Mary Treen
Acting • Born 1907-03-27 – Died 1989-07-20
Biography
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.
Filmography
183 credits
It's a Wonderful Life
Movie • 1946
Cousin Tilly
Bachelor in Paradise
Movie • 1961
Mrs. Bruce Freedman (uncredited)
Strange Impersonation
Movie • 1946
Talkative nurse
The Sad Sack
Movie • 1957
Sgt. Hansen
Bundle of Joy
Movie • 1956
Matron
Calling Homicide
Movie • 1956
Flo Burton - Script Girl (uncredited)
Girl in 313
Movie • 1940
Jenny, Hotel Maid
When Gangland Strikes
Movie • 1956
Emily Parsons
Casanova Brown
Movie • 1944
Monica Case, the Maid
The Stooge
Movie • 1951
Ms. Regan (uncredited)
Hands Across the Border
Movie • 1944
Sophie Lawrence
Tall, Dark and Handsome
Movie • 1941
Martha
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan
Movie • 1936
Nurse Margaret Brody
You Belong to Me
Movie • 1941
Doris
The Great Man's Lady
Movie • 1941
Persis
Pride of the Navy
Movie • 1939
Undetermined Role (uncredited)
Flight for Freedom
Movie • 1943
Newspaper Woman (uncredited)
She Wouldn't Say Yes
Movie • 1945
Train Passenger at Bar
Colleen
Movie • 1936
Miss Hively (uncredited)
They Gave Him a Gun
Movie • 1937
Saxe
So Proudly We Hail
Movie • 1943
Lt. Sadie Schwartz
God's Country and the Woman
Movie • 1937
Miss Flint
The Case of the Lucky Legs
Movie • 1935
Spudsy's Wife
Mystery Broadcast
Movie • 1943
Smitty
Stand By All Networks
Movie • 1942
Nora Cassidy
Gun Duel in Durango
Movie • 1957
Miss Henderson
From This Day Forward
Movie • 1946
Alice Beesley
Sweet Music
Movie • 1935
Woman at train station (uncredited)
And Baby Makes Three
Movie • 1949
Pregnant woman
Broadway Hostess
Movie • 1935
Nurse (uncredited)
Maybe It's Love
Movie • 1935
Secretary (uncredited)
Down the Stretch
Movie • 1936
Nurse
Let's Do It Again
Movie • 1953
Nelly
Marry the Girl
Movie • 1937
Nurse locked in room
I Live for Love
Movie • 1935
Clementine
Paradise, Hawaiian Style
Movie • 1966
Mrs. Belden
Career
Movie • 1959
Marie, Secretary to Shirley Drake
Dad for a Day
Movie • 1939
Employment Agency Receptionist
Kentucky Moonshine
Movie • 1938
Sugar Hatfield
Swing It, Sailor!
Movie • 1938
Gertie Burns
I Love a Soldier
Movie • 1944
Cecilia 'Cissy' Grant
Texas, Brooklyn & Heaven
Movie • 1948
Wife (uncredited)
Always Goodbye
Movie • 1938
Al's Bride-to-Be (uncredited)
Pacific Blackout
Movie • 1941
Irene
Rock-a-Bye Baby
Movie • 1958
Nurse
Kitty Foyle
Movie • 1940
Pat
Sally, Irene and Mary
Movie • 1938
Miss Barkow
Young Fugitives
Movie • 1938
Kathy
Blonde from Brooklyn
Movie • 1945
Diane Peabody
A Day at Santa Anita
Movie • 1937
Mary Treen (uncredited)
Murder by an Aristocrat
Movie • 1936
Florrie
The Birds and the Bees
Movie • 1956
Mrs. Burnside
Girls! Girls! Girls!
