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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Elizabeth MacRae Papers #4952, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Elizabeth MacRae of Fayetteville, N.C., in October 1998 (Acc. 98220), June 1999 (Acc. 98391), and April 2002 (Acc. 99226).

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Processed by: Linda Sellars, 1999

Encoded by: Linda Sellars, January 1999

Updated by Benjamin Bromley in May 2009

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• Actresses--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• MacRae, Elizabeth.
• Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--History--20th century.
• Motion picture plays.
• Television actors and actresses--United States--History--20th century.
• Television scripts--History--20th century.

Elizabeth MacRae was born in Columbia, S.C., and raised in Fayetteville, N.C., where her father served as a Superior Court judge. Following completion of her studies at Fayetteville High and the Holton Arms School in Washington, D.C., she moved to New York City, where she studied acting with Uta Hagen at the Herbert Berghof Studio and took courses at the Art Student's League.

MacRae appeared in several motion pictures and on many television shows in the course of her acting career. She played guest starring or co-starring roles in more than 50 television series, including Rhoda, Barnaby Jones, Kojak, Mannix, The Fugitive, Dr. Kildare, Andy Griffith, I Dream of Jeannie, 77 Sunset Strip, SurfSide 6, and numerous other shows. She appeared for one year on Days of Our Lives and for three years on General Hospital. For three seasons, she played Gomer's girlfriend, Lou Ann Poovie, on Gomer Pyle, USMC, and, for another three seasons, she played Festus's girlfriend April on Gunsmoke. Her film roles include appearances in Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation, as well as parts in For Love or Money, The Incredible Mr. Limpet, Everything's Ducky, and others.

MacRae currently lives in Glenville, N.C., with her husband, Charles Halsey.

The collection includes materials relating to Elizabeth MacRae's acting career. Included are scripts of television programs, films, and plays in which she appeared. In a few cases, related items are filed with the script. There are also two publicity photographs of MacRae; an audiotape of an interview with MacRae in 1967; several videotapes, mostly of episodes of Gomer Pyle, USMC, in which MacRae appeared; and some films, including a copy of Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation. The addition of June 1999 contains scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings and photographs relating to Elizabeth MacRae's career. The addition of April 2002 contains a playbill and newspaper clippings from a production of Picnic that featured MacRae.

• Photographs (PF-4952/1)
• Audiotape (T-4952/1)
• Instantaneous disc (FD-4952/1)
• Film (F-4952/1-8)
• Videotape (VT-4952/6)
• Scrapbooks (PA-4952/1-3)