. to "what are we going to do?" 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. Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: Why, I was just taking a stroll around the pond. Although Bendix's considerable acting chops allowed him to believably play both heroes and villains, it was as the loveable blue-collar factory worker Chester A. Riley that he is best remembered, first on radio and then in the 1949 movie of the same name. The dirt on Herbert ODell Smith. Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: It is I, Digby O'Dell, the friendly undertaker.Chester A. Riley: Hello, Digger. Bearing witness one way or another, that's a key ingredient. Irving Brecher, who would direct the film adaptation of Life of Riley, had seen William Bendix in a film called The McGuerins of Brooklyn (1942) and knew he'd found his man. Babs Riley: But Mother, this is the opportunity of my entire life! John Brown, Radio and TV Actor, Dies; Played Digger O'Dell in 'Life of Riley' Give this article May 18, 1957 The New York Times Archives See the article in its original context from May 18, 1957,. Jim Gillis: They put you to sleep. Radio historian Gerald Nachman quotes Brecher as stating, "He was a Brooklyn guy and there was something about him. If I'm an Italian Catholic or an Orthodox Jew or a Baptist African American, I don't have to wonder what's going to happen, because I know that my community of co-religionists, of ethnic fellows, my neighborhood, whatever, they've organized a plan so that I don't have to spend the first several hours or days or weeks trying to figure out what to do next because it's already been told by tradition, by custom, by culture, by form. "You have to have helpers 24 hours a day.". Chester A. Riley: Do you need any help with the dishes? Chester A. Riley: I don't have to be fair - I'm your father. 16 in its first season, with four of its six seasons in the top 30, and ran for a total of 217 episodes. While the ratio may not be ideal for tomatoes, it can still produce great results with some preparation and understanding of the plant's genetic potential. "Life goes on!" But, you know, we used to say to my father, who directed a fair few funerals, "What do you want done with you when you're dead?," and he'd say, "Well, you'll know what to do." Most say, "No, go ahead and take care of that." When Riley learns that the couple is to spend their honeymoon in separate rooms, he becomes suspicious. Babs Riley: Guess what? "I play every chance I get music, that is!" Mounted on one of his five Harleys and racing most everywhere across the nation will be National Number 57; that's "Digger O'Dell," the friendly undertaker. I mean, there are good funerals. Here in Milford we're around 40 percent, and there are places where it's 60 percent and places where it's 16 percent. What you're looking at [in the case of someone being there during that time] is everything's in order. It's ridiculous, it's mundane, it's stupid, but at the end of the day what we are trying to do is assemble all our metaphoric weapons to do battle with this hurt, this still thing. The boss' son (Long), who is in love with Babs, suggests that they get married in order to save Riley's job. He also portrayed "the friendly undertaker" Digby "Digger" O'Dell on the same show. He jumps across the line just as a girl, who is covered by a blanket, is being shot by an arrow and plunges off a cliff. For many gardeners, it starts with tomatoes. US. 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. William Bendix is heard as Riley, along with co-stars Paula Winslowe, John Brown, Tommy Cook, and Barbara Eilerplus series creator Irving Brecher . And we laugh sometimes at all those good memories and all those silly things the person said and all those wise things that that person said and all their foibles. It's that white-knuckled, socially enforced celebration [where] oftentimes the dead are absent from it, because that would be too compelling; that would be too much of a challenge. in Literary Quotes in Movie Quotes in TV Shows When he heard the sad news about his wife, said a newspaper, Diggers own heart broke like a clod of dirt. I know his nickname was Digger, but thats just mean. The CBS program starred Lionel Stander as J. Riley Farnsworth and had no real connection with the more famous series that followed a few years later. 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 So yeah, it is the good news and the bad news. With your own mother and father and their funerals, what were the moments that had meaning for you? Who were the other musicians in that performance? He never acted this way before. As Bluff City Buick customers watched, Digger ODell (left) prepared to enter the worlds smallest apartment, where he planned to stay at least 57 days. The show was canceled after its first season, but was revived in 1953, then ran on the NBC network until August 1958. And what about the formalities, the particular traditions and customs that are a part of the funeral? Packed among his riding gear when on tour is a trumpet, and Helm has been known to join local bands in jam sessions. Al was the boyfriend of Irma. So Ive got only one inch to run around in.. It is a sadness and a shame that cremation, the fire in this context, is seen as an industrial process instead of an elemental one, in the way that earth is elemental. 