Who doesn’t love a good rags-to-riches story? In 1962, CBS struck gold with The Beverly Hillbillies cast in a sitcom about a backwoods family who packed up and moved from the Ozarks to California ...

Discover the incredible journey of Max Baer Jr. from a struggling artist to a TV star on 'The Beverly Hillbillies.' Learn ...

Beloved actor Max Baer, Jr. (who prefers to be known as just Max Baer) is now 87. Baer is best known for playing Jethro Bodine on the classic CBS sitcom, The Beverly Hillbillies, which originally ...

The Beverly Hillbillies' Jethro Bodine would fall somewhere between Barney Fife and Kramer on any list of great TV sidekicks. Part buffoon and part beautiful dreamer, Jethro was a childlike mind ...

A co-owner of Bodine’s casino said his business doesn’t have “any reason in the world” to grant CBS Corp.’s recent request that the casino change its name. Earlier this month, CBS sent a letter to ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) - The actor who played Jethro Bodine in the 1960s television series “The Beverly Hillbillies” is suing CBS, arguing the broadcaster made inappropriate deals with an Iowa ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. From left: Max Baer Jr. as Jethro Bodine, Irene Ryan as Daisy 'Granny' Moses, Buddy Ebsen as Jed Clampett and Donna Douglas as ...

Max Baer, Jr., created a cultural icon with his portrayal of Jethro Bodine on the hit 1960s sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies,” where he played a dim-witted bumpkin whose main goal in life – besides ...