also as a way of saying Vance was definitely not gay:

I broached this issue with Mamaw, confessing that I was gay and I was worried that I would burn in hell.