Sheila MacRae
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Sheila MacRae (born Sheila Margaret Stephens on 24 September 1924, in London, England) is an actress and author.
MacRae is a film and television actress who has appeared in such films as:
- a) Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
- b) Bikini Beach (1964) (credited as Sheila Stephenson)
- c) Pretty Baby (1950) [note:Not the 1978 film starring Brooke Shields] (credited as Sheila Stephens)
- d) Caged (1950) (credited as Sheila Stevens)
- e) Backfire (1950) (credited as Shela Stephens)
She also played the role of Madelyn Richmond on the long-running daytime soap opera, General Hospital. She is perhaps best remembered for playing Alice Kramden, the long-suffering but sassy wife of bus driver Ralph Kramden (played by Jackie Gleason) on The Jackie Gleason Show from 1966 to 1970.
Sheila MacRae is the mother of actress Heather MacRae (and was the mother of the late actress Meredith MacRae) by her ex-husband, the late Gordon MacRae, whom she married in 1941 (at the age of 17); they divorced in 1967. She married Ronald Wayne that same year.
She once claimed that she had become a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1960, but it has not been confirmed.
