Mary Wickes

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    Name Mary Wickes
    Height 5' 10"  (178 cm)
    Date of Birth June 131910
    Star Sign Gemini
    Died October 221995 (Aged 85)
    Occupation Actress
    Celebrity Index Ma

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  • I can`t stand those who talk only acting. That`s pretty bad.
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  • I love playing good comedy with a heart, comedy which touches the audience.
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  • Women like me. They think I`m wholesome or something.
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  • More than 30 years after a role that brought her fame on Broadway, she once again played the role of Nurse Preen ("Miss Bedpan") in a special TV version of The Man Who Came to Dinner (1972) (TV), with Orson Welles replacing the late Monty Woolley in the role of Sheridan Whiteside.
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  • Longtime companion of playwright Abby Conrad.
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  • Mary originated the role of "Mary Poppins" on CBS-TV in 1949.
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  • Was given an honorary Doctor of Arts from her alma mater, Washington University, in 1969. She earned her Master's degree at UCLA when she was in her 80s.
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  • She was a sister in Phi Mu Fraternity, Zeta Epsilon Chapter (Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri).
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  • She served as the live-action reference model for the villainous Cruella De Vil in Disney's animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961).
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  • Perhaps remembered best as Nurse Preen, opposite a delightfully irascible Monty Woolley, in William Keighley's The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) or, on TV, as Miss Cathcart in "Dennis the Menace" (1959) (1959-63).
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  • She appeared as her Sister Act (1992) character in Lady Soul's "If My Sister's In Trouble" music video.
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  • Was a volunteer at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles for years.
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  • Mary and Lucille Ball were neighbors and the closest of friends for decades.
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