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Mary Wickes (June 13, 1910 – October 22, 1995) was an American film and television character actress. ==Career== Mary Isabella Wickenhauser (she later shortened her surname for acting) was born to Frank Wickenhauser (1880-1943) and his wife, (Mary Isabella (née Shannon; died 1965) ), in St. Louis, Missouri of German, Scottish and Irish extraction, and raised Protestant.〔U.S. Census, 1920, State of Missouri, City of St. Louis, enumeration district 410, p. 18-B, family 470.〕〔U.S. Census, 1880, State of Missouri, City of St. Louis, enumeration district 333, p. 160-A, family 147.〕 She graduated at the age of eighteen with a degree in political science from Washington University in St. Louis, where she joined the Phi Mu women's fraternity and was initiated into Mortar Board in 1929. Wickes' first Broadway appearance was in Marc Connelly's ''The Farmer Takes a Wife'' in 1934 with Henry Fonda. She began acting in films in the late 1930s, and was also a member of the Orson Welles troupe on his radio drama ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air''; she also appeared in Welles' 1938 film ''Too Much Johnson''. One of her earliest significant film appearances was in ''The Man Who Came to Dinner'' (1942), reprising her stage role of "Nurse Preen". A tall (5'10"), gangling woman with a distinctive voice, Wickes would ultimately prove herself adept as a comedienne. She attracted attention in the 1942 film ''Now, Voyager'' as the wisecracking nurse who helped Bette Davis's character during her mother's illness. (She had already appeared earlier that year with Davis in ''The Man Who Came To Dinner'', and joined her again six years later in ''June Bride''.) In 1942, she also had a large part in the Abbott and Costello comedy ''Who Done It?''. She continued playing supporting roles in films during the next decade, usually playing wisecracking characters. A prime example was her deadpan characterization of the harassed housekeeper in the Doris Day vehicles ''On Moonlight Bay'' and ''By the Light of the Silvery Moon'', a character type she would repeat in the holiday classic ''White Christmas'' (1954), starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen. She played similar roles in two later movies with Rosalind Russell in the 1960s: ''The Trouble with Angels'' and ''Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows''. Wickes 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" in 1952. Wickes also served as the live-action reference model for Cruella De Vil in Walt Disney's ''One Hundred and One Dalmatians'' (1961), and played Mrs. Squires in the film adaptation of Meredith Willson's ''The Music Man'' (1962). In 1953, Wickes played the housekeeper, Martha, to Ezio Pinza's character in NBC's short-lived ''Bonino'' sitcom. Pinza portrayed an Italian-American opera singer trying to rear six children. Among the child actors on the program were Van Dyke Parks and Chet Allen.〔(''Bonino'' profile at IMDb )〕 In 1954-55, she played Alice on ''The Halls of Ivy''. In 1956, Wickes appeared with Thelma Ritter in "The Babysitter" episode of ''Alfred Hitchcock Presents''. Wickes also appeared in two episodes of ''Zorro''. In the 1961-62 season, she appeared as Maxfield opposite Gertrude Berg in CBS's ''Mrs. G. Goes to College''. For her work in the sitcom, Wickes was nominated for an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role by an Actress".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=''The Gertrude Berg Show'', Emmy nominations: )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=OUTSTANDING PERFORMANCE IN A SUPPORTING ROLE BY AN ACTRESS - 1962 )〕 In 1964, she appeared on ABC's ''The Donna Reed Show'' in the episode "First Addition."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Mary Wickes )〕 In 1964, she appeared as Ida Goff in five episodes of the NBC/Warner Brothers western series, ''Temple Houston'', with Jeffrey Hunter as an historical figure, the frontier lawyer Temple Lea Houston, youngest son of Sam Houston.〔Billy Hathorn, "Roy Bean, Temple Houston, Bill Longley, Ranald Mackenzie, Buffalo Bill, Jr., and the Texas Rangers: Depictions of West Texans in Series Television, 1955 to 1967", ''West Texas Historical Review'', Vol. 89 (2013), p. 107〕 A longtime friend of Lucille Ball, Wickes played frequent guest roles on ''I Love Lucy'', ''The Lucy Show'', and ''Here's Lucy''. In 1970-1971, she guest starred on CBS's ''The Doris Day Show''. (Day was another of her friends.) She was also a regular on the Sid and Marty Krofft children's television show, ''Sigmund and the Sea Monsters'', and the sitcom ''Doc''. She made numerous appearances as a celebrity panelist on the CBS game show ''Match Game''. By the 1980s, her appearances in television series such as ''Our Man Higgins'', ''M *A *S *H'', ''The Love Boat'', ''Kolchak: The Night Stalker'' and ''Murder, She Wrote'' had made her a widely recognizable character actress.〔 She also appeared in a variety of Broadway shows, including a 1979 revival of ''Oklahoma!'' as "Aunt Eller". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mary Wickes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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