Melody Patterson is an American actress best known for her role as Wrangler Jane in the 1960s TV series F Troop

F Troop

F Troop is a satirical American television sitcom that originally aired for two seasons on ABC-TV. It debuted in the United States on September 14, 1965 and concluded its run on April 6, 1967 with a total of 65 episodes. The first season of 34 episodes was filmed in black-and-white, but the show...

. She was 16 years old when she debuted on the show.

Since the 1967 cancellation of F Troop, Patterson has worked in television, radio, and the theater, in addition to entertaining troops in Vietnam

Vietnam

Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...

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Melody has an official website at http://wranglerjane.net but it has not been updated since late 2005.

Personal life

Melody was married to actor James MacArthur

James MacArthur

James Gordon MacArthur was an American actor best known for the role of Danny "Danno" Williams, the reliable second-in-command of the fictional Hawaiian State Police squad Hawaii Five-O.-Early life:...

 who is best known for the role of Dan "Danno" Williams in the TV series Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for twelve seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. The show featured a fictional state police unit run by Detective Steve McGarrett,...

. During her marriage to MacArthur, she had to put her career aside to move to Honolulu, Hawaii

Honolulu, Hawaii

Honolulu is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Hawaii. Honolulu is the southernmost major U.S. city. Although the name "Honolulu" refers to the urban area on the southeastern shore of the island of Oahu, the city and county government are consolidated as the City and...

. During the next seven years she appeared in many episodes of Hawaii Five-0, and started modeling and making commercials. While living in Hawaii she found herself again on the stage in the Herb Rogers Production of "Butterflies are Free

Butterflies Are Free

Butterflies Are Free is a 1972 film based on a play by Leonard Gershe. The 1972 film was produced by M.J. Frankovich, released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Milton Katselas and adapted for the screen by Gershe. It was released on 6 July, 1972 in the USA.Goldie Hawn and Edward Albert starred...

," with Barbara Rush and Dirk Benedict

Dirk Benedict

Dirk Benedict is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton "Faceman" Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.-Early life:Benedict was born...

. After that she kept busy doing other plays such as "House of Blue Leaves," for the University of Hawaii

University of Hawaii

The University of Hawaii System, formally the University of Hawaii and popularly known as UH, is a public, co-educational college and university system that confers associate, bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees through three university campuses, seven community college campuses, an employment...

, and the part of Peggy in "The Front Page" written by Charles MacArthur, and directed by her husband James MacArthur. Before leaving the islands, she played the part of Miss Julie in the Strindberg classic, "Miss Julie," for the Honolulu Performing Arts Company.

External links

• Fan Website: http://www.wranglerjane.net