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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Lurene Tuttle (August 29, 1907, Pleasant Lake, Indiana - May 28, 1986, Encino, California) was a character actress, who made transitions from vaudeville to radio, to films and television. Her most enduring impact was as one of network radio's most versatile actresses. Often appearing in 15 shows a week, comedies, dramas, thrillers, soap operas, and crime dramas, and she became known as the First Lady of Radio. Heaven Only Knows (1947) was her first film. She went on to roles in other films such as Orson Welles's Macbeth (1948), Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948) and Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), as the wife of Sheriff Chambers. In Don't Bother to Knock (1952) she portrayed a mother who lets a disturbed Marilyn Monroe babysit her daughter. The next year she appeared again with Marilyn in Niagara, as Mrs. Kettering. She had a rare starring role in Ma Barker's Killer Brood (1960). She played Grandma Pusser in the original Walking Tall film trilogy, and also appeared in horror films such as The Manitou (1978), starring Tony Curtis. Her final film role was in the 1983 film Testament. Tuttle became a familiar face to millions of television viewers with more than 100 appearances from 1950 to 1986, often in the role of an inquisitive busybody. On television and in films, Tuttle streamlined herself into a pattern of roles between wise, loving wives/mothers or bristling matrons. She was familiar to the early television audience as wife/mother Lavinia (Vinnie) Day in Life with Father (1953–1955). Columnist Hedda Hopper called the selection of Leon Ames as Father and Tuttle as Mother "what I consider 22 carat casting with two all-Americans." Description above from the Wikipedia article Lurene Tuttle, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
as Mildred Phelps
as Mrs. Hunt
as Rosemary Abhart
as Mrs. Brand
as Mollie Heller
as Miss Watson
as Aunt Em (voice)
as Blanche
as Carlton's Mother (voice)
as Mrs. McIntyre
as Granny
as Anna Noble
as Mrs. Herz
as Grandma
as Mrs. Brian O'Malley, Sr.
as Grandma Pusser
as Mildred Phelps
as Duck's Mother (Voice)
as Duck's Mother (voice)
as Leona
as Betty Simpson
as Mrs. Lee
as Grandma
as Mother Hinkle
as Mrs. Natalie Miller
as David's Grandmother
as Gideon's wife
as Mother in Sisters Three
as Mrs. Chambers
as Ma Barker
as Meteora the Goddess of Weather
as Loretta Bartha (uncredited)
as Judge Cecilia Steele Tropp
as Mrs. Doyle
as Mrs. McGinley
as Cousin Loulou
as Mrs. Doolittle
as Mrs. Armstrong
as Mrs. Eleanor Hammer
as Mrs. Kettering
as Murchinson
as Ruth Jones
as Miss Kenyon
as Molly Loomis
as Mrs. Dawson
as Ellen Griswold
as Secretary (uncredited)
as Gentlewoman / The Three
as Miss Stoker
as Mrs. O'Donnell
as Mammy Yocum / Daisy Mae (voice)
as Girl Lead in Movie (voice) (uncredited)
as Stenographer
