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Kathryn Card

Kathryn Card

Actor · 1892 – 1964 · Butte, Montana, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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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  • Movie7.1

    A Star Is Born

    1954 · 339 votes

  • Movie5.9

    Undercurrent

    1946 · 53 votes

  • Movie6.6

    Walk on the Wild Side

    1962 · 72 votes

  • Movie5.7
  • Movie6.0

    All in a Night's Work

    1961 · 22 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Damned Don't Cry

    1950 · 63 votes

  • Movie5.3

    That Hagen Girl

    1947 · 10 votes

  • Movie6.4

    Good Day for a Hanging

    1959 · 16 votes

  • Movie6.7

    Born to Kill

    1947 · 93 votes

  • Movie5.8

    A Kiss for Corliss

    1949 · 5 votes

  • Movie6.8

    Two of a Kind

    1951 · 13 votes

  • Movie6.5
  • Movie6.8

    The Reckless Moment

    1949 · 141 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Remains to Be Seen

    1953 · 4 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Scandal Sheet

    1952 · 69 votes

  • Movie6.2

    Hollywood or Bust

    1956 · 79 votes

  • Movie6.0

    The Dark Past

    1948 · 41 votes

  • Movie6.0

    Period of Adjustment

    1962 · 22 votes

  • Movie5.6

    Never Trust a Gambler

    1951 · 7 votes

  • Movie6.2
  • Movie7.1

    The Girl in White

    1952 · 6 votes

  • Movie7.0

    The Hucksters

    1947 · 21 votes

  • Movie7.0

    Home Before Dark

    1958 · 23 votes

  • Movie5.3

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  • TV7.7

    Perry Mason

    1957 · 139 votes

  • TV7.4

    The Red Skelton Show

    1951 · 19 votes

  • TV6.6

    Wagon Train

    1957 · 31 votes

  • TV7.8

    Alfred Hitchcock Presents

    1955 · 265 votes

  • TV6.8

    Four Star Playhouse

    1952 · 11 votes

  • TV6.5

    The Virginian

    1962 · 35 votes

  • TV3.8

    Climax!

    1954 · 12 votes

  • TV7.9

    I Love Lucy

    1951 · 264 votes

  • TV7.2

    Rawhide

    1959 · 49 votes

  • TV6.2
  • TV7.3
  • TV7.8
  • TV6.8

    The Lone Ranger

    1949 · 36 votes

  • TV6.0

    The Texan

    1958 · 6 votes

  • TV6.3

    December Bride

    1954 · 4 votes

  • TV6.6

    Dennis the Menace

    1959 · 33 votes

  • TV7.0

    Alcoa Theatre

    1957 · 7 votes

  • TV6.9

    Trackdown

    1957 · 8 votes

  • TV7.8

    87th Precinct

    1961 · 5 votes

  • TV7.5

    Playhouse 90

    1956 · 10 votes

  • TV7.0
  • TV6.6

    Letter to Loretta

    1953 · 7 votes

  • TV4.6

    Cavalcade of America

    1952 · 5 votes

  • TV6.5

    Broken Arrow

    1956 · 6 votes