From the old school of wisecracking, loud and lanky Mary Wickes had few peers while forging a career as a salty scene-stealer whose abrupt, tell-it-like-it-is demeanor made her a consistent audience favorite on every medium for over six decades. She was particularly adroit in film parts that chided the super rich or exceptionally pious, and was a major chastiser in generation-gap comedies. TV holds a vault full of not-to-be-missed vignettes where she served as a brusque foil to many a top TV ...[Read Story]