Mary Treen


Actor
Mary Treen

About

Also Known As
Mary Lou Treen
Birth Place
St Louis, Missouri, USA
Born
March 27, 1907
Died
July 20, 1989
Cause of Death
Cancer

Biography

Dancer from revues and the vaudeville circuit who broke into films in 1934. In more than 100 films, Treen provided comic relief as plain-looking working-class working women--shopgirls, waitresses and cashiers. She appeared on TV as regular on the series "Willy" (1954-55) and "The Joey Bishop Show" (1962-65)....

Biography

Dancer from revues and the vaudeville circuit who broke into films in 1934. In more than 100 films, Treen provided comic relief as plain-looking working-class working women--shopgirls, waitresses and cashiers. She appeared on TV as regular on the series "Willy" (1954-55) and "The Joey Bishop Show" (1962-65).

Filmography

 

Cast (Feature Film)

Wait Till Your Mother Gets Home! (1983)
Paradise--Hawaiian Style (1966)
Mrs. Belden
Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Mattress customer
The Errand Boy (1961)
All in a Night's Work (1961)
Miss Schuster
Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
Housewife
Ada (1961)
Clubwoman
Don't Give Up the Ship (1959)
Child's mother
Career (1959)
Marie
Rock-a-Bye Baby (1958)
Nurse
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Mrs. Bradley
The Joker Is Wild (1957)
Heckler
The Sad Sack (1957)
Sgt. Hansen
Public Pigeon No. 1 (1957)
Mrs. Bates
Gun Duel in Durango (1957)
Spinster [Miss Henderson]
Hold That Hypnotist (1957)
Maid
The Birds and the Bees (1956)
Mrs. Burnside
When Gangland Strikes (1956)
Emily Parsons
Calling Homicide (1956)
Flo Burton
Bundle of Joy (1956)
Matron
The Eternal Sea (1955)
Admitting nurse
The Caddy (1953)
Let's Do It Again (1953)
Nelly
Clipped Wings (1953)
Mildred
The Great Jesse James Raid (1953)
Mrs. Angus
The Stooge (1953)
Miss Reagan
Dreamboat (1952)
Herman's wife
Sailor Beware (1952)
Ginger
Room for One More (1952)
Mrs. Roberts
Young Daniel Boone (1950)
Helen Bryan
The Fuller Brush Girl (1950)
Glitter woman
And Baby Makes Three (1949)
Mrs. Bennett
The Snake Pit (1948)
Nurse
Let's Live a Little (1948)
Miss Adams
A Likely Story (1947)
Nurse
Merton of the Movies (1947)
Receptionist
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Cousin Tilly
Swing Parade of 1946 (1946)
Marie [Finch]
Strange Impersonation (1946)
Nurse
From This Day Forward (1946)
Alice Beesley
A Guy Could Change (1946)
Grace Conley
One Exciting Week (1946)
Mabel Taylor
She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)
Passenger
Don Juan Quilligan (1945)
Lucy Blake
High Powered (1945)
Cassie McQuade
Blonde from Brooklyn (1945)
Diane Peabody
The Navy Way (1944)
Agnes
Casanova Brown (1944)
Monica Case
Hands Across the Border (1944)
Sophie Lawrence
Tahiti Nights (1944)
Mata
Swing in the Saddle (1944)
Addie LaTour
I Love a Soldier (1944)
Cecelia "Cissy" Grant
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
Fan
Flight for Freedom (1943)
Newspaper woman
They Got Me Covered (1943)
Helen
So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
Lieut. Sadie Schwartz
The Powers Girl (1943)
Nancy
Hit Parade of 1943 (1943)
Janie
Mystery Broadcast (1943)
Smitty
Lady Bodyguard (1943)
Miss Tracy
The More the Merrier (1943)
Waitress
Roxie Hart (1942)
Secretary
Between Us Girls (1942)
Marybelle
The Great Man's Lady (1942)
Persis
They All Kissed the Bride (1942)
Susie Johnson
The Night Before the Divorce (1942)
Olga
Stand by All Networks (1942)
Nora Cassidy
My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
Dawn
True to the Army (1942)
Mae
Ship Ahoy (1942)
Nurse
Pacific Blackout (1942)
The Flame of New Orleans (1941)
Father Takes a Wife (1941)
Secretary
You Belong to Me (1941)
Doris
Pacific Blackout (1941)
Irene
Tall, Dark and Handsome (1941)
Martha
Danger on Wheels (1940)
Esme
Double Alibi (1940)
Switchboard operator
Kitty Foyle (1940)
Pat
Black Diamonds (1940)
Nina Norton
Girl in 313 (1940)
Jenny
Dulcy (1940)
Telephone girl
Queen of the Mob (1940)
Nurse, Bert's baby
For Love or Money (1939)
Maid [Amy]
First Love (1939)
Barbara's maid [Agnes]
When Tomorrow Comes (1939)
Waitress
Honolulu (1939)
Gwen
I'll Give a Million (1938)
Girl
Always Goodbye (1938)
Kentucky Moonshine (1938)
"Sugar" Hatfield
Young Fugitives (1938)
Kathy
Strange Faces (1938)
Lorry May
Swing It, Sailor! (1938)
Gertie Burns
Sally, Irene and Mary (1938)
Miss Barkow
Rascals (1938)
Patient
Change of Heart (1938)
Stenographer
Ever Since Eve (1937)
Employment clerk
Second Honeymoon (1937)
Elsie
Talent Scout (1937)
Janet Morris
Dance Charlie Dance (1937)
Jennie Wolfe
God's Country and the Woman (1937)
Miss Flint
Marry the Girl (1937)
Nurse
The Go Getter (1937)
Mrs. [Mary] Blair
Missing Witness (1937)
Oriole Gadsby
Maid of Salem (1937)
Susy Abbott
They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
Saxe
The Golden Arrow (1936)
Secretary
The Golden Arrow (1936)
Secretary
Jailbreak (1936)
Gladys Joy
Murder by an Aristocrat (1936)
Florrie
Down the Stretch (1936)
Nurse
The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936)
Margaret Brody
Brides Are Like That (1936)
Jennie [Baldwin]
Fugitive in the Sky (1936)
Agatha Ormsby
The Captain's Kid (1936)
Libby
Love Begins at Twenty (1936)
Alice Gillingwater
Freshman Love (1936)
Squirmy
Snowed Under (1936)
Secretary
Colleen (1936)
Miss Hively
Public Enemy's Wife (1936)
Operator
Cain and Mabel (1936)
Cashier
The Singing Kid (1936)
Secretary
Stage Struck (1936)
Clerk
Front Page Woman (1935)
Nurse
Maybe It's Love (1935)
Traveling Saleslady (1935)
Miss Wells
I Found Stella Parish (1935)
Sob sister
A Night at the Ritz (1935)
Isabelle
I Live for Love (1935)
Clementine <I>"Rudy Vallee`s Protege</I>"
Red Hot Tires (1935)
Maggie
Shipmates Forever (1935)
Cowboy's girl
Page Miss Glory (1935)
Beauty operator
Don't Bet on Blondes (1935)
Switchboard operator
The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
Mrs. Spudsey
Miss Pacific Fleet (1935)
'G' Men (1935)
Secretary
Sweet Music (1935)
Dangerous (1935)
Nurse
The Girl from 10th Avenue (1935)
Broadway Gondolier (1935)
The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
Girl in telegraph office
Happiness Ahead (1934)
Girl
Babbitt (1934)
Miss McGoun
Jimmy the Gent (1934)
Nurse
Sweet Adeline (1934)

