Pat Priest

Pat Priest, played the “normal” daughter on The Munsters. Pat was born in 1936 in Utah. Her mother, Ivy Baker Priest was US Treasurer for Eisenhower and California’s Treasurer for Regan when he was Governor. In the 1950s she won a beauty contest in Washington DC and then moved to California to pursue an acting career. She was discovered because she looked so much like the original Munsters Marilyn, Beverly Owen who was quiting the show. Pat signed on and was on the show for 57 episodes.

After The Munsters finished airing, Pat found little Hollywood work. In fact, she was not cast as Marilyn in The Munsters movie Munster, Go Home! - they said she was too old (30). The rest of the cast, however, was in the movie.

Pat retired from show biz in the 80s and wrote two books. She currently lives in Idaho and has two sons.

She did appear with Elvis in one of his lesser know films Easy Come, Easy Go. Elvis actually purchased a black convertible car for her which she sold two years later.