Mary Treen

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Mary Treen (born Mary Louise Summers, March 27, 1907 – July 20, 1989) was an American film and television actress, a familiar face who brought levity to the screen. A minor actress for much of her career, she managed to secure a plain, unassuming niche for herself in the Hollywood of the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s. Early years She was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of attorney Don. C. Summers and actress Helene Sullivan Summers. In 1908, when Mary Louise was 11 months old, her mother sued her father for divorce on the grounds that he failed to provide for her. Her father died while she was an infant. She was reared in California by her mother and her stepfather, a physician. Treen attended the Westlake School for Girls and a convent where she tried out successfully in school plays. Career During her career, Treen was seen in over 40 films. Among her film roles were Tilly, the secretary of the Building and Loan, in It's a Wonderful Life (1946) and the role of Pat in the drama Kitty Foyle (1940) starring Ginger Rogers. Her longest-running role was as Hilda, the maid and baby nurse, in 64 episodes from 1962 to 1965 of the NBC and CBS sitcom The Joey Bishop Show. Earlier, in the 1954–1955 season, she was cast in thirty-eight episodes as Emily Dodger on the CBS sitcom Willy. Death Treen died of cancer in Newport Beach, California, July 20, 1989. She was 82. Her only survivors were distant cousins. One of her cousins was actor Mort Mills.

