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Surprising Director - Jethro from Beverly Hillbillies


Amazing that I saw Max Baer Jr as director. What a magnificant movie, would have never thought Jethro directed it.

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Unlike many people in acing roles in films/plays who are really only capable of being themselves, Max Baer Jr. is/was a brilliant and talented man. He was just so great at playing Jethro everyone thought he WAS Jethro.

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Good actors aren't necessarily like the people they portray. Some people excel at playing themselves, but most don't.

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Max Baer Jr. did a very good job of evoking the deep south without resorting to condescending redneck stereotypes.

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