Morgan Brittany

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Brittany began her acting career as a child under her real name Suzanne Cupito. Brittany appeared on many programs in the 1950s and 1960s. She began her career as a child actress at age five in a 1957 episode of the CBS television network anthology series Playhouse 90 (or at that same age in an episode of Sea Hunt). In January 1960, she displayed her talent as a ballet dancer on The Dinah Shore Chevy Show. Three months later, she followed that up with her first of three Twilight Zone episodes, uncredited as a little girl in "Nightmare as a Child"; she also portrayed Sissy Johnson in the season four episode "Valley of the Shadow" and Susan in the season five episode "Caesar and Me".

She was featured in the musical film Gypsy (1962), as Baby June. She appeared in the episode "Daughter for a Day" on ABC's My Three Sons (1962) as Jeannie Hill. She appeared in the episode "Daddy Went Away" on CBS's Gunsmoke (May 11, 1963) as Jessica Damon. She appeared uncredited in the birthday party and school house scenes in Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds (1963). In 1963, she played the role of Winter Night in the episode "Incident of the Hostages" on CBS's Rawhide. In 1964, she starred as a blind girl named Minerva Gordon in a two-part episode of The Outer Limits titled "The Inheritors" with Robert Duvall, and Kim Hector, appeared in the Western film Stage to Thunder Rock. In 1966, she appeared in the series finale of the Western Branded, playing an orphan named "Kellie" in the episode of the same name. She was part of the ensemble cast in the film Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), which is led by Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda. Brittany was also in the season eight premiere episode of The Andy Griffith Show titled "Opie's First Love" as Mary Alice.

She did 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, Mine and Ours (1968), her childhood career came to an end and she concentrated on getting her education at Cleveland High School, Reseda, California.

At age 18, Cupito changed her name to Morgan Brittany and then appeared with Gene Kelly in his Las Vegas show, Gene Kelly's Wonderful World of Girls, as a dancer. She then moved to New York City, where she modeled for the Ford Modeling Agency, and appeared in several TV commercials and print ads (including a three-year stint as "The Ultra Brite Toothpaste Girl"), and was spokesmodel for brands such as L'Oreal, Maybelline, Ford, Levi's and Camay. In December 1972, she played Cynthia, a childhood friend of Bridget's (Meredith Baxter), in episode 12, "The Homecoming" on Bridget Loves Bernie. In 1974, she was hired by the Japanese cosmetics company Kanebo to be the "face" of their product "Ireine", and so moved to Tokyo from 1974 to 1976 and traveled around the world as the image of "Kanebo Cosmetics".

Brittany portrayed actress Vivien Leigh in Gable and Lombard (1976) a biography of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. She also has a cameo appearance in 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 Amazing Howard Hughes (1977), Delta County, U.S.A. (1977), The Initiation of Sarah (1978), Death Car on the Freeway (1979), The Dream Merchants (1980) and LBJ: The Early Years (1987). She appeared in the TV movie The Fantastic Seven (aka Stunt Seven) in 1979 with Christopher Lloyd, Patrick Macnee, and Elke Sommer. In 1980, while filming an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard, Brittany met her future husband, stuntman Jack Gill.

She appeared again as Leigh in the climax of the made-for-TV movie about the search for an actress to star in Gone With the Wind's film adaptation, The Scarlett O'Hara War (1980), which marked the second of her three portrayals of the British actress. This caught the attention of the producers of Dallas, who were searching for an actress to play Katherine Wentworth, the scheming half-sister of Pamela Ewing and Cliff Barnes. She debuted on Dallas in the 1981–82 season and her role as Katherine continued, on and off, until 1987. In 1985, she returned for a cameo in that season's finale where her character killed Bobby Ewing by running him over with a car, killing herself in the process. She made a brief, final appearance on the series in 1987, after it had been revealed that Bobby's and Katherine's deaths had been a dream.

In 1984, Brittany co-starred in the short-lived ABC drama series, Glitter, as Kate Simpson, a reporter for an entertainment magazine. This was one of several collaborations with producer Aaron Spelling throughout her career. Her first show with him had been an 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, and the 1990s revival of Burke's Law. She appeared in The Wild Women of Chastity Gulch (1982) starring Joan Collins.

Brittany and Bruce Jenner hosted the syndicated sports show Star Games.: 1010  She later hosted over 100 episodes of the magazine show Photoplay, produced by Jack Haley Jr. She has guest starred on other series, including Married... with Children, Murder, She Wrote, The Perry Mason Mysteries, Dear John, Sabrina the Teenage Witch and The Nanny. In film, Brittany starred in Sundown: The Vampire in Retreat (1989).

In the 1990s, Brittany appeared in independent films, including Riders in the Storm (1995), Legend of the Spirit Dog (1997), The Protector (1997), The Biggest Fan (2002), Mothers and Daughters (2006) and Americanizing Shelley (2007). She also appeared in the docudrama, 1 a Minute (2010), and made a guest appearance on the television series Sabrina, the Teenage Witch and Son of the Beach.

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