1. Elizabeth Hendon MacRae was 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.
19 Facts About Elizabeth MacRae
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Elizabeth MacRae failed to be cast in the film, but in a 1959 newspaper interview with syndicated Hollywood columnist Joe Hyams, MacRae credited Preminger for encouraging her not to abandon her career plans and instead to seek intensive, professional performance training.
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Elizabeth MacRae resumed her artistic training, attending classes on drawing and painting at the Art Students League in Manhattan.
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Elizabeth MacRae started making money after doing some portraits for a local church bazaar, which led to overwhelming demand from people who "commissioned me to draw their children", supporting herself through her acting classes and the early days of her career.
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Elizabeth MacRae tested again with Otto Preminger for the role of Mary Pilant in the crime film Anatomy of a Murder.
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Kathryn Grant was chosen for that part by Preminger; but, as noted by newspaper columnist Earl Wilson, Elizabeth MacRae soon was cast in her first television role, playing a witness in the courtroom series The Verdict Is Yours.
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Elizabeth MacRae continued to perform on television through the 1980s, but by then in parts almost exclusively on other daytime soap operas, such as All My Children, Guiding Light, and Another World.
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Elizabeth MacRae was cast as different characters in four episodes of the adventure crime drama Route 66 and in three episodes of Surfside 6, another crime drama about a Miami-based detective agency.
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Elizabeth MacRae was cast multiple times on the long-running 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.
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From 1966 to 1969, Elizabeth MacRae was repeatedly cast on the sitcom Gomer Pyle, USM.
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Elizabeth MacRae's earliest credited screen role is in the comedy Love in a Goldfish Bowl, released by Paramount Pictures in the summer of 1961 and co-stars Tommy Sands and Fabian.
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Elizabeth MacRae described Coppola as an "intense" director and one who was "kind and open to actors' building their characters".
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Elizabeth MacRae shared her experiences traveling to France to attend the ceremonies in Cannes, where she and other members of the cast were being "treated like royalty".
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In 1999 and 2002, Elizabeth MacRae donated assorted records relating to her acting career to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Elizabeth MacRae married for the second time in 1965, then to Hollywood actor and screenwriter Nedrick Young.
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Elizabeth MacRae still remained involved in various organizations, sharing her acting knowledge and experiences working in stage, television, and film productions.
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In March 2002, Elizabeth MacRae co-starred in a stage production of Picnic at the local Cape Fear Regional Theatre.
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Elizabeth MacRae was inducted into the Fayetteville Hall of Fame, in 2023.
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Elizabeth MacRae died in Fayetteville on May 27,2024, at the age of 88.