The title of actress Mary Wicke’s biography is comic and tragically true; a woman whose face you remember, but have difficulty placing her. When I started describing Wickes to my mother, she immediately believed that Wickes played Mrs. Kravitz on Bewitched. I had to laugh as author Steve Tar read more
You know how sometimes you read something, and then something tangentially related to what you’ve only recently finished reading pops up somewhere, and you think, “My, that’s an odd coincidence?” That was the feeling I had earlier when I caught sight of an LA Times article read more
Mary Wickes: I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before
Steve Taravella
Release Date: June 1, 2013
University of Mississippi Press
Hardcover, 370 pages Throughout a seven-decade career in show business, Mary Wickes was a welcome and hilarious presence in hundreds of movies, television series and films, read more
Born June 13, 1910 Character Actress Mary Wickes!
Character Actress Mary Wickes appeared in over 130 roles, playing lots of busybodies, nurses, housekeepers and nuns. Some of my favorite Mary Wickes roles? Well there’s lots, but for a start: Nurse Pickford in Now Voyager, Nurse Preen i read more
By all accounts, Mary Wickes did not start out her life with the intention to become an actress. She was a St. Louis debutante who attended college early, graduating from Washington University in St. Louis with a degree in political science with plans to attend law school–that is, until she ga read more
Mary Wickes
I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before
by Steve Taravella
University Press of Mississippi
Hardcover ISBN: 9781604739053
370 pages
May 2013
Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells
“Mary was one of the most recognizable character actresses in the United States. Though the read more
Mary Wickes
I Know I’ve Seen That Face Before
by Steve Taravella
University Press of Mississippi
Hardcover ISBN: 9781604739053
370 pages
May 2013
Amazon — Barnes and Noble — Powells
“Mary was one of the most recognizable character actresses in the United States. Though the read more
