digger o'dell the friendly undertaker

And somebody else is pressing somebody's clothes. Everything assumes its natural order. I think the national rate now is right around 38 percent. Chester A. Riley: You know, Peg, I don't know what kind of wife she's gonna mae, but 40 years from now, somebody's gonna have a terrific mother-in-law. Chester A. Riley: Yeah! Down your throat it goes. Does it affect the nature of the grief if someone was present for the dying of the loved one? 1 His frequent exclamation of indignation became one of the most famous catch phrases of the 1940s: "What a revoltin' development this is!" The radio series greatly benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby "Digger" O'Dell (John Brown), "the friendly undertaker." Why would he leave his wife? Not sure where the voice actor was inspired from, but Mancubus sounds exactly like Digger O'Dell, the friendly undertaker from the old Life of Rile Press J to jump to the feed. He later finds out it was an Indian girl who stood in for her and they are reunited at the end of the movie. Get Ready for a New Season of Gardening -Choose from Tomatoes, Peaches, Corn, Zinnias & More! During cocktails, a bill collector from the electric company shows up, and after Riley sends him on his way, he disconnects the Rileys' electricity. She must have money. Mrs. Abigail Uppington, the wimpy Wallace Wimple and the "friendly undertaker," Digger O'Dell. Peg Riley: Chester Riley! See production, box office & company info, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA. Do they get through it better? Thanks for any help. That they do it for themselves I think is very important. Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: Why, I was just taking a stroll around the pond. I think they used to call that "social death"; that actual death happens like that. Maybe because it's happening to their parents or their siblings and some of their friends now, suddenly I see the cultural conversation changing from "how much?" I'll be the dead guy, and the dead say nothing. But don't go there searching for a tombstone marked Digger O'Dell. So we had those advantages. Mar I've always been touched by the fact that there seems to be as much laughter as weeping at the big life events. What age were you when you really seriously thought you might become a funeral director, and how much of your dad's influence was a part of that decision? I don't know what my part of it is, except it's duty, detail: Show up, do this, do that, be sure the car starts, keep it clean, you know, that type of thing. This character was extremelly successfull, with many puns based on his profession. Today he is just living the life of RileyThis is the story of Chester A. Rileywho is just livingin Los Angeles California." I said what about a kiss? Portrayed Chester A. Riley's neighbor Gillis on "The Life of Riley" for ABC Radio (1944-1945) and NBC Radio (1945-1951). In the early 1970s, he had apparently retired and had opened World-Famous Digger ODells Farmers Market somewhere in that state, but had returned to his old stunts after the death of his wife from a heart attack. So yes, the hurt is there, but the hurt does not overwhelm. Babs Riley: But Mother, this is the opportunity of my entire life! SOURCES: And the things we have to do in that period of two days or three days, that's also largely what you do for us, is that right? And is that the purposefulness in the ebb and flow of a wake and a funeral? A factory worker's family is thrown into an uproar when his teenage daughter starts to date his boss' son. He noted that "the grave that he can't escape from" is located in Sawnee View Memorial Gardens, just outside of Cummings, Georgia. The idea for the radio program had originated as a sitcom for Groucho Marx called The Flotsam Family , but Groucho was Groucho and the sponsor couldn't accept him as a family man. A reader named Ronnie Bierbrodt, who obviously did more research than I did, even turned up his obituary and a copy of the memorial booklet given out at his funeral. Singles & EPs. Comedy Romance A factory worker's family is thrown into an uproar when his teenage daughter starts to date his boss' son. But I have graves at Oak Grove; I have graves in West Clare [County, Ireland]. It is really helpful on the day your mother dies or your father dies or, God help us, a child dies, to have a certain part of the wheel already invented. I see my sons now working through this, and their generation. Are social changes the reasons that we are more fearful and reluctant to deal with death in our everyday lives? Searching for Herbert ODell Smith took me nowhere, and youd be surprised how many people in America are named Digger ODell. Why, theres Edwin Digger Odell of Abilene, Texas; Allen Digger ODell of Malvern, Iowa; Charles Wayne Digger ODell of Lebanon, Tennessee; Loren Digger ODell of Brookfield, Missouri you get the picture. I see no difference in the machinery it takes to dig a hole [and] the machinery it takes to build a fire. Months after my father died, I can remember this wave of feelings that would come over me, catching me at the most unpredictable times, this wallop of him being dead, him being gone. Sponsors of the TV show included Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer (194950), Gulf Oil (195358) and Lever Brothers (195758). The last mention I can find of his exploits came from a 1979 newspaper