Ann Doran

Ann Doran

Ann Lee Doran (July 28, 1911 – September 19, 2000) was an American character actress, possibly best known as the mother of Jim Stark (James Dean) in Rebel Without a Cause (1955). She was an early member of the Screen Actors Guild and served on the board of the Motion Picture & Television Fund for 30 years.

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Rebel Without a Cause

As Carol Stark

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

As Paine's Secretary (uncredited)

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Blondie

As Elsie Hazlip

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Topaz

As Mrs. Forsyth (uncredited)

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Air Hostess

As Virginia Barton

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Mr. Wise Guy

As Dorothy Melton

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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

As Girl on Bus (uncredited)

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My Sister Eileen

As Receptionist (uncredited)

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Pitfall

As Maggie

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The Man They Could Not Hang

As Betty Crawford

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He Walked by Night

As Dispatcher (uncredited)

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The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

As Bobbi St. John

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It! The Terror from Beyond Space

As Mary Royce

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You Can't Take It with You

As Maggie O'Neill

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Fear in the Night

As Lil Herlihy

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Blind Alley

As Agnes

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The Man Who Turned to Stone

As Mrs. Ford

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The People Against O'Hara

As Betty Clark, Policewoman

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The Hired Hand

As Mrs. Sorenson

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Street of Chance

As Miss Peabody

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Live a Little, Love a Little

As Landlady (uncredited)

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Kitten with a Whip

As Mavis Varden

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Love Is Better Than Ever

As Mrs. Levoy

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Here Come the Waves

As Ruth

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Penny Serenade

As Dotty 'Dot'

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The Snake Pit

As Valerie

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The Painted Hills

As Martha Blake

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Three Sappy People

As The Countess (uncredited)

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Gambling House

As Della

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Flying G-Men

As Hamilton's Secretary

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South of the Boudoir

As Mrs. Charley Chase

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The Chump Takes a Bump

As Minnie Chase

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The High and the Mighty

As Clara Joseph

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My Favorite Brunette

As Miss Rogers

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The Arrangement

As Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

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Ellery Queen's Penthouse Mystery

As Sheila Cobb

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Road to the Big House

As Agnes Clark

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Second Chance

As Doris Greene

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Voice in the Mirror

As Mrs. Devlin

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Pride of the Marines

As Ella Mae Merchant

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Where Love Has Gone

As Mrs. Geraghty

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Gildersleeve on Broadway

As Matilda Brown

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Once You Kiss a Stranger...

As Lee's Mother

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For the Love of Rusty

As Ethel Mitchell

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Girls of the Road

As Jerry

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Not With My Wife, You Don't

As Doris Parker

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Dead of Night

As Mrs. McCauley

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Rusty Saves a Life

As Ethel Mitchell

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Rusty Leads the Way

As Ethel Mitchell

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The Son of Rusty

As Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

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The Hostage

As Miss Mabry

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My Dog Rusty

As Mrs. Ethel Mitchell

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The Man Who Lived Twice

As Nurse Cameron

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Beyond the Blue Horizon

As Margaret Chase (uncredited)

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All Night Long

As Grandmother Gibbons

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Missing Girls

As Ann Jason

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Violent Road

As Edith Miller

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Women in Prison

As Maggie

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Seven Were Saved

As Mrs Rollin Hartley

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So Proudly We Hail

As Lt. Betty Peterson

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Riding High

As Nurse (uncredited)

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Roughly Speaking

As Alice Abbott

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The Werewolf of Woodstock

As Dora

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Lonely Heart Bandits

As Nancy Crane

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Her First Romance

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Life Begins At 17

As Virginia Peck

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Let's Sing Again

As Alice Alba

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Cast a Long Shadow

As Ma Calvert

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First Monday in October

As Storekeeper

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Joy Ride

As Grace Renny

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Shoot-Out At Medicine Bend

As Sarah Devlin

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The FBI Story

As Mrs. Ballard (uncredited)

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No Sad Songs for Me

As Louise Spears

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Variety Girl

As Hairdresser (uncredited)

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The Little Red Schoolhouse

As Mary Burke

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Red Lights Ahead

As Mary Wallace

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Girls Can Play

As Alice, Brophy's secretary

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Rosie!

