Definition of Mary wickes

Wickes was born as Mary Isabella Wickenhauser in St. Louis, Missouri of German and Irish Protestant extraction. She was a member of Phi Mu women's fraternity. She began acting in films in the late 1930s, and was also a member of the Orson Welles troupe on his radio drama Mercury Theatre of the Air. One of her earliest significant film appearances was in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), reprising her stage role of "Nurse Preen".