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Nancy Kulp
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Nancy Kulp

Nancy Jane Kulp (August 28, 1921 - February 3, 1991) was an actress best known to television viewers as "Miss Jane Hathaway" on The Beverly Hillbillies.

She was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. After college, she moved to Hollywood to work in a studio publicity department, but director George Cukor convinced her that she should work in front of the camera.

Thus began a career as a character actor. Her movie debut was in 1951 in The Company She Keeps. She appeared in such films as Shane, Sabrina and A Star Is Born. In 1955 she joined the cast of The Bob Cummings Show. She returned to movies in Forever, Darling, The Three Faces of Eve and The Parent Trap, before The Beverly Hillbillies made her so well-known.

In 1984, she ran for the United States House of Representatives as a Democrat from Pennsylvania, but was ultimately unsuccessful, due in part to her Hillbillies co-star Buddy Ebsen's support of her Republican opponent. Ebsen went so far as to tape an ad for Kulp's opponent, labeling her as "too liberal".

At the age of 67, Kulp came out of the closet and announced that she was a lesbian. She admitted to "swinging both ways."

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