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

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...

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Main Author: Taravella, Steve (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Series:Hollywood legends series.
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505 0 |a 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. 
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