生于芝加哥,匈牙利贵族后裔,原名弗朗西斯卡·米茨·格伯。4岁时即随芭蕾舞演员母亲登台演出,12岁进入洛杉矶轻歌剧院芭蕾舞团。1948年参加电视连续剧的演出,两年后登上银幕,以优美的舞姿主演了福斯公司不少歌舞片。1954年与演员经理人杰克·比恩结婚后,在派拉蒙等影片公司与吉恩·凯...
演员,编剧,矿工的儿子,在家里的15个孩子中是唯一念完高中的。二战期间是轰炸机上的机枪手,退伍後去学习美术,并在一间演出公司当布景设计师,偶尔也演出一些小角色。49年开始在好莱坞的电影和电视剧中演一些坏蛋角色,因情况一直未见好转.不得已在68年离开美国,转往欧洲打天下,不料却成为...
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?