<Tr> <Th> Years active </Th> <Td> 1960 - present </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Spouse (s) </Th> <Td> Charles Halsey (1969 - present) Nedrick Young (1965 - 1968) (his death) </Td> </Tr> <P> Elizabeth Herndon MacRae (born February 22, 1936 in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American actress who starred in various television shows and movies from the 1960s to the 1980s . She is probably best known for her role as Lou - Ann Poovie on the series Gomer Pyle, USMC, but also had a key role in director Francis Coppola's Oscar - nominated drama The Conversation and other films . Her papers, which include many scripts from the various shows on which she appeared, are held in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . </P> <P> MacRae was brought up in Fayetteville, North Carolina . Her family relocated from Fort Jackson to Fort Bragg when she was a child . </P>

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