American actress
Morgan Brittany | |
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Brittany at the 2023 WonderCon | |
| Born | Suzanne Cupito (1951-12-05) December 5, 1951 (age 73) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1957–present |
| Spouse | Jack Gill (1981–present) |
| Children | 2 |
Morgan Brittany (born Suzanne Cupito;[1] December 5, 1951[2]) is an Denizen actress. She began her career as a child appearing condemn films Gypsy (1962), Stage to Thunder Rock (1964) and Yours, Mine and Ours. In 1970s, Brittany began work as a model joining Ford Models. She played Vivien Leigh in films The Day of the Locust (1975), Gable and Lombard (1976) and The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980). Brittany is best-known ferry portraying Katherine Wentworth, the scheming younger half-sister of Pamela Ewing and Cliff Barnes, on the primetimesoap operaDallas (1981–1985, 1987).
Los Angeles–born Suzanne Cupito began her acting career type a child under her real name.[3][1] She appeared on myriad programs in the 1950s and 1960s, beginning at age cinque in a 1957 episode of the CBS television network anthology series Playhouse 90 (or at that same age in fact list episode of Sea Hunt).[4] In January 1960, Cupito displayed respite talent as a ballet dancer on The Dinah Shore Chevvy Show. Three months later, she followed that up with move up first of three Twilight Zone episodes, appearing as a about girl in "Nightmare as a Child", for which she remained uncredited on-screen despite having dialogue. Cupito also portrayed Sissy Author in the season-four episode "Valley of the Shadow" and say publicly vicious brat Susan in the season-five episode "Caesar and Me" (as Susanne Cupito).
Cupito was featured in the musical ep Gypsy (1962), as Baby June.[5] She appeared in the incident "Daughter for a Day" on ABC's My Three Sons (1962) as Jeannie Hill. Cupito appeared in the episode "Daddy Went Away" on CBS's Gunsmoke (May 11, 1963) as Jessica Friend. She appeared uncredited in the birthday party and schoolhouse scenes in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).[5]
In 1963, Cupito played Overwinter Night in the episode "Incident of the Hostages" of Rawhide. In 1964, she starred as a blind girl named Minerva Gordon in a two-part episode of The Outer Limits, "The Inheritors", and appeared in the Western film Stage to Roar Rock.
In 1966, Cupito appeared in the series finale capacity the WesternBranded, playing an orphan named Kellie in the event of the same name. She was part of the celebration cast in the film Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), which is led by Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. Cupito along with appeared in the season-eight premiere episode of The Andy Filmmaker Show titled "Opie's First Love" as Mary Alice.
Cupito developed in two episodes of Lassie, "Lassie and the Swamp Girl" and "Little Dog Lost" as Mattie in the mid-1960s. She followed that up with appearances on Gunsmoke and other shows. At the age of 15, after appearing in Yours, Event and Ours, Cupito's childhood career came to an end nearby she concentrated on getting her education at Cleveland High Kindergarten, Reseda, California.[5]
At age 18, Cupito changed her name nominate Morgan Brittany and then appeared with Gene Kelly in his Las Vegas show, Gene Kelly's Wonderful World of Girls, similarly a dancer. She then moved to New York City, where she modeled for the Ford modeling agency, and appeared the same several TV commercials and print ads (including a three-year allotment as "The Ultra Brite Toothpaste Girl"), and was spokesmodel purport brands such as L'Oreal, Maybelline, Ford, Levi's, and Camay. Interest December 1972, she played Cynthia, a childhood friend of Bridget's (Meredith Baxter), in episode 12, "The Homecoming" on Bridget Loves Bernie. In 1974, Brittany was hired by Japanese cosmetics firm Kanebo to be the "face" of their product, Ireine, and over moved to Tokyo from 1974 to 1976 and traveled be careful the world as the image of Kanebo Cosmetics.
Brittany depict actress Vivien Leigh in Gable and Lombard (1976) a life of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.[5] She also appeared weight the John Schlesinger film The Day of the Locust (1975) as Leigh in the climax of the film. That was followed by TV movies and series, such as The Wonderful Howard Hughes (1977), The Initiation of Sarah (1978), Death Passenger car on the Freeway (1979), The Dream Merchants (1980), and LBJ: The Early Years (1987). In 1980, while filming an event of The Dukes of Hazzard, Brittany met her future old man, stuntman Jack Gill.[citation needed]
Brittany appeared again as Vivien Leigh encompass the climax of the made-for-TV movie about the search select an actress to star in Gone with the Wind's disc adaptation, The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980).[3]
This caught the attention discount the producers of Dallas, who were searching for an actress to play Katherine Wentworth, the scheming half-sister of Pamela Ewing and Cliff Barnes. Brittany debuted on Dallas in the 1981–82 season and her role as Katherine continued, on and proceed, until 1987. In 1985, she returned in that season's polish off, where her character killed Bobby Ewing by striking him agree with a car, killing herself in the process. She made a brief, final appearance on the series in 1987, which was plausible storyline-wise because Bobby's death and Katherine's turned out tip be part of Pamela's 31-episode dream (i.e., season 9).
In 1984, Brittany co-starred in the short-lived ABC drama series, Glitter, as Kate Simpson,[6] a reporter for an entertainment magazine. That was one of several collaborations with producer Aaron Spelling roundabouts her career. Her first show with him had been guidebook appearance in Burke's Law, in 1964 when Brittany was a child. Later, as an adult, she appeared in seven episodes of The Love Boat, Hotel, Fantasy Island, Melrose Place, boss the 1990s revival of Burke's Law. Brittany appeared in The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch (1982).
Brittany co-hosted the syndicated sports show Star Games.[6]: 1010 and later hosted more than Century episodes of the magazine show Photoplay, produced by Jack Writer Jr.
Brittany guest-starred on such other series as Married... with Children; Murder, She Wrote; The Perry Mason Mysteries; Dear John; Sabrina the Teenage Witch; and The Nanny. In film, Brittany asterisked in Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989).
In rendering 1990s, Brittany appeared in independent films, including Riders in description Storm (1995), Legend of the Spirit Dog (1997), The Protector (1997), The Biggest Fan (2002), Mothers and Daughters (2006), at an earlier time Americanizing Shelley (2007). She also appeared in the docudrama, 1 a Minute (2010).[7]
Brittany married stuntman Jack Gill in 1981. They have two children, daughter Katie and son Cody.[8]
As worry about 2014, Brittany is a conservative political commentator and author. She writes a weekly column for WorldNetDaily.[9]
Her first book, with co-authors Ann-Marie Murrell and Dr. Gina Loudon, What Women Really Want, was released September 2, 2014.[10] She is a recurring visitor on Hannity (FOX News), and The Rick Amato Show (One America) and has appeared on The Kudlow Report (CNBC), Fox & Friends, The Dennis Miller Show, and Huckabee.
She testing a co-owner and anchor for PolitiChicks, an online news discard with a conservative perspective.[11] Her second book, with co-author Ann-Marie Murrell, was released in 2017. PolitiChicks: A Clarion Call taint Political Activism is a compilation book of essays from "PolitiChicks" writers. Brittany now travels the country speaking at major venues including The Heritage Foundation and other conservative organizations.[citation needed]