Jeannine Riley

Jeannine Brooke Riley (born October 1, 1940) after her father left the Army. She spent two years training at the Pasadena Playhouse. In 1963, Riley appeared as Amelia Pryor on The Virginian in the episode "Run Away Home." Also in 1963 on Wagon Train in the episode "The Davey Baxter Story".

Winning the role over 300 competitors, Riley portrayed Billie Jo Bradley on the first two seasons of the CBS sitcom Petticoat Junction (1963–1965). Riley left the series in 1965 to pursue movies. She also had a regular cast member role on the comedy variety series Hee Haw (1969–1971). She played Lulu McQueen (a take-off on Ginger Grant, played by Tina Louise, from Gilligan's Island) on the western sitcom Dusty's Trail, which aired in 1973–74.

In 2020, Riley released The Bolder Woman: It's About Time , a book she wrote "to instruct women how they can still fulfill their dreams no matter how old they get.

Partial filmography Five Finger Exercise (1962) - Girl (uncredited) Strike Me Deadly (1963) - Lori Grant The Big Mouth (1967) - Bambi Berman Fever Heat (1968) - Sandy Richards The Comic (1969) - Lorraine Margaret Bell Electra Glide in Blue (1973) - Jolene The Outfit (1973) - Prostitute (uncredited) The Wackiest Wagon Train in the West (1976) - Lulu McQueen Lone Star Bar & Grill (1983) - Arlene Timebomb (1991) - Landlady (final film role)