Lurene Tuttle

 Lurene Tuttle (August 29, 1907 – May 28, 1986)

Tuttle was a character actress and acting coach, who made the transition from vaudeville to radio, and later films and television. Her most enduring impact was as one of network radio's more versatile actresses. Tuttle's radio debut came in 1936 when she appeared on Hollywood Hotel with Dick Powell. Despite having never performed before a microphone, Tuttle's audition won her a three-year contract with the program. Thirteen years later, one newspaper columnist called her "quite possibly the most-heard woman in America." Tuttle guest starred on the NBC radio police series Dragnet, starring Jack Webb, Lux Radio Theater, The Screen Guild Theater and Suspense, in the episode "The Sisters", with Rosalind Russell. In The Whistler, she played good and evil twins and used separate microphones to stay in character for each twin. Tuttle became a familiar face to millions of television viewers with more than 100 appearances from 1950 to 1986.

She made appearances on such shows as : Leave It to Beaver, The Bob Cummings Show, The Ann Sothern Show, Pete and Gladys, The Andy Griffith Show, Hazel, General Electric Theater, Switch, and Fantasy Island, among others. She became a respected acting coach and teacher—something she had always done, even at the height of her acting career. She was married twice, and had one child. Tuttle died from cancer at age 78 on May 28, 1986. She is buried at Forest Lawn-Glendale.