According to her niece, Kathleen Loucks, the performer, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in the early 1990s, died on June 3 at her home in Hemet, California.
The Ohio native began her prime time career in Hollywood with an appearance on the TV series Shane in 1966, and went on to make guest appearances in a variety of popular television shows, including Mannix, Medical Center and Barnaby Jones. Betty Anne Rees, a B-movie starlet and journeyman actress from the 1970s who starred in The Unholy Rollers and Sugar Hill has passed away. She was 81The Roger Corman produced movie was co-written and directed by the late Vernon Zimmerman and edited by upcoming filmmaker Martin Scorsese.
In 1974's Sugar Hill, Rees starred as the girlfriend of a racist gangster, who gets what's coming to her after the title character uses voodoo to call forth her enslaved ancestors to avenge the murder of her boyfriend