who was the hired hand on green acres
Green Acres The Granby's Green Acres radio show aired from July 3 to August 21, 1950. The show was produced, directed, and written by Jay Sommers,[3] who wrote and produced a third of the Green Acres episodes. In both, a businessman knowing little about farming moves to an impoverished farm. The characters are more conventionally odd, the wife stereotypically talkative and dim, the Sam Drucker character of Sam Drucker is the absent-minded and befuddled feed store owner Mr. Kimball while hired hand Eb (Parley Baer, who guest-starred in several episodes of the television series) is elderly and stoic about incompetent management.[10]
How Green Was My Valley (film) William Wyler, the original director, saw the screen test of McDowall and chose him for the part. Wyler was replaced by John Ford. Fox wanted to shoot the movie in Wales in Technicolor, but events in Europe during World War II made this impossible. Instead, Ford had the studio build an 80-acre authentic replica of a Welsh mining town at Brent's Crags[6] (subsequently Crags Country Club) in the Santa Monica Mountains near Malibu, California.[7]