published in the little town of Phenix City, Alabama, which reported that Digger was performing his 158th burial in the parking lot of Macks Mobile Homes there. Dear Vance:What happened to the Memory Grove plaque an old war memorial that stood in Overton Park, in a stand of trees close to Poplar Avenue? You're sweet, though. The till doesn't ring as precisely, and what works and where the values are require more discernment. He liked the idea that the culture had sort of organized these wheels, in some way liturgically, in some ways socially. Simon Vanderhopper: Yes sir, I don't let the grass grow under my feet! I see it all as part of the one journey, all as part of the one pilgrimage. Everything is going on, and here we are. "You have to have helpers 24 hours a day.". But when people go with us, it's at the back end of an industrial park in Lavonia, near a railroad track, so it's unlike the kind of commemorative surroundings that we have in our local cemeteries -- more is the pity. Cast & Crew Read More Irving Brecher Director William Bendix Chester A. Riley James Gleason Gillis Rosemary Decamp Peg Riley Bill Goodwin Sidney Monahan Beulah Bondi Miss [Martha] Bogle Film Details Genre Comedy Release Date Mar 1949 Premiere Information And I've seen it work, I've seen it work. Chester A. Riley: "Babs Riley Featured in Annual School Follies". "The Life of Riley Quotes." In 1949, Universal Studios released a Life of Riley motion picture, and later that same year NBC produced a TV version with Jackie Gleason playing Riley (Bendix was unable to play the role . Do you hear that, Peg? Although Hollywood Reporter announced in January and February 1949 that the film would have its premiere in March 1949 in Cincinnati, no definite information about the premiere was found. And at least so far as my experience is concerned, the living who bear those burdens honorably are better off for it. In some ways it is a culture that's based on convenience and cost efficiency. Chester A. Riley: Well, that'll be it, Miss Millie. to "what are we going to do?" Chester A. Riley: What do you mean the baby announcements? [citation needed], Bendix and Rosemary DeCamp reprised the roles in an hour-long radio adaptation of the feature film that was presented on Lux Radio Theater on May 8, 1950. A cover was placed over his apartment and he was sealed in, with the intention being to break the personal record of 57 days that he had set here during his previous visit to Memphis, though that location wasnt mentioned. To Babs's delight, Jeff, who has just moved in next door with his aunt, is a dedicated pre-med student. Chester A. Riley: Besides that, he's nothing but a lazy loafer. I have children at home; my wife had taken them home from the luncheon. Plunged into darkness, Riley takes the advice of friend and neighbor, undertaker "Digger" O'Dell, and invites his guests to a restaurant. Chester A. Riley is back, with long-suffering wife Peg, trouble-prone kids Junior and Babs, moochy pal Gillis, and Digger O'Dell, The Friendly Undertaker in sixteen hilarious half-hour episodes. But the strange case of Digby "Digger" O'Dell offers an elegant counterpoint. Also, in 1958, it hi It seems "Digger O'Dell" was a "friendly undertaker" character in The Life of Riley , a radio soap opera that aired back in the 1930s, but that still doesn't explain the curious popularity of the name, if you ask me. Everything seems to fall into place. The Milford location is one of six Lynch funeral homes in the state. And that is the cruel part, and that is the good news and the bad news all at once -- that things are happening even so. Chester A. Riley: Oh. Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: It is I, Digby O'Dell, the friendly undertaker. I'm the guy that has the hearse, but there's someone else in town who is making a strawberry rhubarb pie to bring to the luncheon afterward, and that's what she's doing on the day. Dr. Beamish: Not now, I'm afraid. We are more mobile, more portable, more scattered. A daughter is no longer the daughter only or the son no longer the son only. Chester A. Riley : Hello, Digger. And there's somebody else trying to get the choir to sing in tune. Do you hear that, Peg? And I find that latter conversation much more compelling and much more difficult, because it's not as easy as dollars and cents. Paula Winslowe played "Peg" for most of the series' run. I've come to admire the earth, the wind and the fire. Dunning, John On the Air: The Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio The Internet Movie Database Babs: Well, I think he ought to get a fair trial. Land of miracles, where dreams come true! It has to do with the gift of language. Some do. So Ive got only one inch to run around in.. At the end of that column, in my lackadaisical way weary from all that writing and typing I said I didn't know what happened to Digger after his misadventures in Memphis. 