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Martha Wentworth standing at center in The Stranger (1946)
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Born |
Verna Martha Wentworth June 2, 1889 New York City, New York, U.S. |
Died | March 8, 1974 Sherman Oaks, California, U.S. |
(aged 84)
Years active | 1920s-1963 |
Verna Martha Wentworth (June 2, 1889 – March 8, 1974) was an American actress.
Having had a long radio career since the early 1920s, listeners recognised her as The Wintergreen Witch on The Cinnamon Bear radio program (1937), Annie Wood and Mrs. Littlefield on Crime Classics (1953), Ma Danields on The Gallant Heart (1944), as well several semi-regular roles on Broadway Is My Beat, On Stage, and The Abbott and Costello Show.
She later became a film actress in the 1940s, starring in several Red Ryder Western films. She worked as a voice artist for Walt Disney Studios; as Nanny, Queenie the Cow and Lucy the Goose in One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) and as Madame Mim in The Sword in the Stone (1963), her final credited film appearance. She died in 1974 at age 84.