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Maudie Prickett (October 25, 1914 – April 14, 1976) was an American film and television character actress. ==Career== Born in Portland, Oregon, Prickett often portrayed maids, busybodies, spinsters, and nosy neighbors. She made ten appearances as recurring character Rosie, a maid, in the 1960s NBC sit-com ''Hazel'' starring Shirley Booth, Don DeFore, Whitney Blake, and Bobby Buntrock. One of her most notable film appearances was as a maid named Elsie at the Plaza Hotel in New York City in Alfred Hitchcock's ''North by Northwest'' in 1959. Other television credits include nine appearances as Ms. Gordon on CBS's ''The Jack Benny Program'' and five appearances as various characters on ABC's ''Bewitched''. In 1959, she played a secretary, Miss Sanders, to the Howard McNear character, Wilbur Wilgus, on ABC sitcom, ''The Donna Reed Show''. Prickett played Alice MacAvity in 1954 in the NBC sitcom ''It's a Great Life'', featuring Frances Bavier. She guest-starred in the 1957-1958 NBC sitcom ''Sally'', starring Joan Caulfield, and on CBS's ''Dennis the Menace'', with Jay North. She appeared as a dentist's secretary in the episode "The Dentist" on another CBS sitcom, ''Angel'', starring Annie Fargé. Parley Baer played Dr. Mathews in the episode. Prickett appeared in 1962 in the short-lived ABC/Warner Brothers sitcom, ''Room for One More'', starring Andrew Duggan, and played a regular character in 1966 on the even more short-lived ''Tammy Grimes Show''. Prickett was cast in the 1950s westerns ''The Adventures of Kit Carson'' and ''26 Men'', true stories of the Arizona Rangers. She portrayed Miss Taisy, Lois Lane's nurse in the classic ''Adventures of Superman'' series starring George Reeves and Phyllis Coates. She also appeared in several episodes of The Andy Griffith Show as Mrs. Edna Larch, as well as Myrtle on Mayberry R.F.D. In 1965 she appeared on Get Smart as Maxwell Smart's Aunt Bertha in the episode "My Nephew the Spy". In 1970 she played the role of Mrs. Thelma Benstead, a rental house landlord on the television series Dragnet. One of her later appearances was in 1974 in Jeanette Nolan's short-lived CBS western series, ''Dirty Sally''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Maudie Prickett」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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