2 Mar. Chester A. Riley: I got troubles, Digger. This is the way I like to remember William Bendix - playing a family man doing the best he can in a world that tends to be a bit too much for him, with children that tend to be a bit too much for him too. [Riley is talking on the phone with the hospital's maternity ward]. Peg Riley: No thanks, dear. Asked by yeaux. For many people I know, when families are cremated, they feel as if they've in some sense kind of disappeared. He first started doing various stunts in 1932, a time when people were trying to make crazy money with dancing marathons, flagpole sitting, and other endurance feats. If you're playing human to human, you'll do fine. These included Molly's drunken Uncle Dennis and Myrt, the town's telephone operator with whom Fibber shared many a It's something handled by "them" offsite, elsewhere, and I think that's problematical. A great memorable quote from the The Life of Riley movie on Quotes.net - "It is I, Digger O'Dell, your friendly undertaker. Vance Lauderdale is the history columnist for Memphis magazine and Inside Memphis Business. Bearing witness one way or another, that's a key ingredient. Riley's annoying co-worker, Gillis, was also voiced by Brown. He didnt come close to breaking his record. I guess he likes this blond's cooking. So we learn to live with it. Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: Why, I was just taking a stroll around the pond. Starting with the right soil and conditions can make all the difference when it comes to germination and transplanting of pepper seedlings. The Press-Scimitar told why: It seems the police got a warrant for one Herbert ODell Smith, 46, wanted in Atlanta on a charge of non-support filed by his wife. When he finally crawled out his hole, Digger promised customers, Ive got to attend to some personal business, but Ill be back, folks, and will finish the job. Later, he told reporters, Thats the way the cookie crumbles. All to the good, I say. Whats more, said one newspaper, in his heyday, he could knock down $15,000 for a 60-day burial. At the mobile home park, the only money he brought home came from contributions. Packed among his riding gear when on tour is a trumpet, and Helm has been known to join local bands in jam sessions. Well, to find the answer to that question, you need to read the full story here. "Life goes on!" They need to talk to someone. It was later reused by Benjamin J. Grimm of the Fantastic Four. There's been a sort of national conversation about funerals over the years. Chester A. Riley: You know, it's funny. You were just married! Up until a couple generations ago, humans were the species that dealt with death, the idea of the thing, by dealing with their dead, the thing itself, so that the way we processed mortality was by processing mortals from one place to the other, one station to the next in this little pilgrimage between as they were to how they are to what we hope they'll be. In the 19551956 season, the Riley family moved and were given new neighbors portrayed by Florence Sundstrom and George O'Hanlon.[8]. Well, it's showing up and just being there is worth an awful lot. The Life of Riley (1949) co-starred Rosemary DeCamp, James Gleason, Beluah Bondi, Richard Long and John Brown as "Digger O'Dell" the friendly undertaker, a role that he also played on the radio program. "; from "what are we going to buy?" He had a new book out about God not being great. Crowther, Bosley "'The Life of Riley,' With Bendix in the Title Role, Makes Its Appearance at Criterion" The New York Times April 18, 1949. I got my picture in the paper! Slap, slap, slap Rip, Rip, Rip it's over! For years, it was propped against a rugged concrete base, in a cluster of crepe myrtles on the southern edge of the park, close to the intersection of Poplar and Cooper. Ferguson: That's the type of citizen we're sworn to protect. Another time, firefighters rescued him after he apparently suffered a heart attack underground. By Lorraine LoBianco. If you havent visited this area of the park, you should. What can you tell me about this interesting fellow? Id like to think that the cemetery installed a periscope so visitors could see him, or at least a tube where they could drop coins and see if they could ring the bell but I doubt it. Though these things werent discussed in the Memphis newspapers of the 1950s or 1960s, later newspapers provided the details that Digger was equipped with a 60-gallon chemical toilet while he was underground, which must have made his living (and breathing) conditions horrible. And we come away from these memorial events, these celebrations of life, with the increasing sense that something is missing. It earned $1.6 million in the U.S. and Canada,[4] preventing him from starring in the TV series that began in the same year. There is a fee. Well, if it's such a gift, why did it cost you 25 dollars? I always knew I'd bring up my daughter to be somebody someday. Chester A. Riley: I'll go home right now. I was thrilled to find IA, where I can find some of those classics. Before going, Riley instructs his precocious son Junior to exchange his piggy bank coins into bills and meet him at the restaurant, assuming that Junior's savings combined with his five dollars will be enough to pay for the meal. Chester A. Riley, a riveter at Stevenson Aircraft in Los Angeles, works hard but is always behind in his bills. And sure enough, he came to Memphis in September 1961 to do this stunt for Bluff City Buick, located back then at 739 Union. But then I can read the work of Barbara Brown Taylor or St. Paul or C.S. Web. Riley's catch phrase in the series and the film was "what a revolting development this turned out to be." We can't prearrange that. And it works; it does work. I guess you might quibble that the Memory Grove itself the stand of trees that shaded it has been left behind, but the plaque is in better company here, near the famous