Known For: Acting

Born: Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, 1907-03-27

Died: 1989-07-20

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1930	Surprise	Mary - Oswald's Wife	10
2	1930	Viennese Nights	Shocked Woman on Street (uncredited)	20
3	1931	Blue of the Night	Gamma Gamma Gamma Girl in Nightclub with Glasses	57
4	1934	Happiness Ahead	Bob's Friend Celebrating New Year's Eve	60
5	1934	Babbitt	Miss McGoun	60
6	1935	Maybe It's Love	Secretary (uncredited)	60
7	1935	Red Hot Tires	Maggie	58
8	1935	Sweet Music	Woman at train station (uncredited)	57
9	1935	A Night at the Ritz	Isabelle	30
10	1935	Traveling Saleslady	Miss Wells	59
11	1935	The Case of the Curious Bride	Telegraph Office Clerk (uncredited)	60
12	1935	'G' Men	Gregory's Secretary (uncredited)	65
13	1935	Front Page Woman	Nurse (uncredited)	58
14	1935	Don't Bet on Blondes	Owen's Secretary	50
15	1935	Broadway Gondolier	2nd Irate Caller	54
16	1935	Page Miss Glory	Beauty Shop Operator	63
17	1935	I Live for Love	Clementine	48
18	1935	The Case of the Lucky Legs	Spudsy's Wife	60
19	1935	Shipmates Forever	Cowboy's Girl (uncredited)	65
20	1935	Broadway Hostess	Nurse (uncredited)	52
21	1935	Miss Pacific Fleet	Violet Johnson - Butch's Girl (uncredited)	40
22	1935	Dangerous		67
23	1936	The Murder of Dr. Harrigan	Nurse Margaret Brody	56
24	1936	Freshman Love	Squirmy	60
25	1936	Colleen	Miss Hively (uncredited)	53
26	1936	Snowed Under	Secretary Taking Mike's Dictation (uncredited)	70
27	1936	Brides Are Like That	Jennie	48
28	1936	The Golden Arrow	Appleby's Secretary (uncredited)	61
29	1936	Murder by an Aristocrat	Florrie the maid	30
30	1936	Public Enemy's Wife	Telephone Operator	58
31	1936	Jailbreak	Gladys Joy	64
32	1936	Love Begins at Twenty	Alice Gillingwater	60
33	1936	Down the Stretch	Nurse	55
34	1936	The Captain's Kid	Libby, the Housekeeper	60
35	1936	Fugitive in the Sky	Agatha Ormsby	60
36	1937	God's Country and the Woman	Miss Flint	42
37	1937	Maid of Salem	Susy Abbott	59
38	1937	They Gave Him a Gun	Saxe	62
39	1937	A Day at Santa Anita		50
40	1937	The Go-Getter	Mrs. Blair	58
41	1937	Dance Charlie Dance	Jennie Wolfe	60
42	1937	Marry the Girl	Nurse locked in room	50
43	1937	Ever Since Eve	Employment Clerk	58
44	1937	Talent Scout	Janet Morris	60
45	1937	Mr. Dodd Takes the Air	Fan with Locket (uncredited)	53
46	1937	Second Honeymoon	Elsie	58
47	1937	Missing Witnesses	Woman Waiting in Lane's Office (uncredited)	55
48	1938	Change of Heart	Stenographer	50
49	1938	Swing It, Sailor!	Gertie Burns	50
50	1938	Sally, Irene and Mary	Miss Barkow	60
51	1938	Kentucky Moonshine	Sugar Hatfield	53
52	1938	Rascals	Waiting Room Patient	60
53	1938	Always Goodbye	Al's Bride-to-Be (uncredited)	68
54	1938	Young Fugitives	Kathy	10
55	1938	I'll Give a Million	Nanette	57
56	1939	Pride of the Navy	Undetermined Role (uncredited)	0
57	1939	Three Smart Girls Grow Up	Secretary	73
58	1939	Happily Buried	Waitress	45
59	1939	A Star Is Shorn	Patsy	0
60	1939	Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga	Mary	35
61	1939	Babes in Arms	Receptionist (uncredited)	64
62	1939	Dad for a Day	Employment Agency Receptionist	60
63	1939	First Love	Agnes, Barbara's Maid	78
64	1940	Danger On Wheels	Esme	45
65	1940	Double Alibi	Hospital Switchboard Operator	45
66	1940	Girl in 313	Jenny, Hotel Maid	56
67	1940	Queen of the Mob	Billy's Nurse	45
68	1940	Swing with Bing	Herself	40
69	1940	Black Diamonds	Nina Norton	0
70	1940	Rodeo Dough	Mary	53
71	1940	Kitty Foyle	Pat	65
72	1941	Tall, Dark and Handsome	Martha	54
73	1941	Father Takes a Wife	Secretary	61
74	1941	You Belong to Me	Doris	58
75	1941	The Great Man's Lady	Persis	63
76	1941	Pacific Blackout	Irene	63
77	1942	The Night Before the Divorce	Olga	50
78	1942	Soaring Stars	Autograph Seeker	0
79	1942	They All Kissed the Bride	Susie Johnson	58
80	1942	Between Us Girls	Mary Belle	60
81	1942	Stand By All Networks	Nora Cassidy	48
82	1942	My Heart Belongs to Daddy	Dawn	58
83	1943	Lady Bodyguard	Miss Tracy	40
84	1943	The Powers Girl	Nancy	65
85	1943	They Got Me Covered	Helen	59
86	1943	Hit Parade of 1943	Janie	48
87	1943	Flight for Freedom	Newspaper Woman (uncredited)	52
88	1943	So Proudly We Hail	Lt. Sadie Schwartz	55
89	1943	Thank Your Lucky Stars	Autograph Seeker (uncredited)	61
90	1943	Mystery Broadcast	Smitty	62
91	1944	Hands Across the Border	Sophie Lawrence	55
92	1944	The Navy Way	Agnes	57
93	1944	I Love a Soldier	Cecilia 'Cissy' Grant	40
94	1944	Swing in the Saddle	Addie LaTour	0
95	1944	Casanova Brown	Monica Case, the Maid	63
96	1944	Tahiti Nights	Mata	0
97	1945	High Powered	Cassie McQuade	0
98	1945	Don Juan Quilligan	Lucy Blake	60
99	1945	Blonde from Brooklyn	Diane Peabody	50
100	1945	She Wouldn't Say Yes	Train Passenger at Bar	59
101	1946	A Guy Could Change	Grace Conley	0
102	1946	From This Day Forward	Alice Beesley	52
103	1946	Strange Impersonation	Talkative nurse	60
104	1946	Swing Parade of 1946	Marie Finch	42
105	1946	One Exciting Week	Mabel Taylor	60
106	1946	It's a Wonderful Life	Cousin Tilly	83
107	1947	A Likely Story	Nurse (uncredited)	42
108	1947	Merton of the Movies	Gladys (uncredited)	68
109	1948	Shed No Tears	Hilda (Uncredited)	50
110	1948	Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven	Wife (uncredited)	60
111	1948	The Snake Pit	Nurse Jones	71
112	1948	Let's Live a Little	Miss Adams	63
113	1949	And Baby Makes Three	Pregnant woman	49
114	1950	Young Daniel Boone	Helen Bryan	0
115	1950	The Fuller Brush Girl	Woman Selling Magazine (uncredited)	60
116	1951	The Stooge	Ms. Regan (uncredited)	66
117	1952	Room for One More	Grace Roberts (as Mary Lou Treen)	63
118	1952	Sailor Beware	Ginger	62
119	1952	Dreamboat	Wife in Hotel Bar	60
120	1953	Let's Do It Again	Nelly	40
121	1953	Clipped Wings	Mildred	0
122	1956	When Gangland Strikes	Emily Parsons	0
123	1956	The Birds and the Bees	Mrs. Burnside	68
124	1956	Calling Homicide	Flo Burton - Script Girl (uncredited)	56
125	1956	Bundle of Joy	Matron	64
126	1957	Gun Duel In Durango	Miss Henderson	54
127	1957	Last Stagecoach West		43
128	1957	The Joker is Wild	Heckler (uncredited)	81
129	1957	The Sad Sack	Sgt. Hansen	56
130	1958	Rock-a-Bye Baby	Nurse	68
131	1958	I Married a Monster from Outer Space	Mother Bradley (uncredited)	61
132	1959	Career	Marie, Secretary to Shirley Drake	65
133	1961	All in a Night's Work	Miss Schuster	59
134	1961	Bachelor in Paradise	Mrs. Bruce Freedman (uncredited)	65
135	1961	The Errand Boy	Commissary Cashier	61
136	1962	Girls! Girls! Girls!	Mrs. Figgot	53
137	1963	Fun in Acapulco	Mrs. Stevers (uncredited)	59
138	1963	Who's Minding the Store?	Mattress Customer	69
139	1966	Paradise, Hawaiian Style	Mrs. Belden	51
140	1975	The Strongest Man in the World	Mercedes	61
141	1978	Goodbye, Franklin High	Teacher	15
142	1983	Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home		45
143	1988	James Stewart: A Wonderful Life	Self (archive footage)	60

