Almost Retired
Though Buddy Ebsen was a successful person after the show was canceled in the 1970s, he wanted to retire before the show went on the air! He thought of quitting show business altogether but decided to stick around.
My Levi’s
America loves a blonde woman in jeans (think Dukes of Hazzard). Toward the end of the first season of the show, Levi-Strauss, a legendary jean maker, acknowledged that Elly May was good for its business. In fact, she helped them sell more blue jeans in a single year than cowboys had for 100 years!