Mary Wikes thread

I wanted to do The Whales of August with her, but that bitch Davis beat us to the punch. Mary wasn't much of a singer anyway.

Wickes, not Wikes.

So close, OP...

Mary Wickes was a hilarious character actress who was in movies, television, and theater for over five decades.

She is in one of my episodes of M*A*S*H, "House Arrest," where she played a hung-ho colonel.

She was also in Abbott & Costello's Who Done It? and Dance with Me Henry, The Man Who Came to Dinner, On Moonlight Bay, Now Voyager, White Christmas, The Music Man, Sister Act, and the voice of Laverne in Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

Does anyone have a link to her playboy spread??

It got pulled and is now illegal to have, r5, because when they shot it she was over-age.

In support of Bette...

THIS THREAD IS MARY WIKES THREAD!!!

Who do you think you ARE?!?!

Mary Wicks was hilarious....was she a lesbian?

Don't forget her incredible stint on Sigmund and the Sea Monsters AND The Trouble with Angels.

Two pros...

I read somewhere that Lucille Ball and Mary were the last two people to visit Vivian Vance in the hospital before she died.

She was hilarious as the man-hungry Miss Cathcart on Dennis the Menace.

[quote]She is in one of my episodes of M*A*S*H, "House Arrest," where she played a hung-ho colonel.

Was she more hung-ho than Bea Arthur, r4?

Please, r9! Miss Wickes was a lifelong Republican and a bachelor girl.

Mae Questel, Gertrude Berg, Mary Wickes--Gentleman Caller, 1962 TV

Am I the only person who associates her with this clip?

Mary Wickes was there, too, but I think she stayed in the background.

This made me MARY!!!!!!!!!!!!:

On a summer day in August 1979, Lucille Ball came to Belvedere, California to bid farewell to her friend and beloved costar Vivian Vance.

The two women had created comedy magic in the legendary '50s sitcom I Love Lucy, with Ball as Lucy Ricardo and Vance playing her sidekick Ethel Mertz. But now, two decades later, Vance was dying of bone cancer and Ball had come to say goodbye.

"You could hear them laughing, and towards the end there was a lot of sobbing," says Paige Peterson, who'd grown close to Vance after the actress rented her mother's home in Belvedere. "It was an amazing thing to witness. The love of these two women."

Peterson shared the story of the stars' final meeting with PEOPLE while discussing her new book, Growing Up Belvedere-Tiburon, which tells the history of the beautiful town located in Marin County, California.

On that day in 1979, Peterson remembers, "We had brought Viv down and she was lying on the couch in the living room. They ate lunch and they talked and talked. Viv knew she was dying." (The breast cancer she had been diagnosed with in 1973 had metastasized into bone cancer.)

Peterson, who was in an adjacent room in case Vance needed her, remembers seeing Ball as she left. "The pain on her face shook me to my core. She was in tears. She couldn't speak."

"I think Viv gave up after that," says Peterson.

Vance died a few days later, on Aug. 17, at 70 years old.

She rocked sister act

She lived in one of the older condo towers out in Century City.

She was close friends with Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance. When Vance was dying of cancer Lucille and Mary drove out to her house to visit with her one last time. Vivian was in very bad shape. After the visit they drove off and had to pull over a short way down the street as both of them broke down.

How do you know r20? Did you dream it?

I saw her on B'way in Oklahoma! 1979.

I'm sorry to hear about her death. RIP.

[quote] How do you know [R20]?

Lucille Ball relayed that information in an interview I read many years ago.

I see

June Bride

Strange but true: Disney brought in Mary Wickes to model and move for the animators as they attempted to create Cruella de Vil.

MARY WICKES

She Didn't Like Dicks

This put her on the map...

She was actually a contender for Ethel Mertz which would have been horrible.

I saw her in the LACLO production of Wonderful Town with No Nose Nanette Fabray. When she came out, the entire audience went "Ohhhhhh." A recognizable face but not name.

She still got airtime on Lucy...

Loved her in Postcards

The girl...worked.