When families have gone to the crematory, has it made a difference? "It is I, Digger O'Dell, your friendly undertaker. 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? I think of disbelief as a faith of its own kind. [6][7], The NBC adaptation, also created by Irving Brecher, was a single-season But the strange case of Digby "Digger" O'Dell offers an elegant counterpoint. (CONTINUES HUMMING IN BG) ANNOUNCER: Peg Riley: Well, he's always been so bright. 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: Will you care after your death if they take care of you in death as you did your dad? You have to have real talent to be accepted at the Van Plantan Workshop Theatre. She just cant help being money hungry.. The local newspapers reported that an 18x24-inch plywood air shaft allowed Digger to receive air and food, and he had carefully stocked his tiny domicile with lights, reading glasses, even packs of cigarettes. The dead matter to the living. Whether in the most abstract sense or in the most particular, this is a safe harbor, a place they can have that conversation. The dirt on Herbert ODell Smith. 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. There's this wonderful essay that was written -- I have it framed in the hallway there; the woman's name, I think, is Sullivan who wrote it. I'm certain the same thing holds for people who put their dead in the sea or the fire or a tomb -- that we need time to disengage. There is a comfort when you don't have to reinvent that wheel, when we know we have to be at church at a certain time and that these prayers will be said and not those, and that this is accustomed behavior and this is outside the pale, and this is where we go. 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. 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. It is that everything changes and nothing changes. That's why I came over here tonight. 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. I got my picture in the paper! Sign Up now to stay up to date with all of the latest news from TCM. Just as all appears lost, Riley learns from Burt that he has been promoted to a high-paying executive position. You were just married! Radio historian Gerald Nachman quotes Brecher as stating, "He was a Brooklyn guy and there was something about him. Chester A. Riley: I'll tell you what harm there is! All to the good, I say. For more than 30 years he also has been the director of the Lynch & Sons funeral home in the small town of Milford, Mich. I can only take from that the sense that we're on the right track there. And the components of a funeral sometimes change. The stock market is open. It's something handled by "them" offsite, elsewhere, and I think that's problematical. But he said, "When a death occurs, people feel so helpless, it's good to have some of these things already invented." Jim Gillis: Of course it's right. Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: Why, I was just taking a stroll around the pond. It has always been a family-owned and -operated firm, founded by Thomas Lynch's father, Edward Joseph Lynch. From NE Ohio to North Central Mississippi, everyone has their own ideas and preferences for what they will plant this year. 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. 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." All the same, 100 percent of the people that have gone with us are grateful that we invited them to go. I enjoy listening to the frogs croak. Instead, Jackie Gleason starred, with Rosemary DeCamp replacing Paula Winslowe as wife Peg, Gloria Winters as daughter Barbara (Babs), Lanny Rees as son Chester Jr. (Junior), and Sid Tomack as Jim Gillis, Riley's manipulative best buddy and next-door neighbor. 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. I needed to read that piece because I'm disinclined -- when someone's sick, when someone's out of sorts, when someone's dead -- I'm disinclined to be around that. You'd better stop talking that way. The bearing of it is so very, very important. I'd have to say yeah, they do. And when we talk about "the procession," what is the meaning of that? They'll survive it. I admire entrepreneurs and performers as much as the next guy, but it was surely a miserable way to make a living. 2 Mar. The program was broadcast live with a studio audience, most of whom were not aware Brown played both characters. I never felt better. He has been buried in a concrete vault for 36 days, sealed in glass 33 days, and spent 26 days underwater., But somewhere along the way, he decided to concentrate on burying himself in the worlds smallest apartment, as the various promotions called it. Down your throat it goes. He never acted this way before. 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. The Life of Riley, 1944 to 1951. The program even utilized a stable of so-called "silent" characters, individuals referred to often but never actually heard. It's not that you don't want to see your mother or your father or your sister or your brother. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts Digger O'Dell @diggerodell7655 56 subscribers Subscribe Home Videos Shorts Playlists Community Channels About Videos Play all 16:13 Searching for the lost Asylum (SHD, FX removed to fix some. Bendix was able to return to the role on NBC from 1953 to 1958, where the program was consistently in the top 25. It's a culture that doesn't like to be reminded of mortality. And at least so far as my experience is concerned, the living who bear those burdens honorably are better off for it. 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. And you have mentioned the range of feelings and emotions at a funeral. Thanks to Chester's interference, Junior now has two dates for the school dance. He would have thought much of it ridiculous and much of it sublime. 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. Jeff, who had just proposed to Babs himself, is devastated by her announcement, as is Peg, who knows that her daughter does not love Burt. This is got to be one of the largest collection of a single classic show I have stumbled across. Junior will be glad to pitch in. William Bendix is heard as Riley, along with co-stars Paula Winslowe, John Brown, Tommy Cook, and Barbara Eiler - plus series creator Irving Brecher . But by the time a couple days later he went in the ground, it was exactly the right thing to do. It just doesn't work out that way. home|introduction|watch online|stories & special video|to be an undertaker|join the discussion Brown also played "Gillis" on the radio. Chester A. Riley: What do you think I'm paying you ten cents a week for, to spy on Babs! Get Ready for a New Season of Gardening -Choose from Tomatoes, Peaches, Corn, Zinnias & More! So yeah, I do find that people who have dealt with their dying -- whether it was taking them to their chemotherapy or sitting those weeks through hospice care, or checking in those weeks through hospice care, because we can't always be physically present -- those people who were thoroughly engaged with this are thoroughly engaged with the rest of it. I really think my people will know what to do when the time comes, and these are details I won't have to worry about. Chester A. Riley: Yeah! 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). The custom of eulogy, what is its meaning? Chester A. Riley: Do you need any help with the dishes? STANDS4 LLC, 2023. However, it came to an end after 26 episodes because Irving Brecher and sponsor Pabst Brewing Company reached an impasse on extending the series for a full 39-week season. [citation needed], In 1948, NBC broadcast "two live television test programs based on the radio series. The open casket, it is something that's often mocked. 2 Mar. I thought, this guy could play it. 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. A daughter is no longer the daughter only or the son no longer the son only. started calling him "Digger". "[2], The reworked script cast Bendix as blundering Chester A. Riley, a wing riveter at the fictional Cunningham Aircraft plant in California. Chester A. Riley: You know, it's funny. Not wanting to uproot his family, Riley determines to come up with the $1,500 down payment and goes from bank to bank searching for a loan. That is a wheel we can only invent at the time it happens. When the publicity manager urged him to change into a dark suit (so it would be more funeral-like) Digger refused: Ive got to have my robe. When the promoter begged him to change clothes once he was below ground, Digger explained the situation: No room. Well, it's showing up and just being there is worth an awful lot. "Lux Radio Theater" broadcast a 60-minute radio adaptation of the movie on May 8, 1950 with William Bendix, Rosemary DeCamp, Meg Randall . And yet someone's weeping because of the changed life that we're seeing before us. Thomas Lynch reads to camera his essay Tract (part II). He later finds out it was an Indian girl who stood in for her and they are reunited at the end of the movie. Barbara 'Babs' Riley: There's still Christmas. Its 32 inches across, 32 inches high, and six feet long. I went back to my father's house, and I remember thinking, "But life goes on." This character was extremelly successfull, with many puns based on his profession. Gillis: I tried to help you, Riley, but I'm through. And somebody else is pressing somebody's clothes. I cant find any record that Digger ever returned to Bluff City Buick, or to the Bluff City for that matter, to finish the job. Back in Atlanta, a judge allowed him to conduct his stunt for an Atlanta shopping center, but he had to turn the money he would be paid only $2,250 over to his family. We can't prearrange that. A comic book adaptation of the show was produced by Dell Comics in 1958 as part of their Four Color series of one-shots. He would have figured that out, but I think for him the funeral, the procession, was part of the process. Peg Riley: Yeah? We'd just say, "Well, let's not think about that anymore." Chester A. Riley : Hello, Digger. His real name, it seems, was Herbert O'Dell Smith. 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. Chester A. Riley: Nah what would a rich man want with money? I just gave him a sedative. We are more mobile, more portable, more scattered. Will that matter? She has her picture on the front page. Chester A. Riley: I don't think you heard me, peg. 