Kathryn Card
Acting
Born 1892-10-04
Died 1964-03-01
Butte, Montana, USA
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Kathryn Card (October 4, 1892 – March 1, 1964) was an American radio, television and film actress who may be best remembered for her role as Mrs. MacGillicuddy, Lucy's mother on I Love Lucy.
Her first screen credit was in 1945 for her role as Louise in the Corliss Archer movie Kiss and Tell, starring Shirley Temple as Corliss Archer. The next year she appeared in Undercurrent with Robert Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Robert Mitchum. Then, in 1949, Card gave an interesting albeit brief performance (uncredited) as an extremely polite but no-nonsense loan processor for prospective borrower Joan Bennett in The Reckless Moment.
On February 8, 1954, Card made her first television appearance in an episode of I Love Lucy. The installment, entitled "Fan Magazine Interview", featured Card playing a slatternly woman named Minnie Finch. The following year she was cast as a totally different character, Mrs. MacGillicuddy, Lucy's bird-brained mother. She joined the Ricardos and the Mertzes in Hollywood when Lucy's husband, Ricky Ricardo, was given the opportunity to star in a motion picture. Mrs MacGillicuddy would frequently annoy Ricky immeasurably by mistakenly calling him "Mickey" or mistaking him for his fellow bandleader Xavier Cugat. She portrayed that character in five episodes during the 1954-1955 season, and appeared in three more installments during the 1955-1956 season when the Ricardos and the Mertzes traveled to Europe. However, Card's character never appeared again once both couples moved to Connecticut in the following year. She reprised that role for the last time in one episode of The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show entitled "The Ricardos Go to Japan", which also featured guest star Robert Cummings, in 1959.
In addition to I Love Lucy, Card guest starred on several other television shows. She made two guest appearances in 1959 on Perry Mason, as Hannah Barton in "The Case of the Deadly Toy," and Harriet Snow in "The Case of the Watery Witness." Other television appearances included Make Room for Daddy, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and Rawhide. Her final film appearance was in the 1964 MGM musical The Unsinkable Molly Brown.
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Acting
55 credits
Perry Mason
Wagon Train
The Red Skelton Show
The Virginian
I Love Lucy
The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
Rawhide
Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre
Climax!
Four Star Playhouse
The Lone Ranger
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Dennis the Menace
The Ford Television Theatre
The Texan
Playhouse 90
December Bride
Trackdown
Alcoa Theatre
Broken Arrow
Screen Director's Playhouse
87th Precinct
The Thin Man
The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour
A Star Is Born
Jefferson Drum
Letter to Loretta
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Undercurrent
Born to Kill
The Damned Don't Cry
The Unsinkable Molly Brown
Walk on the Wild Side
All in a Night's Work
The Dark Past
Hollywood or Bust
The Reckless Moment
The Hucksters
Scandal Sheet
Harriet Craig
A Kiss for Corliss
Good Day for a Hanging
Period of Adjustment
That Hagen Girl
The Model and the Marriage Broker
Home Before Dark
Never Trust a Gambler
The Pride of St. Louis
It Happens Every Thursday
The Sainted Sisters
Three Daring Daughters
Remains to Be Seen
The Girl in White
Kiss and Tell
Night of Execution
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