Kathleen Freeman (February 17, 1919 - August 23, 2001) was an American film, television, and stage character actress. In a career that spanned more than fifty years, she portrayed tart maids, secretaries, teachers, busybodies, nurses, and battle-axe neighbors, almost invariably to comic effect. Wikipedia
Freeman often played belligerent landladies, beleaguered nurses, nosy neighbors, loudmouthed battle-axes and maids -- lots of maids. Indeed, in The Lucy Show , she played a harried head nurse in "Lucy Plays Florence Nightengale;" a disgruntled cook in "L www.lucyfan.com/kathleenfreeman.html
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