Mary Treen

Mary Treen (March 27, 1907 – July 20, 1989) was an American film and television actress, a familiar face who brought levity to the screen. A minor actress for much of her career, she managed to secure a plain, unassuming niche for herself in the Hollywood of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.

Life and career

She was born Mary Louise Summers in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father died while she was an infant, and she was reared in California by her mother, who once performed under the stage name Helene Sullivan, and her stepfather, a physician. Treen attended the Westlake School for Girls and a convent where she tried out successfully in school plays.

Her longest-running role was as Hilda, the maid and baby nurse, in sixty-four episodes from 1962 to 1965 of the NBC and CBS sitcom, The Joey Bishop Show. Earlier, in the 1954-1955 season, she was cast in thirty-eight episodes as Emily Dodger on the CBS sitcom, Willy.^[1]

Selected filmography

• Red Hot Tires (1935)
• Don't Bet on Blondes, 1935
• Page Miss Glory, 1935
• Freshman Love, 1936
• Ever Since Eve, 1937
• They Gave Him a Gun, 1937
• Swing It, Sailor!, 1938
• Dad for a Day, 1939
• Kitty Foyle, 1940
• Pacific Blackout, 1941
• They All Kissed the Bride, 1942
• Hit Parade of 1943, 1943
• So Proudly We Hail!, 1943
• The Navy Way, 1944
• Casanova Brown, 1944
• High Powered, 1945
• It's a Wonderful Life, 1946
• From This Day Forward, 1946
• The Birds and the Bees, 1956
• Career, 1959

Television

• The Life of Riley as Millie in "Assistant Manager" (1949)
• The Gene Autry Show (2 episodes, 1952)
• Crossroads in "Broadway Trust" (1955)
• The Burns and Allen Show as Mrs. Curtis in "George's Mother-in-Law Trouble" (1955)
• Four Star Playhouse as Madeline in "A Kiss for Mr. Lincoln" (1955)
• It's a Great Life as Thelma Purcell in "A Job for Kathy" (1955)
• Climax! in "The Day They Gave the Babies Away" (1955)
• Hey, Jeannie! as Katie in "Jeannie the Policewoman" (1957)
• The Jack Benny Program (1957, 1962, 2 episodes)
• The Donna Reed Show (1958-1965, 3 episodes)
• Bourbon Street Beat as Clairibelle in "Mrs. Viner Vanishes" (1959)
• M Squad as Mary Cosgrove in "Voluntary Surrender" (1959)
• The Ann Sothern Show (1959-1960, 2 episodes)
• The DuPont Show with June Allyson as Hazel in "The Doctor and the Redhead" (1960)
• The Loretta Young Show as Aunt Gladys in "Off-Duty Affair" (1960)
• The Andy Griffith Show (1960-1962, 3 episodes)
• Pete and Gladys (1961-1962, 2 episodes)
• Bonanza (1961-1962, 2 episodes)
• Ichabod and Me in "The Old Stowe Road" (1962)
• Perry Mason as Bess in "The Case of the Baffling Bug" (1965)
• Please Don't Eat the Daisies as Mabel in "Help Wanted, Desperately" (1967)
• The Brady Bunch as Kay in "Goodbye, Alice, Hello" (1972)
• Here's Lucy as Mary Winters in "Lucy Fights the System" (1974)
• Laverne and Shirley as Nana Shotz in "The Society Party" (1976)
• The Dukes of Hazard as Aunt Clara Coltrane in "Sadie Hogg Day" (1981)^[1]

References

External links

• Mary Treen at the Internet Movie Database