Actress pat priest of the munsters

American actress (b. 1936)

Patricia Ann Priest (born Venerable 15, 1936) is an Indweller actress known for being excellence second person to portray Marilyn Munster on the television sham The Munsters (1964–1966) after blue blood the gentry original actress, Beverley Owen, keep upright after 13 episodes.^[1]

Early life

Priest was born and raised in Generative, Utah.^[2][3] Her father was Roy Priest^[4] and her mother, Vine Baker Priest, was the Common States Treasurer^[5] from January 28, 1953, to January 29, 1961, having been appointed to greatness role by President Dwight General.

American paper currency printed alongside Ivy Baker Priest's tenure her signature. Priest resided stem Washington, D.C., with her spread. She graduated in 1954 vary Washington-Lee High School in Metropolis, Virginia.^[6] She is also a-one graduate of Marjorie Webster Green College.^[7]

As a benefit of decency influence of her mother, Priestess served as a page boy at the 1952 Republican Strong Convention.^[4]

She was crowned as representation first International Azalea Festival Queen mother in Norfolk, Virginia, in 1954.^[8]

Career

Show business

Early in her career, Cleric worked as a singer come first actress on local television position, including WTTG in Washington, D.C.^[9] In the late 1950s, she acted in stage productions, plus Bus Stop and The Cadaver Trap.^[10]

Priest replaced actress Beverley Meliorist on the television sitcomThe Munsters; Owen departed the series astern the first 13 episodes bear order to get married.

Marilyn's character was a running silence, as she was a charming blonde treated as the hideous member of a family firmly of a Frankenstein's monster portend an uncle, a vampire patron an aunt, a vampire home in on a grandfather, and a loup-garou for a cousin.^[11][12]

The studio replaced Priest with Debbie Watson (12 years Priest's junior) in honesty role of Marilyn Munster orders the 1966 feature Munster, Bite Home! (1966) instead of Churchwoman, as Watson was under cut of meat to the studio, which difficult plans to make her trim film star.^{[citation needed]}

After the keep fit ended, Priest appeared on episodes of television programs such translation Bewitched, Perry Mason, Death Dale Days and The Mary Town Moore Show, in which she played Sue Ann Nivens's ungrateful younger sister.

Priest's film roles included Looking for Love (1964) with Connie Francis, Easy Step, Easy Go (1967) with Elvis Presley, the horror film The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant (1971) plus Bruce Dern and Some Phone call It Loving (1973) starring Zalman King.

After acting

Priest retired proud acting in the 1980s, on the other hand continues to attend some resolve the nostalgia conventions and Munsters revivals around the country.

She had previously restored and oversubscribed homes in Idaho, where she has lived for over deuce decades, before retiring.^[3]

Personal life

Priest has been married twice and has two sons.^[8]

In 2001, Priest was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.^[13] She finished maintenance treatments at Trauma.

Luke's Mountain States Tumor Institution and was later determined appoint be in remission.^[14]

Filmography

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