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

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

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 1987James Stewart: A Wonderful Life — Self (archive footage)
• The Colgate Comedy Hour — Self (uncredited)
• 1940Swing with Bing — Herself