Mary Louise Treen
Mary Louise Treen
Trained as a dancer, Mary Treen spent the late '20s-early '30s as a leading lady in vaudeville, light opera, and musical comedy. After a handful of Vitaphone short subjects, Treen was signed to a Warner Bros. contract in 1934. She spent the bulk of her film career playing wisecracking clerks and telephone operators, or essaying "heroine's best friend" roles. Her movie assignment was the Tillie the Toiler-type role especially written for her in Paramount's I Love a Soldier (1944), though her many fans would probably nominate her performance as Cousin Tilly in the ubiquitous It's a Wonderful Life (1946). On television, Treen was a regular on the 1954 sitcom Willy, and later played Hilda the maid on The Joey Bishop Show (1962-1965). Mary Treen's final appearance before the cameras was in the 1983 made-for-TV movie Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Filmography of Mary Louise Treen:
- Kitty Foyle with Ginger Rogers , Dennis Morgan , James Craig , Eduardo Ciannelli , Ernest Cossart , Gladys Cooper , Walter Kingsford , Cecil Cunningham , Nella Walker , Kay Linaker , Florence Bates , Heather Angel , Joseph Bernard , Tyler Brooke , Spencer Charters , Gino Corrado , Max Davidson , Billy Elmer , Mary Gordon , Fay Helm , Joey Ray , Walter Sande , Ray Teal , Dorothy Vaughan , Theodore vonEltz , Doodles Weaver , Frank Mills
- The Navy Way with Robert Lowery , Jean Parker , Roscoe Karns , Robert Armstrong , Joseph Crehan , Tom Keene , Tom Tyler
- So Proudly We Hail! with Claudette Colbert , Paulette Goddard , Veronica Lake , George Reeves , Barbara Britton , Walter Abel , Sonny Tufts , James Bell , Dorothy Adams , Bill Goodwin , Jean Willes , William Forrest , James Flavin , Byron K. Foulger , Richard Crane , James Millican , Victor Kilian , Damian O'Flynn , Frances Morris , Julia Faye , Yvonne DeCarlo , Ann Doran , Edward Earle , Roy Gordon , John Litel , Harry Strang , Hank Worden , Will Wright
- It's a Wonderful Life with James Stewart , Donna Reed , Lionel Barrymore , Thomas Mitchell , Henry Travers , Beulah Bondi , Ward Bond , William Edmunds , Gloria Grahame , Sarah Edwards , Frank Faylen , Frank S. Hagney , Samuel S. Hinds , Sheldon Leonard , Larry Simms , H.B. Warner , Carl "Alfalfa" Switzer , Frank Albertson , Stanley Andrews , Al Bridge , Lane R. Chandler , Harry V. Cheshire , Ellen Corby , Dick Elliott , Tom Fadden , Eddie Fetherstone , Charles Halton , Edward Keane , John Farrell MacDonald , Bert Moorhouse , Danny Mummert , Garry Owen , Almira Sessions , Ray W. Walker , Charles Lane
- Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven with Guy Madison , Diana Lynn , James Dunn , Lionel Stander , Florence Bates , Michael Chekhov , Margaret Hamilton , Irene Ryan , Colin Campbell , Clem Bevans , Roscoe Karns , William Frawley , Erskine Sanford , James Burke , Guy Wilkerson , Audie Murphy , Tom Dugan , John Gallaudet , Jody Gilbert , Ralph Peters , Dewey Robinson , Frank Scannell , Herb Vigran , Jesse White
- The Strongest Man in the World with Kurt Russell , Joe Flynn , Eve Arden , Cesar Romero , Phil Silvers , Dick VanPatten , Harold Gould , William Schallert , Benson Fong , James Gregory , Raymond Bailey , William Bakewell , Fritz Feld , Kathleen Freeman , Milton Frome , Art Metrano , Eddie Quillan , Roy Roberts , Arthur Space , John Debney , John Myhers
- Roxie Hart with Ginger Rogers , Adolphe Menjou , George Montgomery , Lynne Overman , Nigel Bruce , Phil Silvers , Sara Allgood , William Frawley , Spring Byington , George Chandler , Charles D. Brown , Morris Ankrum , Iris Adrian , Milton Parsons , Arthur Aylesworth , Leon Belasco , Stanley Blystone , Jeff Corey , Alec Craig , Frank Darien , Philip Morris , Jack Norton , Pat O'Malley , Frank Orth , Bob Perry , James Pierce , Margaret Seddon , Lee Shumway , Billy Wayne
- Swing Parade with Leon Belasco , Edward S. Brophy , John Eldredge , Larry Fine , Russell Hicks , Moe Howard , Phil Regan , Gale Storm
- The Snake Pit with Olivia DeHavilland , Mark Stevens , Leo Genn , Celeste Holm , Glenn Langan , Leif Erickson , Beulah Bondi , Lee Patrick , Natalie Schafer , Ruth Donnelly , Frank Conroy , Minna Gombell , June Storey , Damian O'Flynn , Ann Doran , Jacqueline DeWit , Betsy Blair , Queenie Smith , Isabel Jewell , Marie Blake , Virginia Brissac , Howard Freeman , Mae Marsh , Barbara Pepper , Sid Saylor , Minerva Urecal
- The More the Merrier with Jean Arthur , Joel D. McCrea , Charles Coburn , Richard Gaines , Bruce Bennett , Frank Sully , Stanley Clements , Donald Douglas , Gladys Blake , Harry C. Bradley , Eddy Chandler , Chester Clute , Ann Doran , Harrison Greene , Frank LaRue , Kay Linaker , Robert McKenzie , Victor Potel , George H. Reed , Henry Roquemore , Ann Savage , Grady Sutton , Douglas Wood
- G-Men with James Cagney , Margaret Lindsay , Lloyd Nolan , Ann Dvorak , Robert Armstrong , Barton MacLane , William Harrigan , Russell Hopton , Noel Madison , Monte Blue , Regis Toomey , Harold Huber , Addison W. Richards , Raymond Hatton , Stanley Blystone , Ward Bond , Eddie Dunn , William "Wild Bill" Elliott , Pat Flaherty , James Flavin , Jonathan Hale , Al Hill , Edward Keane , Frank Marlowe , Edwin Maxwell , Gene Morgan , Adrian Morris , Wheeler Oakman , Frank Shannon , Charles Sherlock , Gertrude Short , Emmett Vogan , Marc Lawrence , Bruce Mitchell
- The Errand Boy with Jerry Lewis , Brian Donlevy , Howard McNear , Dick Wesson , Renee Taylor , Kathleen Freeman , Isobel Elsom , Sig Rumann , Doodles Weaver , Fritz Feld , Kenneth MacDonald , Iris Adrian , Murray Alper , Roscoe Ates , Don "Red" Barry , Dan Blocker , Harry V. Cheshire , Milton Frome , Lorne Greene , Mike Mazurki , Harry "Snub" Pollard , Pernell Roberts , Michael Ross , Frank Scannell , Herb Vigran , Dick Wessel , Dick Winslow , Richard Bakalyan , Michael Landon , Benny Rubin





