As I mentioned in the Dick Shawn piece a few days ago, I'm a big fan of the Broadway show (and movie thereof), Li'l Abner. Many moons ago, I interviewed everyone within arm's reach who'd worked on either and wrote a couple of articles that ran in the Kitchen Sink volumes that reprinted Al Capp's classic newspaper strip. There was one piece about the Broadway show and one about the movie.
Recently, I came across one of my files of research material and spotted one thing that I thought oughta be up on the web somewhere. It's the full cast list [PDF] for the motion picture, including all the little bit parts and such…though it doesn't include voiceover actors, unnamed bodybuilders, many of the dancers or Jerry Lewis. It does however have a lot of names that aren't in the IMDB listing. I have long since given up trying to add or correct anything in that worthwhile enterprise and I'm hoping that putting this up on the Internet is the next best thing; that the information thereupon will find its way to the IMDB by osmosis or symbiosis or some kind of osis.
You'll notice the cast list includes a couple of folks who later became pretty big stars, including Valerie Harper, Beth Howland and Donna Douglas. Let me know if you see anyone else of interest on there.