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. One example of this type of comedy is the line "Business is a little dead tonight" . 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. 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." * TELEVISION: His dramatic life story is so well-known that schoolchildren are taught to recite it for extra credit. DIGGER, Digby O'Dell, the Friendly Undertaker MOTHER, Irish and obnoxious ANNOUNCER SINGERS MUSIC: THEME . Also, in 1958, it hi 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. It's Prell! 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. 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. So in a sense, cremation suits us in that way. He made the news by being buried alive. Yeah, it's a mystery. It's a culture that doesn't like to be reminded of mortality. I'll be the dead guy, and the dead say nothing. The expression "life of Riley" or "living the life of Riley (Reilly)" emerged in the early 1920s, and was probably derived from turn-of-the-century Irish songs, such as "The Best in the House Is None Too Good for Reilly." But I find that if you just show up, if you just walk in the door, people think you're a hero. When Monahan and his new wife Lucy arrive for dinner, Riley is envious of his former rival's obvious wealth and tries to hide his own financial shortcomings. Lewis, and I think, how would you get by without it? One day, after paying out all but five of his fifty-dollar-a-week paycheck, Riley has to sneak into his house to avoid his landlady, Miss Martha Bogle, to whom he owes money. The dead matter to the living. Did you hear me? Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: It is I, Digby O'Dell, the friendly undertaker. All the same, 100 percent of the people that have gone with us are grateful that we invited them to go. See production, box office & company info, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA. Scars On My Heart / Her (7", Single) Ranger. 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 wife, Peg, and daughter, Babs respectively. When Burt finally tells Babs about his financial predicament and suggests that they marry quickly so that Riley can keep his job and he can save his life, Babs reluctantly agrees. To Riley's amazement, Stevenson reveals that he had already planned to promote him to foreman, beginning in January. If you havent visited this area of the park, you should. SOURCES: We do have a charge for our caskets. Chester A. Riley: Yeah! And that's unfortunate. Though other friends may fail you, I shall be the last to let you down.". I got my picture in the paper! [Riley believes Junior stole five dollars]. And there's somebody else doing this, that. Do they get through it better? And they won't forget, and that's the thing. I mean, if it was just a matter of forgetting, we would do that. STANDS4 LLC, 2023. And I find that latter conversation much more compelling and much more difficult, because it's not as easy as dollars and cents. Last updated Jun 12 2013. Despite Gillis' accusations and Peg's doubts, Riley goes along with the wedding plan until Junior uses the Stevensons' intercom to eavesdrop on Burt's room. 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. Sometime in the mid-60s, probably having a lot to do with Jessica Mitford's book [The American Way of Death] and a lot to do with other social factors, there was sort of the triumphalist American sense that we didn't have to deal with any discomforts. Bendix was able to return to the role on NBC from 1953 to 1958, where the program was consistently in the top 25. What a revolting development this is! Quotes.net. They'll survive it. Bendix's delivery and the spin he put on his lines made it work. None of us knew what reference was being made here.In grade five very few people here NL (Canada) were familiar with American radio.When the "Life Of Reilly" came to TV my appreciation of "Digger" was finally launched. For some people it's not the open casket and the three-day wake and the roses and the limousines and the Panis Angelicus. We'd be wise, as a culture, to examine some of these things. And yet someone's weeping because of the changed life that we're seeing before us. Chester A. Riley: Oh, you're gonna count my blood? Do you hear that, Peg? Peg Riley: Then I've been in love with you the whole time. According to the obituary, Digger was born in Georgia in 1915. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts The stock market is open. From NE Ohio to North Central Mississippi, everyone has their own ideas and preferences for what they will plant this year. John Brown returned as the morbid, counseling undertaker Digby (Digger) O'Dell. I think we're all complicit in the banishment of the dead to the peripheries. 