Linda Kaye Henning
Linda Kaye Henning is an American actress and singer most notable for starring in the 1960s sitcom "Petticoat Junction". Career. Henning began to focus on acting in her late teens. Her career began in 1953. Her earliest acting roles include "Rebel Without a Cause", "Bus Stop" and "Gidget". She was cast as a dancer in the Columbia Pictures film "Bye Bye Birdie" (1963). She appeared in numerous musicals, including "High Button Shoes", "Brigadoon" and "The Sound of Music". Henning made many TV appearances from the 1960s through the 1980s on a variety of programs, including "The Ed  Sullivan Show", "Adam-12", "Happy Days", "Mork & Mindy", "The Facts of Life" and "The Tonight Show". She provided the voice of Jethrine Bodine in "The Beverly Hillbillies". She made dramatic appearances in "Hunter" and "Capitol" and in "Sliders" as Mrs. Mallory. Her many game show appearances include "Family Feud", "Match Game", "Hollywood Squares", "The Perfect Match", "Three for the Money", "Password", "Tattletales", "Showoffs", "Password Plus" and "Body Language". She was a substitute hostess on the 1974–1976 daytime edition of "High Rollers". Henning's most notable role was as Betty Jo Bradley in the CBS series "Petticoat Junction", which ran from 1963  until 1970. She was only one of three cast members, along with Edgar Buchanan and Frank Cady, to remain throughout the show's entire run and appeared in all but two of the 222 episodes (the exceptions being the season one episode "Bobbie Jo and The Beatnik" and the season two episode "Have Library, Will Travel". She was billed for the first five seasons of the series as Linda Kaye. From season six (fall 1968) until the show was cancelled, she was billed by her full name. In some episodes in later years, Henning and her television sisters (played by  Meredith MacRae and Lori Saunders) sang in a trio, and she often sang duets with co-star Mike Minor, who played Steve Elliott. Personal life. Henning was born in Los Angeles to television producer Paul Henning and his wife, Ruth. In 1968, a year after Henning's screen marriage to Mike Minor's character in "Petticoat Junction", the couple married in real life. They divorced in 1973. She married actor Leon Ashby Adams in 1994.