As Lady on Witness Stand

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The Family Nobody Wanted

As Mrs. Kimberly

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Criminals Within

As Linda

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Rusty's Birthday

As Ethel Mitchell

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A Doggone Mixup

As Mrs. Langdon

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Way Down East

As Rosie

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Here Come the Nelsons

As Clara Randolph

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The Female Animal

As Nurse

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Paula

As Mrs. Smith

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The Bob Mathias Story

As Lillian Mathias

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So This Is Love

As Mrs. Moore

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True to Life

As Radio Kitty (uncredited)

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I Love a Soldier

As Jenny Butler

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The Spider's Web

As Mason's Secretary

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Captain Newman, M.D.

As Mrs. Pyser (uncredited)

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Magic Town

As Mrs. Weaver

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The More the Merrier

As Miss Bilby (uncredited)

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The Crimson Key

As Paris Wood

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The Failing of Raymond

As Bus Ticket Clerk (uncredited)

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One Last Fling

As Vera Thompson

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The Eddie Cantor Story

As Lillian Edwards

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City Story

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Rattling Romeo

As Judy

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The Accused

As Miss Rice

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Step Down to Terror

As Mrs. Duprez

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Hazard

As Hospital Nurse (uncredited)

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Sealed Verdict

As Ellie Blaine

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Palm Springs

As School Girl

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I'll Take Romance

As Minor Role

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Homicide Bureau

As Nurse

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The Kid from Cleveland

As Emily Novak

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Them!

As Child Psychiatrist

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Start Cheering

As Green's Secretary

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Manhattan Heartbeat

As Shop Girl's Friend

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Devil's Playground

As Bit Part

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Henry Aldrich's Little Secret

As Helen Martin

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Young and Dangerous

As Mrs. Clara Clinton

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Let Us Live

As Secretary Juror (uncredited)

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One Exciting Adventure

As Girl

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Good Girls Go to Paris

As Bridesmaid (uncredited)

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Coast Guard

As Nurse (uncredited)

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Sue My Lawyer

As Anita Burton

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The Mind Needer

As Mrs. Chase

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Time Out for Trouble

As Maisie

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The Return of the Whistler

As Sybil

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Riot in Juvenile Prison

As Bess Monahan

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The Hard Way

As Dorshka (Uncredited)

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Never a Dull Moment

As Jean

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The Lady Objects

As Miss Hollins

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Cold Turkey

As Mrs. Langdon

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Holiday

As Kitchen Maid (uncredited)

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Her First Romance

As Student (uncredited)

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All the Way Home

As Great-Aunt Sadie

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Advice to the Lovelorn

As Ada Wells

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Untamed

As 1st Nurse (uncredited)

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Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion

As Grandma Lundy

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Crazy Times

As Mrs. Keagan

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Air Force

As Mrs. Mary Quincannon (uncredited)

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The Rawhide Trail

As Mrs. Cartwright

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A Woman is the Judge

As Luella (uncredited)

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The Brass Bottle

As Martha Kenton

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Little Mo

As Aunt Gert

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Blue, White, and Perfect

As Miss Hoffman

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Island in the Sky

As Moon's Wife (uncredited)

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Five Little Peppers at Home

As Nurse

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His Girl Friday

As Newspaper Office Worker (uncredited)

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The Green Hornet

As Josephine Weaver Allen (uncredited)

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City Streets

As Nurse (uncredited)

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Holiday in Havana

As Marge Henley

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Reaching from Heaven

As Martha Kestner (as Ann Lee Doran)

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Smith of Minnesota

As (uncredited)

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The Kid from Kansas

As Julie 'Smitty' Smith

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Highway Patrol

As Estelle

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A Summer Place

As Mrs. Talbert (uncredited)

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Rio Grande

As Jean Andrews

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Ring Around the Moon

As Kay Duncan

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The Rose Bowl Story

As Mrs. Addie Burke

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The Carpetbaggers

As Reporter

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Beyond the Forest

As Edith Williams

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Sun Valley Serenade

As Waitress (uncredited)

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Mary Burns, Fugitive

As Reporter

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The Story of Dr. Wassell

As Praying Woman (uncredited)

