Jeannine Riley Net Worth is
$10 Million

Mini Biography

Blonde bombshell Jeannine Brooke Riley was created on Oct 1, 1940, in Madera, California, and started her film and Television career in 1962 with an unbilled film component in the Rosalind Russell drama Five Finger Workout (1962) and with functions on it shows “Dad of the Bride-to-be” and “Path 66,” not forgetting an bout of “My 3 Sons” aptly entitled “THE WONDER Competition”. A 12 months later on she co-starred with Gary Clarke and Steve Ihnat in the lowbudget suspense episode Strike Me Fatal (1963). That same 12 months she and Ihnat made an appearance collectively in the stage play “The Fourposter”. While revealing her allure in several western series (“Wagon Teach,” “The Virginian”), Jeannine found the interest of CBS manufacturers who were on the TV rural move using the huge series hits “The Andy Griffith Show” and “The Beverly Hillbillies”. At that time Hillbilly ensemble member Bea Benaderet (as Cousin Pearl) got just been provided the green light to superstar in her very own bucolic series, Petticoat Junction (1963) playing Kate Bradley, a hotel-owning widow of three gorgeous nubile daughters. The flirty function of girl Billie Jo Bradley was initially given to celebrity Sharon Tate however when word arrived a Sharon got posed nude in image shoots, these were compelled to dismiss her through the wholesome series (sponsored by Ivory Cleaning soap) before scandal and controversy might lead to damage. The component was recast and Jeannine assumed the function. The actress was ideal as the Daisy Mae-like eldest girl who attracted men like bees to honey. Poor beleaguered mother Kate needed to constantly reign in the lady and her many suitors very much towards the envy of Billie Jo’s young, impressionable sisters. Jeannine performed the Billie Jo function for two periods before both she and Pat Woodell (as sister Bobbie Jo) opted from the series. While Jeannine wished to transfer to film function, Woodell, who continued to marry and divorce Gary Clarke, Jeannine’s film co-star in Hit Me Fatal (1963), preferred a singing profession. Jeannine and Pat had been changed in 1965 by Gunilla Hutton and Lori Saunders, respectively. As the actress continued on with TV guest assignments on “Ozzie and Harriet,” “THE PERSON from UNCLE,” “Occasional Wife” so that as a sometime sexy foil on “The Smothers Brothers Show,” she found it too difficult to break from her bombshell trappings. Before you understood it she was back the typecast showing up as sexpot Bambi Berman in the Jerry Lewis film automobile The Big Mouth area (1967) and made an appearance in unsold pilots of Sheriff Who (1967) and Li’l Abner (1967), the last mentioned where she finally surely got to play the voluptuous Daisy Mae personality. Guest shows of “The Crazy, Wild Western world” and “Gomer Pyle” also demonstrated a go back to familiar territory. After starring with Nick Adams in another of his last films before his untimely death, the action drama Fever High temperature (1968), Jeannine arrived in her first quality film showcase, albeit a smaller part, using the Comic (1969), a shifting showcase for nimble Dick Truck Dyke being a silent display screen star. She discovered a straight better function as dancer/barmaid babe Jolene contrary biker Robert Blake in the cult film Electra Glide in Blue (1973), writing some powerful nude scenes. Back in the united states fold in series Television, she appeared in two periods from the cornpone music range Hee Haw (1969), where she was featured being a Daisy Mae-like foil in silly skits. A few years afterwards she was ensemble in the “Gilligan’s Isle”-inspired TV traditional western Dusty’s Path (1973) with Bob Denver and Forrest Tucker co-starring as Gilligan/Skipper like people and Jeannine as Lulu McQueen performing a dead-on undertake the pneumatic Ginger Offer function. Petticoat Junction (1963) co-star Lori Saunders also co-starred in the series as innocent Betsy McGuire, a deviation of the Mary Ann personality. It lasted one period. Since that time, however, the option of parts has sharply declined with Jeannine’s last credits seen for the movies Lone Star Club & Barbeque grill (1983) and Timebomb (1991). She actually is lengthy divorced from Gary Bridegroom.

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