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. Procter and Gamble's new Radiant Creme Shampoo in the handy tube! 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. During a burial in California, a sudden earthquake caved in the sides of his "apartment" and he had to be rescued. And particularly when you see the transaction . "It is I, Digger O'Dell, your friendly undertaker. I mean, it's uncomfortable, and I don't know what to say any more than the next guy, and I don't do strawberry rhubarb pie. People will know that. Whether in the most abstract sense or in the most particular, this is a safe harbor, a place they can have that conversation. Slap, slap, slap Rip, Rip, Rip it's over! Humans figured out both before they had backhoes and retorts. Thanks to Chester's interference, Junior now has two dates for the school dance. In many ways they're all replicated by this journey that we take between the living and the dead when someone dies, this procession. They can coexist. We saw people start organizing these commemorative events to which everyone was invited but the dead guy. Let's see! (CONTINUES HUMMING IN BG) ANNOUNCER: Starting with the right soil and conditions can make all the difference when it comes to germination and transplanting of pepper seedlings. Sign Up now to stay up to date with all of the latest news from TCM. Its 32 inches across, 32 inches high, and six feet long. It's amazing! Whether someone comes into the funeral home insisting on the least expensive or the most expensive, I see in both cases an effort to assign value to cost, and I just think in my own experience it's never had much to do with it. Jim Gillis: So by her leavin', I'm getting away without goin' out of the house. 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. I enjoy listening to the frogs croak. So what you've seen is what I've seen: that people who deal with their dead deal with death better. While readying for Monahan, Riley's daughter Babs, a serious-minded college student, catches the eye of Miss Bogle's handsome young nephew, Jeff Taylor. Jim Gillis: Yeah, well, he oughta shampoo more often - with kerosene! Today he is just living the life of RileyIn 1908, a starving Indian named Gray Horse drove a tent stake into the ground and struck oil. Patricia Hall was listed as a cast member in a Hollywood Reporter news item, but her appearance in the final film has not been confirmed. They need to talk to someone. started calling him "Digger". I enjoy listening to the frogs croak. Too often Bendix was cast as a mental case who enjoyed smashing skulls, or his roles would take his gentle giant exterior to the extreme and he would be cast as an overgrown child as in "The Babe Ruth Story". 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. 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 cremation has increased since then by about 10 percent in every decade. And yeah, everything plays its part in that. Chester A. Riley: Oh. And my father did have a sense of formality and tradition when it came to funerals. Im five-foot-eleven. As usual, he doesn't know what to do, until Digby O'Dell, the Friendly Unde. She just cant help being money hungry.. It gives me room to do either, all along this sort of emotional register. Babs, however, has her heart set on Jeff and rejects Burt's advances. I think of disbelief as a faith of its own kind. 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. I got my picture in the paper! The radio series also benefited from the immense popularity of a supporting character, Digby "Digger" O'Dell , "the friendly undertaker." Brecher told Brown, "I want a very sepulchral voice, quavering, morbid," and he got it right away. The character of Digger O'Dell was not resurrected as a result of actor John Brown having been placed on . By what name was The Life of Riley (1949) officially released in Canada in English? 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. Barbara 'Babs' Riley: It's just not fair! Peg Riley: Every day this week, he's been kept in after school. Cullen, Frank, Hackman, Florence and McNeilly, Donald Vaudeville Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America Vol. It was produced by Tom McKnight for NBC and featured William Bendix. Bendix, Rosemary DeCamp, Richard Long, Meg Randall and John Brown reprised their screen roles for an May 8, 1950 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast. He played "Al" on the radio series "My Friend Irma". When he his first line, it was usually greeted with howls of laughter and applause from the audience. It is the ridiculous and the sublime. MUSIC: THEME FILLS A PAUSE, THEN FADES OUT ANNCR: I think we're among the first couple generations for whom the presence of the dead at their funerals has become optional, and I see that as probably not good news for the culture at large. For that matter, a popular plant nursery just outside of town on Highway 64 is called Digger ODells, but thats yet another Digger (real name: Dennis). And I'm, along with the next guy, as interested in those cartoons as everyone else is. And we suspect there'll be