Download PDF by Steve Taravella: Mary Wickes: I Know I've Seen That Face Before (Hollywood

Moviegoers be aware of her because the housekeeper in White Christmas, the nurse in Now, Voyager, and the crotchety choir director in Sister Act. This ebook, jam-packed with never-published behind-the-scenes tales from Broadway and Hollywood, chronicles the lifetime of a sophisticated lady who introduced an collection of unforgettable nurses, nuns, and housekeepers to lifestyles on monitor and stage.

Wickes (1910�1995) used to be a part of one of the most major moments in movie, tv, theatre, and radio background. On that scary evening in 1938 whilst Orson Welles recorded his earth-shattering �War of the Worlds� radio broadcast, Wickes was once ready on one other soundstage for him for a practice session of Danton�s Death, oblivious to the havoc occurring outside.

When silent movie celebrity Gloria Swanson determined to host a dwell speak exhibit in this new factor known as tv, Wickes used to be one among her first visitors. whilst Lucille Ball made one in every of her first television appearances, Wickes seemed with her�and turned Lucy�s closest pal for greater than thirty years. Wickes was once the unique Mary Poppins, lengthy prior to an umbrella carried Julie Andrews around the rooftops of London. And while Disney all started developing 101 Dalmatians, Wickes was once requested to pose for animators attempting to catch the evil of Cruella De Vil.

The pinched-face actress who cracked clever via day turned a confidante to a few of the day�s greatest stars by means of evening, together with Bette Davis and Doris Day. strengthened by way of interviews with virtually 300 humans, and by means of deepest correspondence from Ball, Davis, Day, and others, Mary Wickes: i do know I�ve obvious That Face Before comprises rankings of never-before-shared anecdotes approximately Hollywood and Broadway. within the method, it introduces readers to a posh girl who sustained a impressive profession for sixty years.