Doughboy Statue (also a tribute to those lost in the First World War), along with memorials to the men and women who sacrificed their lives in World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and Operation Desert Storm. His dramatic life story is so well-known that schoolchildren are taught to recite it for extra credit. And I suppose this is the message at every graveside: They stay, we go, until we come to that point in which we are brought there, and we stay and they go. And that's very seductive, because, I mean, it's human-to-human contact. Yeah, it's a mystery. Will you care after your death if they take care of you in death as you did your dad? The only place your son will get his picture is in the post office. The radio series greatly benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby "Digger" O'Dell (John Brown), "the friendly undertaker." The Life of Riley starring William Bendix as lovable, blundering, Chester A. Riley, was a radio situation comedy broadcast during and after wartime 40s. But when the entire conversation circles around and around about how much it's going to cost or how can you prevent this charge, I just find it silly after a while. No word on whether anyone felt like carrying on the family tradition. And my father did have a sense of formality and tradition when it came to funerals. It is that everything changes and nothing changes. Cullen, Frank, Hackman, Florence and McNeilly, Donald Vaudeville Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America Vol. She just cant help being money hungry.. He also portrayed "the friendly undertaker" Digby "Digger" O'Dell on the same show. After 13 days in his coffin, Memphis police showed up with shovels to unearth Digger. I can only take from that the sense that we're on the right track there. It has always been a family-owned and -operated firm, founded by Thomas Lynch's father, Edward Joseph Lynch. Rejected everywhere, Riley reluctantly asks Monahan for the money, but Monahan also refuses him. Barbara 'Babs' Riley: Oh Simon, he knows! In addition to Bendix' Riley, the show featured immensely popular supporting characters, including Digby "Digger" O'Dell, the ghoulish "friendly undertaker" voiced by John Brown (who also played Thorny on Ozzie and Harriet, Al on My Friend Irma, and Broadway on The Damon Runyan Theatre). So yeah, it is the good news and the bad news. That's why I came over here tonight. And we suspect there'll be more Riley movies. It's the people who, in many ways, try to put on the smiley face, that brittle grin you see so often that says, "We're going to be happy." Digger O-Dell And The Friendly Undertakers. Digger: Every good undertaker has his ear to the ground - we pick up a lot of dirt that way. What a revoltin' development, indeed." What is it, a boy or a girl? There are several videos on line. In doing this, in accompanying the dead, getting them where they need to go, we get where we need to be. And so I think of widowed people who must go through that when they're folding a sweater or cleaning out a drawer or looking for the power drill that their husband used to use to fix this drawer or that one -- these little mundane reminders that life is changed utterly and yet utterly the same. But even people who do not believe or claim no religiosity or no particular faith, they are not without some text, some book they regard as, if not holy, it is the handle they're trying to hold onto to get through this. [6][7], The NBC adaptation, also created by Irving Brecher, was a single-season Once he had to be pulled from his apartment after the dirt sides turned to mud and caved in after a thunderstorm. That is a wheel we can only invent at the time it happens. US. But people will go home, and they will look at pictures of the dead; they'll look at movies of the dead; they'll quote the dead to one another; and they will weep and laugh and carry on. Her testimony is like all testimony -- it is a combination of gratitude and grief, and that the gratitude does not trump the grief, nor does the grief undo the gratitude. Peg Riley: Maybe he's sick or something. Brief Synopsis A factory worker tries to cope when his daughter dates the boss's son. MUSIC: THEME FILLS A PAUSE, THEN FADES OUT ANNCR: This is the edited transcript of interviews conducted with hin during the winter and spring of 2006-2007. I think it's always been the case that funerals in general, and funeral directors in particular, provide an easy target for cartooning, because there is so much about what we do that can be held up for ridicule. The Life of Riley, 1944 to 1951. So this pilgrimage, this journey that we go on, replicates in many ways other journeys that we see in life, from infancy to toddlerhood, from toddlerhood to teenagers to adulthood, the journeys we take in life in our heart, in the life of our mind, the life of our spirit. 2023 Turner Classic Movies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Anyway, I presume the Digger ODell weve been discussing here was eventually buried one final time, and I hope his gravestone wherever it is pays tribute to one of this countrys unique stuntmen. Oh, yeah. Brecher told Brown, "I want a very sepulchral voice, quavering, morbid," and he got it right away.