Marjorie Lord

 Marjorie Lord (July 26, 1918 – November 28, 2015)

She played Kathy "Clancy" O'Hara Williams, opposite Danny Thomas's character on The Danny Thomas Show and later Make Room for Granddaddy. In 1935, at the age of 16, Lord made her Broadway debut in The Old Maid with Judith Anderson. Her other Broadway appearances came in Signature (1945), Little Brown Jug (1946), and The Girl in the Freudian Slip (1967). Although most of Lord's success came in television, she said in 1963: "I am primarily a stage actress. That's what I was trained to do and that's my first love." In the 1970s, Lord was active in dinner theater productions, spending 34 weeks in such presentations in 1973 alone. Lord was signed by RKO Radio Pictures in 1935. While appearing in Springtime for Henry with Edward Everett Horton, director Henry Koster approached her and signed her to a contract with Universal Studios. She appeared in six feature films and a film serial The Adventures of Smilin' Jack for Universal. Her film work includes a number of wartime pictures, including the 1943 mystery Sherlock Holmes in Washington, starring Basil Rathbone in the title role. She also appeared in the western films Masked Raiders, Mexican Manhunt and Down Laredo Way. In 1966, she played Mrs. Martha Meade, the wife of Bob Hope's character in the screwball comedy Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! Lord remained active beyond her 90th birthday. On May 8, 2008, she participated in a "Salute to Television Moms" panel discussion organized by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Lord died on November 28, 2015, aged 97, at her home in Beverly Hills, California of natural causes.