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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Explain why he made the big bucks: Arnold was paid a whopping $250 a day, and in 2021, that's the equivalent of about $1,900 — or, $100,000 a year. That's not too big from a pig who — fun fact — hailed from Mooresville, Indiana. Sound familiar? It might — the pigs that played Arnold share their hometown with John Dillinger.Advertisement Tom Lester was the real deal The running gag of "Green Acres" was, of course, the ineptitude of the city slickers. There was, however, one cast member in particular who was the real deal: farmhand Eb. He was played by Tom Lester, a Hollywood hopeful who had grown up on a farm in Mississippi, earned a degree in chemistry, and taught in Oklahoma for a bit before deciding to try his luck in the entertainment industry. According to Variety, there was one bit of information that cinched his audition: He was the only applicant who knew how to milk a cow.AdvertisementLester was kind of a real-life counterpart to his "Green Acres" character, and according to a 1969 article on him from UPI/Rome News-Tribune, he lived the simple life. Specifically, in a furnished, above-a-garage apartment while filming the show, and during the downtime, he toured the country as an evangelical speaker. (He even spent some time as a part of Billy Graham's entourage.)Lester appeared in a few other productions — including "Benji" — before settling back down into the rural life that he spoke about missing while he was filming
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