[2]. We'd just say, "Well, let's not think about that anymore." But when some widowed person comes out and takes you by the shoulders and said, "Thank you, I couldn't have done this without you," and all you did was be there, or answer the call, or show up, there's this deep sense of having been of use to people at a time of need. I prefer the dead languages. I've seen at the end of the day people walking upright away from graves, people walking upright away from fires, as if they were going to survive it. Executives, who immediately began production on a television series, did not share Crowther's opinion, but because Bendix's movie contract barred him from doing television (a not uncommon ban in the early days of the medium when studios wanted to discourage audiences from staying home and watching TV), Jackie Gleason played Riley for one unsuccessful season in 1950. It gives me room to do either, all along this sort of emotional register. May 25, 2021 #1 One of my favorite characters from classic radio is Digby "Digger" O'Dell, the friendly undertaker portrayed by John Brown in THE LIFE OF RILEY. The year before he died, Digger told reporters that he had probably spent six years of his life underground, earning as much as $600 a week for his efforts. Could have been man/wife or brother/sister. The elements are the elements. The dirt on Herbert ODell Smith. STANDS4 LLC, 2023. We are now without a mother or without a father. there are very few hands raised in the room, because cremation is often shorthand for disappearance. Maybe the referee will give you a draw. What we don't want to see is our mother or our father dead, and that is the part we need to see. Unknown. Except I want to send out those circulars, so bring me some round paper. [1] (Marx would get his own series Blue Ribbon Town instead.) Chester A. Riley: The baby announcements? He played "Al" on the radio series "My Friend Irma". t.r., memphis. Not all of the radio cast made the transition to film; Paula Winslowe and Barbara Eiler were replaced with DeCamp and Meg Randall as Riley's . Barbara 'Babs' Riley: There's still Christmas. Jim Gillis: She'll be back in a couple or three days. And I think this has to do with our notions about fire itself. He then is embarrassed in front of the Monahans when Junior appears with his full piggy bank, having been unable to open it, and during a struggle with the waiter, the bank falls to the ground and breaks. Punchy: Hey, why don't you get up, pal? Chester A. Riley: [on the phone] What is it, a boy or a girl? And this movement, emotionally, is mirrored by a physical movement. Will that matter? I think we're all complicit in the banishment of the dead to the peripheries. Later, while dropping off the rent to Miss Bogle, Babs receives her first kiss from Jeff. What is missing is the corpse: the thing itself, not the idea of the thing. Digby 'Digger' O'Dell : It is I, Digby O'Dell, the friendly undertaker. [citation needed] Mel Blanc provided some voices as well, including that of Junior's dog Tiger as well as that of a dog catcher who claimed to have a special bond with dogs. In many ways we represent the place where whatever conversation people want to have about death and dying and grief and bereavement. But I find that if you just show up, if you just walk in the door, people think you're a hero. The finger food was good, the talk was uplifting, the music was life-affirming; someone, usually the reverend clergy, could be counted on to declare closure, usually just before the Merlot ran out, and everyone was there but the one who had died. So for me, I can remember swinging the door all through my teen years, and I think it was 1973 -- I was probably 24 or 25 years old [when I decided]. The Life of Riley was an American radio situation comedy series of the 1940s that was adapted into a 1949 feature film, a 1950s television series, and a 1958 comic book. For more than 30 years he also has been the director of the Lynch & Sons funeral home in the small town of Milford, Mich. Peg Riley: Then I've been in love with you the whole time. "The Life of Riley" The Billboard Magazine Dec 6, 1947 Learn how and when to remove this template message, "The Blade's Log of Radio and Television Programs (9:00 p.m.)", Zoot Radio, free old time radio show downloads of, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Life_of_Riley&oldid=1135022718, This page was last edited on 22 January 2023, at 03:47. With William Bendix the protagonist, as Riley and among others John Brown, who portrayed the friendly undertaker "Digger" O'Dell. At the mobile home park, a local reporter didnt have a very high opinion of the aging stuntman, writing, He has the flushed face and shaking hand of a man who has seen the sun rise over many an empty bottle. Digger showed up at the park wearing only a bathrobe. Gillis often gave Riley bad information that got him into trouble, whereas Digger gave him good information that "helped him out of a hole," as he might have put it. The Life of Riley (1949) co-starred Rosemary DeCamp, James Gleason, Beluah Bondi, Richard Long and John Brown as "Digger O'Dell" the friendly undertaker, a role that he also played on the radio program. Digger's morbid sense of humor buttressed by Brown's off-kilter delivery was a hit with the show's audience, and for me, often the high point of the episode. People will know that. Chester A. Riley: You mean I'm going to live? After Riley overhears Burt discussing "business" with Norman, he beats up Norman and drags him before the wedding crowd. 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