Rare Great Gilderleeve stuff (including second fiddle Eve Goodwin!)

Extremely rare: Gildersleeve rehearsal (cast) photo

1948

Revisisted: Mr. Peavy gets angry

Anyone who has followed this blog will remember this post where I mentioned Mr. Peavy (Dick LeGrande on Great Gildersleeve) actually gets angry with Gildy neighbor kid Craig Bullard. 

Here's the edited, classic piece:

Similar characters [#02]

Dick LeGrand (Mr. Peavy)

Today I have a list of four similar characters.  All seemed "tired" or lacking energy and testosterone:

Waldo Binney (Dink Trout, The Life of Riley.) He was the guy who always moaned, "Oh, my aching back!" - in the mid to late 1940's.

Mr. Anderson (again, Dink Trout, husband of Mrs. Anderson, Dennis' girlfriend on A Day in the Life of Dennis Day.)  Pretty much a sissy - his wife wore the pants in the family.

Mr. Peavy (Richard Legrand, drug store owner on The Great Gildersleeve.  He was the originator of the woeful, "Well now, I wouldn't say that" line in every Gildersleeve show he was on.) It seems for the most part, Peavy was the head of his house but on 99% of every other occasion, he was a mealy-mouthed push over (although he would certainly disagree -"Well now, I wouldn't say that!")

Peavy has been known to get extremely angry. Craig Bullard, a youngster who lived near Gildersleeve, once made him so mad, he really showed his evil side (Gildersleeve episode 450513 Meet Craig Bullard - the real fun starts about 16:45 or so.)

Mel Blanc (Mailman)

Mailman (Mel Blanc of Jack Benny and Bugs Bunny/Warner Brothers' cartoon fame; Mailman appeared on The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show.) Yes, he was a mail man.  He never had many lines. Sadly, his lines usually weren't very funny either.

Wallace Wimple (Bill Thompson on Fibber McGee and Molly.)  Wimple always walked around with a "Bird Book" (why that's funny, I'll never know - but it is funny, anyway!) and was always complaining about his "Big ole wife" and the abuse he had to take from her.