Corabeth Walton Godsey came onto the show in season three, arriving in Walton's Mountain after her mother dies. She eventually marries Godsey and slowly morphs into an elitist, ladder-climbing socialite the Waltons wished would move away. She was flawlessly played by Ronnie Claire Edwards, who was a relatively unknown actress at the time. Afterward, Edwards acted intermittently throughout the '80s and '90s in a wide variety of roles in such shows as Star Trek: The Next Generation, Boone, and the 1998 movie The Dead Pool.