Harriet MacGibbon

Harriet Elizabeth MacGibbon<ref name="HEM+WRK">United Press (September 3, 1930). "Pair Given Waiver to Go On with Wedding". Camden Courier-Post. p. 9. Retrieved July 2, 2023.</ref><ref name="BC">"Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates, 1871-1949", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:Q239-ZR6N : 5 October 2022), Harriet Elizabeth MacGibbon, 1943.</ref> (October 5, 1905<ref name="RP: TBS"/><ref name="BC"/> – February 8, 1987)<ref name="THRobit"/> was an American film, stage and television actress best known for her role as the insufferably snobbish, "blue-blooded Bostonian" Mrs. Margaret Drysdale in the sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.

Career

MacGibbon joined the stock company of Edward Clarke Lilley at Akron, Ohio. She then went to San Francisco and played leading roles for Henry Duffy. In Louisville, Kentucky, she acted with Wilton Lackaye, Edmund Breese, William Faversham, Tom Wise and Nance O'Neil. Credits included Ned McCobb's Daughter, The Front Page, and a "transcontinental tour" of Max Marcin's The Big Fight (in which she starred opposite former world heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey), beginning in Boston, taking in New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut, and ending at Caine's storehouse in Los Angeles.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

She had a long and distinguished career on the Broadway stage, beginning in 1925 at the age of 19 when she acted in the play Beggar on Horseback at the Shubert Theatre. In the late 1930s, she did You Can't Take It With You, the Pulitzer Prize-winning comedy, at the Biltmore Theatre in Los Angeles. From 1934 to 1937, MacGibbon portrayed Lucy Kent on the NBC radio soap opera Home Sweet Home.<ref>Template:Citation</ref>

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MacGibbon in The Golf Specialist (1930)

Her film debut was a non-speaking bit as a snooty woman walking a dog across a golf course in W.C. Fields' The Golf Specialist (1930), shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey.<ref name=YouTube>The Golf Specialist (1930) on YouTube</ref> She made numerous guest appearances on television starting in 1950, including Bewitched, Ray Milland's sitcom Meet Mr. McNutley. Another sitcom in which MacGibbon appeared was My Three Sons, performing as Margaret Cunningham in the 1961 episode "Bub Goes to School". She was cast in five theatrical movies, including Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962), which was directed by Vincente Minnelli and starred Glenn Ford, Ingrid Thulin, Charles Boyer, and Lee J. Cobb.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal life and death

MacGibbon married at least twice: in September 1930 to producer William Reno Kane of Philadelphia,<ref>Brustein, Louis (September 7, 1930). "Prelate Halts Wedding; Actress in Role of Bride". New York Daily News. p. 3. Retrieved July 2, 2023.</ref> from whom she obtained a divorce in April 1942,<ref>"Actions Filed". Nevada State Journal. April 14, 1942. p. 9. Retrieved July 2, 2023.</ref><ref>"Decrees Granted". Nevada State Journal. April 25, 1942. p. 12. Retrieved July 2, 2023.</ref> at which time she married writer Charles Corwin White.<ref>Yale University. (1951) After Twenty-Five Years : Classes of 1926-1926S. Class Secretaries Bureau. pp. 454-455.</ref> They remained married until White's death in 1967, on Christmas Day. She had one child by her first marriage, a son, William MacGibbon Kane, who was born in 1933 and died in 1977, predeceasing his mother.<ref>"Deaths, Funeral Announcements: White, Charles Corwin". The Los Angeles Times. December 27, 1967. Class Secretaries Bureau. p. 26. Retrieved July 2, 2023.</ref>

Harriet MacGibbon died at age 81. She was cremated, and her ashes interred in niche 61046 in the Columbarium of Remembrance at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Hollywood Hills), Los Angeles, California.<ref name="RP: TBS">Template:Cite book</ref>

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1930	The Golf Specialist	Snooty woman walking dog	short, bit part, uncredited<ref name=YouTube/>
1961	Cry for Happy	Mrs. Bennett
1961	The Absent Minded Professor	Wedding guest	uncredited
1961	All in a Night's Work	Dowager	uncredited
1962	A Majority of One	Mrs. Putnam
1962	Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse	Dona Luisa Desnoyers
1963	Son of Flubber	Mrs. Edna Daggett
1965	Fluffy	Mrs. Claridge

TV filmography

• Wacky Zoo of Morgan City (1970) as Mrs. Westerfield
• The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972) as hostess
• The Best Place to Be (1979)

TV series – regular

• Golden Windows (1954) as Mrs. Brandon (credited as Harriet McGibbon)
• Hazel (1961) as Mother Baxter
• The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1969) as Mrs. Margaret Drysdale
• The Smothers Brothers Show (1965) as Mrs. Costello

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