{"id":2337,"date":"2014-02-18T04:48:42","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:48:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2337"},"modified":"2014-02-18T04:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T12:48:42","slug":"mary-grace-canfield-who-played-ralph-monroe-on-tvs-green-acres-dies-at-89","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/18\/mary-grace-canfield-who-played-ralph-monroe-on-tvs-green-acres-dies-at-89\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary Grace Canfield, who played Ralph Monroe on TV&#8217;s &#8220;Green Acres,&#8221; dies at 89"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2381\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2381\" style=\"width: 233px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/canfield.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/canfield-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"Mary Grace Canfield\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/canfield-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/canfield.jpg 247w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Grace Canfield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SANTA BARBARA, Calif. &#8211; Mary Grace Canfield, a veteran character actress who played handywoman Ralph Monroe on the television show &#8220;Green Acres,&#8221; has died. She was 89.<\/p>\n<p>Her daughter, Phoebe Alexiades, says Canfield died of lung cancer on Saturday at a hospice in the California coastal town of Santa Barbara.<\/p>\n<p>Canfield had appearances on a number of TV shows during a four-decade career, including &#8220;General Hospital&#8221; and &#8220;The Hathaways.&#8221; She was Harriet Kravitz on four episodes of the 1960s series &#8220;Bewitched.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But she was best known for her role of Ralph Monroe in some 40 episodes of &#8220;Green Acres,&#8221; which ran from 1965 to 1971.<\/p>\n<p>Monroe greeted folks in the town of Hootersville with a cheery &#8220;howdy doody,&#8221; wore painters&#8217; overalls and was forever working on the Douglas family&#8217;s bedroom with her brother, Alf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA BARBARA, Calif. &#8211; Mary Grace Canfield, a veteran character actress who played handywoman Ralph Monroe on the television show &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[316,317],"class_list":["post-2337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-hollywood","tag-mary-grace-canfield-death","tag-obit","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}