Mary Wickes

Mary Wickes was an American film and television actress. She often played supporting roles as prim, professional women, secretaries, nurses, nuns, and housekeepers. Wickes’s first Broadway appearance was in Marc Connelly’s The Farmer Takes a Wife in 1934.

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Summary Mary WickesMary Wickes was an American film and television actress. She often played supporting roles as prim, professional women, secretaries, nurses, nuns, and housekeepers. Wickes’s first Broadway appearance was in Marc Connelly’s The Farmer Takes a Wife in 1934 with Henry Fonda. She moved to the new medium of television in 1949, starring in the title role of a Westinghouse Studio One version of Mary Poppins. In the 1950s, Wickes played the warm yet jocular maid Katie in the Mickey Mouse Club serial Annette and regular roles in the sitcoms Make Room for Daddy and Dennis the Menace. She also played the part of a ballet teacher, Madame Lamond, in the I Love Lucy episode \”The Ballet\”.

Wickes also served as the live-action reference model for Cruella De Vil in Walt Disney’s One Hundred and One Dalmatians and played Mrs. Squires in the film adaptation of Meredith Willson’s The Music Man. In 1964, she appeared on The Donna Reed Show in the episode \”First Addition\”. In 1964,. she appeared as Ida Goff in five episodes of the series Temple Houston, with Jeffrey Hunter as a historical figure, the frontier lawyer Temple Lea Houston, youngest son of Sam Houston. She played Adeline Ashley in a 1967 episode of The Beverly Hillies, a longtime friend of Lucille Ball.