Movie • 1962
Mrs. Figgot
Ever Since Eve
Movie • 1937
Employment Clerk
A Star Is Shorn
Movie • 1939
Patsy
The Powers Girl
Movie • 1943
Nancy
The Fuller Brush Girl
Movie • 1950
Woman Selling Magazine (uncredited)
Shed No Tears
Movie • 1948
Hilda (Uncredited)
Dreamboat
Movie • 1952
Wife in Hotel Bar (uncredited)
Red Hot Tires
Movie • 1935
Maggie
I'll Give a Million
Movie • 1938
Nanette
Broadway Gondolier
Movie • 1935
2nd Irate Caller
Soaring Stars
Movie • 1942
Autograph Seeker
Fugitive in the Sky
Movie • 1936
Agatha Ormsby
Dance Charlie Dance
Movie • 1937
Jennie Wolfe
Dangerous
Movie • 1935
'G' Men
Movie • 1935
Gregory's Secretary (uncredited)
Swing in the Saddle
Movie • 1944
Addie LaTour
Page Miss Glory
Movie • 1935
Beauty Shop Operator
Three Smart Girls Grow Up
Movie • 1939
Secretary
First Love
Movie • 1939
Agnes, Barbara's Maid
High Powered
Movie • 1945
Cassie McQuade
Babes in Arms
Movie • 1939
Receptionist (uncredited)
Rodeo Dough
Movie • 1940
Mary
Hit Parade of 1943
Movie • 1943
Janie
Missing Witnesses
Movie • 1937
Woman Waiting in Lane's Office (uncredited)
Traveling Saleslady
Movie • 1935
Miss Wells
Tahiti Nights
Movie • 1944
Mata
One Exciting Week
Movie • 1946
Mabel Taylor
A Likely Story
Movie • 1947
Nurse (uncredited)
The Joker is Wild
Movie • 1957
Heckler (uncredited)
Maid of Salem
Movie • 1937
Susy Abbott
Merton of the Movies
Movie • 1947
Gladys (uncredited)
The Snake Pit
Movie • 1948
Nurse Jones (uncredited)
Jailbreak
Movie • 1936
Gladys Joy
Happiness Ahead
Movie • 1934
Bob's Friend Celebrating New Year's Eve
Talent Scout
Movie • 1937
Janet Morris
Freshman Love
Movie • 1936
Squirmy
They Got Me Covered
Movie • 1943
Helen
The Night Before the Divorce
Movie • 1942
Olga
Between Us Girls
Movie • 1942
Mary Belle
Swing Parade of 1946
Movie • 1946
Marie Finch
Room for One More
Movie • 1952
Grace Roberts (as Mary Lou Treen)
Love Begins at Twenty
Movie • 1936
Alice Gillingwater
Change of Heart
Movie • 1938
Stenographer
Danger On Wheels
Movie • 1940
Esme
Brides Are Like That
Movie • 1936
Jennie
A Night at the Ritz
Movie • 1935
Isabelle
Clipped Wings
Movie • 1953
Mildred
Thank Your Lucky Stars
Movie • 1943
Autograph Seeker (uncredited)
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga
Movie • 1939
Mary
Black Diamonds
Movie • 1940
Nina Norton
The Captain's Kid
Movie • 1936
Libby, the Housekeeper
Miss Pacific Fleet
Movie • 1935
Violet Johnson - Butch's Girl (uncredited)
Snowed Under
Movie • 1936
Secretary Taking Mike's Dictation (uncredited)
Viennese Nights
Movie • 1930
Shocked Woman on Street (uncredited)
Babbitt
Movie • 1934
Miss McGoun
A Guy Could Change
Movie • 1946
Grace Conley
Young Daniel Boone
Movie • 1950
Helen Bryan
Surprise
Movie • 1930
Mary - Oswald's Wife
The Case of the Curious Bride
Movie • 1935
Telegraph Office Clerk (uncredited)
The Golden Arrow
Movie • 1936
Appleby's Secretary (uncredited)
Don Juan Quilligan
Movie • 1945
Lucy Blake
Rascals
Movie • 1938
Waiting Room Patient
Goodbye, Franklin High
Movie • 1978
Teacher
The Strongest Man in the World
Movie • 1975
Mercedes
Double Alibi
Movie • 1940
Hospital Switchboard Operator
Front Page Woman
Movie • 1935
Nurse (uncredited)
The Go-Getter
Movie • 1937
Mrs. Blair
Lady Bodyguard
Movie • 1943
Miss Tracy
Shipmates Forever
Movie • 1935
Cowboy's Girl (uncredited)
Second Honeymoon
Movie • 1937
Elsie
Father Takes a Wife
Movie • 1941
Secretary
Swing with Bing
Movie • 1940
Herself
Blue of the Night
Movie • 1931
Gamma Gamma Gamma Girl in Nightclub with Glasses
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Movie • 1942
Dawn
Who's Minding the Store?
Movie • 1963
Mattress Customer
The Errand Boy
Movie • 1961
Commissary Cashier
Sailor Beware
Movie • 1952
Ginger
Let's Live a Little
Movie • 1948
Miss Adams
The Navy Way
Movie • 1944
Agnes
Happily Buried
Movie • 1939
Waitress
They All Kissed the Bride
Movie • 1942
Susie Johnson
Public Enemy's Wife
Movie • 1936
Telephone Operator
Fun in Acapulco
Movie • 1963
Mrs. Stevers (uncredited)
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Movie • 1987
Self (archive footage)
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Movie • 1937
Fan with Locket (uncredited)
Last Stagecoach West
Movie • 1957
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
Movie • 1958
Mother Bradley (uncredited)
Don't Bet on Blondes
Movie • 1935
Owen's Secretary
Queen of the Mob
Movie • 1940
Billy's Nurse
All in a Night's Work
Movie • 1961
Miss Schuster
Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home
Movie • 1983
Mrs. Olsen
Public Pigeon No. 1
Movie • 1957
Mrs. Bates (uncredited)
Romance in the Air
Movie • 1936
Blondie
When Tomorrow Comes
Movie • 1939
Waitress (uncredited)
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Clara Lindsey
The Joey Bishop Show
TV • 1961
Hilda
Willy
TV • 1954
The Gene Autry Show
TV • 1950
Adele Tompkins
Hey, Jeannie!
TV • 1956
Katie
The Andy Griffith Show
TV • 1960
Rose Pine
Four Star Playhouse
TV • 1952
Madeline
Here's Lucy
TV • 1968
Mary Winters
Perry Mason
TV • 1957
Bess
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Mrs. Shaughnessy
December Bride
TV • 1954
Mrs. Schultz
Letter to Loretta
TV • 1953
Aunt Gladys
The Ford Television Theatre
TV • 1952
The Red Skelton Show
TV • 1951
Girl in Park
The Colgate Comedy Hour
TV • 1950
Self (uncredited)
Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C.
TV • 1964
Woman #1
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Singer at Party
The Jack Benny Program
TV • 1950
Mrs. Jameson
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
TV • 1950
Mrs. Curtis
The Gene Autry Show
TV • 1950
Netty Blinkensop
The Life of Riley
TV • 1949
Millie - Stevenson's Secretary
Bonanza
TV • 1959
Annie Wilson
Happy Days
TV • 1974
Miss Prism
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Miss Crenshaw
The Bill Cosby Show
TV • 1969
Mrs. Drucker
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
TV • 1965
Mabel
Green Acres
TV • 1965
Telephone Operator
Hazel
TV • 1961
Nurse
Surfside 6
TV • 1960
Hotel Plaza Desk Clerk (uncredited)
Dennis the Menace
TV • 1959
Cook
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Miss Winters
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Sunny Cooper
The Donna Reed Show
TV • 1958
Mrs. Larson
Wagon Train
TV • 1957
Bessie Treymore (uncredited)
The Wonderful World of Disney
TV • 1954
Dress Shop Owner (uncredited)
The Love Boat
TV • 1977
Sister #2
Love, American Style
TV • 1969
Clerk