Angela Clarke August 14 1909 December 16 2010 was an American stage television and film actress Clarke appeared in over thirty films throughout her fortyyear career usually in bit parts or in background roles uncredited Films in which she made a large impression included The Seven Little Foys in which she played a large supporting role as Bob Hopes disapproving sisterinlaw House of Wax A Double Life The Gunfighter and The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima Clarke despite entering the film business in her early forties in 1949s The Undercover Man cornered the market for greyhaired matriarchal motherlytypes such as her role as Mama Caruso in The Great Caruso Source Wikipedia