Kathryn Card Trailers
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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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01 November 1951
A marriage broker can't resist meddling in the life of a model, with disastrous results.
15 May 1953
A singer and her apartment manager get mixed up in a creepy Park Avenue murder and find themselves facing danger at every turn.
19 July 1952
A good-hearted nurse gets mixed up with a millionaire who could help her hospital.
01 October 1954
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.
04 October 1945
Film adaptation of the Broadway hit, about the comic mayhem that erupts in a small town when a 15-year old high-schooler (Shirley Temple) is wrongly suspected of being pregnant.
30 April 1948
Two female con artists from New York City, fleeing the law with money from their latest scam, hide out in a small town in Maine, near the Canadian border.
15 March 1961
After the sudden death of magazine publisher Colonel Ryder, his nephew, Tony inherits the magazine and has big plans to expand it.
06 December 1956
The last movie with Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin together, is a satire of the life in Hollywood. Steve Wiley is a deceiver who cheats Malcolm Smith when he wins a car, claiming that he won it too.
11 June 1964
The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life—a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world.
21 February 1962
At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam.
11 November 1946
After a rapid engagement, a dowdy daughter of a chemist weds an industrialist, knowing little of his family or past.
01 January 1959
When the local sheriff is killed after a bank robbery, ex-lawman Ben Cutler collars the apparent killer, Eddie Campbell.
17 July 1947
A World War II veteran wants to return to advertising on his own terms, but finds it difficult to be successful and maintain his integrity.
02 November 1950
A perfectionist woman's devotion to her home drives away friends and family.
31 March 1960
Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apartment to an old house in the country.
29 June 1950
A captain tries to keep home as tight as his ship.
09 December 1949
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
22 December 1948
A gang hold a family hostage in their own home. The leader of the escaped cons is bothered by a recurring dream that the doctor of the house may be able to analyze.
22 April 1953
New York reporter Bob MacAvoy is persuaded by pregnant wife Jane to buy a broken-down weekly newspaper in Eden, California.
13 May 1950
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
13 February 1958
An airliner flying nonstop at night from Miami to New York fails to check in, then disappears from radar.
01 November 1947
Mary Hagen lives in a small town in Ohio and goes to Jordon Junior College. For years, there has been whispers, rumors and gossip about who are her real parents.
16 November 1958
A young woman returns home after being institutionalized in a mental hospital.
31 October 1962
A newlywed couple on their honeymoon visit friends who are having marital problems of their own.
16 January 1952
A tabloid editor assigns a young reporter to solve a murder the editor committed himself.
13 July 1951
A small-time gambler on the run from the law hides in his ex-wife's house.
30 April 1947
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with a hotheaded murderer.
02 May 1952
The story of Jerome "Dizzy" Dean, a major-league baseball pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago Cubs in the 1930s and 1940s.
23 May 1952
The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills.
25 November 1949
After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decides to write in her diary that they are together in order to make her boyfriend Dexter jealous.
01 April 1960
Director Paul Wendkos' 1960 film adaptation of the controversial novel "Harrison High", about an idealistic young high-school teacher dealing with over-sexed and troubled teenagers, is notable for its casting of newcomer Dick Clark in the starring role.
01 July 1951
A con woman and a lawyer get a carnival grifter to pose as an elderly rich couple's long-lost son.
12 February 1948
Three young girls try to help their divorced mother find the right husband.
22 September 1955
A woman is forced to leave her marriage by her violent, over-bearing husband whose objective is to train their young son to follow his evil footsteps.
