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| - Mary Wickes (June 13, 1910 – October 22, 1995) was a stage, film and television actress whose career spanned seven decades. She appears as Colonel Reese, in a Season 3 episode of the CBS-TV series M*A*S*H titled "House Arrest".
- Mary Wickes (June 13, 1910 – October 10, 1995) was an American film and television character actress. For Disney, she served as the live-action model for Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians and lent her voice to Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She is probably best known for her role as Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit with Whoopi Goldberg. She also played Clara in Napoleon and Samantha and Miss Wigginton in Snowball Express. Laverne was the last role that she performed before she died from complications from surgery on October 10, 1995. She didn't complete all her lines for it, and Jane Withers was brought in to record the rest of them and provided the voice of Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, which was released in 2002, 7 years after Wic
- Wickes specialized in playing outspoken domestics, nurses, nuns, secretaries, and spinster neighbors. She originated the role of Nurse Preen on Broadway in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) and would reprise it in the 1942 film version, a 1949 TV version, and even a 1972 TV version. The latter starred Orson Welles, with whom Wickes had previously worked in the old-time radio era on The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938). Another notable nurse was Nurse Pickford in Now, Voyager (1942). Nuns are highlighted by Sister Clarissa in The Trouble with Angels and sequel in the 1960s, and then, during a movie comeback in the 1990s, the starched Sister Mary Lazarus in the Sister Act movies (opposite Whoopi Goldberg).
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| - Mary Wickes (June 13, 1910 – October 22, 1995) was a stage, film and television actress whose career spanned seven decades. She appears as Colonel Reese, in a Season 3 episode of the CBS-TV series M*A*S*H titled "House Arrest".
- Wickes specialized in playing outspoken domestics, nurses, nuns, secretaries, and spinster neighbors. She originated the role of Nurse Preen on Broadway in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1939) and would reprise it in the 1942 film version, a 1949 TV version, and even a 1972 TV version. The latter starred Orson Welles, with whom Wickes had previously worked in the old-time radio era on The Mercury Theatre on the Air (1938). Another notable nurse was Nurse Pickford in Now, Voyager (1942). Nuns are highlighted by Sister Clarissa in The Trouble with Angels and sequel in the 1960s, and then, during a movie comeback in the 1990s, the starched Sister Mary Lazarus in the Sister Act movies (opposite Whoopi Goldberg). Other film credits included June Bride, On Moonlight Bay, and White Christmas (all as housekeepers), The Music Man (as part of the gossipy ladies' coterie), Who Done It? (as love interest to Lou Costello), Postcards from the Edge, and Little Women (1994, as Aunt March). For Disney, she played Katie the maid in The Mickey Mouse Club serial "Annette," voiced Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and most esoterically, was filmed as the live-action reference model for Cruella DeVil in 101 Dalmatians. On television, Wickes appeared on I Love Lucy (and several other series with Lucille Ball), Match Game (a frequent panelist), Studio One (playing Mary Poppins in 1949), Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Zorro, Murder, She Wrote, Columbo, The Love Boat, and M*A*S*H. She had recurring or regular roles, usually as domestics again, on The Gertrude Berg Show (netting a 1962 Emmy-nomination for Best Supporting Actress as landlady Maxie Maxfield), Dennis the Menace (as romance-starved neighbor Miss Cathcart), Doc (Nurse Tully), Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (Aunt Zelda, another housekeeper), and The Father Dowling Mysteries (as rectory housekeeper Marie).
- Mary Wickes (June 13, 1910 – October 10, 1995) was an American film and television character actress. For Disney, she served as the live-action model for Cruella De Vil in 101 Dalmatians and lent her voice to Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame. She is probably best known for her role as Sister Mary Lazarus in Sister Act and Sister Act 2: Back in the Habit with Whoopi Goldberg. She also played Clara in Napoleon and Samantha and Miss Wigginton in Snowball Express. Laverne was the last role that she performed before she died from complications from surgery on October 10, 1995. She didn't complete all her lines for it, and Jane Withers was brought in to record the rest of them and provided the voice of Laverne in The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, which was released in 2002, 7 years after Wickes' death.
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