Sheila Margaret MacRae (September 24, 1920 – March 6, 2014) was an English actress and author. She appeared in such films as Pretty Baby (1950), Caged (1950), Backfire (1950) and Sex and the Single Girl (1964).
On television, MacRae played herself in an episode of I Love Lucy, “The Fashion Show” in which she asks Lucy to participate in a Hollywood fashion show organized by Don Loper and featuring actors’ wives as models.
MacRae later played Alice Kramden on 52 episodes of The Jackie Gleason Show (between 1966 and 1970). She was not the first actress to play Alice; Audrey Meadows remains best-known for the role.
Sheila MacRae cause of death
Sheila MacRae died in Englewood, New Jersey, from natural causes at the Lillian Booth Actor’s Home. No funeral was planned as she had been a devout Christian Scientist. Sheila MacRae was 93 years old at the time of her death.