Edna Skinner was born on May 23, 1921 in Washington, D.C. She studied acting in New York and starred in the Broadway hit Oklahoma. Skinner played the role of Kay Addison on Mister Ed for three full seasons until she was dropped from the show in Season Four shortly after the death of her TV husband, Larry Keating. Her stint on Mister Ed was to be her final regular acting job and she retired from show business in late 1964.

Besides being a talented actress, Skinner was a great fisherwoman. In 1962, she was awarded a trophy by the Newport Harbor Yacht Club for catching a 31 pound albacore, the largest one caught in 1961. After Mister Ed she made a new home in Oregon, became a champion fly fisher and wrote more than 280 articles for fishing magazines. For her work with two fishing equipment companies she and her companion of 40 years, photographer Jean Fish, amassed more than 450,000 miles traveling the country on fishing trips and for industry shows. Skinner died of heart failure on August 8, 2003 in North Bend, Oregon.

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