Mary wickes

Actress/comedian Mary Wickes, graduated at the age of 18 from Washington University with a degree in political science

Remembering character actress MARY WICKES (1910 – 1995), who was born on June 13. 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?.(Also starred on I love Lucy and The Lucy Show)

Mary Wickes from "the Man Who Came to Dinner" - also played the general's housekeeper in ""White Christmas" - and many other roles

Wickes reprised her role as Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993). She also went on to appear as cranky Aunt March in 1994’s Little Women and voiced a gargoyle in The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996 (released posthumously). Wickes, who died at the age of 85 in 1995, left behind […]

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character actress Mary Wickes

Now, Voyager (1942) Mary Wickes plays nurse Dora Pickford and Bette Davis as Charlotte Vale

Born in Brooklyn, New York on St. Valentine’s Day in 1905, Thelma Ritter was doing stock company bit parts around New York even before finishing high school. Thelma later trained at the Amer…