Elizabeth Hendon MacRae (born February 22, 1936) is an American actress who performed in dozens of television series and in nine feature films, working predominantly in productions released between 1958 and the late 1980s. Among her more widely recognized roles is her recurring character as Lou-Ann Poovie on the

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'', which was originally broadcast on CBS from 1964 to 1969.

Early life and drama training

Born in Columbia, South Carolina in 1936, Elizabeth MacRae is the middle child of three children of

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native Dorothy (

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Hendon) and James C. MacRae of North Carolina. Her father, an attorney, relocated the family prior to April 1940 to

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, where he opened a

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and later served as a

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judge."Sixteenth Census of the United States: 1940", digital image of original enumeration page, "Elizabeth H" in household of James and Dorothy MacRae, Cross Creek Township, Fayetteville City Ward 7, Cumberland County, North Carolina. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 17902007, National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), Washington, D.C. Retrieved via FamilySearch, July 19, 2022."Collection Number: 04952 / Collection Title: Elizabeth MacRae Papers, 1958-1989"
finding aid with biographical profile, Southern Historical Collection, Special Collections, Louis Round Wilson Library, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Retrieved July 17, 2022. Growing up in Fayetteville, Elizabeth received her

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schooling there, although her parents sent her to Washington, D.C. to finish her

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at Holton-Arms, an independent college-preparatory school for girls. Following her graduation from Holton-Arms, MacRae decided to pursue an acting career and in 1956 traveled to

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to audition for a part in director Otto Preminger's production '' Saint Joan''.Hyams, Joe. "Elizabeth MacRae Has No Regrets", syndicated column, ''

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'', April 9, 1959, p. 17. Retrieved via ProQuest, July 20, 2022. She failed to be cast in the film, but in a 1959 newspaper interview with syndicated Hollywood columnist

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, MacRae credited Preminger for encouraging her not to abandon her career plans and instead to seek intensive, professional performance training. "'Mr. Preminger'", she recounted to Hyams, "'told me then to keep in touch with him and advised me to go to New York and study, because I had intuitive talent'". Heeding Preminger's advice, MacRae in October 1956 relocated to New York City, where for two years she studied with

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at the

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and gained stage experience playing assorted characters in

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and

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productions. She also resumed her artistic training, attending classes on drawing and painting at the Art Students League in

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.Peterson, Stacy (2002). "Full circle", transcription of newspaper article originally published in ''

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'', March 12, 2002, "Life-Family" section, no page number. Retrieved via public library subscription to

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"Actress and artist"

During her childhood and throughout her teenage years, MacRae was encouraged by her mother to develop and refine her artistic talents, especially in drawing and painting portraits.Wilson, Earl (1958). "Fayetteville Girl Has Dual Career As Actress, Artist", syndicated column published in ''

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'' (Raleigh, North Carolina), November 2, 1958, p. 4–IV. Retrieved via NewsBank, NewsBank, August 10, 2022. Later, when she was in New York studying acting, the aspiring stage performer supported herself with money she earned through commissions for her artwork. Earl Wilson, another syndicated newspaper columnist, recounted MacRae's early interest in art after interviewing her in October 1958 for a profile titled "Fayetteville Girl Has Dual Career As Actress, Artist":

Television

By the latter half of 1958, MacRae was in Los Angeles, California and auditioning again for a film role as well as in television productions. There she also continued her studies in theatre at the

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and resumed her training in drawing and painting by attending classes at the

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. She tested again with Otto Preminger for the role of Mary Pilant in

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' crime film ''

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'' (1959). Kathryn Grant was ultimately chosen for that part by Preminger; but, as noted by newspaper columnist Earl Wilson, MacRae was soon cast in her first television role, playing a witness in the CBS courtroom series ''

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''."Elizabeth MacRae"
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, Seattle, Washington. Retrieved August 11, 2022. Over the next several years, MacRae began to perform increasingly in more substantive, credited roles in televised dramas and

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, ultimately appearing in a wide variety of popular weekly series, most of which are productions from the 1960s and 1970s. Some of the programs from that period include ''

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''; ''

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''; '' Harrigan and Son''; '' Burke's Law''; '' Dr. Kildare''; ''

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''; ''

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''; ''

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''; '' Rawhide''; ''

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''; ''

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''; '' The Fugitive''; ''

''; ''

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''; '' The Virginian''; ''

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''; ''

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''; ''

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''; ''

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''; and '' Petrocelli''.Barabas, SuzAnne and Barabas, Gabor (1990). ''Gunsmoke: A Complete History and Analysis of the Legendary Broadcast Series''. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Company, 1990; MacRae cited in five episodes. MacRae continued to perform on television through the 1980s, although by then in parts almost exclusively on other daytime soap operas, such as ''

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'' (1980), ''

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'' (1983), and '' Another World'' (1980, 1989).

