戴维丝生于马萨诸塞的洛厄尔，尽管很小时贝蒂就梦想成为一名演员，但她早期努力的结果却不尽人意。她因被认为“不真诚”而被伊娃·勒葛琳的曼哈顿市剧团拒之门外。后来贝蒂被约翰·默里·安德森的戏剧学校录取，从此走上星途。蓓蒂的第一次正规舞台表演是在“百老汇内外” 中，而她的...
From the grand old school of wisecracking, loud and lanky Mary Wickes had few peers while forging a career as a salty scene-stealer. Her abrupt, tell-it-like-it-is demeanor made her a consistent audience favorite on every medium for over six decades. She was particularly adroit in film parts that chided the super rich or exceptionally pious, and was a major chastiser in generation-gap comedies. TV holds a vault full of not-to-be-missed vignettes where she served as a brusque foil to many a top TV comic star. Case in point: who could possibly forget her merciless ballet taskmaster, Madame Lamond, putting Lucille Ball through her rigorous paces at the ballet bar in a classic I Love Lucy (1951) episode?
美国演员，曾出演《七分钟》、《游泳者》等。
