Bridget Hanley 1941-2021

Bridget Hanley, who starred as the wholesome Candy Pruitt on the 1968-70 ABC series Here Come the Brides, died on December 15th, 2021.

She was 80.

Hanley died Wednesday after a battle with Alzheimer’s disease, the Edmonds (Washington) Beacon reported. She lived at the Motion Picture & Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills.

The actress also was known for her turn as Wanda Reilly Taylor, the comic nemesis of Barbara Eden’s Stella Johnson character, on the 1981-82 NBC sitcom Harper Valley P.T.A.

Here Come the Brides was loosely based on the Mercer Girls, who were brought to the frontier town of Seattle in the 1860s to work as teachers, and inspired by the classic Stanley Donen musical Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954).