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. Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: It is I, Digby O'Dell, the friendly undertaker. Everything seems to fall into place. A factory worker's family is thrown into an uproar when his teenage daughter starts to date his boss' son. See production, box office & company info, Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA. He's where he's buried for good. "The Life of Riley Quotes." So in a sense, cremation suits us in that way. 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. The show was canceled after its first season, but was revived in 1953, then ran on the NBC network until August 1958. Chester A. Riley, a riveter at Stevenson Aircraft in Los Angeles, works hard but is always behind in his bills. Well. And this movement, emotionally, is mirrored by a physical movement. But cremation has increased since then by about 10 percent in every decade. When you grow up in funeral service, you always have a job. Do you speak French? Procter and Gamble's new Radiant Creme Shampoo in the handy tube! He also portrayed "the friendly undertaker" Digby "Digger" O'Dell on the same show. 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. Here in Milford we're around 40 percent, and there are places where it's 60 percent and places where it's 16 percent. And most good customs allow for some wiggle room, you know. 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. All these things are part of the ongoing conversation that we here have. Today he is just living the life of RileyThis is the story of Chester A. Rileywho is just livingin Los Angeles California." I see no difference in the machinery it takes to dig a hole [and] the machinery it takes to build a fire. 16 in its first season, with four of its six seasons in the top 30, and ran for a total of 217 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. By what name was The Life of Riley (1949) officially released in Canada in English? he must have stuck eith me, because I will go as Digger to a neighborhood "post Halloween" block party this afternoon. Is he in some of of trouble or something? Bearing witness one way or another, that's a key ingredient. The Life of Riley, 1944 to 1951. She talks about how in her life the difference was not between doing good and evil. When he his first line, it was usually greeted with howls of laughter and applause from the audience. Chester A. Riley: Okay, maybe he ain't no Gregory Peck, but my boy's got it up here [points to head] . Every time I have a birthday, I realize that Mom's getting a year older. I found an old newspaper article that said he was born in 1915 and called him a professional endurance man. Among other things, back in the flagpole-sitting days, he stayed aloft 109 days. The Brother immediately. 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). It gives me room to do either, all along this sort of emotional register. For many people I know, when families are cremated, they feel as if they've in some sense kind of disappeared. I think it suggests that we're going to get from one place to the other, whatever it is that we have to do to process this new reality, to get the dead to the edge of their changed role and get the living to the edge of this new changed life that they're going to lead without this person in their lives anymore. Made for Universal Pictures and directed by Brecher, who also wrote and produced the simple plot of The Life of Riley , revolves around Babs (Randall) learning that Riley is about to get laid off. Peg Riley: My father let me decide who I wanted to go around with. How different is confronting death without faith? And I have found that, whether I'm walking in the door with a stretcher and one of my own to help carry their dead out, or if I'm going to the hospital to visit a sick relative or friend, or if I show up for a funeral at another place, you know, at a distance, they thank you for that. 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." When his efforts to impress his boss, Carl Stevenson, apparently fail, Riley becomes incensed and finally works up the courage to confront him. He'll never amount to anything. So it's interesting times we live in that way. It was during this period that Gleason played Riley on one episode of the radio series. Peg Riley: You know what they say - ignorance is bliss. After all, the people whose names are on these markers dont have that luxury. [Riley is talking on the phone with the hospital's maternity ward]. Though other friends may fail you, I shall be the last to let you down." I think the national rate now is right around 38 percent. Chester A. Riley: No. It's not that you don't want to see them dressed up or laid out or with glasses on, or too much makeup or their hair done in a clumsy way. It's an easy target; it always is -- you know, the Digger O'Dell [the "friendly undertaker" character in the 1950s television series Life of Riley]. It's that time of year again when gardeners all over the world are