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. Her final appearance as Alice was in a 1973 Jackie Gleason special on CBS.

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.