Emerging from a New England childhood in Clinton, Massachusetts, she pursued higher education in biology at Muskingum College, later adding a master’s in English and public speaking at the University of Wisconsin before graduating with honors from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1929. Early stage experience with the St. Louis Municipal Opera paved the way for a versatile career that spann… Read more
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Known for Citizen Kane 1941 Bewitched 2005 The Twilight Zone 1959 Bewitched 1964 Series ★ 7.8 Bewitched 1964
Endora ★ 7.3 Dark Passage 1947
Madge Rapf Series ★ 7.8 Night Gallery 1970
Head Witch (segment "Witches' Feast") ★ 7.3 Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte 1964
Velma Cruther Series ★ 7.6 The Wild Wild West 1965
★ 7.4 That's Entertainment! 1974
(archive footage) (uncredited) ★ 6.9 Charlotte's Web 1973
Goose (voice) Series ★ 7.9 The Wonderful World of Disney 1954
Mrs. Pringle ★ 7.1 Caged 1950
Ruth Benton ★ 6.9 Pollyanna 1960
Mrs. Snow ★ 7.3 Fourteen Hours 1951
Christine Hill Cosick Series ★ 7.3 Rawhide 1959
Sister Frances ★ 7.5 Frankenstein: The True Story 1974
Mrs. Blair ★ 6.9 Jane Eyre 1943
Mrs. Reed Series ★ 7.1 The Rifleman 1958
Bertie Hoakam ★ 6.8 Magnificent Obsession 1954
Nancy Ashford ★ 6.9 Johnny Belinda 1948
Aggie MacDonald ★ 6.8 Who's Minding the Store? 1963
Phoebe Tuttle ★ 6.9 The Swan 1956
Queen Maria Dominika ★ 7.1 Our Vines Have Tender Grapes 1945
Bruna Jacobson ★ 6.8 The Seventh Cross 1944
Madame Marelli ★ 6.7 Pardners 1956
Mrs. Matilda Kingsley ★ 6.8 The Great Sinner 1949
Emma Getzel Series ★ 6.6 Marcus Welby, M.D. 1969
Mrs. Ramsey Series ★ 6.6 Wagon Train 1957
Mary Halstead ★ 6.6 The Stratton Story 1949
Ma Stratton ★ 6.6 Since You Went Away 1944
Emily Hawkins ★ 6.5 The Revolt of Mamie Stover 1956
Bertha Parchman Series ★ 6.5 The Virginian 1962
Emma Garvey ★ 6.4 Station West 1948
Mrs. Mary Caslon ★ 6.3 Bachelor in Paradise 1961
Judge Peterson ★ 6.3 The Lost Moment 1947
Juliana Borderau Series ★ 6.2 Love, American Style 1969
Mrs. Cooper ★ 6.4 Raintree County 1957
Ellen Shawnessy ★ 6 Mrs. Parkington 1944
Baroness Aspasia Conti ★ 6.3 The Left Hand of God 1955
Beryl Sigman ★ 6 The Story of Three Loves 1953
Aunt Lydia ★ 6.3 The True Story of Jesse James 1957
Mrs. Samuel ★ 5.9 The Singing Nun 1966
Sister Cluny ★ 5.8 The Big Street 1942
Violette Shumberg ★ 5.7 The Woman in White 1948
Countess Fosco ★ 5.5 The Opposite Sex 1956
Countess Lavaliere ★ 6.2 Show Boat 1951
Parthy Hawks ★ 5.3 Dear Dead Delilah 1972
Delilah Charles ★ 5.9 What's the Matter with Helen? 1971
Sister Alma ★ 6.1 Journey into Fear 1943
Mrs. Mathews ★ 4.4 The Story of Mankind 1957
Queen Elizabeth I ★ 5.9 The Bat 1959
Cornelia van Gorder ★ 3.6 The Conqueror 1956
Hunlun ★ 5.1 Bewitched 2005
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