Pat Priest

Pat Priest is an American actress who was born and raised in Bountiful, Utah, and got her start as a singer and actress on local Washington, D.C., television, including WTTG, before taking stage roles in the late 1950s in productions of Bus Stop and The Tender Trap. She is best known for replacing Beverley Owen as Marilyn Munster on the sitcom The Munsters, playing the beautiful blonde niece treated as the family's ugly member. The studio passed her over for Debbie Watson in the 1966 feature Munster, Go Home! Afterwards she guest starred on Bewitched, Perry Mason, Death Valley Days and The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and her film work included Looking for Love (1964), Easy Come, Easy Go (1967) with Elvis Presley, The Incredible Two-Headed Transplant (1971) and Some Call It Loving (1973). She retired from acting in the 1980s and has since appeared at nostalgia conventions and Munsters revivals.