Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about LEE MERIWETHER!
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Lee Ann Meriwether (born may 27, 1935) is an actress and former model . she won the Miss America 1955 pageant . her role earned her two Golden Globe award nominations . she has one brother, don Brett Meriwether (born may 14, 1938) she grew up in San Francisco after the family moved there from Phoenix, Arizona . her feature film debut came in 1959 as Linda Davis in 4D Man, starring Robert Lansing . she appeared in Leave It To Beaver episode “Community Chest” in season four . in 1962, she was cast as Martha Elweiss in the episode “My Child Is Yet a Stranger” in 1965, she appeared in an episode on the Jack Benny Program as The Secretary. she played a love interest to Bruce Wayne in the episodes “King Tut’s Coup” and “Batman’s Waterloo” she also guest starred in the season 2 episode “big brother” in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she had guest starring roles in numerous TV series . in films, she joined John Wayne and rock Hudson for The Undefeated . she also played IMF spy Trace she starred in the 1978 television movies True Grit: A Further Adventure with Warren Oates and Cruise Into Terror . she also appeared on the television series The Love Boat and Fantasy Island . in 1996, Meriwether took over for Mary Fickett in the role of Ruth Martin on soap opera . after twenty-six years, she wanted to go into semi-retirement as a recurring cast member in 1998, ABC deemed that they were at an impasse with Meriwether’s agents . Mary Fickett retired again, this time for good in December 2000 . ABC decided to bring back the character of Ruth Martin she voiced Big Mama in the video game Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots for the PlayStation 3 . in 2006, she joined James Garner, Abigail Breslin, Bill Cobbs and others in in 2010, she voices President Winters in the video game Vanquish by PlatinumGames . she has guest appearances on Desperate Housewives, Hawaii Five-0, The League, and Apartment 23 . the couple had Meriwether remarried September 21, 1986 to Marshall Borden (Ryan’s Hope, One Life to Live). the union ended in divorce in 1974.