Madge Blake (May 31, 1899 – February 19, 1969) was an American character actress most famous for her role as Aunt Harriet Cooper on ABC's Batman TV series of the 1960s.
Her father, Albert, was a Methodist minister and discouraged her entry into acting. As such, she stayed out of acting until later in life and performed such jobs as testing equipment destined for the Manhattan Project. Though she was five years his senior, Blake was the niece of a...
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Madge Blake (May 31, 1899 – February 19, 1969) was an American character actress most famous for her role as Aunt Harriet Cooper on ABC's Batman TV series of the 1960s.
Her father, Albert, was a Methodist minister and discouraged her entry into acting. As such, she stayed out of acting until later in life and performed such jobs as testing equipment destined for the Manhattan Project. Though she was five years his senior, Blake was the niece of actor Milburn Stone. She took advantage of his influence to help her land acting roles. In the middle 1950s, she appeared on Rod Cameron's City Detective crime drama and in Ray Milland's sitcom, Meet Mr. McNutley, renamed in the second season as The Ray Milland Show.
In addition to her Batman role, Blake portrayed the baffled Margaret Mondello, mother of Larry Mondello (played by Rusty Stevens) on Leave It to Beaver (1957), gushy gossip columnist Dora Bailey in Singin' in the Rain (1952), and was a model for one of the fairies in Disney's...
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