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Mr. Skeffington

As Maria (uncredited)

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Nothing Sacred

As Telephone Girl (uncredited)

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The Walls of Jericho

As Gossip (uncredited)

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It's All Yours

As Stewardess (uncredited)

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The Clay Pigeon

As Nurse (uncredited)

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Tomahawk

As Mrs. Carrington

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Wildcats

As Mrs. Chatham

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Weekend of Terror

As Sister Nadine

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No Minor Vices

As Mrs. Faraday (uncredited)

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Day of the Badman

As Martha Mordigan

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Smashing the Spy Ring

As Madelon Martin

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New York Town

As Demonstrator in Store (uncredited)

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Bombers B-52

As Sylvia Slater (uncredited)

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The Go-Getter

As Maizie-the maid (uncredited)

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Yankee Doodle Dandy

As Receptionist (uncredited)

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Dive Bomber

As Joe's Blind Date (uncredited)

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Meet John Doe

As Mrs. Hansen (uncredited)

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Slightly Dangerous

As Salesgirl (uncredited)

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Glamour for Sale

As Myrtle (uncredited)

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Old Acquaintance

As Music Store Saleslady (uncredited)

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They All Kissed the Bride

As Helena, the Maid

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The Fountainhead

As Wynand's Secretary (uncredited)

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Skinny the Moocher

As Ann

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There Was a Crooked Man...

As Mrs. Lomax

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The Desperate Hours

As Mrs. Walling

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Calamity Jane and Sam Bass

As Mrs. Egan

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The Story of Pretty Boy Floyd

As Secretary

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Stella Dallas

As Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

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Extortion

As Margie Blake

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Blondes and Blunders

As Lillie Catlett

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Pie a la Maid

As Mary

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Many Sappy Returns

As Mary

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The Last Angry Man

As Nurse Whitbread

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The Gumball Rally

As Mrs. Ontley

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Flood!

As Emma Fisher

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Mirage

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The Macahans

As Grandma

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Bad Boy

As Telegraph Clerk

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Magnum, P.I.

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M*A*S*H

As Meg Cratty

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The Rookies

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December Bride

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Bourbon Street Beat

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My Three Sons

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Little House on the Prairie

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The Odd Couple

As Loretta Spoon

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Simon & Simon

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The Twilight Zone

As Mrs. Clark

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Tales of the Unexpected

As Mary Deacon

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The Streets of San Francisco

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Alias Smith and Jones

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Petticoat Junction

As Mrs. Elliott

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Scarecrow and Mrs. King

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Knots Landing

As Mercy

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Longstreet

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The Mod Squad

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Perry Mason

As Claire Durell

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Cagney & Lacey

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Bewitched

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Emergency!

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Cannon

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Lassie

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Eight Is Enough

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Adam-12

As Martha

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Hallmark Hall of Fame

As Marian Griswold Nevins MacDowell

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Hunter

As Mrs. Rawling

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Ironside

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Leave It to Beaver

As Agnes Haskell

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Rawhide

As Millie Darius

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The Millionaire

As Jane Costello

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The Virginian

As Minerva Lewis

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Lux Video Theatre

As Rose

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Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

As Amy

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Adventures of Superman

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The 20th Century Fox Hour

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The Donna Reed Show

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Lucas Tanner

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Matinee Theater

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National Velvet

As Martha Brown

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The Guns of Will Sonnett

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The Whistler

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Public Defender

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Cavalcade of America

As Mrs. Honeyman

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Hell Town

As Maude

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We've Got Each Other

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The Legend of Jesse James

As Mrs. James

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Official Detective

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The Runaways

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Shirley

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Letter to Loretta

As Nurse

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The Wonderful World of Disney

As Mrs. Chadwick

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Four Star Playhouse

As Welfare Woman

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Highway to Heaven

As Mrs. Bradley

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The A-Team

As Nora

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The Jack Benny Program

As Mother

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How the West Was Won

As Grandma

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Omnibus

As Angela's Mother

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The Ford Television Theatre

As Sister Mary Greene

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The Bold Ones: The Senator

As Jean Wydell

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Mannix

As Mrs. Moody

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Fantasy Island

As Emma Howard