planning what to grow in their gardens. The trouble is, in our culture we try to have one or the other -- either/or -- and it's both and then some in real experience. Other photos show preparations for the publicity stunt. Chester A. Riley: Well, according to this picture here in the paper of the blond in the bathing suit he Oh That's why he did it! So I took The Flotsam Family script, revised it, made it a Brooklyn Family, took out the flippancies and made it more meat-and-potatoes, and thought of a new title, The Life of Riley. That's not what you don't want to see, because we can fix that all." And Mrs. Verrino's eulogy, her narrative of what she and her husband and their child were going through, was a way of sort of mastering this journey. Chester A. Riley: You mean I'm going to live? 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. There are days I can get behind that theory and have. All rights reserved. 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. Babs: Well, I think he ought to get a fair trial. Jackie Gleason starred as Riley during the show's first year, while DeCamp and Lanny Rees reprised their film roles for the series. Stevenson's ne'er-do-well son Burt, meanwhile, is cornered at the picnic by a thug named Norman, who demands that he repay a $25,000 gambling debt. 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. 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. Buried alive? The question is not meant to mock; the question is to say: "What is it you don't want to see? During a burial in California, a sudden earthquake caved in the sides of his "apartment" and he had to be rescued. Maybe the referee will give you a draw. Riley's catch phrase in the series and the film was "what a revolting development this turned out to be." "You have to have helpers 24 hours a day.". 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. 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. 460 Tennessee Street #200, Memphis, TN 38103. The lead character was changed to Chester A. Riley, the title was changed to The Life of Riley and a show and star were born. After Riley overhears Burt discussing "business" with Norman, he beats up Norman and drags him before the wedding crowd. I'll be the dead guy, and the dead say nothing. DIGGER, Digby O'Dell, the Friendly Undertaker MOTHER, Irish and obnoxious ANNOUNCER SINGERS MUSIC: THEME . Land of miracles, where dreams come true! We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. So people come in to talk about arranging their parents' funerals or their own. We get to say when people are dead to us, or dead enough, so that we can let them go. Jim Gillis: Sure! Jim Gillis: She'll be back in a couple or three days. 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. 2023 Turner Classic Movies, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 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! 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. The Life of Riley was the initial release of Brecher Productions, Inc. William Bendix first played "Riley" in the popular NBC radio series on which this film was based, and John Brown played "'Digger' O'Dell" in the series. What a revolting development this is! Digby 'Digger' O'Dell: Why, I was just taking a stroll around the pond. Bendix, Rosemary DeCamp, Richard Long, Meg Randall and John Brown reprised their screen roles for an May 8, 1950 Lux Radio Theatre broadcast. What we don't want to see is our mother or our father dead, and that is the part we need to see. I mean, if it was just a matter of forgetting, we would do that. For the final season, filming reverted to black-and-white. Does it affect the nature of the grief if someone was present for the dying of the loved one? I was thrilled to find IA, where I can find some of those classics. In doing this, in accompanying the dead, getting them where they need to go, we get where we need to be. 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". 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. But there's no question that cremation has become normative in a way that it used to be exceptional. Why would he leave his wife? 1949. 1 I see my sons now working through this, and their generation. Oh, yeah. It follows the changes in our species, certainly in our culture. In terms of the practical details, what are some of the things you learned from your dad? Cullen, Frank, Hackman, Florence and McNeilly, Donald Vaudeville Old & New: An Encyclopedia of Variety Performers in America Vol. His frequent exclamation of indignation"What a revoltin' development this is! Whether we consign our dead to scavenger birds, as they do in Tibet, or to the sea, as they do when the sea is around them, or the tree, as our Native Americans did, it doesn't make any difference. 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. WGBH educational foundation, How we've become estranged from death and the dead, The meaning and power of rituals and customs, The often-mocked tradition of an open casket, How the baby boomers will change the conversation about funerals. 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