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Auburn-haired, blue-eyed Bridget Hanley was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on February 3. When her dad, former All-American, Lee Hanley, joined the Marine Corps, the family moved to Cherry Point, North Carolina. Having lived through a near-fatal attack of virus pneumonia as an infant, 2 1/2-year old Bridget next boldly sat on the back of a swamp alligator (and lived through that!) Bridget Hanley was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to Doris (née Nihlroos) and Lee Hanley. At the age of four, she moved with her parents and older sister Mary-Jo to Edmonds, Washington, where her younger sister Molly was later born. Best known for her starring roles as Candy Pruitt in Here Come the Brides (1968) and Wanda Reilly Taylor in Harper Valley P.T.A. (1981), Bridget made appearances in numerous classic television series including Gidget (1965), I Dream of Jeannie (1965), The Flying Nun (1967), Welcome Back, Kotter (1975) and Murder, She Wrote (1984). Stage and screen actress Bridget Hanley grew up in the small Snohomish County shoreline city of Edmonds some 15 miles north of Seattle. She is best known for her role as Candy Pruitt on Here Come the Brides, a western with elements of comedy and drama that aired on ABC from 1968 through 1970. The show was loosely based on Seattle's Mercer Girls, who were brought to the frontier town in the 1860s, having been recruited by pioneer Asa Mercer (1839-1917) to work as teachers. Hanley has also acted in many other television shows, including a supporting role on Harper Valley PTA, and has appeared in a variety of stage productions, many of them produced by Theatre West in Los Angeles. Raised in Edmonds Bridget Hanley was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on February 3, 1941, to Leland "Lee" Hanley (1905-1985) and Doris Nihlroos Hanley (1914-1993). Her father was a former All-American football player at Northwestern University, and he and his brothers grew up in Spokane, where one of their neighbors was future crooner and movie star Bing Crosby (1903-1977). In 1945, Lee and Doris H
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Bridget moved with her parents and older sister, Mary Jo, to Edmonds, Washington, north of Seattle, where she chopped wood, mowed lawns, raised ducks, buried ducks, played football, baseball, tennis (and lived through that) before deciding to become a young lady at 14! The switch of roles from rowdy tomboy to dainty miss came about the day she was asked to join the male track team!
It was also at that age, recalls Bridget, that her thoughts turned toward plays, (writing parts for herself), dancing, piano and boys -- in that order.
By the time she reached Edmonds High School, Bridget was Cheer Leader, president of the Drama Society, member of the Scholastic Honorary Society, as well as bel •
After graduating from Edmonds High School in 1959, Bridget studied drama at the San Francisco College for Women (now the University of San Francisco's Lone Mountain Campus) for two years, before transferring to the University of Washington, where she appeared in 17 stage productions, and graduated with honors and a B.A. in drama. Hanley remained active in theater throughout her career, as a regular performer at Theatre West in Hollywood, California, and notably as the star of the award-winning one-woman play "May •