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11 Facts About Connie Hines

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Connie Hines was an American actress best known for co-starring on the 1960s sitcom Mister Ed.

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Connie Hines tried out unsuccessfully for a part in the senior class play.

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Connie Hines worked as a model and as a radio and stage actress there, with her own programs on WMBR-TV, and joined a stock company in Miami.

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Connie Hines appeared in 1960 episodes of Sea Hunt and M Squad.

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Connie Hines was cast as Lucy Bridges in the 1960 episode "Chicota Landing" of the Darren McGavin NBC western series Riverboat, along with Richard Chamberlain as a United States Army lieutenant.

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Connie Hines auditioned for and won the role of Wilbur Post's wife Carol on Mister Ed, which was her best-known character.

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Connie Hines continued on Mister Ed until the series ended in 1966, then took guest parts on television shows such as Love, American Style; Bonanza; and The Mod Squad before she retired in 1971.

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Young and Connie Hines performed together in 1996 in Irvine, California, in the two-person play Love Letters, which deals with the correspondence of a man and woman over fifty years.

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Connie Hines rode into Dedham Square in a convertible with a Dedham Police Department escort.

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Connie Hines later hosted a reception of Hotel 128 for her high school classmates.

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Connie Hines died from heart problems on December 18,2009, at her home in Beverly Hills, California.