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- Birth nameElizabeth Hendon MacRae
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Elizabeth MacRae was born in Columbia, South Carolina, and grew up in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She went to the Holton Arms School in Washington, D.C. and later moved to New York City to study acting with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studio and the Art Student's League.
Ms. MacRae started acting in movies and TV shows in the mid-1960s. Some of her film roles include parts in For Love or Money (1963), The Incredible Mr. Limpet (1964), Everything's Ducky (1961), and Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation (1974). On TV, she played Gomer Pyle's girlfriend in a show called Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964) and Festus's girlfriend on Gunsmoke (1955) for three years.
She also appeared as a guest or co-star in over 50 TV series, including Barnaby Jones (1973), Kojak (1973), Mannix (1967), The Fugitive (1963), Dr. Kildare (1961), and many others. The Holton Arms School in Washington, D.C. has scripts and audiovisual material documenting her career.
- IMDb mini biography by: John Macaluso (updated U.N. Owen 2024)
- SpousesCharles Day Halsey Jr.(November 21, 1969 - March 29, 2024) (his death)Nedrick Young(May 8, 1965 - September 16, 1968) (his death)Amos Morehead Stack Jr.(August 13, 1955 - 1956) (divorced)
- In November 2000, she was a guest at the Asheville Film Festival (now called the Western North Carolina Film Festival) at Asheville, North Carolina along with James Whitmore, Julie Parrish, Pat Priest, Pamela Sue Martin, Rhodes Reason, Soupy Sales, Peggy Moran, Noreen Nash and Johnny Ray Meeks.
- She was cremated at Colvin Funeral Home and Crematory in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Her urn was subsequently buried in Cross Creek Cemetery.
- Best-remembered as "Lou-Ann Poovie", the girlfriend of "Gomer Pyle", on Gomer Pyle: USMC (1964).
- For a short time after appearing in The Conversation (1974) as a seductress to Gene Hackman's character she was jokingly called "The Conversation Piece.".
- In January 1958, she posed as a North Carolina pioneer woman for an historical mural by prominent New York artist Francis V. Kughler. The mural was painted for the School of Government at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
- [Greensboro Daily News, January 12, 1958] Such an accent may be charming but it doesn't help you a bit when you walk into a casting office. They'll usually tell you, 'We aren't casting Gone With the Wind this week.'
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