Kathryn Card

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 Lucys 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 nononsense 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 Lucys birdbrained mother She joined the Ricardos and the Mertzes in Hollywood when Lucys 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 19541955 season and appeared in three more installments during the 19551956 season when the Ricardos and the Mertzes traveled to Europe However Cards 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 BallDesi 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