Betty Anne Rees, who portrayed robust ladies who weren’t very good in The Unholy Rollers and Sugar Hill, two Nineteen Seventies choices from the B-movie manufacturing facility American Worldwide Photos, has died. She was 81.
Rees died Monday at her dwelling in Hemet, California, after a sequence of falls and a attainable stroke, her niece, Kathleen Loucks, informed The Hollywood Reporter. She additionally was identified with a number of sclerosis within the early Nineties.
The Ohio native performed Janet Ingram, the secretary for Fred MacMurray’s Steve Douglas, on the final of My Three Sons’ 12 seasons in 1971-72. (Abby Dalton was Janet on an episode three years earlier.)
In The Unholy Rollers (1972), directed by Vernon Zimmerman, Rees portrayed Mickey Martinez, a star of the Los Angeles Avengers curler derby crew who doesn’t get together with in style new participant Karen Walker (1970 Playboy Playmate of the Yr Claudia Jennings).
The movie, govt produced by Roger Corman and edited by Martin Scorsese, was rushed into manufacturing to reap the benefits of the publicity generated by MGM’s big-budget curler derby film, Kansas Metropolis Bomber, starring Raquel Welch.
Betty Anne Rees (left) and Claudia Jennings in 1972’s The Unholy Rollers.
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Paul Maslansky’s cult blaxploitation movie Sugar Hill (1974) starred Marki Bey as Diana “Sugar” Hill, a lady who enlists a voodoo priestess (Zara Cully of The Jeffersons) to deliver again long-dead African slaves to take revenge on the Southern mob boss (Robert Quarry) liable for her fiancé’s demise.
As Celeste, the mobster’s racist girlfriend, Rees will get right into a battle in a bar with Sugar and (spoiler alert) will get carried off by the zombies on the finish.
Elizabeth Anne Rees was born on April 14, 1943, in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Her father, James, was an legal professional who owned racehorses, and her mom, Margaret, was a homemaker.
She graduated from Shaker Heights Excessive College in 1961 and attended the College of Miami earlier than learning performing on the Pasadena Playhouse and showing on the daytime cleaning soap operas Common Hospital and The Docs. In New York, she roomed with future Benson star Caroline McWilliams, later the spouse of Michael Keaton.
Rees confirmed up on a 1966 episode of the ABC sequence Shane, starring David Carradine, then made her means onto two movies launched the next 12 months, The Cool Ones and Banning.
Rees went on to seem on such different exhibits as Adam-12, Medical Middle, Mannix, Mod Squad, The F.B.I., Police Girl, S.W.A.T., The Streets of San Francisco, Lou Grant, Barnaby Jones and, in 1978 for her final credit score, The Unimaginable Hulk.
Later, she ran Gloria Marshall Determine Salons, designed kitchens and was mentioned to have invented a goofy ’80s present for bosses known as the “govt teething ring.”
Along with her niece, survivors embrace her sister, Barbara; her nephew, Brian; and her cats, Honey Bear and Lovey, who want a house. (Please e-mail Loucks at keloucks620@gmail.com for those who will help.)
Rees by no means married, however her niece mentioned she had a romance within the Nineteen Sixties with Artwork Modell, who had not too long ago acquired the NFL’s Cleveland Browns.