Multiple appearances on series

During MacRae's many years working on television, there are six series in which she performed in three or more episodes. She was cast as different characters in four episodes of the adventure crime drama '' Route 66'' and in three episodes of ''

'', another crime drama about a Miami-based detective agency. MacRae was also cast multiple times on the long-running

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''Gunsmoke'', appearing once in the role of Fanny in the 1962 episode "Half-Straight" and then, between 1962 and 1965, appearing four times as April, the girlfriend of Festus Haggen, one of the series' main characters. MacRae performed too in numerous installments of two daytime

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: as two charactersBarbara Randolph and Phyllis Andersonover 13 episodes of ''

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'' in 1976 and 1977 and as Jozie in 11 episodes on ''

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'' in 1985. In her television career, however, MacRae gained her widest recognition among audiences for her performances as the recurring character on the 1960s sitcom ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C''.

''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C''

From 1966 to 1969, MacRae was repeatedly cast on the

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''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C'' in the role of Lou-Ann Poovie, the girlfriend of the series' title character. Her first of 15 appearances on that show is in the 1966 episode "Love's Old Sweet Song". Hal Humphrey, a reporter for the ''Los Angeles Times'', featured MacRae in his 1968 article about ''Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C'' in which he describes why the actress originally got the part and continued to appear on the series:

Films

Although the great majority of MacRae's acting work was on television, she was also cast in nine

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s. Her earliest credited screen role is in the "

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" comedy ''

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'', which was released by

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in the summer of 1961 and co-stars two young singing idols at that time, Tommy Sands and Fabian. MacRae later that year performed as a supporting character in ''

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'', a screenplay about a talking duck produced by

and starring

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. Described in 1961 by ''Los Angeles Times'' critic Geoffrey Warren as a "nonsense comedy", MacRae plays Susie Penrose. Then, from 1962 through 1964, while her television career continued to develop, MacRae acted in four more Hollywood films: ''

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'', ''Wild Is My Love'', '' For Love or Money'', and in the live-action animated comedy '' The Incredible Mr. Limpet''."The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964)"
catalog, AFI. Retrieved August 14, 2022. In the latter film, starring

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, she provided the voice of the character Ladyfish. After MacRae's voice work for ''The Incredible Mr. Limpet'', a decade passed before she performed in another motion picture, until the mystery thriller ''

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'', which was released in April 1974."The Conversation (1974)"
catalog, AFI. Retrieved August 8, 2022. The production, directed by

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and starring

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, proved to be the most critically acclaimed picture of her career. It won the prestigious

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at the 1974

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, received two

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, and was nominated for three

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. MacRae's association with ''The Conversation'' in her role as Meredith drew considerable attention to the veteran actress from moviegoers and critics. Film stills of her scenes with Hackman are featured prominently in 1974 previews and in other contemporary coverage of the drama by ''The Washington Post'', the ''Chicago Tribune'', and other major American newspapers. In a 2002 newspaper interview for ''

'', MacRae reflected on her involvement in the award-winning production. She described Coppola as an "intense" director but also one who was "kind and open to actors' building their characters". She shared too her experiences traveling to France to attend the ceremonies in Cannes, where she and other members of the cast were being "treated like royalty". Following her performance in ''The Conversation'', MacRae continued to work predominantly in television, while she was cast in only two more feature films over the next 15 years. She portrays Mrs. Lumquist in the 1978

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horror film '' The House of the Dead'' and a news reporter in the 1989 production '' Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!''.

Career records

In 1999 and 2002, MacRae donated to the

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assorted records relating to her acting career. Those items are preserved on campus in the Southern Historical Collection at the Louis Round Wilson Library and include letters, scrapbooks with newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, audio and

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s, as well as her working scripts from various films, television series, and stage productions in which she performed.