Cast (Special)

Doc (1969)
Last Stagecoach West (1954)
Miss Feeney (Guest)

Cast (Short)

Soaring Stars (1942)
Rodeo Dough (1940)
Rhumba Rhythm at the Hollywood La Conga (1939)
Happily Buried (1939)
Dad for a Day (1938)
A Day at Santa Anita (1937)
Herself

Life Events

1934

Screen acting debut, "Happiness Ahead"

1954

Regular on TV series, "Willy"

Videos

Movie Clip

Trailer

God's Country and the Woman - (Original Trailer) A lady lumberjack falls for one of her workers, not realizing it's a business rival in disguise in God's Country and the Woman (1937).
Girl From Tenth Avenue, The - (Original Trailer) A working girl (Bette Davis) reforms an alcoholic lawyer (Ian Hunter) who was recently dumped. Now on track, his ex wants him back in The Girl From Tenth Avenue (1935).
Fugitive in the Sky - (Original Trailer) A flight carrying government agents and gangsters must land in a dust storm in Fugitive In The Sky (1936).
Freshman Love - (Original Trailer) A college coach (Frank McHugh) uses a beautiful blonde to woo athletes into joining his team in Freshman Love (1936).
Dulcy - (Original Trailer) Ann Sothern plays Dulcy (1940), the scatterbrained beauty who tries to help her fiance's career by throwing a big party.
Down the Stretch - (Original Trailer) A disgraced jockey's son (Mickey Rooney) fights to clear the family name in Down the Stretch (1936).
Dance, Charlie, Dance - (Original Trailer) A gullible "angel" sinks money into a doomed play in Dance, Charlie, Dance (1937).
Clipped Wings - (Original Trailer) The Bowery Boys join the air force and almost turn it into a fly-by-night organization in Clipped Wings (1953).
Captain's Kid, The - (Original Trailer) A sea captain (Guy Kibbee) has to live up to the tall tales he tells a little girl (Sybil Jason) when he's attacked by gangsters.
Broadway Gondolier - (Original Trailer) Joan Blondell and Adolphe Menjou cut up with Frank McHugh in the trailer for the "radio romance" Broadway Gondolier (1935).
Brides Are Like That - (Original Trailer) A young man uses flattery to beat out a romantic rival in Brides Are Like That (1936).
Babbitt - (Original Trailer) Guy Kibbee is prefectly cast as Sinclair Lewis' small-town businessman, Babbitt (1934).

Family

James W Sullivan
Cousin
TV art director.

Bibliography