Today is Louise Beavers' birthday!!!!!

(Updated image thanks to Miss Irene Allen's maid Diptheria for correcting the earlier mistake- blame the internet.)

Mr. Benchley and Charlie Butterworth stumbled into Cobina's villa early this morning and took all the Drambuie and CdM. It made Mother so mad that she started shooting her .45 into the air demanding that her stolen treasure be returned. Thanks to you, Sgt. Dottie Dagg of the West Hollywood Sheriff's dept for taking that twenty and forgetting all about this incident. That is a lovely crewcut you have, ma'am. Speaking of stolen, the following comes from Wiki:
Louise Beavers (March 8, 1902 - October 26, 1962) was an American film actress. Beavers appeared in dozens of films from the 1920s to the 1930s, most often in the role of a maid, servant, or slave. She was a native of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Among the many films she appeared in were The Gold Diggers (1923), Freaks (1932), She Done Him Wrong (1933), General Spanky (1936), Holiday Inn (1942), Reap the Wild Wind (1942), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948), and The Facts of Life (1960). Beavers' most famous and noted role was her portrayal of Delilah Johnson, the housekeeper/cook whose employer transforms her into an Aunt Jemima-like celebrity in the 1934 film Imitation of Life. One of the film's main conflicts was that between Delilah and her light-skinned daughter Peola (played by Fredi Washington), who wanted to pass for white. Imitation of Life was the first time in American cinema history that a black woman's problems were given major emotional weight in a major Hollywood motion picture.Had times been different she might have beaten Halle to the Oscar by some 70 years instead of being relegated to fifth billing.
The vast majority of Beavers' other film roles, however, were not as prestigious. Along with Hattie McDaniel, she became the on-screen personification of the "mammy" stereotype: a large, matronly black woman with a quick temper, a large laugh, and a subservient manner. Beavers' employers had her overeat so that she could maintain her "mammy"-like figure. Although Beavers did not approve of how her characters were scripted, she nonetheless continued appearing in films, because, as her contemporary McDaniel once stated, "it's better to play a maid than be a maid."
Beavers was one of four actresses (including Hattie McDaniel, Ethel Waters, and Amanda Randolph) to portray housekeeper Beulah on the Beulah television show. That show was the first television sitcom to star an African American, even though the role was a somewhat subservient one.
Louise Beavers died of a heart attack in Hollywood, California on October 26, 1962, exactly ten years after the similarly typecasted actress Hattie McDaniel, at the age of 60. She was also a member of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority, one of the four African-American sororities. She was inducted posthumously into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1976.