Meredith MacRae

Meredith Lynn MacRae (30 May 1944 - 14 July 2000) was an American actress and singer. She is known for her roles as Sally Morrison in My Three Sons (1963–1965) and as Billie Jo Bradley in Petticoat Junction (1966–1970).

She was a panelist in three incarnations of Match Game:
 * The Match Game
 * Match Game (1973)
 * Match Game (1990)

Early Life
Meredith was born in Houston, Texas, on a military base where her father was stationed.

She attended UCLA and obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in English.

Career
Meredith was bitten by the show business bug at an early age. Her father, Gordon MacRae was a singer and movie idol of the 1950s (Roger & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! and Carousel, and her mother Sheila MacRae was an actress, comedienne, and author who is probably best known as Alice Kramden (1966-1970) in the second incarnation of Jackie Gleason's The Jackie Gleason Show (1966) (aka The Honeymooners).

At the age of eight, Meredith started her own acting career and appeared in the film By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953), which starred her father.

Meredith went on to starring roles in two of television's heyday family sitcoms: Petticoat Junction (1963) and My Three Sons (1960). She also guest starred in many other television shows including Fantasy Island, Magnum, P.I., The Rockford Files, and Webster. She also appeared in several movies and had a brief singing career.

Personal Life
In 1964, she married Richard Berger, former president of MGM. They divorced four years later.

In 1969, Meredith married actor Greg Mullavey (Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman (1976) and Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1973)). They had one daughter, Allison, born in 1974. Greg and Meredith divorced in 1992 but remained friends.

In 1995, Meredith married Philip Neal, Chairman and CEO of Avery-Dennison.

In 1999, she was diagnosed with cancer. In 2000, she died of complications from multiple surgeries and allergic reactions to medications (which caused her brain to swell).