Personal life

On August 12, 1955, MacRae married Amos Morehead Stack, Jr. in Fayetteville, N.C. The duration of their marriage and the circumstances of its dissolution are undetermined by available official records. She married for the second time in 1965, then to Hollywood actor and screenwriter

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. The couple remained together until 54-year-old Young died of a "heart ailment" just three years later. The following year, in 1969, MacRae wed

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executive Charles Day Halsey, Jr. in

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Return to North Carolina and the stage

During the 1990s, MacRae devoted much of her time to what she described as her "'second career'", providing support and counseling individuals suffering from alcohol and drug abuse. Then, in 1998, she and her husband Charles retired and moved to western North Carolina, where they settled initially in the small mountain town of Cashiers. MacRae still remained involved in various organizations, sharing her acting knowledge and experiences working in stage, television, and film productions. In November 2000, for example, she was a guest panelist at the Asheville Film Festival (now the Western North Carolina Film Festival) in Asheville, North Carolina, appearing with fellow professional actors

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, Pat Priest,

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, and

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. She also appeared periodically at other special events and in televised programs, such as in the ''CMT: The Greatest20 Greatest Country Comedy Shows'', which was hosted by actor John Schneider and originally broadcast on

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on May 27, 2006."CMT Counts Down The Most Hilarious Country TV Shows Of All Time In '20 Greatest Country Comedy Shows'"
press release, May 2, 2006, Country Music Television, Viacom Entertainment Group, MTV Networks. Retrieved August 16, 2022. The couple moved again in August 2001, relocating farther east in North Carolina, back to Elizabeth's childhood neighborhood of Haymount in Fayetteville. In March 2002, only seven months after returning to Fayetteville, MacRae co-starred in a stage production of ''

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'' at the local Cape Fear Regional Theatre. Her performances in that play as the schoolteacher Rosemary marked the first time in nearly four decades that MacRae had performed in live theatre. After living in Fayetteville for several years, Elizabeth and her husband moved once again, returning to North Carolina's mountain region, to the town of Glenville, which is situated only a few miles north of their previous home in Cashiers. There, in Glenville, the couple reside today.

Filmography

Film appearances

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'' (1961) ... Jackie *''

'' (1961) ... Susie Penrose *''

'' (1962) ... Crystal Plummer *''Wild Is My Love'' (1963) ... Queenie *'' For Love or Money'' (1963) ... Marsha *'' The Incredible Mr. Limpet'' (1964) (voice) ... Ladyfish *''

'' (1974) ... Meredith *''Alien Zone'' (1978) ... Mrs. Lumquist *'' Eddie and the Cruisers II: Eddie Lives!'' (1989) ... Reporter #3

Television appearances

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'' (1958) ... Courtroom Witness *'' Naked City'' (1960) *'' Harrigan and Son'' (1961) ... Cynthia *''

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'' (1961) ... Emily Todd *'' The Asphalt Jungle'' (1961) *''

'' (1961–1962) ... Carla Wilson/Marcy Johnson/Margia Knight/Carla Wilson *''

'' (1962) ... Bette Otterman *'' Dr. Kildare'' (1962)... Carrie Palmer RN *''

'' (1962) ... Tina Billings *''

'' (1962) ... Jean Colton aka Bunny *''

(1962–1965)'' ... Fanny Fields (1962), April Clomley (1962 onwards) *'' Sam Benedict'' (1963) ... Mrs. Jerome *'' Stoney Burke'' (1963) ... Paula *''

'' (1963) ... Myra Engles *'' For Love or Money'' (1963) ... Marsha *'' Burke's Law'' (1964) ... Marcy *'' Route 66'' (1960–1964) ... Randy Spring/Betsy/Jean/Betty *'' Rawhide'' (1964) ... Sally Ann Rankin *'' The Fugitive'' (1964) ... Clara Braydon *'' The Virginian'' (1965) ... Molly Weams *''

(1965)'' ... Diane *''

'' (1965) ... April Clomely *''

'' (1967) ... Betty Parker *''

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'' (1968) ... Lila Holden *''

'' (1966–1969) ... Lou-Ann Poovie (15 episodes) *''

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'' (1969) ... Helen Barrett *''

'' (1969 to 1970; 1972 to 1973), ... Meg Bentley #2 *''

'' (1972) *'' Petrocelli'' (1975) ... Lucille Bates *''

'' (1975) ... Betsy Vellon *''

'' (1976) ... Lucy Thornburgh *''

'' (1977) ... Adele *''

'' (1977) ... Barbara Randolph *''

'' (1983-1984) ... Agatha Dobson *''

'' (1985) ... Josie *'' Another World'' (1988) ... Aunt Rose *'' Supernatural: The Animation'' (2011) ... Various Voices (English Dub Voice)

Other appearances

*''CMT: The Greatest - 20 Greatest Country Comedy Shows'' (2006) (TV) ... Herself

References

External links

*
Inventory of the Elizabeth MacRae Papers
{{DEFAULTSORT:Macrae, Elizabeth 1936 births Living people American film actresses American soap opera actresses American television actresses People from Fayetteville, North Carolina Actresses from North Carolina 20th-century American actresses American stage actresses 21st-century American women