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Mary Wickes

Mary Wickes

Highest Rated: 94% The Music Man (1962)

Lowest Rated: 18% Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit (1993)

Birthday: Jun 13, 1910

Birthplace: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

A tall, lanky character actress, Wickes was a durable and invaluable comedy player of innumerable housekeepers, nurses and nuns. With her gawky frame, deliciously angular features and famous recessed chin, she wisecracked, busybodied and nosed her way through almost 20 Broadway plays, hundreds of stock productions, ten TV series, countless small-screen guest spots and nearly 50 feature films. Wickes began on stage in the early 1930s and acted in five plays either written or directed by George S. Kaufman. Her breakthrough came when she hilariously played Miss Preen, the endlessly harassed nurse to the vituperative Sheridan Whiteside (Monty Woolley) in Kaufman and Hart's "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1939-40). Wickes later recreated her most famous role as her film debut in 1941, in a radio production starring Fred Allen and in a 1972 TV version with Orson Welles.

Highest rated movies

94% The Music Man
92% Little Women
91% Now, Voyager
86% The Man Who Came to Dinner
83% Postcards From the Edge
77% White Christmas
76% Sister Act
75% The Trouble With Angels

Photos

HIGHER AND HIGHER, Mary Wickes, 1943 DESTRY, Mari Blanchard, Mary Wickes, 1954 THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER, from left: Jimmy Durante, Mary Wickes, Monty Woolley, 1942 WHO DONE IT?, from left, Mary Wickes, Lou Costello, 1942 THE MUSIC MAN, Jesslyn Fax (second left), Hermione Gingold (center), Mary Wickes (right), 1962 WHO DONE IT?, Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Mary Wickes, 1942 PRIVATE BUCKAROO, Joe E. Lewis, Mary Wickes, Shemp Howard, 1942 HIGHER AND HIGHER, Frank Sinatra, Mary Wickes, Jack Haley, Michele Morgan, Marcy McGuire, 1943 HIGHER AND HIGHER, Mary Wickes, Frank Sinatra, Michele Morgan, Jack Haley, 1943 HIGHER AND HIGHER, Michele Morgan, (center), surrounded by Marcy McGuire, Leon Errol, Grace Hartman, Mary Wickes, Paul Hartman, Mel Torme, Ivy Scott, 1943 I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, Danny Thomas, Doris Day, Bunny Lewbel, Mary Wickes, Robert Lyden, 1951 PRIVATE BUCKAROO, Dick Foran, 1942 HIGHER AND HIGHER, Mary Wickes, Michele Morgan, Leon Errol, Jack Haley, 1943 PRIVATE BUCKAROO, Harry James and his orchestra, Shemp Howard, Mary Wickes, 1942 HIGHER AND HIGHER, front: Dooley Wilson, Mel Torme, Marcy McGuire, Jack Haley, Grace Hartman, Ivy Scott, rear: Mary Wickes, Leon Errol, Paul Hartman, 1943 HIGHER AND HIGHER, Grace Hartman, Ivy Scott, Paul Hartman, Mary Wickes, Michele Morgan, Jack Haley, Leon Errol, Mel Torme, Marcy McGuire, 1943 I'LL SEE YOU IN MY DREAMS, from left: Doris Day, Danny Thomas, Mary Wickes, 1951 HIGHER AND HIGHER, Mary Wickes, Leon Errol, Elisabeth Risdon, 1943 NAPOLEON AND SAMANTHA, Mary Wickes, Michael Douglas, 1972 ON MOONLIGHT BAY, Rosemary DeCamp, Billy Gray, Doris Day, Mary Wickes, 1951
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
72% 70% The Hunchback of Notre Dame Laverne (Voice) $100.1M 1996
92% 84% Little Women Aunt March (Character) $48.8M 1994
18% 61% Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit Sister Mary Lazarus (Character) $57.0M 1993
76% 65% Sister Act Sister Mary Lazarus (Character) $139.6M 1992
83% 66% Postcards From the Edge Grandma (Character) $36.9M 1990
No Score Yet No Score Yet Father Dowling Mysteries: The Missing Body Mystery Marie Murkin (Character) - 1989
No Score Yet No Score Yet Fatal Confession: A Father Dowling Mystery Marie Murkin (Character) - 1987
No Score Yet 21% The Christmas Gift Henrietta Sawyer (Character) - 1986
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Canterville Ghost Mrs. Umney (Character) - 1985
No Score Yet 87% Touched by Love Margaret (Character) - 1980
No Score Yet No Score Yet Willa Eunice (Character) - 1979
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lucy Calls the President Millie Baker (Character) - 1977
No Score Yet 44% Napoleon and Samantha Clerk (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Man Who Came to Dinner Nurse (Character) - 1972
No Score Yet 57% Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows Sister Clarissa (Character) - 1968
No Score Yet 71% The Spirit Is Willing Gloria Tritt (Character) - 1967
75% 85% The Trouble With Angels Sister Clarissa (Character) - 1966
33% 69% Dear Heart Miss Fox (Character) - 1965
40% 69% Fate Is the Hunter Mrs. Llewlyn (Character) - 1964
94% 85% The Music Man Mrs. Squires (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet 14% The Sins of Rachel Cade Marie Grieux (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 54% Cimarron Mrs. Neal Hefner (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 51% It Happened to Jane Matilda Runyon (Character) - 1959
No Score Yet 21% Don't Go Near the Water Janie (Character) - 1957
No Score Yet 42% Dance With Me Henry Miss Mayberry (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet 57% Destry Bessie Mae Curtis (Character) - 1955
No Score Yet 57% Good Morning, Miss Dove Miss Lorraine Ellwood (Character) - 1955
77% 88% White Christmas Emma Allen (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet Half a Hero Mrs. Watts (Character) - 1953
60% 51% The Actress Emma Glavey (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 81% By the Light of the Silvery Moon Stella (Character) - 1953
No Score Yet 11% Young Man With Ideas Mrs. Jarvis Gilpin (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet 80% On Moonlight Bay Stella (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Petty Girl Prof. Whitman (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet Anna Lucasta Stella (Character) - 1949
No Score Yet 56% June Bride Rosemary McNally (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Decision of Christopher Blake Clara (Character) - 1948
No Score Yet 43% Higher and Higher Sandy Brooks (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Kingdom for a Cook Agnes Willoughby (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet 85% Who Done It? Juliet Collins (Character) - 1942
91% 90% Now, Voyager Nurse Dora Pickford (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet 31% Private Buckaroo Bonnie-Belle Schlopkiss (Character) - 1942
No Score Yet No Score Yet Blondie's Blessed Event Sarah Miller (Character) - 1942
86% 81% The Man Who Came to Dinner Nurse Preen (Character) - 1941
No Score Yet 58% Too Much Johnson Mrs. Upton Battison (Character) - 1938

