Mary Treen
Acting
🎂 1907-03-27
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.
Cast credits(182)
Mrs. Curtis
1950
Clara Lindsey
1960
Rose Pine
1960
Bessie Treymore (uncredited)
1957
Singer at Party
1950
Mrs. Jameson
1950
Mary Winters
1968
Mrs. Shaughnessy
1959
Annie Wilson
1959
Girl in Park
1951
Bess
1957
Self (uncredited)
1950
Miss Prism
1974
Miss Crenshaw
1969
Clerk
1969
Hotel Plaza Desk Clerk (uncredited)
1960
1952
Mabel
1965
Mrs. Larson
1958
Sunny Cooper
1958
Miss Winters
1958
Sister #2
1977
Madeline
1952
Mrs. Schultz
1954
Nurse
1961
Woman #1
1964
Cook
1959
Katie
1956
Aunt Gladys
1953
Millie - Stevenson's Secretary
1949
Mrs. Drucker
1969
Hilda
1961
Telephone Operator
1965
Dress Shop Owner (uncredited)
1954
1954
Cousin Tilly
1946
Adele Tompkins
1950
Netty Blinkensop
1950
Marie Finch
1946
Spudsy's Wife
1935
Ginger
1952
Heckler (uncredited)
1957
Mercedes
1975
Mrs. Belden
1966
Pat
1940
Nurse Jones
1948
Gregory's Secretary (uncredited)
1935
Grace Roberts (as Mary Lou Treen)
1952
Miss Schuster
1961
Nurse
1958
Mrs. Stevers (uncredited)
1963
Mrs. Figgot
1962
Newspaper Woman (uncredited)
1943
Ms. Regan (uncredited)
1951
Mattress Customer
1963
Commissary Cashier
1961
Receptionist (uncredited)
1939
Mother Bradley (uncredited)
1958
Wife in Hotel Bar
1952
Mrs. Olsen
1983
Nelly
1953
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
1943
Self (archive footage)
1988
Lt. Sadie Schwartz
1943
Nurse (uncredited)
1935
1935
Woman Selling Magazine (uncredited)
1950
Mrs. Burnside
1956
Nurse Margaret Brody
1936
Mrs. Bruce Freedman (uncredited)
1961
Monica Case, the Maid
1944
Matron
1956
Mrs. Bates (uncredited)
1957
Irene
1941
Telephone Operator
1936
Doris
1941
Bob's Friend Celebrating New Year's Eve
1934
Alice Beesley
1946
Miss Henderson
1957
Esme
1940
Miss McGoun
1934
Helen
1943
Agnes, Barbara's Maid
1939
Nurse locked in room
1937
Miss Tracy
1943
Mrs. Blair
1937
Secretary
1941
Susy Abbott
1937
Saxe
1937
Woman Waiting in Lane's Office (uncredited)
1937
Hospital Switchboard Operator
1940
Susie Johnson
1942
Kathy
1938
1957
Miss Hively (uncredited)
1936
2nd Irate Caller
1935
Beauty Shop Operator
1935
Sgt. Hansen
1957
Persis
1941
Grace Conley
1946
Telegraph Office Clerk (uncredited)
1935
Secretary
1939
Gladys Joy
1936
Teacher
1978
Mildred
1953
Flo Burton - Script Girl (uncredited)
1956
Nurse (uncredited)
1935
Wife (uncredited)
1948
Secretary Taking Mike's Dictation (uncredited)
1936
Marie, Secretary to Shirley Drake
1959
Nanette
1938
Hilda (Uncredited)
1948
Fan with Locket (uncredited)
1937
Mary Belle
1942
Alice Gillingwater
1936
Sophie Lawrence
1944
Train Passenger at Bar
1945
Nancy
1943
Dawn
1942
Squirmy
1936
Agnes
1944
Appleby's Secretary (uncredited)
1936
Mata
1944
Employment Clerk
1937
Cowboy's Girl (uncredited)
1935
Emily Parsons
1956
Miss Barkow
1938
Miss Flint
1937
Janie
1943
Jenny, Hotel Maid
1940
Elsie
1937
Martha
1941
Billy's Nurse
1940
Talkative nurse
1946
Owen's Secretary
1935
Mary
1939
Libby, the Housekeeper
1936
Woman at train station (uncredited)
1935
Sugar Hatfield
1938
Al's Bride-to-Be (uncredited)
1938
Waiting Room Patient
1938
Smitty
1943
Stenographer
1938
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
1939
Janet Morris
1937
Diane Peabody
1945
Florrie the maid
1936
Pregnant woman
1949
Cecilia 'Cissy' Grant
1944
Mary Treen (uncredited)
1937
Patsy
1939
Waitress
1939
Gladys (uncredited)
1947
Miss Adams
1948
Jennie
1936
Maggie
1935
Violet Johnson - Butch's Girl (uncredited)
1935
Autograph Seeker
1942
Agatha Ormsby
1936
Addie LaTour
1944
Miss Wells
1935
Isabelle
1935
Secretary (uncredited)
1935
Jennie Wolfe
1937
Nina Norton
1940
Cassie McQuade
1945
Gertie Burns
1938
Clementine
1935
Nora Cassidy
1942
Blondie
1936
Helen Bryan
1950
Mary
1940
Mary - Oswald's Wife
1930
Employment Agency Receptionist
1939
Mabel Taylor
1946
Lucy Blake
1945
Nurse (uncredited)
1947
Shocked Woman on Street (uncredited)
1930
Olga
1942
Nurse
1936
Gamma Gamma Gamma Girl in Nightclub with Glasses
1931
Herself
1940