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1949	The Life of Riley	Millie - Stevenson's Secretary	75
2	1950	The Gene Autry Show	Adele Tompkins	48
3	1950	The Gene Autry Show	Netty Blinkensop	48
4	1950	The Colgate Comedy Hour	Self (uncredited)	70
5	1950	The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show	Mrs. Curtis	68
6	1950	The Jack Benny Program	Singer at Party	77
7	1950	The Jack Benny Program	Mrs. Jameson	77
8	1951	The Red Skelton Show	Girl in Park	74
9	1952	Four Star Playhouse	Madeline	61
10	1952	The Ford Television Theatre		70
11	1953	Letter to Loretta	Aunt Gladys	62
12	1954	Willy		0
13	1954	December Bride	Mrs. Schultz	55
14	1954	The Wonderful World of Disney	Dress Shop Owner (uncredited)	76
15	1956	Hey, Jeannie!	Katie	55
16	1957	Wagon Train	Bessie Treymore (uncredited)	64
17	1957	Perry Mason	Bess	77
18	1958	The Donna Reed Show	Mrs. Larson	63
19	1958	The Donna Reed Show	Sunny Cooper	63
20	1958	The Donna Reed Show	Miss Winters	63
21	1959	Bonanza	Mrs. Shaughnessy	75
22	1959	Bonanza	Annie Wilson	75
23	1959	Dennis the Menace	Cook	67
24	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Clara Lindsey	76
25	1960	The Andy Griffith Show	Rose Pine	76
26	1960	Surfside 6	Hotel Plaza Desk Clerk (uncredited)	50
27	1961	The Joey Bishop Show	Hilda	58
28	1961	Hazel	Nurse	70
29	1964	Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.	Woman #1	71
30	1965	Please Don't Eat the Daisies	Mabel	66
31	1965	Green Acres	Telephone Operator	73
32	1968	Here's Lucy	Mary Winters	69
33	1969	The Bill Cosby Show	Mrs. Drucker	52
34	1969	Love, American Style	Miss Crenshaw	60
35	1969	Love, American Style	Clerk	60
36	1974	Happy Days	Miss Prism	77
37	1977	The Love Boat	Sister #2	63