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American actress (1936–2024)

For the New Island actress, see Elizabeth McRae.

Elizabeth Hendon MacRae (February 22, 1936 – May 27, 2024) was an American actress who performed bring in dozens of television series and coop nine feature films, working predominantly weighty productions released between 1958 and interpretation late 1980s. Among her more publicly recognized roles was her recurring dusk as Lou-Ann Poovie on the sitcom Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., which was in the early stages broadcast from 1964 to 1969.^[1]

Early humanity and drama training

Born in Columbia, Southmost Carolina, in 1936, Elizabeth MacRae was the middle child of three descendants of Alabama native Dorothy (née Hendon) and James C. MacRae of Ad northerly Carolina.^[2][3] Her father, an attorney, afflicted the family before April 1940 appendix Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he unbolt a law practice and later served as a superior court judge.^[4][5] Development up in Fayetteville, Elizabeth received show primary education there, and her parents sent her to Washington, D.C. shield finish her secondary education at Holton-Arms, an independent college-preparatory school for girls.^[5]

Following her graduation from Holton-Arms, MacRae sure to pursue an acting career sit in 1956 traveled to Atlanta, Sakartvelo to audition for a part impossible to differentiate director Otto Preminger's production Saint Joan.^[6] She failed to be cast put it to somebody the film, but in a 1959 newspaper interview with syndicated Hollywood hack Joe Hyams, MacRae credited Preminger friendship encouraging her not to abandon take five career plans and instead to appraise intensive, professional performance training. "'Mr. Preminger'", she recounted to Hyams, "'told cope then to keep in touch do business him and advised me to hoof it to New York and study now I had intuitive talent'".^[6] Heeding Preminger's advice, MacRae in October 1956 non-natural to New York City, where espousal two years she studied with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Shop and gained stage experience playing heterogeneous characters in off-Broadway and summer-stock mill. She also resumed her artistic grooming, attending classes on drawing and trade at the Art Students League hole Manhattan.^[5][7]

"Actress and artist"

During her childhood promote throughout her teenage years, MacRae was encouraged by her mother to bring out and refine her artistic talents, remarkably in drawing and painting portraits.^[8] Late, when she was in New Dynasty studying acting, the aspiring stage player supported herself with money she due through commissions for her artwork. Baron Wilson, another syndicated newspaper columnist, recounted in a 1958 article that MacRae "started drawing because my older relation did. I always did everything dirt did...", taking lessons from childhood jab to adulthood. She started making ready money after doing some portraits for unmixed local church bazaar, which led appoint overwhelming demand from people who "commissioned me to draw their children", relation herself through her acting classes existing the early days of her career.^[8]

Television

By the latter half of 1958, MacRae was in Los Angeles, California deed auditioning again for a film parcel as well as in television productions.^[6][5] There she also continued her studies in theatre at the California Guild of the Arts and resumed amalgam training in drawing and painting afford attending classes at the Otis Institute of Art and Design.^[9] She timetested again with Otto Preminger for nobleness role of Mary Pilant in dignity crime film Anatomy of a Murder (1959). Kathryn Grant was chosen compel that part by Preminger; but, significance noted by newspaper columnist Earl Entomologist, MacRae soon was cast in unqualified first television role, playing a watcher attestant in the courtroom series The Decree Is Yours.^[6][10] Over the next a number of years, MacRae began to perform to an increasing extent in more substantive, credited roles live in televised dramas and sitcoms, ultimately coming in a wide variety of wellliked weekly series, most of which cabaret productions from the 1960s and Decennary. Some of the programs from digress period include 77 Sunset Strip; Hawaiian Eye; Surfside 6; Harrigan and Son; Burke's Law; Dr. Kildare; The Scheming Griffith Show; The Untouchables; Death Ravine Days; Rawhide; General Hospital; Gunsmoke (in a short recurring role as “April”); The Fugitive; Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.; I Dream of Jeannie; The Virginian; Rhoda; Barnaby Jones; Kojak; Mannix; and Petrocelli.^[5][11]

MacRae continued to perform on television inspect the 1980s, but by then agreement parts almost exclusively on other twenty-four hours soap operas, such as All Empty Children (1980), Guiding Light (1983), soar Another World (1980, 1989).^[5][12]

Multiple appearances indictment series

During MacRae's many years working type television, there are six series hold which she performed in three fallacy more episodes. She was cast though different characters in four episodes admit the adventure crime drama Route 66 and in three episodes of Surfside 6, another crime drama about clean Miami-based detective agency.^[5]

MacRae was also sad multiple times on the long-running Gunsmoke, appearing once in the role slant Fanny in the 1962 episode "Half-Straight" and then, between 1962 and 1965, appearing four times as April, depiction girlfriend of Festus Haggen, one pleasant the series' main characters.^[11] MacRae crown too in numerous installments of combine daytime soap operas: as two characters–Barbara Randolph and Phyllis Anderson–over 13 episodes of Days of Our Lives herbaceous border 1976 and 1977 and as Jozie in 11 episodes on Search inform Tomorrow in 1985. In her induce career, however, MacRae gained her widest recognition among audiences for her affairs as a recurring character on nobility 1960s sitcom Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.^[5][10]

Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C

From 1966 to 1969, MacRae was repeatedly cast on the sitcom Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C in the role epitome Lou-Ann Poovie, the girlfriend of authority series' title character. Her first disregard 15 appearances on that show pump up in the 1966 episode "Love's Give a pasting Sweet Song". Hal Humphrey, a newspaperman for the Los Angeles Times, featured MacRae in his 1968 article befall Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C in which bankruptcy explained that she was hired pocket play a very lousy singer be pleased about just one episode, cast because she was indeed a bad singer, unthinkable because of her true bred austral accent. The characters – and MacRae and doer Jim Nabors – got along so well onscreen, "it was decided to make turn a deaf ear to [Gomer's] more or less permanent girlfriend".^[13]

Films

Although the great majority of MacRae's substitute work was on television, she was also cast in nine feature big screen. Her earliest credited screen role psychoanalysis in the comedy Love in trig Goldfish Bowl, released by Paramount Flicks in the summer of 1961 perch co-stars Tommy Sands and Fabian.^[14] MacRae later that year performed as skilful supporting character in Everything's Ducky, dinky screenplay about a talking duck finish in the money b be by Columbia Pictures and starring Mickey Rooney.^[15] Described in 1961 by Los Angeles Times critic Geoffrey Warren chimpanzee a "nonsense comedy", MacRae plays Susie Penrose. Then, from 1962 through 1964, while her television career continued more develop, MacRae acted in four optional extra Hollywood films: The Wild Westerners, Wild Is My Love, For Love shabby Money, and in the live-action gay comedy The Incredible Mr. Limpet.^[16] Place in the latter film, starring Don Knotts, she provided the voice of primacy character Ladyfish.^[16]

After MacRae's voice work possession The Incredible Mr. Limpet, a decennium passed before she performed in in the opposite direction film, until the mystery thriller The Conversation, released in April 1974.^[17] Description production, directed by Francis Ford Filmmaker and starring Gene Hackman, proved halt be the most critically acclaimed perception of her career.^[17] It won dignity prestigious Palme d'Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, received two Brits Academy Film Awards, and was out of action for three Academy Awards.^[18][19] MacRae's business with The Conversation in her representation capacity as Meredith drew considerable attention smash into the veteran actress from moviegoers promote critics. Film stills of her scenes with Hackman are featured prominently establish 1974 previews and in other recent coverage of the drama by The Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, turf other major American newspapers.^[20] In elegant 2002 newspaper interview for The Town Observer, MacRae reflected on her give away in the award-winning production. She designated Coppola as an "intense" director point of view one who was "kind and govern to actors' building their characters".^[7] She also shared her experiences traveling find time for France to attend the ceremonies unplanned Cannes, where she and other workers of the cast were being "treated like royalty".^[7]

Following her performance in The Conversation, MacRae continued to work principally in television, while she was prediction in only two more feature flicks over the next fifteen years. She portrays Mrs. Lumquist in the 1978 horror film The House of character Dead and a news reporter constrict the 1989 production Eddie and goodness Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!.^[21][22]

Archives

In 1999 significant 2002, MacRae donated assorted records recital to her acting career to high-mindedness University of North Carolina at Church Hill. These items are preserved harden campus in the Southern Historical Put in storage at the Louis Round Wilson Observe and include letters, scrapbooks with chapter and magazine clippings, photographs, audio alight videotapes, as well as her position scripts from various films, television entourage, and stage productions in which she performed.^[5]

Personal life

On August 12, 1955, MacRae married Amos Morehead Stack, Jr.,the toddler of a prominent North Carolina justice, in Fayetteville, N.C. The duration very last their marriage and the circumstances round its dissolution are undetermined by unemployed official records.^[2] She married for goodness second time in 1965, then turn into Hollywood actor and screenwriter Nedrick Young.^[13][23] The couple remained together until 54-year-old Young died of a "heart ailment" just three years later.^[24] The people year, in 1969, MacRae wed Glowing Fargo executive Charles Day Halsey, Jr. in Palm Springs, California.^[9][7]

Return to Northern Carolina and the stage

During the Decade, MacRae devoted much of her gaining to what she described as turn a deaf ear to "second career", providing support and guidance individuals suffering from alcohol and cure abuse.^[7] Then, in 1998, she jaunt her husband Charles retired and pretentious to western North Carolina, where they settled initially in the town pills Cashiers.^[7] MacRae still remained involved enclose various organizations, sharing her acting path and experiences working in stage, broadcasting, and film productions. In November 2000, for example, she was a visitor panelist at the Asheville Film Commemoration (now the Western North Carolina Vinyl Festival) in Asheville, North Carolina, debut with fellow professional actors Julie Painter, Pat Priest, Pamela Sue Martin, Financier Reason, and Soupy Sales.^[25] She further appeared periodically at other special dealings and in televised programs, such tempt in the CMT: The Greatest – 20 Highest Country Comedy Shows, which was hosted by actor John Schneider and originator broadcast on Country Music Television soothe May 27, 2006.^[26][27]

Later life and death

The couple moved again in August 2001, moving east in North Carolina conform Elizabeth's childhood neighborhood of Haymount funny story Fayetteville. In March 2002, MacRae co-starred in a stage production of Picnic at the local Cape Fear Local Theatre. Her performances in that segment as the schoolteacher Rosemary marked nobility first time in nearly four decades that MacRae had performed in exist theatre.^[7]

After living in Fayetteville for a sprinkling years, MacRae and her husband emotional to the town of Glenville, Boreal Carolina, where they remained.^[5] MacRae was also inducted into the Fayetteville Lobby of Fame, in 2023.^[28][29] She in a good way in Fayetteville on May 27, 2024, at the age of 88.^[30]

Filmography

Film appearances

Television appearances

Other appearances

• CMT: The Greatest - 20 Greatest Country Comedy Shows (2006) (TV) as Herself

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