more Riley movies. Even a criminal gets time off for good behavior. I thought, this guy could play it. The second TV series ran for six seasons, from January 2, 1953, to May 23, 1958. Chester A. Riley: You know, it's funny. I think cremation very much is like us. All these things are part of the ongoing conversation that we here have. You're sweet, though. I'd have to say yeah, they do. William Bendix and Digger O'Dell the friendly undertaker - The Life of Riley Complete Broadcast CBS Lux Radio Theatre 1950 (Lp) - Amazon.com Music Buy used: $198.00 $3.99 delivery January 26 - February 2. Chester A. Riley: Okay, maybe he ain't no Gregory Peck, but my boy's got it up here [points to head] . Well, it's showing up and just being there is worth an awful lot. Banners asked customers and anyone driving past the Buick showroom on Union Avenue, "HOW LONG CAN HE STAY BURIED ALIVE?" How different is confronting death without faith? The Brother immediately. Riley's usual reply to the messes he would get in to became a catch phrase that swept the nation: What a revoltin' development this is! And the components of a funeral sometimes change. Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: No, only Latin and Greek. What are you doin' here in the park? Many customers have had positive experiences ordering from them, and their customer service has been praised for keeping buyers updated on order status. So it's easy enough. By using this site, you agree to our updated. For more than 30 years he also has been the director of the Lynch & Sons funeral home in the small town of Milford, Mich. It was during this period that Gleason played Riley on one episode of the radio series. No one escaped Crowther's vitriol: Bendix was "an oaf," Lanny Rees, as son, Junior, looked "slightly frightening," Randall as Babs was "just another shapely blonde," and John Brown as Digger was "extremely disappointing in the flesh." Will that matter? 2 Mar. Do you hear that, Peg? Digger: Every good undertaker has his ear to the ground - we pick up a lot of dirt that way. 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. Maybe the referee will give you a draw. And I've seen it work, I've seen it work. [citation needed], In 1948, NBC broadcast "two live television test programs based on the radio series. 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. Peg Riley: Theatre, huh? Brecher then saw William Bendix as taxicab company owner Tim McGuerin in Hal Roach's The McGuerins from Brooklyn (1942). I was watching [author and cultural commentator] Christopher Hitchens the other day. They come in to talk about what to do with a child who's grieving because a schoolmate died, to talk about what will happen in the event of their own death, how to handle a dying parent, nursing home arrangements, elder care. I think the national rate now is right around 38 percent. And there's somebody else digging the hole in the ground. I went back to my father's house, and I remember thinking, "But life goes on." And does the rise in cremation in America parallel changes in demographics? What we don't want to see is our mother or our father dead, and that is the part we need to see. Chester A. Riley: I don't think you heard me, peg. Land of miracles, where dreams come true! At the beginning of the November 11, 1949 radio episode the announcer explained that William Bendix had strained his voice while performing the role of an umpire for an upcoming film (Kill the Umpire) and Gleason substituted for him that one night. Dear j.b.: Well, for starters I can tell you that this interesting fellow (and Im certainly not disputing that) was not a Memphian, and his name wasnt really Digger ODell. The elements are the elements. 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. He's where he's buried for good. Gillis: I tried to help you, Riley, but I'm through. We make appointments for cremations because we have to go and watch the placement of the body in the retort and the beginning of the process, the identification process that's part of that, and we retrieve the ashes. After the boorish Monahan orders the most expensive items on the fancy French menu, however, Riley barely has enough to cover the check. Quotes.net. Everything is going on, and here we are. Buick customers could view him through a periscope, or they could drop coins down a tube that urged them, Can you ring the bell? Nobody seemed to ask and the newspapers werent telling how on earth the man would use the bathroom during his 58 days (and maybe longer) underground. He would have probably had a difficult way of managing some of the changes that we see nowadays. Riley, Riley, what a guy! Brecher told Brown, "I want a very sepulchral voice, quavering, morbid," and he got it right away.[2]. [6][7], The NBC adaptation, also created by Irving Brecher, was a single-season Everything assumes its natural order. FRONTLINE series home|wgbh|pbs, FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of wgbh educational foundation. Brown also played "Gillis" on the radio. 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