Posted on 07/08/2024 3:15:19 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Elizabeth MacRae, who played girlfriends of Gomer Pyle and Festus Haggen on television and a woman who seduces Gene Hackman‘s surveillance expert in The Conversation, has died. She was 88.
MacRae died Monday in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where she was raised, her family announced.
MacRae showed up as Lou-Ann Poovie on 15 episodes of the CBS comedy Gomer Pyle: USMC during its final three seasons (1966-69). She was signed to work just one episode, “Love’s Old Sweet Song,” on the Jim Nabors starrer but impressed producers enough to stick around for more.
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She was funny as Lou Ann Poovey.
Yes. She was a sweetheart too. R.I.P.
Girlfriend of Gomer? That must have been an easy role to play.
“Girlfriend of Gomer?”
Barking up the wrong tree.
Impossible Dream
Yes, she was a natural comedienne.
I still recall that episode where Lou Ann wanted to become a nightclub singer. She had the ambition, but didn’t have singing or performance skills. Her atonal attempts to sing “That Old Black Magic”, with her Tennessee twang was hilarious. Everybody knew she wasn’t ready for the stage except for her. She considered herself the new Peggy Lee!
“The Conversation”...strange movie. I do remember her now as the undercover Jezebel.
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