French was born in Ashland, Kentucky. In her early career as a regular on the Smothers Brothers variety show of the late1960s, French portrayed a somewhat spacedout or ditzy hippie named Goldie OKeefe. The character was originally introduced, in an ostensible studioaudience interview segment, as Goldie Keif both Goldie and Keif were slang terms for marijuana at the time. Reportedly, the slight name change to OKeefe when she became a semiregular was at the television networks insistence. Her segment of the show was called Share a Little Tea with Goldie. At the time, sharing tea was a popular euphemism for getting high on marijuana. Following suit, her segment consisted largely of helpful household advice loaded with sex and drugrelated doubleentendres.
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