Harriet MacGibbon

Harriet MacGibbon (October 5, 1905 – February 8, 1987)

MacGibbon was a stage, film, and television actress best known for her role as Mrs. Margaret Drysdale on The Beverly Hillbillies. She had a long and distinguished career on the Broadway stage, beginning in 1925 at the age of nineteen when she acted in the play Beggar on Horseback at the Shubert Theater. In the late 1930s, she did You Can't Take It With You, the Pulitzer Prize winning comedy, at the Biltmore Theater in Downtown Los Angeles. From 1934 to 1937, MacGibbon portrayed Lucy Kent on the NBC radio soap opera Home Sweet Home. Her film debut was a non-speaking bit as a snooty woman walking a dog across a golf course in W.C. Fields' first talkie, The Golf Specialist (1930). She made numerous guest appearances on television starting in 1950, including Bewitched, Ray Milland's sitcom Meet Mr. McNutley, and My Three Sons. She also appeared in Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962), which was directed by Vincente Minnelli. She was married twice, and had one son. MacGibbon died from heart an lung failure at age 81. Her body was cremated and interred at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills.