Madge Blake
Acting
Biography
Madge Blake (née Cummings; May 31, 1899 – February 19, 1969) was an American character actress best remembered for her roles as Larry Mondello's mother, Margaret Mondello, on the CBS/ABC sitcom Leave it to Beaver, as Flora MacMichael on the ABC/CBS sitcom The Real McCoys, and as Aunt Harriet Cooper in ninety-six episodes of ABC's Batman.
Born: May 31, 1899
Place of Birth: Kinsley, Kansas, USA
Known For
Singin' in the Rain
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
Fireman Save My Child
Comedy about the members of an early 1900s fire company.
The Addams Family
A satirical inversion of the ideal of the perfect American nuclear family, they are an eccentric wealthy family who delight in everything grotesque and macabre, and are never really aware that people find them bizarre or frightening. In fact, they themselves are often terrified by "normal" people.
I Love Lucy
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
I Love Lucy
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
Bewitched
Samantha Stephens is a seemingly normal suburban housewife who also happens to be a genuine witch, with all the requisite magical powers. Her husband Darrin insists that Samantha keep her witchcraft under wraps, but situations invariably require her to indulge her powers while keeping her bothersome mother Endora at bay.
The Jack Benny Program
Laugh along with funnyman Jack Benny as he brings his underplayed humor to TV along with regular performers from his radio show days.
The Baileys of Balboa
The Baileys of Balboa is an American sitcom
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show centers around the work and home life of television comedy writer Rob Petrie. The plots generally revolve around problems at work, where Rob got into various comedic jams with fellow writers Buddy Sorrell, Sally Rogers and producer Mel Cooley.
The Bad and the Beautiful
Told in flashback form, the film traces the rise and fall of a tough, ambitious Hollywood producer, Jonathan Shields, as seen through the eyes of various acquaintances, including a writer, James Lee Bartlow; a star, Georgia Lorrison; and a director, Fred Amiel. He is a hard-driving, ambitious man who ruthlessly uses everyone on the way to becoming one of Hollywood's top movie makers.
Filmography
as Self (archive footage)
as Mrs. Hardy
as Mrs. Muriel Pochek (uncredited)
as Aunt Harriet Cooper
as Middle-Aged Lady at Topless a Go-Go (uncredited)
as Meddling Train Passenger
as Aunt Harriet Cooper
as Woman
as Miriam Baxter
as Woman Tourist
as Miss Comstock
as Mary
as Mrs. Press (uncredited)
as Cora Darling
as Mrs. Winthrop
as Mother Goose
as Woman Driver
as Mrs. Parent (uncredited)
as Dodo
as Nurse Helen Phipps
as Mrs. Barnes
as Mrs. Edgar Bentley
as Mrs. Porter
as journalist
as Mrs. Carlson
as Mrs. Margaret Mondello
as Flora MacMichael
as Emily Davis
as Woman At Theatrical Meeting (uncredited)
as TV Commentator (uncredited)
as Jenny
as Aunt Martha
as Mrs. Stamper (uncredited)
as Mrs. Hildegarde Grier (uncredited)
as Florence Patterson
as Mrs. Bowman in Hotel (uncredited)
as Mrs. McIntosh (uncredited)
as Mrs. Spencer - Fire Commissioner's Wife
as Mrs. Cahill
as Edna Roberts
as Amy Nelson
as Aunt Anastacia
as Investor (uncredited)
as Ship's Passenger (uncredited)
as Fat Lady
as Mrs. Rosser (uncredited)
as Mrs. Cuny
as Mrs. Morrissey
as Bystander
as Jane Vance (uncredited)
as Dora Bailey (uncredited)
as o.A.
as Mrs. Mulford
as Martha (uncredited)
as Old Lady
as Edna Mae Bestram (uncredited)
as Mrs. Emily Thompson (uncredited)
as Mrs. Kimpel
as Landlady (Uncredited)
as Martha Gilvray
as Police Station Witness (uncredited)
as Clara - Fan Club President
as Mrs. Mallory
as Mrs. Bonner - Adam's Mother (uncredited)
as Opera Chorus Member (uncredited)