Barbara Pepper

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1915-05-31 (54 years old)

Deathday

1969-07-18

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Barbara Pepper

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Barbara Pepper (born Marion B. Pepper; May 31, 1915 – July 18, 1969) was an American stage, television, radio, and film actress. She is best known as the first "Doris Ziffel" on the sitcom Green Acres. Pepper was born in New York City, the daughter of actor David Mitchell "Dave" Pepper, and his wife, Harrietta S. Pepper. At age 16 she started life in show business with Goldwyn Girls, a musical stock company where she met lifelong friend Lucille Ball. Pepper began making movies. Among her later film parts were small roles in My Fair Lady and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. She also performed radio part...

Acting

1941

Manpower

as Polly

1939

They Made Me a Criminal

as Budgie Massey

1962

The Music Man

as Mrs. Hawkes

1953

Inferno

as Waitress (uncredited)

1963

Who's Minding the Store?

as Customer at Bargain Sale (uncredited)

1936

The Rogues' Tavern

as Marjorie Burns

1964

Kiss Me, Stupid

as Big Bertha

1943

1941

1963

A Child Is Waiting

as Miss Brown (uncredited)

1939

1940

Framed

as Goldie Green

1934

1945

Murder, He Says

as Bonnie Fleagle

1943

Girls in Chains

as Barbara Pepper

1935

Waterfront Lady

as Gloria Vance

1937

The Outcasts of Poker Flat

as Blonde Saloon Lady (uncredited)

1938

1938

Army Girl

as Riki

1935

1938

The Girl Downstairs

as Woman at bar (uncredited)

1936

Taming the Wild

as Hazel White

1937

Many Unhappy Returns

as Sophie - Cigar Store Counter Girl

1936

1937

Too Many Wives

as Angela Brown

1942

Sappy Pappy

as Female Customer

1938

1936

Wanted: Jane Turner

as Marge Sanders

1935

Let 'em Have It

as Milly Adams

1938

1957

The D.I.

as Woman Customer

1936

M'Liss

as Clytie Morpher

1942

1950

The Fuller Brush Girl

as Wife Watching TV (uncredited)

1937

The Big Shot

as Mamie

1937

You Can't Buy Luck

as Store Clerk

1939

The Amazing Mr. Williams

as Muriel - Wedding Guest (uncredited)

1943

So This Is Washington

as Betty - Taxi Driver (uncredited)

1943

Aerial Gunner

as Blonde at Shooting Gallery (uncredited)

1941

1936

Mummy's Boys

as Mary Browning

1944

Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid

as Miss LaRue ("Wild Rose")

1954

A Star Is Born

as Esther's Neighbor (uncredited)

1941

Three Sons o' Guns

as Francie LaRue

1939

Bachelor Mother

as Dance-Hall Hostess (uncredited)

1939

The Women

as Tough Girl (uncredited)

1939

Of Mice and Men

as Second Girl (uncredited)

1937

1956

Dark Meeting

as Clara

1936

Winterset

as Girl

1941

The Lady Eve

as Lady Wrestler Type on Ship (uncredited)

1948

The Snake Pit

as Asylum Patient (uncredited)

1950

Unmasked

as Mrs. Schmidt

1935

Forced Landing

as Nancy 'Dusty' Rhodes

1937

The Westland Case

as Agatha Hogan

1945

1940

1960

The Bramble Bush

as Polly Welk

1958

Auntie Mame

as Mrs. Krantz (uncredited)

1946

Terror Trail

as Karen Kemp, the Louisville Lady

1943

Blonde and Groom

as Rex's Fiancée

1942

Carry Harry

as Edith, Harry's Girl Friend

1943

Let's Face It

as Daisy (uncredited)

1939

Three Sons

as Viola

1933

Roman Scandals

as Goldwyn Girl (uncredited)

1952

Ghost Buster

as Mrs. Nolan

1937

Music for Madame

as Blonde on Bus (Uncredited)

1942

1950

My Blue Heaven

as Susan (uncredited)

1953

So This Is Love

as Fat Girl with Sailor in Nightclub (uncredited)

1953

The Eddie Cantor Story

as Beer Garden Patron

1939

Colorado Sunset

as Ginger Bixby

1935

Frisco Waterfront

as The Blonde Stranger

1939

Off the Record

as Flossie - Telephone Operator (uncredited)

1944

Once Upon a Time

as Cabbie (uncredited)

1940

1949

The Inspector General

as Buxom Villager (uncredited)

1938

The Chaser

as Mabel, Drunken Girl

1950

No Way Out

as Woman (uncredited)

1945

The Naughty Nineties

as Gilded Cage Hostess (uncredited)

1940

Forgotten Girls

as Eve Abbott

1934

Strictly Dynamite

as Party Girl (uncredited)

1962

It's Only Money

as Fisherwoman

1936

After the Thin Man

as Party Guest (uncredited)

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