Character actress of stage, film, and television. Novelist and writer. She made her film debut as the drunken party girl Ethel in Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" (1946). Subsequent film appearances include "Trapped by Boston" (1948), "The Gentleman from Nowhere" (1948), "Black Midnight" (1949), "Tell it to the Judge" (1949), "The House on Telegraph Hill" (1951), "The Star" (1952), "Invaders from Mars" (1953), "Don't Knock the Rock" (1956), "Sorority Girl" (1957), and "The Slender Thread" (1965, in an unbilled part as a telephone operator). Her numerous tv credits include "The Life of Riley," "Fireside Theater," "I Married Joan," "The Burns and Allen Show," "Schlitz Playhouse," "Perry Mason" (in the episodes "The Case of the Perjured Parrot" and "The Case of the Demure Defendant"), "Have Gun-Will Travel," "Fury," "77 Sunset Strip," and "The Ann Sothern Show." In a nod to some of the characters she played, her personal stationery was inscribed "Bitches by Baker." She left the acting profession in the mid-1960s and turned to writing. Using the pseudonym Beth Holmes, she wrote the novel "The Whipping Boy." She wrote humorously about her battle with breast cancer in her book, "My Darling, Darling Doctors." She was married to tv writer-producer Arthur Weiss from 1940 to 1967. Their son, Jonathan died in 1972.
Character actress of stage, film, and television. Novelist and writer. She made her film debut as the drunken party girl Ethel in Alfred Hitchcock's "Notorious" (1946). Subsequent film appearances include "Trapped by Boston" (1948), "The Gentleman from Nowhere" (1948), "Black Midnight" (1949), "Tell it to the Judge" (1949), "The House on Telegraph Hill" (1951), "The Star" (1952), "Invaders from Mars" (1953), "Don't Knock the Rock" (1956), "Sorority Girl" (1957), and "The Slender Thread" (1965, in an unbilled part as a telephone operator). Her numerous tv credits include "The Life of Riley," "Fireside Theater," "I Married Joan," "The Burns and Allen Show," "Schlitz Playhouse," "Perry Mason" (in the episodes "The Case of the Perjured Parrot" and "The Case of the Demure Defendant"), "Have Gun-Will Travel," "Fury," "77 Sunset Strip," and "The Ann Sothern Show." In a nod to some of the characters she played, her personal stationery was inscribed "Bitches by Baker." She left the acting profession in the mid-1960s and turned to writing. Using the pseudonym Beth Holmes, she wrote the novel "The Whipping Boy." She wrote humorously about her battle with breast cancer in her book, "My Darling, Darling Doctors." She was married to tv writer-producer Arthur Weiss from 1940 to 1967. Their son, Jonathan died in 1972.
Bio by: James Lacy
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