TV

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Camomile Lawn Writer 1992
No Score Yet 66% Highway to Heaven Minnie (Guest Star) 1988
No Score Yet No Score Yet Punky Brewster Mrs. Dempsey (Guest Star) 1984 1987
No Score Yet No Score Yet Trapper John, M.D. Unknown (Guest Star) 1981-1982 1984
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Waltons Unknown (Guest Star) 1981
No Score Yet No Score Yet Tabitha Unknown (Guest Star) 1977-1978
No Score Yet No Score Yet Match Game Guest,
Self 		1976-1977
100% 88% Kolchak: The Night Stalker Unknown (Guest Star) 1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Here's Lucy Unknown (Guest Star) 1969-1974
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sanford and Son Unknown (Guest Star) 1972
No Score Yet 80% Columbo Landlady (Guest Star) 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Julia Unknown (Character) 1968 1970-1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Doris Day Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1969
No Score Yet No Score Yet I Spy Unknown (Guest Star) 1968
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lucy Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1963 1965 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Beverly Hillbillies Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet F Troop Unknown (Guest Star) 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bonanza Unknown (Guest Star) 1963 1966
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Red Skelton Show Unknown (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Ben Casey Miss Brink (Guest Star) 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Three Sons Unknown (Guest Star) 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mrs. G. Goes To College Maxfield (Character) 1961-1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet Startime Unknown (Character) 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Thin Man Sally Bearclaw (Guest Star) 1959
No Score Yet No Score Yet Zorro Unknown (Guest Star) 1958
No Score Yet 85% Alfred Hitchcock Presents Blanche Armstaedter (Character) 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Alcoa Hour Sally Brass (Character) 1955
No Score Yet 97% I Love Lucy Madame Lamond (Guest Star) 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet Studio One Unknown (Character) 1949