Mabel Albertson
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Mabel Albertson on an episode of The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
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Mabel Ida Albertson July 24, 1901 Haverhill, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Died | September 28, 1982 (aged 81) Santa Monica, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Complications of Alzheimer's disease |
| Resting place | Ashes scattered at the Pacific Ocean |
| Education | New England School of Speech and Expression |
| Occupation | Actress |
| Years active | 1928–1975 |
| Television | Bewitched (1964-1971) |
| Spouse(s) | Harold Austin Ripley (divorced) Ken Englund (1937–1950; separated) |
| Children | 2, including George Englund (b. 1926) |
| Relatives | Jack Albertson (younger brother) Anabel Englund (great-granddaughter) |
Mabel Ida Albertson (July 24, 1901 – September 28, 1982) was an American actress.
Mabel Ida Albertson was born on July 24, 1901, in Haverhill, Massachusetts, to Flora Craft and Leopold Albertson, who were Russian-born Jewish immigrants. Her younger brother was actor Jack Albertson. Albertson's mother, a stock actress, supported the family by working in a shoe factory.
Albertson graduated from the New England School of Speech and Expression.
Albertson traced her show business career back to age 13, when she was paid $5 per performance to play piano behind palm trees for a reader. She later moved to California and became involved with the Pasadena Playhouse.
She "moved directly into professional stage work in stock, vaudeville, and night clubs, appearing with Jimmy Durante."
Albertson was best known for her role as Phyllis Stephens, Darrin's neurotic, interfering mother, on the television sitcom Bewitched, who invariably ended her stays at the Stephens' home by saying to her husband, "Frank, take me home. I have a sick headache." She appeared in at least one episode of the courtroom drama series, Perry Mason: as Carrie Wilson in the season 6, 1962 episode entitled "The Case of the Hateful Hero". Albertson also guest starred as character Agnes Daly, the mother of Marilyn's would-be suitor, in the "Munster Masquerade" episode of The Munsters, which aired Sep 24, 1964.
Albertson played the mother of Barbara Whiting Smith and Margaret Whiting in Those Whiting Girls. She also played Susannah's mother in Accidental Family, Alice's mother in Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice, Donald Hollinger's mother on That Girl, Irene Brady in The Tom Ewell Show,Howard Sprague's mother on The Andy Griffith Show, Miss Ramsey on Hazel, Mrs. White on The Lucy Show episode Lucy and the Missing Stamp, and Dick Van Dyke's mother on The New Dick Van Dyke Show.
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