Mary Wickes : I know I've seen that face before / Steve Taravella.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taravella, Steve.

Series:

Hollywood Legends Series

Hollywood legends series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actors--United States--Biography.

Actors.

Wickes, Mary, 1910-1995.

Wickes, Mary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (413 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Jackson, MS : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.

Summary:

Moviegoers know her as the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This book, filled with never-published behind-the-scenes stories from Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles the life of a complicated woman who brought an assortment of unforgettable nurses, nuns, and housekeepers to life on screen and stage. Wickes was part of some of the most significant moments in film, television, theatre, and radio history. On that frightening night in 1938 that Orson Welles recorded his earth-shattering ""War of th

Contents:

Pardon me lady, but did you drop a fish?

From Stockbridge to the Mercury Theatre

On stage and on air

Anatomy is destiny

Miss bedpan

Los Angeles, mother in tow

Lucille Ball's best friend

Cookies and milk with mother

She kept it to herself

Mary's secret cousin

"Not an ounce" of romance

Nurses, nuns, and housekeepers

When acting is everything

Becoming the characters she played

Success returns

Physical deterioration

Fade out.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

Includes filmography.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62103-957-9

OCLC:

857916658