Morgan Brittany
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Morgan Brittany (born as Suzanne Cupito on December 5, 1951, Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television actress.
Under her birth name, she appeared in the 1962 film Gypsy as "Baby" June, (June Havoc). She appeared, under her birth name as well, in a 1967 episode of The Andy Griffith Show as "Mary Alice Carter", whom Opie Taylor (Ron Howard) asks out for his first date.
She began her career as a child in 1960 in an episode of the original Twilight Zone series ("Nightmare as a Child"). In 1976 she portrayed Vivian Leigh in the biopic Gable and Lombard. She possibly is known best for her role in the 1980s primetime soap opera Dallas as "Katherine Wentworth", the scheming younger half-sister of Pamela Ewing (Victoria Principal) and Cliff Barnes (Ken Kercheval).
Brittany first appeared on Dallas during the 1981-1982 season in a recurring role and continued in the role for several seasons. In the fall of 1984, her character was revealed as the attempted assassin of Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) in the resolution of the previous season's cliffhanger at which time she left the series. In 1985, she returned for a brief cameo appearance in that season's finale in which her character killed Bobby Ewing by running over him with her car, only to be killed herself. At the time, Brittany was pregnant in real-life, but her pregnancy was cleverly disguised by having her appear sitting in a car. In 1986, it was revealed that the previous season of Dallas was just a dream of Katherine's sister, Pam, which meant that Bobby was never killed and Katherine was still alive. Thus, in 1987, Brittany made another brief return to the show in which Katherine came to visit Pam after her car accident.
In 1984, Brittany starred in her own short-lived ABC drama series, Glitter, opposite David Birney, as "Kate Simpson", a reporter at an entertainment magazine. She has also guest starred on a number of other prime time shows, such as Married... with Children, The Dukes of Hazzard, The Love Boat and Melrose Place, among others. In 2002, she had a small role in the film, The Biggest Fan.
Her brief appearance as Vivien Leigh is the climax of the made-for-TV movie Moviola: The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980).
She recently spoke out against the movie Hounddog (YouTube) and on the topic of the treatment of child actors in Hollywood.
